DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

3rd July Year 6 Transition Day Year 6 Parents Evening 6.30pm

5th July Joint Bell Burnell, Descartes and Pasteur House trip to Thorpe Park

7th July College Sports Day 9.30am 12 noon

11th July 1st Year 10 Triple Science Trip departs

13th July Barcelona Trip leaves

14th July Inservice Day

Year 7 Watersports Activity trip to France leaves

14th 18th July Year 10 Work Experience

15th 18th July Year 7-9 Enrichment week

ROUTES INTO LANGUAGE REGIONAL FINAL

On Wednesday the 25th of

June, Ben Whitfield and Alex

Conway contested the

regional final of the Routes

into Languages South West

Speaking Competition. Ben

entered the KS4 non-native

category, speaking Spanish,

and Alex entered the near-

native KS4 category with a

Polish presentation. Both boys spoke confidently and

wittily, getting laughs from the audience. With other

schools coming from as far afield as Truro in Cornwall

the competition was extremely fierce this year. I am

very proud to say that Ben Whitfield was a runner up in

his category and that Alex Conway won first prize in his

and received 50 and a trophy.

PAST PUPIL SUCCESS Congratulations to past pupil Euan Shanahan, who has been offered a place at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School from September. Euan, who left us in 2011, is one of only 14 people out of 2500 applicants to be given a place.

SACRAMENT OF CONFIRMATION Congratulations to the following pupils who received the Sacrament of Confirmation at St. Bernards Church on 17thJune: Annalise Brady Caitlin Brady Thomas Egan Chloe Hayball Lori Hayball Tommy Howlett Olivia Johnson Fionnuala Keagan Romano Navari Ellie ONeill Victor Pereira Michael Sturch Congratulations also to the following who received the Sacrament of Confirmation at Sacred Heart Church on 20th June: Jack Burns Joshua Bonacorsi Chali Chaligha Beth Goodwin James Saunders Peter Savery Abraham Stengler-Hansen SPELLING BEE Last week we launched St Bede's Spelling Bee. All three houses have been taking part in the search to find the best speller in years seven, eight and nine. The first round has already been completed and pupils are now battling it out for the honour of representing their house. With much fanfare the winner will be decided next Friday. Already words such as "receive", "avarice" and "superfluous" have proved to be no challenge to the very best. CLOTHES FOR A CAUSE Clothes for a Cause started again on Monday 23rd June and run for a period of two weeks. Donations of clothes, textiles and books are gratefully received during this time. Thank you.

St Bedes Catholic College Long Cross, Bristol BS11 0SU

Tel: (0117) 3772200 Fax: (0117) 3772201

NEWSLETTER 180 27th June 2014 2010

GOVERNOR The Governing Body of St Bedes has one vacancy for a new Governor who is a parent. The full Governing Body meets four times a year. Committees are established to divide the workload, each of these meet no fewer than three times annually. All parents of a pupil on roll should now have received a nomination form via post. Candidates must be proposed and seconded and nominations must be completed and returned to Mrs Walker, Returning Officer by noon on Friday, 4th July. IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR PARENTS SPORTS DAY Monday 7th July 2014 Track events will begin at approximately 9.30am. As there is no shade on the field, please ensure that your son/daughter comes to College well equipped with sun block, a hat, sunglasses and plenty of water to drink. (No glass bottles please). Competitors may change into PE kit before going out onto the College field, but all pupils must come to College in the morning in full uniform. Parents who wish to attend are very welcome. If you do intend to come and spectate, please let us know in advance so that seating arrangements can be made. In the interests of Health and Safety do not bring dogs on the premises. Please ensure that your child brings books for lessons 4 and 5, week B. If the weather is wet, books will be required for all lessons. Thank you PRIMARY SCHOOL SPORTS FESTIVALS St Bedes has played hosts to two Primary School Sports Festivals over the past couple of weeks. On Wednesday 11th June, eleven schools participated in the annual Quad Kids Athletics event. They were competing for two places representing North Bristol in the County Finals at Bath University. Each school team comprised of eight Year 5 and 6 pupils, four boys and four girls, who all took part in a 600m run, a 75m sprint, the stand long jump and the soft javelin. The eventual winners were Henleaze Juniors with Elmlea Juniors the runner up. On Thursday 19th June, we hosted the Year 3 and 4 Tri-Golf Festival. A series of eight different golf stations were set out for all the children to complete and accumulate points for their school. St Bonaventures school was the winner on the day and now go to the County Finals at Bath University on 2nd July. A big thank you to the Year 9 St Bedes pupils who helped out at both events to ensure that everything ran smoothly and the children enjoyed themselves.

WORLD CUP CHALLENGE

The World Cup door decorating challenge is well and truly underway! Each tutor group has decorated their door in the flag and colours of a World Cup nation including numeracy facts about their country. The winner will be decided next week.

POEM OF THE WEEK He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams W.B.Yeats POSSIBLE STRIKE ACTION 10TH JULY 2014 I have just received notice that the NUT Teachers Union will be joining the public sector workers strike on 10th July 2014. I am in the process of looking at the timetable to ascertain how we might manage this strike action as it affects 27 of my teachers. I shall let parents know next week the impact it will have on the College.

SPaG Matters Interesting trivia:

The words "abstemious" and "facetious" contain all five vowels in order.