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It was fantastic to be able to reward our pupils for excellent attendance and punctuality during our special assemblies over the last two weeks.Pupils from years Seven to Eleven were awarded with certificates for showing excellent standards in attendance and punctuality. Well done to all those fantastic pupils for setting themselve such high standards. Year 7 100% Attendance & Punctuality Top Attending Form Top Punctuality Form AWEGiulio GrandonTiernan GreenSarah Tierney CCODaniel LyttleShannon O’DonnellLakeisha Robinson JDEJoe FarrugiaKatie LarkinLuke RobertsNishal Thakrar 7CCO with 96% 7WGA with 45 lates Year 8 100% Attendance & Punctuality Top Attending Form Top Punctuality Form AHEColm Connolly EWOMary Joy Guerrero ARADominic HortonAnthony Sargeant 8ARA with 96% 8CKA with 47 lates Year 9 100% Attendance & Punctuality Top Attending ... [Read more]

St Thomas Aquinas Feast Day - 28 January 2010

MassWhat a privilege it was to be part of the celebration of our Feast Day yesterday. We began in tutor groups with each pupil producing a prayer that was then presented in a procession at the beginning of Mass. Mrs Jones called on each member of the school community to be generous in allowing everyone else to pray and to reflect on the meaning of the day. And that is exactly what happened as we celebrated a wonderful Mass together. After communion Mrs Dee McCann from Acorns Hospice was delighted to receive a cheque for £4,636 which was 50% of ... [Read more]

Year 3 Primary Multi Skills Festival

On Wednesday 20th January, Hayley Hunter, Reece Chapman Carry, Michael Kenny and I attended a multi skills festival. We went to help out as young sports leaders. Throughout the day we assisted Year 3 pupils in learning different and new skills. We had to lead a warm up then demonstrate the new skill that the pupils had to follow at our station. Over the course of the day there were over 500 pupils involved, including pupils from our old primary schools, St Brigids, St Columba's, St John Fisher and St James'. As GCSE PE students, it was a good experience as it... [Read more]

Christmas Mass 2009

Our term finished today in the perfect way with our Christmas Mass when we came together as a whole school community. As with all of our whole school Masses, our Sports Hall, recently the venue for Year 11 Trial Examinations, was transformed in to a place of worship by the respect and prayerfulness shown by our pupils. The Christmas Mass is always a special celebration. The readings and prayers and the musicians and choir enabled us to reflect on this major feast of the Church. The meaning of Christmas was also remembered in the many hampers donated by the different fo... [Read more]

Evening of Carols and Readings

At 7.30 on Thursday 17th of December we gathered as a community in the Sports Hall to celebrate Christmas with our Christmas service. Many pupils and their families joined us for the readings and carols which was a lovely way to remind us of the true Christmas message. The choir was superb and the selection of carols which included some old favourites and some new to us this year really captured the reason for the season! The musicians and soloists performed really well and we can look forward to many more years of lovely music from our young singers. Thank yo... [Read more]

Christmas Hampers 2009

Thank you to all our families, pupils and staff for your incredible kindness and generosity in giving so readily to our Christmas Hamper Appeal. In just four days we have filled 107 hampers to distribute to less fortunate members of our local community. Thank you for making a difference this Christmas. S. ... [Read more]

Manion Centre Bowling Trip

Reece Donaghy, Eamon O'Reilly, Jeavon Johnson, Pearse Mullen and Ben Mungovan took part in the Manion Centre end of term trip to Hollywoood Bowl. The pupils proved to be skilled bowlers and the staff have promised to practise for next time!! Everyone had a great time and the pupils were a credit to the ... [Read more]

6th Form Revue 2009

The year 12 revue was an exciting experience for everyone involved on Monday afternoon. The revue kicked off with Tom and Gerry presenting; the first act was the HipHop dancers which got the year 7s excited to see what was going to happen next. This was the TV reality show ‘I'm a celebrity get me out of here' which featured an eating game with Mr Stephenson, Mr Stevens and a year 7 pupil from the audience. In the end, Mr Stephenson lost and had to eat ‘Dog Food'. Next up was the drama which was a comedy performance about teachers and pu... [Read more]

Raffle 2009

A huge thank you to everyone! Once again our pupils and parents surpassed themselves in their generosity. Despite a very gloomy financial climate in the country and Christmas approaching, our parents and children showed the real meaning of Christmas in a wonderful effort. The last few days has seen a massive response from forms with cakes sales and lots of inter-form competition which saw the total raised jump to a massive £9,254.00. The team spirit has been outstanding during the last five weeks with pupils doing their best, supported by parents and form tutors who constantly encouraged, nagged and praised - ... [Read more]

The Enigma Project

On the 8th of December members of year 7 and 8 were joined by an expert from Cambridge University called James Grime who is a code breaker. He taught them different types of codes and how to solve them. One of the ways to send codes and crack them was called the Enigma machine which was used in World War II and it's still working today! The pupils not only got to learn about the Enigma project but later on they got to try and crack some codes themselves; unfortunately they weren't allowed to use the Enigma machine as it's a special ... [Read more]

Transition Orchestra Christmas Concert

Last evening we were all treated to a lovely Christmas Concert performed by members of South Area Transition Orchestra. This is the fourth concert that they have given since their formation in the summer term of 2008. The orchestra was formed by the Music Service in response to an initiative in school to bring talented musicians from years 5 to 8 together to make music. Last night's performances demonstrated that idea was a good one and that it has proved to be a success. Well done to Miss Cutler and Mr. Weekes who have supported each week, to members of the Mu... [Read more]

Young Leaders Project - Operation Christmas Child and the Shoe Box Appeal

Following the assemblies we did in October, we received an amazing response from everyone to our plea for help with our Shoebox appeal. We received enough donations to make up and sent off 130 shoeboxes to children in Belarus and Serbia. Thank you to everyone that made a contribution. Being a Young leader has been a fantastic experience and we are grateful for getting the opportunity to make a difference to other people's live... [Read more]

7GME’s Exceedingly Good Cakes!

Forget your usual cake sale, 7GME's was extraordinary! Not only did we make, bake and sell £78 worth of cakes at morning break, but we raised a further £32 by raffling this superb cake made especially for today by Mrs Susan Hurley, mother of a Form member. As you can see, every child is named and should be proud of their fantastic raffle ... [Read more]

Year 10 Fieldtrip to Alvechurch

On Monday 23rd November 2009 Year 10 Geographers went to Alvechurch as part of our controlled assessment in GSCE Geography. Our group had to look at the environment of Alvechurch; we went around in small groups of four. The day consisted of a wide variety of activities: from a traffic count to environment surveys. We did these so we could assess certain aspects of Alvechurch's environment such as: street lighting, the amount of litter and noise pollution. At different points we drew annotated sketches and took several photos. We had to ask people about what they thought about Alvechurch, this ... [Read more]

Good Food Show Visit

On Friday 27th November the AS Food and Nutrition group went to the NEC to taste the wonders of the Good Food Show with Mrs McGinley and Mrs Hawkesford. A great day was had by all and many different types of foods and drinks were tested by the willing volunteers- from sausages, cheeses and crabmeat to ice creams and jellybeans! Mrs McGinley did her best to taste as many apple-based products as possible to fulfil her 5 a Day! We met TV stars Gordon Ramsey and the Hairy Bikers and browsed through the equipment and gadgets section for hours. Lots ... [Read more]

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