Newsletter 169

St Bedes Catholic College
Long Cross, Bristol BS11 OSU
Tel: (0117) 3772200 Fax: (0117) 3772201

E-mail: contact@stbedescc.org
NEWSLETTER 169
Visit our Website: www.stbedescc.org

6th December 2013
2010
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
10th December
4.30pm- 7.30pm
17th December
18th December
6.30pm
20th December
Year 8 Parents Evening

Christmas Lunch
Advent Service
End of Term 2
Finish at 2.00pm
CERTIFICATE EVENING YEAR 12 STAR PERFORMERS

On the evening of Wednesday 4th December, nearly all of
last years Year 11 pupils and their parents returned to the
college to receive their GCSE Certificates. Ms Hughes told
the students that they had excelled. Presentations which
were made by Heads of Houses, Father Tom Finnegan and
Monsignor Bernard Massey were woven into a service of
prayers, readings and hymns. There were Governors
awards for Best in College which were received by Abigail
Alexander and Zachary Rigby. Other extremely high
achievers to receive Governors awards were James
Widdicks and Eleanor Brain.
Best in House Awards were presented again this year. Bell
Burnell awards to Katherine Robbins and Tristan Rudden.
Descartes awards were presented to Fatima Montero and
Daniel Traynor.
Pasteur awards were presented to Sinead OFarrell and Joe
Redmond.
The Outstanding Performance awards for greatest
progress were given to Natalia Sobieralska, Aleshia
Barrett, Tyrone Day, Jackson Reid, Lacey Berry, Sarah
Sturch, Carly Acosta, Alvin Varghese and Albin Varghese.
It was clear from the response of students that all
recipients of awards were extremely well received and that
they were worthy of such recognition. The Principals
Awards were presented to Keanan Mitchard and Abigail
Mounter for outstanding achievement and progress.
Those attending tackled a great spread of food including a
celebration cake and enjoyed catching-up with friends and
acquaintances they hadnt seen for some time. The
Certificate Evening is always a highlight of the Colleges
year, giving us a chance to acknowledge hard work and
celebrate success with pupils and families.
CONFIRMATION ST TERESAS
Congratulations to the following pupils
who were Confirmed at St Teresas
Catholic Church by Bishop Declan on
Wednesday 27th November 2013.
Year 9
Reece Chakkarakadan
Ignatius De Pedro
Arnold Gomes
Year 10
Tobias Olds
Mevin D'Costa
Tigimol Makkiel
Shawn Almeida
Crystymol James
Year 11
Jacqueline Varghese
Jake Guerins
Rosna Eswaraprasad
Rubiena Fernandes
Livin Milton
Mexin Sebiyachan
Thomas Nguyen
YEAR 7 CATCH UP EVENING

Large numbers of parents attended the first catch up
evening for Year 7. The evening included presentations on
the Sex Education Programme, E-safety as well as an
opportunity to have a one to one with the tutor, followed
by refreshments. Mrs Cannon told the parents that the
Year 7 pupils were just wonderful and a delight to work
with at St Bedes. As promised on the evening, the cocurricular programme is now posted on our website.
LIBRARY OPEN PERIOD 6

From Monday 9th December to the end of Term on
Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3.17pm to 4.30pm
the library will be open to pupils and students for
independent study. This Period 6 will be supervised and
can be used by learners to prepare for lessons, exam
revision and homework. From January, Period 6 will be
extended to 4 days a week including Wednesdays.
SIXTH FORM BLOCK BUILDING PROGRESS

The high-tech under floor heating is installed and the extra
thick insulation is fitted to the roof.
COMPUTING CHALLENGE
Congratulations to Ignatius De Pedro for achieving the
"Best in School" certificate in the Beaver Computing
Challenge. The challenge is a National competition in
which all Year 9 ICT classes recently took part. The
competition aim was to find pupils with a hidden talent for
programming, so no prior knowledge of any programming
languages was required. Pupils had to solve some very
challenging logic puzzles. A further 28 pupils in Year 9 were
awarded a certificate of distinction for their excellent
scores, any one of these could be a future Bill Gates, Mark
Zukerberg or Steve Jobs! The top scorers were: 1st Ignatius
De Pedro, 2nd Eva Clothier and Joint 3rd Shaun McNamee
and Robert Wieczorek.
PUPIL MEDICATION
The medication consent form is now available on the
website - if parents need medication to be kept in college
for their child they can download it and send in with their
child's medication.
YOUNG ENTERPRISE
The Young Enterprise group have their first market stall of
the year at The Mall, Cribbs Causeway (opposite the ice
skating link) this Saturday 7th December. The Year 10, 11
and 13 pupils will be selling a variety of Christmas themed
products. If you are visiting Cribbs Causeway on Saturday
we are sure they would appreciate your support.
CO-CURRICULAR TIMETABLE
The co-curricular timetable is now available on our website.
This timetable includes co-curricular activities taking place
at lunch times and afterschool. The timetable can be found
under the parents tab on the website, just under the home
learning timetable. Please note that Sport Fixtures are
displayed separately within the Calendar page.
EXAMINATION SEASON IS HERE AGAIN
Year 11 are currently taking part in their mock
examinations. Year 13 mock examinations will commence
next week. Year 10 end of term examinations in English,
Maths and Science will also start on Monday 9th December.
CAFOD HARVEST OF TALENTS

A group of 16 Year 9 pupils have raised a total of 371.36
for Cafod's work in Kenya. The project was a modern day
application of the parable of the talents, a parable that
communicates the message that it is important to use the
gifts that God has given us. Each pupil was given 10 with
the challenge of coming up with creative entrepreneurial
ideas to put the money to good use and raise as much
money as possible for Cafod. Pupils organised car washing,
Guess the teddy, Guess the number of sweets in the jar,
some made and sold bracelets and sold tea, coffee, cakes
and chocolates. Well done to the following pupils for their
efforts.
Emily Baker, Eva Clothier, Rosna Eswaraprasad, Beth
Horswell, Davis John, Jyothis Mankottil, Francisco
Marquesini, Nikrad Nassini, Francesca OBrien, Lauren
OHagan, Harriet Selway, Karoline Szymanska, Abin
Varghese, Patrick Welsh and Katie Whitfield.
OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD

Thank you to pupils in Years 7 9 who filled shoeboxes for
Operation Christmas Child. St Bedes prepared 82
shoeboxes for this very worthy cause.
CHAPLAINCY GROUP VISIT LOCAL PRIMARY SCHOOLS

On Thursday 21st November 15
pupils visited Year 5 at St Teresa's
Primary school. Many of them were
former pupils. They gave a
presentation about their journey to
St Bede's from primary school,
linking to St Paul's journey to
Damascus and then talked about
their own faith journeys. Pupils also answered questions
from Year 5 about St Bede's. They all spoke very highly of
their time at St Bede's and how quickly they had settled in.
On Monday 2nd December a different group of pupils
visited St Bonaventure's Primary school to lead an assembly
on the theme of journeys for the start of advent. Many of
the group were also past pupils of St Bonaventure's. Their
assembly was based on the story of the Fourth Wise Man.
They performed the drama and even composed their own
song to share with the primary pupils. Pupils agreed that
the morning had been a success and that they had been
made very welcome at St Bonaventures.
JULIAN TRUST
A polite reminder for pupils in Year 10 and 11 who wish to
contribute to the Hampers for the Julian Trust. Please
bring in items by Tuesday 10th December. Thank you.
CAFOD PRESENTATION
On Thursday 28th November, we were delighted to

present a cheque to David Brin, a representative from
Cafod for 1030.40.
The money was raised during our House Colours Day and
will be forwarded to the Philippines.
NETBALL
We were privileged to host the
Bristol Schools Netball finals
on Tuesday 3rd December in
which we had some brilliant
successes. The Year 7 and 9
Girls are now Bristol
Champions showing some
fantastic netball skills. The
Year 11s played superbly but
were just beaten in a closely
fought match against Cotham.
Year 7 v RGS 16 - 10 won
Year 9 v SMTR 19 - 10 won
Year 11 v Cotham 23 - 30 lost
Congratulations to all the girls
who have taken part this season.
RUGBY
Inter House Rugby Results
Year 7 - 1st Pasteur, 2nd Descartes, 3rd Bell Burnell
Year 8 - 1st Pasteur, 2nd Bell Burnell, 3rd Descartes
The Year 8 Rugby team season came to an end in the semifinals of the Bristol Schools, losing to Bristol Metropolitan.
The team dominated for long periods but couldn't handle
Bristol Mets strong back line, losing the game 26 - 0.
Congratulations to the Year 9 Rugby team who have
qualified for the final of the Bristol League after beating
SMRT 24 - 5. The final will be held next Thursday 12th
December at Broad Plain RFC.
LOST PROPERTY
We have a vast amount of lost property that has not been
claimed. Please could you ensure that all uniform and
belongings are labelled.
PRIMARY SCHOOL SPORTS HALL ATHLETICS

St Bede's hosted two nights of primary school Sports Hall
Athletics on Wednesday 27th and Thursday 28th
November. The event is a part of the level 2 school games
calendar with the winning team going on to represent
North Bristol at the level 3 Winter School Games. There
were twelve local primary schools in attendance with over
200 Year 5 and 6 children taking part across the two nights.
The children got to participate in a range of running events
as well as the standing long jump, standing triple jump,
chest push, vertical jump, soft javelin and the speed
bounce. The schools that attended the event were Bishop
Road, St Teresas, St Bonaventures, Oasis Bank Leaze,
Westbury-on-Trym, St Peter and Paul, Elmlea, St Johns,
Avon, Colstons, Westbury Park. The eventual winners were
Henleaze Juniors.
PRIMARY SCHOOLS DODGEBALL TOURNAMENT
On Tuesday 26th November St Bedes Community Sport
organised a Dodgeball tournament for local primary
schools. The tournament was part of the British Heart
Foundation Dodgeball project which St Bedes Community
Sport are partners. Six schools and over one hundred
children competed on the day. The schools that competed
on the day included Oasis Bank Leaze, Brentry, Avonmouth,
Littlemead, Henbury and St Bernards. Brentry were the
eventual winners. The tournament was a great success
and also raised money for a great charity.
NOTICE FOR YEAR 9 PUPILS WHO WENT ON THE

BATTLEFIELDS TRIP IN OCTOBER
All pupils who went on the trip in October have a 20
refund which they need to collect from Mrs Gates in the
Finance Office at lunchtime on Wednesday, 11th December.
CLOTHES FOR A CAUSE

Collections will be made on the first two weeks in January.
As per usual, all of the clothes, shoes, textiles, books etc.
will go to very good causes around the world and money
raised will go towards House charity funds. Please
therefore don't throw out any unwanted items over the
Christmas period send them to College in January 2014.
WISE WORDS
Aim at the sun, you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly
higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.
J. Hawes
BRAINTEASER
Roland, Marc and Paulina are three children in the same
family. Paulina is three times Marcs age. In two years, she
will be twice the age Roland will have at that time. Roland
is a year older than Marc. How old are the children?

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St Bedes Catholic College

Long Cross, Bristol BS11 OSU

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

Visit our Website: www.stbedescc.org

Year 8 Parents Evening

CERTIFICATE EVENING YEAR 12 STAR PERFORMERS

YEAR 7 CATCH UP EVENING

LIBRARY OPEN PERIOD 6

SIXTH FORM BLOCK BUILDING PROGRESS

CAFOD HARVEST OF TALENTS

OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD

CHAPLAINCY GROUP VISIT LOCAL PRIMARY SCHOOLS

On Thursday 28th November, we were delighted to

PRIMARY SCHOOL SPORTS HALL ATHLETICS

NOTICE FOR YEAR 9 PUPILS WHO WENT ON THE

CLOTHES FOR A CAUSE

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