THE EDWARDIAN GAZETTE JANUARY 2011 VOLUME 1 ISSUE 15

ONLINE WEEKLY GAZETTE CREATING AN INTERACTIVE COLLEGE COMMUNITY OF INFORMATION & DEVELOPEMENT

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ST EDWARD’S COLLEGE

BIRGU (CITTA VITTORIOSA)

BRG 9039

MALTA, EUROPE

www.stedwards.edu.mt

The Edwardian Gazette

Weekly Online College Journal

Chief Editor

Mr Chittenden - Headmaster

hm@stedwards.edu.mt

Design, Production,

Photography & Advertising

M Fenech - Marketing Executive

marketing@stedwards.edu.mt

Weekly Calendar

Celine Ellis - Secretary

hmsec@stedwards.edu.mt

Front Cover

Prime Minister Dr L Gonzi,

Mr N Thomas (DHM, IB Co-

ordinator) & IB 6th Formers

Message from the HM From the Kindergarten Notice Board Yr 9 Live-In From the Library Sports Department Weekly Calendar

In this Issue

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Message from the Headmaster

Dear Parents and Community Members

If your child is sick, please phone or email the College before 8.45am

In term of priorites, our health must always come first. This past week, we have had many students away sick. Moreover, each day this week, we have also had an average of 4 staff sick with flu type symptoms. Unfortunately, a number of students are taught by all 4 of these teachers. It goes without saying that having sick staff affects our educational programmes. In response , we have set up a new system whereby students will be supervised (with relevant work) in the Study Hall as opposed to individual classrooms. In this way, we can monitor the situation more carefully. This will ensure continuity and minimal disruption of teaching and learning. I do hope, however, that the sickness ‘going around’ is short lived.

Keeping our IB Students on Track When students join our IB programme, they automatically sign up for the ‘Fortnightly report’ system. It is self explanatory: Every 2 weeks, the student receives a report which gives details of both effort and grades for all subjects. IB Fortnightly Reports Friday 4 Feb - Year 13 Friday 11 Feb - Year 12 Friday 18 Feb - Year 13 Friday 25 Feb - Year 12 These will be posted on the days listed. Benchmarking Tests for Year 6 Please find below an invitation from the Director of Education. The College is seriously considering partici-pation in these tests as they will be of value in educational terms. They will NOT take the place of our end of year exams; they will be in addition to. If we were to participate, more information will be provided.

Michael Chittenden

Headmaster

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From the Kindergarten

Thinking of Others The curriculum of the Kindergarten children encourages the children to think of others less fortunate than themselves. This is especially pertinent during the Christmas season. During the festive period, many of the children brought donations which included toiletries, detergents and food items to donate to the sisters at the Ursuline Creche in Sliema. This week, Sister Letizia came to the Kindergarten to meet some of the children and to be presented with the considerable amount of items which had been collected. The photo shows Sister Letizia being presented with the items. Julie Mangion Head of Kindergarten

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Table Tennis Starting from next Friday 4 February, after school sessions will be available on Fridays. Sports Department

Donation of Footballs by Yellow Pages The College was, indeed, fortunate enough to have been donated 300 footballs by Yellow Pages. This was very generous and much appreciated by the boys. The picture shows Ms Camilleri and Mr Mizzi from Yellow Pages making the presentation to the Head of Department, Mr Ferrante.

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This Week at St Edward’s College

Monday 24 January 9.00 – 10.00

1 0.00 – 10.40

18.00

19.00

Confessions in the Chapel Mass for Year 6 & Year 7 Old Edwardian AGM in the Reception Room Year 2 Parents Information Session ‘ Assisting your child in the reading process’.

Tuesday 25 January 11.00 SMT

Wednesday 26 January 8.40 Mass for the Junior School in the Chapel

Thursday 27 January

Friday 28 January

Saturday 29 January 9.30 - 11.30 Meeting for parents on “Assessmennt during Primary’ Laqgħa għall-Ġenituri dwar l-Assessjar fi tmiem il-Primarja ‘Ġenituri li għandhom ‘l uliedhom jattendu fi skejjel tal-Knisja jew Indipendenti u jixtiequ aktar tagħrif u informazzjoni dwar il-metodu ġdid ta’ Assessjar li se jsir lil studenti fl-aħħar sena tal-primarja, jistgħu jattendu għal laqgħa li se ssir nhar is-Sibt, 29 ta’ Jannar, bejn id-9.30 a.m. u l-11.30 a.m., fl-Istitut Kattoliku, l-Furjana. Ġenituri li uliedhom jattendu fi skejjel oħra ukoll jistgħu jattendu għal din il-laqgħa.’

Calendar Information Please follow this link for the Advent & Lent Calendar The latest version of the Calendar is on the website. Please do not refer to the College Student diary as it contains errors.