Website: www.steds.org.uk
Newsletter July 2014
outstanding
achievements
Maths Challenge p5
Sports p10-11
English Basketball Gold
Winner p13
Thriller Live Star p14
Paper Planes p15
Linguist of the Year p16
Alumni 2014 p20
St Edward’s Church of England School & Sixth
Form College
London Road, Romford, Essex RM7 9NX
Tel: 01708 730462
Email: [email protected]
Reachout Editor
Email: [email protected]
Contents
St Ed’s shine at the
English Schools’ Track and
Field cup competition p10
School trips to Cologne
and Paris p8-9
Interview with Owen Mugowa, who plays the part
of the young Michael Jackson p14
St Edward’s Primary School Yr 5
Science visit p12
Art & Art
Textile
Message from the Headteacher
3
School news
4
Sports news
10
Primary School news
12
Colleges
13
Sixth Form
16
Library
17
Staff news
18
University results 2014
20
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Message from the Headteacher
Dear Parents/Carers, staff, students and
friends of St Edward’s
Welcome to the final July edition of
‘Reachout’ for this term.
I hope you will enjoy reading about our school
trips and other events.
This issue also reflects the many achievements of our students both in and
out of school. Highlights cover: our UK Maths Challenge winners; Linguist
of the Year award winner; and success in sports.
We have also received news of some outstanding degree results from St.
Edward’s Alumni 2014.
We continue to foster links with St Edward’s Primary school. Our Science
Department held a very successful programme of science activities for 90
pupils in Year 5. There will be some media coverage in both the ‘Romford
Recorder’ and the ‘Enquirer’.
‘Living in Havering’, published by Havering Council on 7 July, has
featured our St Edward’s students and the IB programme (Pg 31). We
are the only institution in the Borough to offer the IB Diploma as an
alternative to A levels.
We say farewell to staff leaving St Edward’s. I would like to thank them
for their significant contribution to the school. Miss Fox is retiring after
37 years of service both as Deputy Head of Sixth Form and as a Biology
teacher.
Finally, I thank you all for your support during the school year. We are
very optimistic regarding the progress we have made since The Ofsted
Inspection and look forward to a very good year ahead.
I would like to wish you all a very good summer break.
With best wishes
The Reverend Alan D Perry
Headteacher
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School News
BrIAN DEAL
deputy Headteacher
M
BIANCA SAVILLE
Head of CDT
T
anagement of
Behaviour for
Learning
One of the most important aims of St
Edward’s is to create a positive, happy
and hardworking environment.
Although a recent Ofsted report
concluded that, “behaviour is typically
good and students feel safe”, we are not
complacent. We have introduced the
following additional changes, which have
already led to a reduction in fixed term
exclusions.
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Regular monitoring of any incidents
of poor behaviour and structured
mentoring sessions to students who
need support.
A new and more rigorous 3 week
monitoring process of students
at risk of losing their place at St
Edward’s.
Extra training to new and less
experienced teachers on the
management of behaviour for
learning.
An increase of senior staff on duty
between lessons plus before and
after school.
Reallocation of playground space to
students.
We continue to emphasise
the importance of our
Golden Rules to
students.
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omorrow’s
women
engineers
In celebration of National Women in
Engineering Day, on 23 June, we took
a group of Year 8 girls to Barking and
Dagenham College to take part in a
variety of engineering challenges.
All the girls were enthusiastic and got
involved in the exciting and stimulating
activities set around science, technology,
engineering and mathematics (STEM)
subjects.
The event was popular amongst local
schools and was very well attended.
We felt very proud of our girls as they
performed very well in their team
presentations and spoke intelligently.
The following girls took part:
Adom Anan, Tianna Chambers, Ronais
McCollin, Serena Miller, Lydia Saxby,
Oluyemisi Adeniji-Forrest, Aaliyah
Brewis, Charlotte Evans, Winworth
Goldman, Camille Vitalis, Jessica
Wilsher, Tamsin Gale, Rachel Higgins,
Ihesinachi Oko-Jaja, Achsha Sivanesan
and Rebecca Steer.
Do as you are asked first time without arguing.
Listen in silence when a member of staff is speaking.
mR mOORE
mR sHEIKH
Maths Department
M
aths Challenge
winners
St Edward’s students are a brainy lot,
winning several awards in the UK Maths
Challenge competition. To obtain Gold,
students were in the top 6% nationally.
These are the students who achieved
awards for the UKMC:
Junior Challenge
Year 7
Gold: Abigail Hyde
Silver: Micaiah Lemons, Archie Bond,
and Fahim Abdullah
Year 8 (see photograph)
Gold: Jessica Gough-Copper, Luke
Bacchus, Jason Quang and Camile Vitalis
Silver: Tim Brittain, Ailie Smallwood,
Taiwo Afolabi, Soba Seidu, Tofunmi
Awosanya, Rachel Higgins, Joe Crossley
and Sachin Alam
Intermediate Challenge
Year 9
Silver: Sophie Evans, Esther Ajibode
Year 10:
Gold: Dylan Phillips
Silver: Shalom Osuchukwu, Jonathon
Bangura and Liam Austin
There were also 31 bronze awards over
the two challenges.
g
et ahead in Maths
can we do it?
Yes – we can!
Demilade Merotohun
Year 7
Maths. I know it isn’t everybody’s cup of
tea but if you don’t have simple maths
skills you could be losing lots of money
on shopping deals! You might not be able
to get a job.
By the time British children reach the age
of 15 they are already behind the top 4
countries at Maths:
• Shanghai-China
• Singapore
• Chinese-Taipei
• Hong Kong (Source OECD 2012)
The UK is ranked 24th. Why do Chinese
students succeed? Although Chinese
parents are “pushier”, students work
much harder. Their school day is 7:30am
to 5pm!
We can also get ahead in Maths.
If you truly value your education you will
come to school to work hard. If you don’t
mess around - you’ll be on your way to
success.
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School News
Practical coursework:
Indian food
Emma Heasman
Yr11 N8
Following lots of research for my second
piece of coursework, I chose to cook my
dishes based on India. My final dishes
were: chicken korma; tri-coloured rice;
mango chutney; garlic and coriander
naan bread; and an Indian style panna
cotta.
I learned a lot about the culture of India,
developed my own catering skills and
enjoyed the challenge of making new
food. It also taught me how to adapt
recipes from other countries, for example
the mango panna cotta. I really enjoyed
my practical coursework and gained a lot
of knowledge and new skills.
Holocaust Survivor
visits St Ed’s
Joanna Millan, left a powerful impression
on Yr 9s as she spoke about her
experiences as a child survivor of the
Theresienstadt concentration camp. She
was born in August 1942 in Berlin and
lost both her parents by the time she
was 2. After the liberation in 1945, she
was flown to England and adopted by a
Jewish couple.
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Visit to the British
Museum
MISS NORTON
Art Department
On the 16 May
19 Art &
Art Textile
students
visited the
British
Museum’s
African,
North
American,
Egyptian
rooms, as well as the ‘Germany Divided’
exhibition.
The British Museum’s collections
offered the GCSE students opportunities
to collect vivid and often surprising
evidence of cultures from the distant
past, as well as examples of human
creativity from the Stone Age.
Although tiring, it really was a rewarding
day for both teachers and students.
They benefited from being able to have
open discussions and the opportunity to
observe, critique and talk about various
art pieces.
Make learning easier and more fun
Year 10
workshops
Learning Performance Training
held 3 ‘Strategies for Success’
workshops at St Edward’s on 25
April. The aim was to highlight
different techniques, making
a revision timetable, how to
use mind maps and improve
memory.
Learning Performance’s 5 top
tips are:
A
Change your mindset
When we think about
revision we visualise stress,
tears, boredom and no social
life. Hardly an incentive to whip
the study books out. So Get Rid
of Revision and Review instead.
B
Give yourself a break
Recent studies have shown
that those who had frequent
breaks were more successful
than those who studied
continuously for hours. Give
yourself a break every
30 – 40 minutes.
C
Be realistic: means you
can have the best of both
worlds. If you would rather be
playing football or watching
your favourite TV programme
on a Saturday morning, then
schedule it in.
D
Be detailed: Writing “History” from 9 11am on Sunday morning means nothing.
Instead break it down into manageable chunks.
For example, “The Treaty of Versailles 9.00 9.30am, The Battle of the Somme 9.40 - 10.10am,
The Spring Offensive 10.20 - 11.00am, 11.00 - 2
pm, Go shopping etc.”
E
Spice things up: Don’t spend hours staring
at your textbook. That is not how your
brain learns. So spice things up with fun revision
techniques, such as A - Maps.
Some comments about the course from Year 10s:
I have learnt strategies that will help me to
revise that I had never thought of before.
Thanks for your help. I was surprised at how
helpful it was.
Rianna Moth M9
Remember to put items into a story and also how
to draw a mind map.
Ivana Harley N5
I found it really helpful. I have learnt new
revising methods, how to organise revision and
how to create a timetable.
Chloe Slater V8
Don’t revise in blocks of 2-3 hours. Do it in
shorter sessions.
Lauren Huff N5
Follow Learning Performance on
Twitter @LPerformance
www.learningperformance.com
Tel: 01903 872 849
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School News
JAMES LAWRENCE
YEAR 10 J7
Year 8 & 10 Cologne Trip
D
uring 8-12 June, Mr Fritsch,
Mr Jaehne, Mrs Pessenda-Garcia
and Mrs Handscombe took a
group of 40 Yr 8s and Yr 10s on a study
trip to Cologne, North-West Germany.
After a 10 hour journey we finally arrived
at Boppard, having passed through
France, Belgium, the Netherlands.
The next day we visited the famous
Cologne Cathedral, which stands at 157m,
towering above the city and visible from
almost a mile away. We climbed 533
steps to the top. Being terrified of heights
and rendered breathless by excessive
exercise was no mean feat for me! Our
next stop was the Lindt Chocolate
Museum, where we saw how chocolate
was made. A boat trip on the River
Rhine and a dinner of authentic German
Bratwurst rounded off the day.
We went to the renowned theme park,
Phantasialand in Brühl. We spent the
time riding rollercoasters or cooling off
on the water rides.
On Wednesday, we visited the GeorgBüchner-Gymnasium, our partner school
in Cologne where we participated in
2 lessons and met staff and students.
Embarrassingly, my German wasn’t quite
up to scratch with their English but we
conversed with ease and I managed to
gain a great deal of knowledge about the
German school system from chatting to
some students.
We spent our final afternoon in the
town of Koblenz, in which the famous
Deutsches Eck monument is situated.
I gained a lot from the trip. But for most
of us it had been our first immersion in
German culture and one I know we all
enjoyed and won’t forget.
NEWSFLASH
We are planning a German exchange for
Year 8 pupils in June 2015.
Pupils from our partner school in
Cologne will visit us first in May.
This is an exchange where pupils will
stay at each other’s homes to get the
most out of the
language/cultural
experience.
More information to
follow in September!
Mr Jaehne, MFL
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ZAK JACOBSOHN
YEAR 9 J8
Year 9 French Trip
J
ust before Easter about 45 Year 9 students
went to Paris by coach with 4 teachers and
a coach driver named Viv. After a 6 hour
journey, we arrived at the PGL adventure camp.
The food was great and so were the staff. The
rooms had 2 bunk beds and a bathroom. There
was a tennis court, football pitch, a basketball
court and a swimming pool.
We all visited Le Stade De France. It was massive
and there were screens the size of tennis courts
on each side of the stadium. It was completely
empty. We just ran into the field! It was ecstatic!
We visited Disneyland and we had to get three
interviews. It was hard! The greatest ride was the
Space Mountain Mission 2 ride. Everyone loved
it!
We went to
the market
to buy food
for the
‘Prêt á
Manger’
challenge.
We didn’t
win but we
gave it a
shot, using
using Roquefort cheese, strawberries
and beetroot. We had a fantastic
time and enjoyed the Paris tour.
I remember walking for ages and
everyone was complaining about their
feet!
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Sports News
English Schools’ Track
and Field
Cup 2014
Mrs Bailey
PE Department
O
n 14 May
St Edward’s
Athletic team
competed in
the first round of the English
Schools’ Track and Field cup
competition in Chelmsford.
We now need to wait
and see how the rest of the Essex
and East Anglia competitions
progress before we find out if we
are able to secure any places in
the Regional finals in June.
Essex is a notoriously strong
county for athletics and this
meant that we were going
to have to produce some
outstanding performances if
we were to stand any chance of
progressing into the next round.
We set 21 new school records,
by the final race. Kelechi Okorie
had a phenomenal run in the
Inter boys 100m, blasting away
the competition with a time
of 10.9 seconds. Similarly,
Emmanuel Babalola powered
his way to the lead in the Inter
boy’s Shot put with a best throw
of 12.95m.
Not to be outdone by the boy’s,
Tahja Smith left the competition
standing with double wins in the
Inter girl’s 300m (45.6 seconds)
and a jump of 4.78m to win the
Inter girl’s Long jump.
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Since St Edward’s
started entering
this competition
in 2011, the teams
have improved their
point scores by over
100 points per team,
which is a testament
to the hard work and
commitment of the
St Edward’s athletes.
The final results for the day were
as follows:
Junior Girls – 3rd Place
Kelechi
okorie had a
phenomenal
run in the
Inter boys
100m,
blasting
away the
competition
with a time
of 10.9
seconds.
Junior Boys – 2nd Place
Inter girls – 3rd Place
Inter boys – 3rd Place
Please send your news items &
photographs to the Editor,
Mrs Mohindra:
[email protected]
Essex Schools’ Athletics Championships
O
n Saturday 7 June , 9 St Edward’s students were selected to represent
Havering at the Essex Schools’ Athletics Championships in Chelmsford. The
competition was of the highest standard and I am pleased to announce that St
Edward’s students claimed 3 medals, as follows:
Kelechi Okorie – Silver in 100m
Naomi Browne – Silver in 100m
Marlin Maduakila – Bronze in 800m (2 minutes 04 seconds – which was a new
personal best and school record!)
Havering Schools Championships
Hornchurch Stadium - St Ed’s record breakers
Marlin
Manduakila (Yr10) won the 800m, breaking the
Borough’s record by winning the 800m in 2 minutes 01
seconds.
Naomi
Browne won the high jump, 300m and relay.
Yr 8 boys (1st) Yr 9s (3rd) Yr 7s (5th)
Yr 7 girls (2nd) Yr 8 (4th) Yr 9 (3rd) Yr10 (2nd)
Overall, boys finished third and girls finished second.
A fantastic result for St Ed’s! Well done!
(See the Romford Recorder 11/07/14 )
Sports Day was held
on 27 June.
St Ed’s School Sports Day 2014
Results will be
announced on the
last day of term.
May the best
College win!
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Primary School News
St Ed’s Primary
School Experience the
Wonder of Science
Y
ear 5 students from St Edward’s
Primary School visited us for a
science activity day held on 9-11
July, accommodating 30 students each
day. Head of Science Mr Tomlinson,
Dr Gardner, Ms Wardle, Mr Green,
Mr Chauhan and Mr MacAllan
delivered sessions on fast food, the
wonder of chemistry and a hand
washing investigation. A forensics
investigation, in which students
learnt the importance of team work
to solve a jewellery theft, led to much
excitement.
After carrying out an experiment
on a hamburger to find out the
starch and sugar content, Tijesunimi
Ewedemi said: Maybe I will give up
MacDonald’s! He added, “I would
love to attend St Edward’s. The
teachers are really nice and I will
learn a lot”.
Eloise King, bravely agreed to
volunteer in the Van de Graff
Generator demonstration of static
electricity and was amazed to see her
hair stand on end!
Most students agreed that the
highlight of the day was the liquid
nitrogen experiment. All sorts of
things went into the shiny container
and came out transformed: a ping
pong ball, lilies and a banana. The
latter was used to hammer a nail.
It truly showed the magic of science!
Lab Cola (Do not drink!)
Measure 330cm3 of water into a
beaker
add 6 teaspoons of sugar and stir
until it is dissolved
add the burnt sugar (caramel)
until you get the right colour
add the alka seltzer containing
caffeine to give a fizz.
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Colleges
LUKe HaRRIS
YR 9 (N8)
I
have been playing basketball with
Brentwood Fire boys’ team for the past
two years. Amazingly, we have won all
of our 20 U14 League matches this season.
In the England Basketball Junior Final Fours
2014, held at the English Institute of Sport in
Sheffield on 4 May, I played two matches on
the same day. It was both nerve-wracking and
exciting. First we won a hard fought semi-final
69-55 against Manchester Magic.
It was an unforgettable
day, especially as we then
went on to win the final
against Worthing Thunder
by 85-65 points.
The support from the
crowd, made up of family,
friends and staff of the
club, was fantastic.
Luke in Action
Heading for the USA
I received an individual
England Basketball gold
medal, which was ‘a dream
come true’ for me. It was
tour to Chicago and Indiana to
also a great achievement for the team to have
represent Brentwood Fire at two
won the Cup.
nationally acclaimed Basketball
Tournaments in the USA.
Although the National League season is now
over, I am continuing my training with the Essex
Basketball Squad. I am really looking forward to
Please send your news items &
the summer. I have been selected, together with
photographs to the Editor,
some other team members, to participate in a
Mrs Mohindra:
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Colleges
What places have you visited on tour
when you weren’t performing?
I’ve been to Zurich Zoo, Galaxy Erdings
Water Park, DisneyLand Paris and more.
How do you feel when you perform on
Thriller Live?
I’m shy but when I perform I am not
nervous because I am used to it.
O
wen Mugowa, Year 7.7 V4, plays
the part of a young Michael
Jackson in the West End hit
musical ‘Thriller Live’. He perfoms 3
times a week at the Lyric Theatre.
During an English lesson with Mrs
Loughnane, Elizabeth Lawrence - Year
7.7 J10 and Abigail Hyde - Year 7.7 S2
interviewed Owen:
When did you first start performing?
I started performing at the age of 5 at
Make Believe Theatre School .
When did you first start having an
interest in music?
At the age of 3, I started listening to
Michael Jackson.
Who inspired you to become a singer?
Beyonce, Michael Jackson and Whitney
Houston.
How many tours have you done and
where?
France, Switzerland and Germany. I am
going to Germany again.
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Do the crowds react differently in
different countries?
Yes, in England they are boring but in
other countries they cheer loudly and
enjoy themselves.
What other role would you like to play in
the future?
I would love to play Fletcher in ‘The Body
Guard’.
MICHaeL BenneTT
YEAR 9 (M4)
Paper Planes
Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch
30 July - 2 August
M
y role in this play is as a child
and singer and I sing in all the
company songs. I have been
with the theatre for 5 years now.
Leefe as a natural and gives him the job
immediately. One night when all the
planes have been called to land, Leefe
goes back and tries to shoot a Zeppelin.
Amazingly, he succeeds and becomes
the first person to do this.
John Dalgleish (Yr11), Molly Wilsher,
Madeline Weekes, Romarni Brytz &
Emmanuel Olusanya (Yr12) also star
in this play. (press coverage in the
Romford Recorder 11 July, p20)
The story starts in India where Leefe
was born. He is fascinated by flight and
birds. He moves to London and witnesses
bombings during the First World War.
He joins the Air Force because he is
claustrophobic. The flight teacher sees
SHAYO AKINKUNLE
YEAR 11 (V11)
#BringBackourGirls
S
started taking photos and some joined
in. Others who did not know about it
were disgusted by the kidnappings”.
hayo said she just cried
when she heard about the
kidnapping of more than
200 school girls from a school in
Chibok, Nigeria. She was moved
to do something as “it was not
being taken seriously by the
Nigerian government”.
She organised a protest with her family
and friends outside Dagenham Heathway
station on Wednesday 7 May, which was
reported in the Barking & Dagenham Post.
Shayo has vowed to launch a bigger
protest if the girls still haven’t been
freed by the time she finishes her
exams.
Shayo was pleased that the protest had
some impact. She adds “lots of people
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Sixth Form
HANNAH STERRY
YEAR 13 J3
Linguist of the Year
W
henever anybody asks
me about my A Level
subjects, they always
look shocked to hear that I study
both French and German. It was
an easy decision for me. This
has also had its perks: school
trips being the main one!
I started to enjoy learning about
a different country’s language,
culture and history. So when it
came to picking A Levels, French
and German were at the top of
my list of options.
This year I took part in an
interpretation competition
for German, which involved
translating a conversation
between two people. As a nonnative speaker of German, this
had its challenges.
I won the competition and was
awarded the ‘Havering Linguist
of the Year’ prize.
Looking back at my time
learning languages, it hasn’t
been easy but like most things, if
you stick with it, it becomes more
than worth it.
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MRS MAULLIN
ART DEPARTMENT
Rooms 50 and 51 were transformed into an
exhibition space as the Art department held
its annual ‘A’ level Art and Art Textile Show
on Thursday 12 June.
Visitors were treated to stunning
canvases and paintings, textile hangings,
installation, print, ceramics and
sculpture. Highlights included a wedding
dress, a life size robot made from broken
electrical items, 3 pieces of video art
and a computer programme called
‘biomaker’. The Art Department
would like to thank the following
students for all their hard work
and wish those leaving to go to
university the best of luck in their
new courses:
Dominic Cheung
Summure Gordon
Sophie Bertrand-Dure
Joshua Saxby
Rebecca Stokes
Alice Rayment Smith
Margaret Ibeawuchi
Luke Whittaker
Daisy Preston
Hope Garnish
Rosie Glenister
Ira Murray
Art &
Art
Textile
Show
Library
Brain workout
The Library has a set of lateral
thinking puzzle books.
Here are 5 mind benders taken
from ’Mind bending lateral
thinking puzzles’ by Des Machale.
Can you solve them?
Q1 What is as big as a
hippopotamus, the same
shape, but weighs less than a
hippopotamus?
Q2 While travelling up the Amazon,
an explorer noticed an ostrich egg
floating downstream. Where would
it have come from?
Q3 What will you find in the centre
of Paris, which can’t be found in
London or Milan?
Q4 If it takes 3 minutes to boil one
egg in a 2 litre saucepan of salted
water, how long will it take to boil
3 eggs in the saucepan?
Q5 If one man has three sacks of
corn on his back, and another has
four sacks on his back, which of
them has the heavier load?
The winners of our
Scholastic Book Fair
competition, based on
a Harry Potter theme,
were: Jino George Yr9
J2; Ishan Abiden Yr 7
S7; Marcus Standen Yr 10 M4; Favour Olateju
Yr 7 S4; and Nellie Lawson S3.
They all won a £5 book voucher.
We obtained £90 worth of free books for the
Library. Thank you for your support!
They correctly answered the following
questions:
What are the names of Harry Potter’s children?
What position did Harry play in the Quidditch
team?
What is Ron Weasley’s middle name?
MRS ROTHNIE
Book Fair visitors also received a Free
Epic Day Out voucher, entitling the
holder to one free entry to Thorpe Park or
the Dungeons, with a paying adult. Do read
the full terms & conditions.
Sarah Johnson (Yr12) has kindly donated
half of her £200 Jack Petchey Award to the
Library to buy English Literature books.
Thank You
Sarah!
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answers:
1. It’s shadow.
2. An ostrich.
3. The letter ‘r’.
4. The same time – the saucepan is
big enough to cook all three eggs.
5. Three sacks of corn as they are
heavier than three empty sacks
Staff News
MRS Pearson
Library & MFL Dept Assistant
I
recently forwarded a £5
donation from a student
to our link school in
The Gambia. I wanted to
share the reply I got from
the Deputy Head of Jamisa
School, Mr Bacha:
‘Staff met this afternoon and
decided to use the £5 to buy
buckets for some classes.
Students would put water
in them and place them in
classes for drinking.
Every single pound sent here
makes a great difference to
lives of these needy students.
Imagine £5 was able to buy 3
buckets for 3 classes.
The Circle of Life
Exams 2014
Mrs Carter
Exams Officer
E
xams Officers can be
likened to swans: we
float serenely by, but
nobody can see our feet paddling
furiously under the water! So it
is with some relief that I can say
my feet have stopped paddling
now the exams are over for
another year.
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This also helped control the students from
going out all the time to drink at the tap’.
Thank you to all those who sponsor a
student already. Please consider making
a payment to support our link school. The
link is ‘Donations for Jamisa School’ on the
Parent Pay list, and cash and cheques are also
welcome.
All the signs and
timetables have come
down. The Sports
Hall is back to normal
and all the scripts
have been sent off to
the exam boards. If we cast our minds back to
Monday 12 May it seems like a lifetime ago that
everything started with a bang.
Over 200 Year 11 students filed in to the Sports
Hall nervously on that Monday morning to sit
their first RS exam. At the same time, 60 Year
12 students were sitting General Studies in 3
different classrooms.
Then in the afternoon, 90 students sat GCSE
French in 7
classrooms,
while Year
12 sat
Geography
in the Hall
and Music
in Room
90. Mrs
Copleston and I covered a lot of
miles that day!
At the end of the day we had 536
scripts to pack up and despatch
to the exam boards and that was
only the first day!
Exams are over but the work
continues. I will be making all
the preparations for the much
anticipated results days.
I will now make preliminary
entries for next summer as
the exam boards need this
information to plan ahead.
Before we know it, it will be
time to start planning for the
Mock Exams and for Certificate
Evening.
After Christmas, the whole
process of entries and planning
for the summer starts all over
again.
This is the Circle of Life for an
Exams Officer!
Thanks to all the invigilators
for their hard work!
New staff
Welcome to:
Ms Lovett Mr Smith
Mr Green
Ms Porter
Mr Kelly
Mr Hughes
English Dept
English Dept
Science Dept
History Dept
Bus. Studies Dept
I.T Dept
New Head of Venus College
Mr Norley
Farewell and thank you to:
Miss Fox (Head of Sixth Form)
Mrs Hammond (English)
Ms McCormack (Business)
Ms Boll (Science)
Mrs Rogers (EAL)
Mr S Delaney (English)
Mrs Robertson (Science Technician)
Mr Pattle (I.T)
---------------------------------------Library Bake Off!
Raising funds for The Gambia
Staff are invited to join us for tea and
cake in the main Staff Room during
breaktime on 17 July.
Bring your mug!
Please send your news items &
photographs to the Editor,
Mrs Mohindra:
[email protected]
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University results 2014
Outstanding Degree
results from St Edward’s
Alumni 2014
W
e take great pride in
announcing the degree
results of our alumni, who
have achieved very high results in their
degrees. Congratulations to them all.
Matthew Ackee: Kent
BSc (Hons) Economics with
Econometrics (Class 2:1)
Thomas Baxter: Winchester
BA (Hons) Journalism (Class 2:1)
Katie Bradford: Wales (Bangor)
BSc (Hons) Psychology (Class 2:1)
Graham Feinson: Cambridge
BA (Hons) Mathematics (Class 2:1)
Jonathan Fenn: Manchester
BSc (Hons) Zoology (Class 1)
(Jonathan is going to the University of
Nottingham to do a PhD.)
Emily Giles: Queen Mary College
London
BA (Hons) Business Studies & Spanish
(Class 2:1)
Gemma Goodfellow: East London
BA (Hons) Politics (Class 1)
Naomi Harrison: Nottingham
BA (Hons) Politics (Class 2:1)
Molly Haworth: Nottingham
BA (Hons) History (Class 1)
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Hannah Kinghorn: Brunel
BSc (Hons) Politics (Class 2:1)
Bethany McLean: Loughborough
BA (Hons) English & Drama (Class 1)
Rachel Sebunya: Kent
MPharm (Hons) Pharmacy (Class 2:1)
Sophia Stapleton: Canterbury
BSc (Hons) Biosciences and Law (Class 1)
(Sophia starts the Bar Professional Training
course at City Uni in Sept)
Nicole Stirk: Durham
BA (Hons) Ancient, Medieval & Modern
History (Class 1)
(Nicole has a place on Graduate Diploma
in Law course and a place at Linklaters)
Michaela Stout: Nottingham
BA (Hons) Spanish & Portuguese (Class
2:1)
Ope Sunmonu: Kent
BSc (Hons) Psychology (Class 1)
Ruth Wiggins: Kent
BSc (Hons) Mathematics (Class 1)
Michael Willis: Queen Mary College
London
BSc (Hons) Medical Genetics (Class 1)
(Michael is going to take a postgraduate
course in Medicine at The Royal London
& Barts Medical School)
Next issue - December 2014
Thank you to all the staff and students for
their reports and photographs.
Please send any news items and photos
(as JPEGS) to the Editor, Mrs Mohindra:
[email protected]