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Spring 2013In this issue...

THE OPEN EVENING> Wednesday

6th February(5.30pm-8.30pm)

For more information about Cardinal Newman College and to speak to tutors and current students directly, make sure you attend our upcoming Open Event:

Cardinal Newman’s Certificate Evening was onceagain a wonderful occasion,which recognised the outstanding achievements of all of our 2012 Collegeleavers.

CERTIFICATE Evening

Each year our students achieve outstandingresults and the former year 13 students are invited to attend a certificate evening at St John’s Minster in Preston in celebrationof their wonderful results. This year certificates and awards were presented byCanon Luiz Ruscillo, Director of Educationfor the Lancaster Diocese, which were presented to each attending student infront of many proud parents, family members and friends.

Highlights from the evening included performances from the College Big Bandand a piano solo from student Lewis Ryan,plus two particularly poignant speechesfrom Principal Nick Burnham and CollegeChaplain Father Jim Clarke.

MEET...Sulwen TurnerCareersWith the increasing importance of making the correct career choices we asked Sulwen (Manager of Careers at Newman) for some advice:

What sorts of things do students from Newman go on to do after leaving?

“A high percentage of students (over 75% lastyear) go on to study at universities around thecountry and to study a wide range of degreecourses. I’ve known past students who have goneon to become barristers, doctors, designers, accountants, nurses…the list is really endless!Other students go on to a variety of apprenticeshipsor directly into employment and more increasinglystudents may take a gap year before applying touniversity a year later — either for work experienceor just to save some money.”

What basic advice would you give to a student at school in terms of career choices and options post-16?

“My biggest piece of advice would be to get goodGCSE grades. They are so important not only toget on to A Level courses or BTEC Level 3 courses,but also for university applications and employmentin the future. I’d say if you have a specific career in mind it is never too early to start researching on sites such as UCAS.com to make sure you arepicking the correct subjects at college. If you’renot as sure, that’s fine, but do try and take a good‘package’ or combination of subjects and mostimportantly, ones that you enjoy!”

Did you always want to work in careers? If not, what other job would you have liked to do?

“Originally I was a teacher of needle-work, HomeEconomics and Sociology and I helped with careersalongside. I then became much more heavily involved in Careers. It’s a really rewarding job,often I meet with students on a one-to-one basisto discuss future plans and I think they find theadvice really beneficial. I think I would always have liked to do a job similar to what I have done;something involving crafts and textiles — it’s always been a hobby of mine!”

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ChristmMany of the students at Cardinal Newman were in festive spirits duringDecember in celebration of everyone’sfavourite time of year: Christmas!

There were various events held both inside and outside of College, including the Christmas service held at St John’s Minster in Preston on Wednesday 19th December. The congregation was made up of staff and students and was led by College Chaplain Father Jim Clarke. There were also a number of readings from students, drama and dance performances and a wonderful routine from some of our Essential Skills students.

As we all know, Christmas is a time for receiving but at the College it was also a time to give! So our Chaplaincyteam, along with the help of many students, annually invitelocal senior citizens into College for the afternoon to enjoyfood, drink and festive entertainment. This year was no exception and our guests were treated to sandwiches, numerous games of bingo plus a Christmas hamper, each individually crafted by staff and students at Newman.

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The College Choir also performed at St Wilfrid’s Church over theChristmas holidays, at a wonderful evening carol concert, whilst students from the Modern Foreign Language department celebratedthe global holiday with a service held in the College Chapel, comprisedof readings and hymns in other languages, plus a European ‘treasurehunt’ around College afterwards.

The College reception area was adorned with fantastic decorationsincluding the garlands made up of individual leaves created by students on the annual Newman Day held in November, reflectingthe theme for the year that: ‘Growth is the only evidence of life’.

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Last term, 23 year 13 Health & Social Care students visitedChorley Hospital Theatres aspart of their studies.

The visit was organised and run by the Operating Theatre Practitioners(the training course for this is run atUCLan) and the hospital opened thetheatres especially for the visit so students could see first-hand what atheatre worked like on a daily basis.

Students attended three practicalworkshops; Orthopaedics, Laparoscopic(Key Hole Surgery) and Life Support in

small groups. In each workshop theygot an opportunity to use equipment,practice putting on theatre gowns, ask questions and find out how themachinery worked. Head of Health &Social Care Kathy Salisbury said: “Itwas a perfect opportunity for studentswho are in the process of applying touniversity to study a health relatedcourse, such as nursing, midwifery,physiotherapy and occupational therapy to develop their understandingof the processes of theatre practice.The visit has been extremely useful towards their personal statements and university applications.”

Health & Social CareVisit the THEATRE…

Ten business students got a real insight into the world ofwork when they spent seven days on placement at BAESystems at the end of November.

The group helped out at the Aerospace giant’s Warton factoryand were shown the ropes in a variety of different roles, withstudents assigned to lots of departments including; workingaround Typhoon jets, helping out with project managementand manning parts of the maintenance section.

The week-long venture was the first of its kind to be run atBAE Systems and provided a valuable and interesting look

at the world of engineering. First year student AndrewJamieson, said he saw some pretty interesting things whilst there: “I got to use an electromagnetic telescope and they also had a machine which fired water at such ahigh pressure it cut through metal!”

As well as providing interesting spectacles it gave the students a chance to see what roles they would enjoy withinthe engineering sector, even changing the minds of somestudents, Rebecca McArdle said: “I was looking at probablyapplying to jobs behind a desk within the engineering sector,but after my placement I’d now really love to get involved ina more hands-on role.”

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GEOGRAPHYVisit the Lake DistrictMathletes! During October, 120 AS Geography students braved the elements of the Lake District weather to complete a river study in preparation for their Geographical skills exam in January. They began their day at the Lake District National Park Brockholes visitor centre near Ambleside and then studied the full length of Tongue Gill, a small river just outside Grasmere.

With the help of staff from the Field Studies Council, Newman students had to complete a fieldwork enquiry to investigate how river characteristics change downstream. They had to quickly master a range of technical skills and work as a team to collect their data.

A prestigious Maths challenge proved no competition for Cardinal Newman students,with over 40 pupils being awarded certificates — seven of which were gold!

The UKMT Senior Maths Challenge is a national competition which is designed to challenge and motivate even the most capable of A Level students.The students who receive good results in the challenge receive a congratulatory certificate fromthe UKMT; this year 41 entrants from Cardinal Newman were awarded a certificate.

The organisers also invite the very top achieving students to take part in their other competitions andCardinal Newman is delighted that students PhelimKennedy (St Cecilia’s) and Joseph Livesey (St Cecilia’s)both got a high enough mark to gain entry to theBritish Mathematical Olympiad. Three other studentsalso qualified to take part in the challenging SeniorKangaroo exam.

This year, for the first time, Cardinal Newman Collegeran the Maths Challenge as an in-house competition;offering a prize to the three highest scorers. The prizewinners were:

1st Place: Phelim Kennedy, with a score of 1002nd Place: Joseph Livesey, with a score of 98

3rd Place: Stephen Lee, with a score of 97

As well as showcasing our student’s fantastic mathsskills, running the competition allowed us to raisemoney for the department’s charity: The Indigenous Education Foundation of Tanzania. The organisationaims to provide education to Tanzania’s under-privileged youth.

Phelim and Joe have also been in action recently representing the college at the regional heat of the Senior Team Maths Challenge, along with Freddie Heptinstall (St Cecilia’s) and Yana Taylor (Pleckgate).The team of four had to complete several rounds including a cross-number and a mathematical relay.

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Art Galleries GALORE!During the winter term, the Art department atCollege were busy bus-hopping across the North West as they searched for inspiration forupcoming projects.

Year 12 BTEC Art & Design and Foundation students went on atrip to Manchester Art Gallery and Platt Hall, whilst anothergroup also visited the Liverpool World Museum.

In Manchester, students were able to see the First Cut Exhibitionmade up of work by artists who cut, sculpt and manipulate paper.They wandered through a forest of paper trees and found inspiration from flocks of birds and butterflies cut intricately from maps.

Closer to home, Art and Design Foundation students took part ina full day workshop in College with a practicing artist Kat Button.Kat is a locally based Fine Artist and has exhibited her work nationally including Glasgow, Nottingham and Edinburgh. Shespoke to the students about her experiences of university, settingherself up as a practicing artist and the work she now produces for exhibitions. The students responded to Kat’s work by producingtheir own three dimensional structures exploring unusual materials such as balloons, sponges, cable ties and plastics!

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STUDENT UNION Back

Ben & Jerry’sStudents were delighted to find out that they

had been the most successful union in thefirst and second phase of the competition -beating many university and bigger studentunions from all over the country! They will

now continue to compete in the third phase inorder to win a trip to Holland to see Ben &

Jerry's dairy farm at work!

In the meantime, students and staffat the college can look forward to

over 400 free portions of Ben &Jerry's ice cream being delivered

for the end of January!

Please continue to support theCNC Student Union and most importantly the campaign for

better dairy by signing the petitionat www.happycows.eu/sig

Dance Academy students were thrilled as they were invited toperform at The Lowry in Salford on Tuesday 29th January,prior to the professional visiting show by Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo!

The invitation included the students attending the company’s rehearsal, introduction after the class by the Artistic Director and opportunity to ask questions, the Academy performance, then free tickets to the professional show in the evening.

This fantastic opportunity arose after Dance Academy leader Isabel Elder sent footage off to Youth Dance England (North West) who said: “We really enjoyed watching the piece and we felt it would sit very well alongside the main house production.”

DANCE ACADEMYPerform at The Lowry!

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Sports Fundraisingfor JORDAN GRANT

A fundraising 5-a-side football tournament was organised by Cardinal Newman students at the end of last term, in memory of one oftheir classmates who passed awaylast year.

Jordan Grant was a popular A Levelstudent and avid Preston North Endfollower who died suddenly of an undiagnosed heart condition in February.

To celebrate his life and to raisemoney for charity, his fellow students

organised a football tournament totake place in the sports hall in the St Augustine Building in December.The tournament saw 12 competingteams made up of many studentsfrom the College plus a team of Preston Police Officers who were led by Jordan’s dad, John!

The avid footballers had a fantastic

afternoon and managed to raise over£500 for ‘The Jordan Grant MemorialFund’ which works alongside anothercharity ‘Cardiac Risk in the Young’, toraise awareness of the condition.

They hope to be able to organise localscreening events for young people inthe Preston area to help make surenothing like this happens again.

To donate and find out more about ‘The Jordan Grant Memorial Fund’ or ‘Cardiac Risk in the Young’ please go to:

http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/JordanGrantFundraisingPages