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2nd December 2013 Year 11 Mocks Begin

19th December 2013 Presentation Evening

20th December 2013 Term Ends at 12.30

Parent Bulletin Christ’s College Finchley

CCF 6th formers debut in Parliament

Lucas Hartzig, Scott Marks, Mahdi Bor, Josh O'Mahoney, Tom Lugas, Kasra Zanjani and four other Year 13 students all played a full part in their first chance to speak in the Palace of Westminster last week. Christ's College 6th formers were invited to participate in a Student Parliament debate held in the Commons on the issue of military intervention in Syria. Lucas Hartzig made regular interventions and was a forthright and competent participant. Scott Marks engaged pupils from the London International School with passion and knowledge as CCF students dominated proceedings. Miralle da Silva-Williams managed to appropriately use humour as a tool in debate and all students found the experience exciting and worthwhile as they prepare for their A2 Politics exams. Tom Lugas spoke bravely and Josh O'Mahoney was trusted with the closing speech to the chamber. All made an excellent maiden speech in the Commons!

Year 7 visited the Design Museum, London.

On Thursday 14th of October the first group of 41 Year 7 students went to the Design Museum London as part of a learning enrichment programme for the year group. They all participated in an hour session of design activities organised by the museum titled 'Mystery'. They learnt how to conduct market research, analyse existing products, identify criteria for designing a successful product, generate new ideas and further develop an existing product. They also had the opportunity to have a look at various exhibitions and read about past and present British designers. Feedback from students showed that the trip was helpful to their learning and further enriched their knowledge. All the students on the trip have not visited the museum before, so it was an eye opener into the world of product designing. After lunch, making our way to the tube station was an icing on the cake as we walked pass and stopped at the Shad building to have group pictures and admire the genius of technology. The boys were thrilled. The trip could not have been a success without the brilliant effort and support of Form tutors, Ms Repetti, Ms Bose, Ms Kingsland, Ms Gohil and well behaved students. Thank you all.

Late Detentions

If your son/daughter is late for school, even by one minute,

they will serve a 30 minute detention on the same day. If they

fail to go to this detention they will then serve an hours

detention at a time to be arranged.

If they are late twice in one week they will automatically serve

an hours detention the following week.

If they are late due to a medical appointment they must have

a letter from a Parent/Guardian or they will still have to serve

the detention.

Thank you

CCF CADETS

Would you like to join ? Year 8 students and above, should contact:

Contact details are: Email: hq@ccfccf.org or

Phone: 0208 349 4288

(please leave message)

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CCF Christmas Hampers for the Elderly

Please can you start to bring in suitable items such as

tins and packet food items, toiletries and gifts so that we

can begin to put together the Christmas Hampers which

we will then deliver to elderly members of our

community. Your goods can be left at

reception.

Thank you

Mr Kneller

Match Report

Year 8 Rugby

On Tuesday 19th November, 17 year 8 boys took part in their first competitive Rugby match in the Champion Schools Rugby League Tournament. CCF played against Highgate Wood and Aylward Academy, with the winner representing North London in the next round against the Hertfordshire victor. After a shaky start, CCF began to show their potential and quickly overpowered Highgate Wood to win 18-10, Moyo Eziashi and William Prior (2) were the scorers. Next up was last year’s winners Aylward, who raced into an 8-0 lead thanks to their speedsters. CCF dug their heels in and began to create some structure, leading to some excellent team tries from Emmet Aziz, William Prior (4), Konrad Krzempek with William Prior converting 4 out of 6 tries to give CCF a 30-12 victory. A special mention must go to Moyo Eziashi who managed to carry 7 Aylward players on his back and still make 50m! Well Done Boys-Next up is Hertfordshire Mr Fleming

Results Basketball

Yr 7 vs Hendon (Barnet Cup) - WON 34-18

Yr 8 vs Whitefield - WON 60-20

Yr 9 vs St James - WON 41-23

Yr 10 vs Whitefield - WON 53-30

Football

Yr 8 vs JCOSS - LOST 0-2

Fixtures

Monday 25th November - Year 7 Basketball vs London Academy (H); Year 9 Football vs Finchley CHS (Barnet Cup)

Tuesday 26th November - Year 9 Basketball vs London Academy (H); Year 7 Rugby League a Tournament

Wednesday 27th November - Year 10 Basketball vs London

Academy (A); 1st XI Football vs Ashmole (Old Finchleians)

Thursday 28th November - Year 8 Basketball vs London Academy (H); Senior Basketball vs London Academy (A)

CCF 6th Form play a full part in Parliament Week Parliament promotes democracy and the role of parliament once a year in Parliament Week. This year CCF played a wide and engaging part in proceedings. Firstly 7 students attended an event with Dianne Abbot MP (former candidate for the Labour leadership and the UK's first black female MP), Lib-Dem Minister Meral Hussein and Helen Grant from the Attorney General's Office. The speeches and Q & A session concentrated on how we might improve the gender and racial diversity of MPs. Questions from CCF students were taken by the panel and the future representation of female, black and ethnic minority politicians seems safe in their hands - it is certainly something they feel passionately about. Secondly, 4 students - Theo Andresier, Deborah Ssekyejwe, Niamh Walsh and Jacob Bondzie represented the school at a Democracy event at the Commons hosted by local MPs. Again a host of questions came from the school's representatives and all students commented on how engaging and interesting the whole experience was. It seems a passion for democracy and debate is alive and well amongst CCF's 6th form.

Lunchtime Study

ICT rooms will be open at lunchtimes 12:30-1:15pm Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday and 1:30-2:10pm on Wednesdays for students to do schoolwork. The following rooms will be available:

Mon, Wed, Fri - Rm445

Tues, Thurs - Rm447

Please encourage your son to attend if he needs to.

Computers are limited and places will be filled on a first come

first served basis.

Year 7 Homework Club

A new club set up to support Yr 7 students struggling with completion of homework at home will be running from Friday 15th of November 2013 until the end of term in rooms 205 and 206 from 2.30 -3.30pm. This club is only for students who require materials, software and / or equipment not available at home, or if the home situation is not conducive to do homework for understandable reasons. Please advise your son to come to this club on Fridays if help is needed in any subject.

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The Russell group

This year's Year 12 are making the best of the opportunities that the schools' Russell Group offers. A special group

exists in the 6th form to encourage and promote applications to the UK's top universities. After only 5 active weeks

of membership students in year 12 have attended a wide range of events, lectures and Open days. The list

includes: a lecture on the Big Bang at UCL, a workshop on the biology of the ageing process at Imperial, an

interactive look at how the large gaseous planets developed held at the Royal Society, the history of the Kremlin at

the LSE, a debate on whether we can ever trust autonomous machines as well as a discussion on the meaning of

contemporary art. Two students attended Boris Johnson's sessions on the future of London and even fluid dynamics

and the science behind the emergence of the first elements in the wake of the big bang have been attended. Even a

review of the latest popular science books by Dara O'Brian provided some entertainment. But as many as 23

students are attending Kings College London every 2 weeks as part of that institutions widening participation

initiative - Christ's College is the largest participant in London on the K factor series of Maths events at Kings. Still

pending are a series of Masterclasses at Cambridge University and Year 12's eager students are registered for these

events too. All the students making the most of this opportunity deserve great praise.

Social Mobility Foundation at work at CCF

Qasim Khan of Year 13 is now an ambassador for the Social Mobility Foundation. As part of his role he promoted the educational charity to this years Year 12 recently. The SMF is a charity that attempts to promote bright students from families with no history of attending university in this country to successfully apply now. Their ASPIRING PROFESSIONALS PROGRAMME puts students who qualify in touch with a professional mentor, regular events, appropriate and rewarding work experience, summer internships and a promise to continue to provide this opportunity beyond 6th form and also whilst they are at university. Qasim benefitted from this programme from the start of his year 12 and is now trusted by the organisation to promote their work in schools. We are lucky to have him in the school to now promote these incredible opportunities to Year 12 students. We wish all those who choose to apply for this highly competitive programme all the best. Like Qasim (who is applying to do medicine this year) they too should benefit greatly from this opportunity.

Shakespeare Schools festival

A group of students from Year 8 and Year 9 participated in the Shakespeare Schools festival last week. The students travelled to The Pleasance Theatre, Islington, where they undertook a technical and dress rehearsal. The afternoon was spent rehearsing at the Islington Arts Factory, in preparation of their evening performance. Throughout the day, the students were impeccably behaved and represented our school most positively. I am incredibly proud of the maturity of the students' performance work, the boys involved were; Tuoyo Akinbulumo, Sadiq Alhadi, Haider Almas, Sezgin Aydin, Taylor Rand-Brade, Riley Fitzgerald, Alfie Fox, Plamen Georgiev, Jai Halai, Cameron MacLeod, KInquaid Malik-White, Hassan Rashid, Conor Reilly, Harrison Reilly, Ali Savabdaneshmand, Ethan Diakite, Ali Jafari, Neima Roodberi, Abel Kakas and Niam Shah.

Well done boys!

Ms Hinds

Don’t forget there is a Breakfast Club every morning from 8.00-8.30am in the dining hall

where students can purchase a variety of breakfast foods.