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PRAYER FOR MOTHERS DAY
God our Creator, we pray:
for new mothers, coming to terms with new
responsibility;
for expectant mothers, wondering and waiting;
for those who are tired, stressed or depressed;
for those who struggle to balance the tasks of work
and family;
for those who are unable to feed their children due to
poverty;
for those whose children have physical, mental or
emotional disabilities;
for those who raise children on their own;
for those who have lost a child;
for those who care for the children of others;
for those whose children have left home;
and for those whose desire to be a mother has not
been fulfilled.
Bless all mothers, that their love may be deep and
tender,
and that they may lead their children to know and do
what is good,
living not for themselves alone, but for God and for
others.
Amen.
Friday 13 March 2015 All Hallows Catholic College Newsletter Easter Term
All Hallows celebrated Chinese New Year in
style in February. Students performed a fashion
show which celebrated the diverse ethnic groups
which make up the population of China. The
video is available to view on the school
website. Café Bernard served a range of
delicious Chinese food for the week. We are
thrilled this year to be able to offer Mandarin in
the 6th form from September 2015.
Parents / Carers are invited to attend a Principal's Surgery to
discuss any concerns or ask questions, on the following dates
Tuesday 24 March '15, 3.45pm - 4.45pm
There is no appointment system so please be prepared to wait—
more dates to be confirmed
PRINCIPAL’S SURGERIES
ECO FACTS
Each year, more than 350 million inkjet and laser cartridges are thrown away.
Each year, 35 million cell phones are disposed of around the world.
Paper can account for as much as 60% of school waste in the UK in 2014
Preventing one ton of paper waste saves between 15 and 17 trees
Plastic requires 100 to 400 years to break down in a landfill
Recycling one aluminum beverage can saves enough energy to run a 100-watt bulb for 20 hours, a computer for three
hours, or a TV for two hours.
COLLEGE PRAYER
SPECIALISM OF SUCCESS
Wednesday 13 May 2015
Year 7 Attend College
Activity Day
Year 8 CONSULTATION DAY
Reading Blog at home when not in for
appointment
Year 9 Work Related Learning
Reading Blog from home(Careers Theme)
Year 10 CONSULTATION DAY
Reading Blog at home when not in for
appointment
Year 11 Home Study—Science Revision Study in
College/Exams
Sixth Form Revision Day/ Private Study
In College for at home
ARRANGEMENTS FOR PARENTS CONSULTATION DAY
CATHOLIC WEEKEND CONFERENCE
All Hallows Catholic College Newsletter Easter Term
There are 48 days left until the start of the Year 11, 12 & 13 exams. On the resit
day 7 February, student attended across Maths, English and Science. There will be further resits in other subjects on
Saturday 21 and Saturday 28 of March for students for one or more grade below flight paths in their mock exams.
For all Year 11 students a revision booklet is available on the College website under “student revision” further
details will be sent shortly to parents of those students required to resit.
EXAM COUNTDOWN
Year Group Dates Type
12&13 Friday 6 March 2015—Friday 13 March 2015 Mock Exam
10 Monday 16 March 2015—Friday 20 March 2015 Mock Exam
7,8,9,11 Monday 16 March 2015—Friday 27 March 2015 Assessment
7,8,9 Monday 15 June 2015—Friday 19 June 2015 End of Year Exam
10 Monday 15 June 2015—Friday 26 June 2015 Assessment
COLLEGE INTERNAL EXAMS / ASSESSMENTS
Supporting your child through their GCSE's can be difficult. One top tip is how to cope when your child falls behind with work. The solution
would be to help them prioritise their work load and create a plan that helps get the balance right with college work and social time. To
help with this all Year 11 students have been given a revision pack, that includes a revision timetable, which students are completing this
week. Please ask to see the revision timetable your child will bring home and have a conversation around it. Future Link Publishing have
also produced a useful guide for parents that contains 101 top tips to help. This can be accessed using the following link: http://
www.futurelinkpublishing.co.uk/publish/publications/GCSE.html.
PARENT AS PARTNERS - SUPPORTING YOUR CHILD IN EXAMS
What should you do when the exam invigilator says commence? - Give yourself a couple of minutes to read through
the paper to allocate time for each question or section and to mark options you want to attempt.
EXAM TIP
Friday 13 March 2015
YEAR 10 MOCK EXAMINATION
Ravana’s Revenge
27 March 2015
Year 8 Retreat
Wednesday 6 May - Friday 8 May 2015
Italy Trip
Saturday 23 May 2015
Normandy Trip
Friday 12 June 2015
Drop-in session
KS4/5 students 3:30p.m.- 4:30p.m.
Year 7, 9 and 11 Assessment Week
Monday 16 March 2015
Year 10 Maths Fest
Wednesday 18 March 2015
Year 7 Manchester University Trip
Wednesday 23 March 2015
TRIPS AND UPCOMING EVENTS
DAY SUBJECT
Monday Science/History/Languages/Hospitality
Tuesday Maths
Thursday Music/Geography
Other ICT any break/lunch Business – by arrangement Art – by arrangement
All Hallows Catholic College Newsletter Easter Friday 13 March 2015
DUKE OF ENDINBURGH AWARD
Congratulations to those students who have made a
commitment to work towards their Duke of
Edinburgh award. Currently we have
35 students working on their bronze award, 21 on
silver and 5 on gold. Thank you to those who
attended the drop in last week with Steve Wilson
and Nicky Young who are supporting the College with DofE.
The next official drop in will be on Thursday 19 March at 1:15 - 2:00. More details to follow
If in the meantime any students are unsure, need help or want more detail please see Mrs Connor.
Well done to all those who are uploading their evidence for each of the areas on eDofE. If you have not started
to do this yet can you please have a go.You will need to have completed two of the three sections before the
expedition. Again if you need help with this come and see Mrs Connor
Silver DoE practice expedition Friday 26 and Saturday 27 June 2015
Silver DoE assessed expedition Friday 10 and Saturday 11 July 2015
Bronze DoE practice expedition Saturday12 and Sunday13 September 2015
Bronze DoE assessed expedition Saturday10 and Sunday 11 October 2015
Gold DoE practice expedition Thursday 24 to Monday 28 September 2015
Gold DoE assessed expedition Thursday 22 to Monday 26 October 2015
Good luck and well done so far.
DUKE OF ENDINBURGH FUTURE IMPORTANT DATES
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Students must sign out at the Attendance Office before leaving College to attend a medical appointment. When they return to College the student must sign back in. This ensures registers will be accurate and we know the student is off site should we have a fire alarm. The Attendance Office is located in the office along the RE corridor. We thank parents for making medical appointments, where possible, that do not take up a whole day of schooling. This often allows a student to have their legal registration mark for both morning and afternoon sessions and so their overall attendance does not fall.
Most students appreciate the importance of being in College on time. Children who are regularly late do miss out on their education and form bad habits that will not be tolerated in the workplace. As a result of the change to the College day we need to inform parents that students must be in the registration form class for the register to be taken at 8.45a.m. This means students should arrive 5-10 minutes earlier in College to be on time. Any student who arrives after 8.45a.m. will receive a L code. Two L codes within a week will result in a whole college detention (which started on Thursday 6 November). This is a recent change in procedures and moves the detention away from the form tutor and it will now be seen as a whole college issue. Any student who arrives after 9.05a.m. will receive a U code. This means they will be classed as absent for the whole morning and this may have consequences for overall attendance. We are aware that College buses are sometimes late and we can confirm these students are not negatively marked in the register when this happens. Thank you for your co-operation in this matter.
If any parent would like their son or daughter to have a careers interview with Mrs Pilling, our Careers Advisor, this year then please notify the relevant Year Learning Leader who can ensure names are added to the list. Priority is now with Year 10 students (now Year 11 have all been seen) and also with sixth form students. Students in Year 7, Year 8 and Year 9 are welcome to attend her lunch time drop in. She uses the Student Support Office based next door to Music.
CAREERS ADVICE FOR STUDENTS
BEING PUNCTUAL AT ALL HALLOWS
Year 8: held on 25 March (1.15p.m. – 2.15p.m.) Year 9: held on 16 March (9.00a.m. – 10.00a.m.) Year 10: held on 27 March (1.15p.m. – 2.00p.m.) Year 11: held on 24 March (9.45a.m. – 10.45a.m.) These are for parents who would like to discuss any concerns relating to their child. No appointment is necessary but please be prepared to wait. Please contact our Pastoral Assistant ([email protected] 01625 410285 x215), should you require an appointment with a Year Learning Leader at any other time.
YEAR LEARNING LEADER “DROP IN SURGERIES”
NAME JOB MON TUES WED THUR FRI VENUE
Mrs J Pilling Careers Advisor Student Support Office
Mrs L Nolan Visyon Counsellor Student Support Office
Mrs J Jones College Nurse Student Support Office
Mrs P Shatwell Family Support Office next to rooms A9 and A10
Mrs J Beard and Mrs P Prince Education Welfare
Pastoral Office (ground floor of Fisher Building)
[email protected] emails will be read by a Senior Teacher [email protected]
= Staff Present
MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS DURING THE COLLEGE DAY
STUDENT SUPPORT ACROSS THE COLLEGE
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Whilst the College requires parents to contact us on each day of absence , school policy now requires that any student who accumulates 7 or more days of absence during the course of the academic year will be asked to provide medical confirmation of the need to be absent before any further absences are authorised for medical reasons. This is a necessary measure as we closely monitor absence due to illness / medical reasons in order that we can ensure students are supported where needed. For your information medical confirmation does not have to be a doctor's note but can also take the form of a medical appointment card, a copy of a relevant dated prescription or evidence of medication being taken
If no medical evidence is provided then the absence will be coded as unauthorised. Ten or more unauthorised absences may result in you receiving a Fixed Penalty Notice. This incurs a penalty of £60 per parent / carer to be paid within 21 days, otherwise the penalty will rise to £120 per parent / carer to be paid within 28 days. If the penalty remains unpaid then the matter will proceed to the Magistrates Court where you will receive a criminal record if you are found guilty.
The link between attendance and achievement is well researched and documented and students should be aiming for an attendance rate of no less than 97% over the year. Thank you for your continued support with this important issue.
MEDICAL ABSENCE FROM COLLEGE
Term College Opens to Students College Closes to Students
Easter Monday 23 February 2015 Thursday 2 April 2015
Whitsun Monday 20 April 2015 Thursday 21 May 2015
Trinity Monday 1 June 2015 Tuesday 21 July 2015
ATTENDANCE MATTERS Year 7 - 96.1% (down 1.1% on our previous week ) Year 8 - 96.1% (down 0.3%) Year 9 - 96.0% (up 0.8%, well done Year 9) Year 10 - 93.7% (up 0.9%, well done Year 10) Year 11 - 95.7%% (up 1.2%, well done Year 11) Year 12 - 94.4% (up 2.2%, well done Year 12)
Year 13 - 95.5% (up 1.7%, well done Year 13)
Holidays have not been authorised since 1st September 2013 under new legislation on all English schools. Requests for holidays
must still be made in writing to the appropriate Key Stage leader (Mrs Garvey KS5, Mr Blades KS4/KS3), but in the vast majority
of cases they will be unauthorised. A Fixed Penalty Notice may be issued of £60 per parent / carer per student, to be paid within
21 days, otherwise the penalty will rise to £120 per parent / carer to be paid within 28 days. If the penalty remains unpaid then
the matter will proceed to the Magistrates Court where you will receive a criminal record if you are found guilty. Please can all
holiday requests be made well in advance of the holiday being taken if not before the holiday is booked.
HOLIDAY ABSENCE FROM COLLEGE
The following are the remaining dates for training days in 2014-15. Students are not required to attend on Friday 22
May 2015 unless taking an external exam.
Please note the College will be closed on Bank Holiday Monday 4 May 2015 COLLEGE TERM DATES
Attendance last week was 95.5% (an increase from 95.3% during the previous week but 0.2% lower than the same week last year). Our overall attendance since 2 September is still at 95.1%.We aim for 97%.
Last week GIRLS attendance was 94.9% (up 0.2% on the previous week so well done girls), BOYS attendance was 96.1% (up 0.3% so well done boys). The overall girls attendance since 2 September is 94.7% whilst boys is 95.5%.
ATTENDANCE COMPETITION
All students in Year 9, Year 10 and Year 11 are challenged to full 100% attendance between Monday 23 March and Thursday 2 April. Those students who achieve this will entered into a prize draw for £25 worth of Amazon vouchers. The same competition was run for Year 7 and Year 8 last half term with Courtney-Paige Beeston in Year 8 winning the prize. This competition is a challenge to Key Stage 4 students to not let their attendance slip at the end of a term.
Friday 13 March 2015
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LIBRARY NEWS
Again, a thank you to those students who have returned (long) overdue books - please keep searching!
Once again, overdue notes have gone to tutors and I would ask that students continue to look for these books as
we still have a large number of outstanding items, particularly popular fiction books that other students want to
borrow. Students that have borrowed books more recently need to make sure that they return their loans on
time for the same reason. Your support in this matter is much appreciated.
Year 7 - 12 books overdue
Year 8 - 74 books overdue
Year 9 - 69 books overdue
Year 10 - 17 books overdue
Year 11 - 32 books overdue
6th form - 8 books overdue
BOOK AMNESTY AND OVERDUE BOOKS
Games Club - including a mini chess tournament starts Friday Break 2 in the library - more details to follow.
GAMES CLUBS AND LEGO CLUB
Cheshire Schools' Book Award Pick of the Week - Stay Where You Are and Then Leave by John Boyne.
This is how the story is described on the author's website:
'The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield’s father promised he wouldn’t go away to fight – but
he broke that promise the following day. Four years later, Alfie doesn’t know where his father might be, other
than that he’s away on a special, secret mission.
Then, while shining shoes at King’s Cross Station, Alfie unexpectedly sees his father’s name – on a sheaf of
papers belonging to a military doctor. Bewildered and confused, Alfie realises his father is in a hospital close by –
a hospital treating soldiers with an unusual condition. Alfie is determined to rescue his father from this strange,
unnerving place . . .'
Find out more at: www.johnboyne.com
CHESHIRE SCHOOLS’ BOOK AWARD PICK OF THE WEEK
Congratulations to the Year 10 students below who have recently completed an ASDAN Level 1 qualification in
Sports Leadership in college through the Skill Force project. Students also gained a first aid certificate
LAUREN OLDFIELD ELISHA HEAVENS
SHANNON HOUGHTON SHANNON HALLWORTH
JAZZMIN PEEL GRACE GLASER
MAISIE GOODIER GABBI O'DONOVAN
KYLE FROST-MORGAN NATHAN RUTTER
YEAR 10 SUCCESS
Friday 13 March 2015
A big thank you to all the students involved in celebrating World Book Day with our week of events, including a
very successful visit from author Jon Mayhew which you can read more about in the upcoming Aspire Magazine!
WORLD BOOK DAY
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Students are now able to use our fantastic new Fitness Suite.
If you have finished a Fitness Suite. Induction and wish to use the facilities must sign up on the day using the sign
up sheet on the notice board in the Sports Hall. Places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis, up to a
maximum of 28 students for each session.
The following sessions are available:
Monday - Y7/8 (mixed) until 4.30p.m.
Tuesday - Y7/8 (girls only) until 4.30p.m.
Wednesday - Y9/10/11 (girls only) until 4.00p.m.
Thursday - Y11/Sixth form (mixed) until 4.30p.m.
Friday - Y9/10 (mixed) until 4.30p.m.
FITNESS SUITE
The Fitness Suite is also open at lunch (second
break).
Any queries please contact Mr Lawson or a mem-
ber of the PE staff for more information.
PE NOTICE TO ALL PARENTS
UPCOMING SPORTS FIXTURES
WEDNESDAY 18 MARCH Eaton Bank Academy 3:30pm Away
GIRLS NETBALL
Please make sure students are bringing appropriate clothing to their PE lessons if they are on an outdoor lesson. During
extreme weather (and extreme cold conditions as it has been recently) parents are reminded that students can and are
advised to wear the following:
All Hallows PE trousers (plain black joggers/tracksuit bottoms will also be allowed during the cold weather)
All Hallows Black jacket (or a plain black sports jacket/waterproof)
All Hallows black fleece
Hats (black/dark in colour/plain)
Gloves (black/dark in colour/plain)
Under-armour/skins/undergarments - as long as red/black or white in colour
Also, a reminder that all girls should now own football boots/astro-turf trainers for use on the new 3G Astro-turf pitch.
Many thanks,
PE department
Netball Results
Year 7 A - Lost 22 - 8 Player of the match Millie Risely
Year 7 B - Lost 5 - 1 Player of the match Lilliana Carey
Year 8 - Lost 16 - 3 Player of the match Katie Whyatt
Year 9 - Lost 16 - 13 Player of the match Emily Hutchinson and Brooke Hadfield
Year 10 - Lost 24 - 4 Player of the match Grace Whalley
Year 11 - Lost 34 - 1 Player of the match Sarah Duffy
The next match will conclude the netball season and will be player away at Eaton bank on Thursday 26th March