BEVIN NEWS www.ernestbevin.london Issue 140

Friday 9th November 2018

PRINCES TRUST AWARDTwo students from Ernest Bevin College were part of a team who won the Dell EMC Community Impact Award and took part in an award ceremony at the British Museum as part of a project with the Princes Trust. Noah 11JK was interviewed in a TV-sofa style on stage in an auditorium of 350 guests and Nathan 10LDM spoke to press and social media teams back stage. Noah, Nathan and the other young people were taking part in Achieve, a programme run by the Princes Trust to build the confidence and motivation of pupils. The team raised £500 by selling cakes for a charity called A21 which specialises in rehabilitating young people and women rescued from modern slavery. Noah spoke very convincingly about the choice of charity they had raised money for and persuaded people to donate much higher sums of money than the £1 price of a cup cake.

BEST AWARDSHospitality and catering students worked with former MasterChef finalist Daksha Mistry to prepare the buffet, for the BEST Work Experience Awards evening hosted at the college before half term. BEST celebrated 25 years of delivering work experience to students in Wandsworth this year and has had a long-term partnership with the college. The boys were thanked for the ‘delicious’ buffet they prepared for guests attending the awards evening.

TOOTING STREET FOOD CHALLENGEThe Bevin team of chefs who came runners up in the Tooting Street Food Challenge attended a celebration at Tooting Market and are pictured with their mentors and the Deputy Mayor of Wandsworth, Councillor Mrs Jane Cooper.The team developed their idea for a Macho Nacho street food business whilst taking part in the competition organised by Wandsworth Council’s Lifelong Learning team.

STEM KINGSTON UNIVERSITYYear 8 and 9 students attended a STEM event at Kingston University. The boys looked at how blood circulates around the body as well as the different type of blood cells and their functions.

They also had a virtual reality experience that explained how the blood system within the body works. Students then did some experiments and looked at different blood groups. They received a very nice lunch and the students really enjoyed the experience. Mr Morrissey

Nathan said: “Winning the award was the best part of the experience because it was a big surprise and I had never won anything like this before.”Noah said: “It felt really good to win the award and to help the vulnerable people supported by A21. It felt good to do something to help these people get through tough times.”

ANTI-BULLYING WEEKNext week 12-15th November is Anti-Bullying week. There will be assemblies for each Year group looking at this year’s theme of ‘We Choose Respect’. There are a number of resources on the college website for young people and their parents on the school web site -

http://ernestbevin.london/index.php/safeguarding/Including the College’s SHARP online reporting system. Bullying is not tolerated at Ernest Bevin and pupils and parents are encouraged to report any concerns.

STEM THAMES WATERYear 7 students took part in a STEM day organised by Thames Water. After a short introduction to the principles of building a clean water supply, the boys worked in teams to build their own water network around a model town. The aim was to ensure the hospital, school, businesses and houses across the map could be supplied with water. The boys came up with a number of different solutions and enjoyed the challenge.

STEM FARADAY CHALLENGEWell done to the team from 8SW who won the Faraday Challenge Day and will represent the college at the Jack Petchey London Final day. The boys developed and built a prototype humidity detector for the James Webb telescope. They accumulated more points over the day than the other teams taking part as judged by the workshop facilitator from the Institution of Engineering and Technology. There were plenty of good ideas from the other teams including a motorised arm to clean up the dust from the reflective surfaces of NASA’s Space Telescope.

ST BATHOLOMEW’s CHURCHStudents learning to play the play went on a reward trip to St Barthlomew’s church to heard the pianist Hin-Yat Tsang. He performed Beethoven’s ‘Tempest Sonata’ and Schubert’s ‘Musical Moments’ Andrew 9ALS: "I enjoyed listening to the pianist in the grand church. The pianist was very, very good, and I'd love to go and see him again."Sufiyan 9ALS: "I really liked the pianist. It was a really good experience."Samuel 9ALS: "The pianist was very good. It clearly took a lot of effort and time to practice. It was really impressive the work he produced.

TOP TIPS FOR PARENTS• Don’t panic• Tell your child it is not their fault• Establish the facts• Ask your child what they want to happen• Do not encourage your child to retaliate• Report it to the college• Encourage your child to get involved in other activities to build their confidence & self-esteem

12 LINK WORKSHOPSIn the first autumn half-term Year 12 Foundation students have been taking part in 12 Link workshops organised by Ms Muir and BEST. These workshops are aimed at preparing the students for their work experience placements which will run one day a week from November 2018 until February 2019.Gideon 12CJW : “For the past five weeks I have been involved in the 12 Link workshops organised by Ms Muir & BEST. These workshops are gearing us for our work experience placement in November 2018 until February 2019. I am so happy as I have successfully gained a one day work experience placement at Waitrose, Balham. The workshops were run by different employers covering topics such as cover letters, CV writing, interview skills, apprenticeships, the construction industry, traineeships, employability skills, etc. I found the workshops extremely helpful and the employers were all ‘hands on’ - willing to assist me with any queries that I had, they even read my CV and cover letter - giving me valuable pointers in how to improve them. “

YEAR 10 WORK EXPERIENCEWell done to all Green Ties who undertook a week’s Work Experience after half term. Mr Lee was extremely pleased to receive a number of good reports from students, parents and employers. Some of the students have been asked back and a couple have also managed to secure themselves Saturday jobs as a result.

JOB CENTRE PLUS TRIPTen students visited the Job Centre Plus in Kennington with Ms Muir and Ms Olasibekan.Abdullah 12LTT: “The trip was interesting because they taught how to find a job, the different departments that they have in the Universal Credit section of the DWP. The trip was useful because it helped me to understand the various ways one can find employment.”Darren 12LTT: “The trip was good as it taught me how to be more confident when looking at applying for work that I want to do and what the JCP entails. It was interesting to know about Universal Credit and it financially supports adults of all abilities. It was also helpful to know what other people did for their previous jobs such as our guest speaker Mr Johnson a senior civil servant who had advised policy makers at number 10 Downing Street.”

EUROPEAN DAY OF LANGUAGESThe MFL Department celebrated European Day of Languages in October. Year 7 were treated to a breakfast of pain au chocolate and a carton of juice by the MFL teachers and were encouraged to ‘order’ in French or Spanish. Well done to 8SW who won the tutor time quiz that the MFL department had organised. Another highlight of the day was students finding out what language other than English members of staff speak. The MFL department hopes this will inspire students to learn another language.

STEM CLUBS

For more information about clubs see the college websitehttp://ernestbevin.london/index.php/about/enrichment/

CODING CLUB

Diary DatesWednesday 14th November

Staff training day, College ClosedThursday 15th November

Sixth Form Open Evening 5-7pmWednesday 21st November

Sports Awards Evening

NOVEMBER QUIZ SOLUTIONSBrain Trainer 32, 480, 99

Word Wheel - lgloo, logo, logs, loot, loots, lost, loti, lots, oils, ollo, slio, slog, slot, soil, soli, solo, soot, stool, togs, toil, toils, tool, tools, zoologist, zoot.

YEAR 9 FOOTBALLRed Ties are on good form so far this season. They played a great game against St John Bosco’s winning 4-0.

LONDON JUDOThe London and Green belt under competition was held on the Saturday 20th October at the University of East London. We took nine boys to the competition and they came back with eight medals, the majority gold in colour! Sensei Mike

The results were as follows :- Gold

Ali E 8SW, Youcef D 9HS, Nabil A 9HS, Yusuf 10LDM, Umar 10BC, Kamal P 11AJT

Silver Samuel B 11DD;

BronzeZakareya A 10FON;

Participated Muhammad A 8SW

WELSH JUDO OPEN The Welsh Judo Open was held on the Saturday 3rd November in Cardiff. It was the last Ranking Judo Event for Cadets before the British Judo Nationals which will be held in Sheffield in early December. Potential medallist all attended this event and so the level of competition was very high, at national level. The boys were in good shape; tactically and physically, there is some more work to do in order to increase our chance to be on the rostrum at the national event in one month’s time. Sensei Mike

The results were as follows :- Silver

Shayden 11 SH Bronze

Ayoub 11SAAParticipatedAdem 11SAA

NATIONAL CADET TABLE TENNIS LEAGUEOn Sunday, 4th November Daniel 8PXM, Akilesh 8PG, Yusuf 7YC, and Zakir (who will join Ernest Bevin next September) represented Ernest Bevin in the National Cadet League (1) tournament at Greenhouse Sports Centre, Marylebone London. Although this was their first time together as a new team, and they were overall youngest by age for division one, they performed exceptionally well to defeat the hosting team Greenhouse (A) 5-1, and Westminster School (A) 6-0, Moberly (B) 6-0, Ashford 4-2. They lost just one match to a more experienced team Moberly (A) 2-4.

One of the many highlights of the day's action was Yusuf coming back from a set down to beat a much more experienced player and showing his fighting spirit. Coach Annie

Goals from Hassan 9TVW, Gino 9HS, Alex 9CP and Chez. Man of the Match was Hassan (pictured).Cup games coming up next week. Good luck boys! Mr Simeone