St Bedes Catholic College Long Cross, Bristol BS11 OSU

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E-mail: stbedes@bristol.gov.uk Visit our Website: www.stbedescatholiccollege.org 16th March 2012 NEWSLETTER 138 2010 Eco News! 12th-16th March was 'National Waste Week'. Pupils around the college learnt about waste and th 30 March thought about how they could cut down on the amount of waste they produce, as well as how they th 16 April could reduce the proportion that goes to landfill by re-using, recycling and composting. The focus of Celebrating Literacy Waste Week was on the waste associated with food Staff at St Bede's joined in with raising literacy that is eaten in school. awareness by celebrating two special days. st Scary Facts: On World Book Day, 1 March 2012, UK households waste 6.7 million tonnes of food staff dressed up as every year, around 1/3 of the 21.7 million tonnes of fictional food we buy! A Government report in 2007 stated characters as well that we could run out of landfill sites within a as participating in decade. activities including What can we do? book swaps and By reducing waste & recycling we can save money competitions. and the environment from greenhouse gases and On World Spelling Day, 6th March 2012, possible water contamination. We need to be staff participated in a 'Spelling Bee', greener and reducing the amount of waste we create involving the English and Drama Faculty as well as recycling, reusing and composting is an vs (0117) of the College. After four nail Tel:The Rest3772200 Fax: (0117) 3772201 E-mail: st_bedes_s@bristol-city.gov.uk important part of this! biting rounds, the English and Drama faculty Children are working on playing our part in reducing roared (well, not quite) home to victory. It was waste. very tense, and very amusing, for the audience of Year 7s and members of staff-and fairly judged by Year 10 girls, Katie Constable and Eleanor Volcano fun! Stepanuik ....No comment about the 'impartial' Many Year 8 pupils rose to the challenge of making a judge, Mr Slocombe, Head of the English and volcano over the half term holiday. The standard was Drama Faculty! very high and we had more 'erupting' volcanoes than ever before. Three winners from each class went through to the next round which was a House Animal Farm competition. The winners were: Over 70 students in KS3 auditioned for this year's Bell Burnell - Katrina Shaughnessy 8BJHo upcoming school production 'Animal Farm'. The Descartes - Thomas Palmer 8DNW standard was very high and the casting decision Pasteur - Livin Milton 8PBOS was very difficult. Congratulations to the
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successful cast who began rehearsals last week. Watch this space for more 'Animal Farm' news!

Livin was also awarded the prize for the overall best volcano. Well done to everyone who took part.

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E-mail: st_bedes_s@bristol-city.gov.uk

Bin It Love It! Workshop Pupils from Years 7-10 were joined by Charlotte Leslie, Member of Parliament for North West Bristol and Tim Leaman, Bristol City Councillor, for the Wrigleys Bin It Love It! Workshop on Friday. It was informative and fun.

EARTH HOUR Important date coming up! Information available http://earthhour.wwf.org.uk/ Look to next newsletter for further details.

VOUCHERS The college is again collecting Tesco and Sainsburys vouchers and a box is situated in the college reception. Thank you to those of you who have already sent in vouchers. SPORT RESULTS SWIMMING Well done to the St Bede's swimming team, who had an excellent night at the swimming finals. The boys relay team finished 3rd in the freestyle and 2nd in the medley, while the senior girls team were 2nd and 3rd. There were a couple of outstanding individual performances last night, with Yasmin Jarvis finishing 2nd in both her events. Annie Brown won her races. Special mention must go to Annie Brown who broke the Bristol Schools record in the 50m Breaststroke last night, she now holds 4 of the records, well done to all the pupils that raced and congratulations to Annie. We have told you before that she is the one to watch! REC NIGHT every Tuesday, 3.30pm 4.30pm Activities include Trampolining, Football, Judo, Taekwondo, Table-Tennis Badminton and more. If you didnt come last term you are more than welcome this term. Come and have a go. Try something new!! Avonmouth Party in the Park Party in the park is being held on 21st July from 12.00-4.00pm. Organisations and businesses are invited to book a place at this indoor and outdoor family friendly event which will be held at Avonmouth Community Centre and the Park opposite. For further information or to book a pitch, please email Avonmouths Neighbourhood Development Officer raquib.khandker@bristol.gov.uk

MATHS REVISION AID The Mathswatch DVD-ROM was the best Maths revision aid for my child, and such good value" is what one parent said about the Maths revision disc that we sell through school. One disc covers Foundation topics all the way up to Higher. Not only are there video clips explaining every Maths topic you can think of, but lots of practice questions, and the answers. Your child can buy one from reception for only 4 (free to pupils who are entitled to free school meals). You need a pc to be able to run it. Don't leave it until year 11 - you can start using this disc from year 8 onwards.

CLASS REUNION If you were in the class of 1986 you are invited to the reunion which is being held at St Bedes on 28th April 2012. There will be a buffet, bar and 80s disco. For further information please email Sheridan Newman at sheridannewman@googlemail.com by 30th March. The tickets are only available to pupils who attended St Bedes between 1981-86 and the cost will be 15.00 which will cover the cost of the disco and buffet.

E-SAFETY TIP Clearly agreeing a set of family computer rules together can be a very useful experience, your children can use their ICT skills to type up and decorate the rules and then they can be displayed on the family computer.

BRAINTEASER You are participating in a race. You overtake the second person. What position do you finish?

WISE WORDS! "You have achieved success if you have lived well, laughed often and loved much." Author Unknown LAST BRAINTEASER ANSWER An umbrella