Volume 7 Issue 2 September 16th 2016

St Brigid’s News

S T B R I G I D ’ S S C H O O L / Y S G O L S A N T E S F F R A I D , D E N B I G H

Dear Parents / Carers,

Welcome back after half term, we hope you had a good break and that our Year 11

pupils were able to get some rest in between revising for the new Numeracy

examination which took place this week.

For our Year 9 pupils the process for choosing options for 2016-17 will soon be upon us. The process for pupils is as follows:

Introduction to Careers Wales Online (Dr. Humberstone) – November 2016

Discuss potential Options Choices with the Learner Voice Champion 14-19 (DCC) – 21st November 2016

Developing your Learning Profile Plans (Mrs. Sargent) – December 2016

Taster Lessons Selection – Start January 2017

Free Choice Survey using Careers Wales Online – January 2017

Year 9 Options Evening – 2nd February 2017

Opportunity to discuss option choices with a senior member of staff – February and March 2017

Final Option Choices deadline – March 17th 2017

Parents and carers, if you have any questions a comprehensive guidance booklet will be

placed on the school website to guide you along the way. This will finalised in the next

few weeks and you will be informed when you are able to access this. It is important that

pupils consider the options very carefully so they don’t make the wrong choices so

please support your child in this process.

Regards

Rona Jones

Pennaeth / Headteacher Sunday 6th November

Panto Backstage Crew

10.00 - 16.00

Monday 7th November

PSE Yr9 Choose Life Presen-

tation

Wednesday 9th November

CCF - All Cadets

15.45 - 17.45

Thursday 10th November

Vale of Clwyd Primary Netball

Tournament at St Brigid's

School

09.45—12.45

Friday 18th November

School Association Christmas

Tombola

November, Month of the Holy Souls

We invite you to join with us in prayer for all our loved ones

who are now with the Lord. November is a special month,

dedicated by the church for the Holy Souls.

Many people who have gone to the Lord need our prayers but

have nobody to pray for them. So this November let us make a

special effort to pray for all generations of our families and our

friends who are in need.

Rest in Peace by Fr Patrick Sayles, S.S.C.

Lord, be good to them and show them all your love.

Lord, be kind to them and grant them peace above.

Lord, be merciful to them and wipe their sins away.

Lord, be generous to them with all my heart I pray.

Lord, be gracious to them for the good that they have done.

Lord, be gentle to them for sufferings under gone.

Lord, may we meet again at last when Heaven’s Crown’s be won.

(A moment of silence to remember all your generations who are now with the Lord and for those who

have no one to pray for them)

Youcat Club Every Friday - 3.30pm- 4.30pm.

Pope’s Tweet October 17th - With faith we visit the graves of our loved

ones, where we can also pray for those who no one remembers.

Weekly attendance summary

(week ending 21.10.16)

Nursery 92.5% Recep. 94.3%

Year 1 93.8% Year 2 90.8%

Year 3 91.1% Year 4 92.3%

Year 5 97.5% Year 6 92.9%

Primary total: 93.5%

7G 93.1% 7R 90.7%

8G 86.7% 8R 90.0%

9G 90.0% 9R 91.5%

10G 97.4% 10R 88.5%

11G 93.1% 11R 96.7%

Secondary total: 91.7%

Volume 7 Issue 8

4th November 2016

Rotary Technology Tournament Competition - Just before half term, three teams of Tech-

nology students travelled to Deeside College to take part in the Rotary Technology Tour-

nament sponsored by Airbus, encouraging pupils to think about engineering as a career

choice. A challenge was given to construct a bridge, one section of which had to allow tall

ships to pass through. Each team was given a controlled amount of materials and an

expert apprentice to help, they were judged on the function and aesthetics of the build. In

the foundation level team Llyon, Sian, Bethan and Olivia constructed a beam bridge with

a pulley lever and won their class. The advanced group were Alistair, Freya, Rhys and

Imogen who constructed an arched bridge with a double lever and two pulley systems,

also winning their class. The overall competition winners were Gio, Andrews and Toby

who impressed the judges with a reinforced arch bridge and pulley lever section. All stu-

dents received a goody bag and document wallet from Airbus and had a really fun day,

well done!

Well done to everybody who represented St. Brigid's at the Football Festival

in Ruthin yesterday. They all played with great spirit and were a credit

to the school.

St Brigid’s School Association - Christmas Tombola

Friday 18th November at 7pm

Come along and join in the fun—letters and raffle tickets have been sent home

today. Please return the to the admin office for a chance to win one of the lovely

hampers. If you need further tickets

please just ask in Admin.

We also need your help—please can you send in your good

quality clean teddies for our lovely win a Teddy Christmas

Tombola. The children love this stall so we need a large

amount of much loved teddies. They will all go to go homes

and be cherished for many years to come.

PANTO WORKING

TEAM

The panto working

team will be meet-

ing this Sunday

from 10am—5pm.

Everyone is wel-

come to come along

and make, paint, and anything else that

needs doing! Please keep checking the

newsletter for details of how to purchase

tickets. All performances always so sell

out so please do buy early to avoid any

disappointment.

Mr Tranmer

On Thursday before Half Term, Year 4 spent a lovely day at Speke Hall in Liverpool. The sun was shining as we spent the morning having a tour of this wonderful Tudor home and learning all about the history of the house. The afternoon was spent mak-ing pomanders and learning about Tudor clothes. We even man-aged to turn two of our class members into very convincing Tu-dors! A thoroughly enjoyable day was had by all.

The children in the primary school were very fortunate to receive a surprise visit from the Fire Service this morning. The children

welcomed the team to the school to talk about this half terms topics: ‘Bonfire Night’ and

‘The Great Fire of London’.

The children were able to ask the firefighters lots of interesting questions about the

equipment firefighters use and how they help rescue people. In KS2 the children learnt

about how to stay safe at home and what to do if the smoke alarm sounds. All of the chil-

dren had the opportunity to try on some of the firefighters uniform and to use the fire en-

gines hose! The school would like to thank Amy, Rhys and Vicky from the fire service for

their time today – the children certainly had an informative and enjoyable morning.

Orienteering for Primary – Thursday 2nd November

On Thursday, all of Year 5 and 6 had an introduction to orienteering during their latest PE lesson, from Lt Col Wood.

Everyone learned how to orientate the map (hold it so that it is easier to read the features around you), how to follow a simple course and learned most of the map symbols needed. There was lots of running about and they are looking forward to the next les-son.

Thanks to Mrs DVD and Mr Madog for manning the clipboards (and sorting out the chaos of the lesson), and to Mrs Maloney and Mrs Roberts. Our next event is on Saturday 12 Nov 2016 at Erddig near Wrexham, and anyone who wants to go should let Mr Madog know, who has all the details.

St Brigid’s School Association -Supporting our pupils

Hello and welcome back to everyone after half term.

Thank you to everybody who supported our last event.

Our next event is the

Christmas Tombola

Friday 18th

November at 7pm The Tombola evening consists of a Spectacular 400 prize Tombola and Grand Hamper Raffle along with other stalls such as a Chocolate Tombola, Christmas Arts & Crafts, Face Painting, Find the Golden Nose and Snowball Mayhem.

There will also be a BBQ and Prosecco and Mulled Wine Bar. We are also expecting a visit from Father Christmas.

On Tombola day pupils may come in their home clothes (or Christmas themed clothes!) but instead of a voluntary financial contribution we ask that pupils bring in a good quality prize for the Tombola such as bottles, chocolates,

beauty products etc.

Teddies!!

To enable us to run the very popular Teddy Stall please can you send into school any good quality, clean cuddly

toys as prizes for the teddy stall. These can be brought to the admin office before the 18th please!!

Raffle Tickets The Spirit, Food and Sweets raffle hampers are on display in school and we have included a book of raffle tickets

for you to purchase. Please return your raffle tickets to school in the envelope provided.

This may read as a list of demands but please understand that we really try to make this event as successful as possible to allow us to fund as much as we can for the children of St Brigid’s. If you are able to sell more than one

book there are more available from the admin office. Oh and of course all tickets need to be returned by the 18th!!!

If you have more than one child at St Brigid’s please do not feel you have to purchase all books, just return any un-

used ones to the admin office.

For health and safety reasons pupils must go home after school as they will not be supervised between the end of

the school day and the start of the Tombola.

Lastly thank you in advance for your support and let’s make this event as successful as possible!! We want to pro-

vide as much as we can for our students this year to support their school experience.

Year 4 School Trip

On Thursday before Half Term,

Year 4 spent a lovely day at Speke

Hall in Liverpool. The sun was

shining as we spent the morning

having a tour of this wonderful

Tudor home and learning all about

the history of the house. The after-

noon was spent making poman-

ders and learning about Tudor

clothes. We even managed to turn

two of our class members into very

convincing Tudors!

A thoroughly enjoyable day was

had by all.