The weekly newsletter of St Bartholomew’s School.

KEY STAGE 3 CELEBRATION EVENING A celebration of the success of our students over the last three years took place on Thursday 26 September as the Key Stage 3 awards were presented to Year 10 students. This annual event in the style of an Oscars ceremony was a wonderful evening where students, families and staff celebrated together. Every student nominated was presented with a voucher and certificate and the overall winner in each category received an additional voucher.

Congratulations to all the students; we look forward to celebrating your further and future success at the end of KS4! Turn to page 6 to see the full list of awards.

COLE RAISES MONEY FOR CHILDREN’S CHARITY

Year 8 student Cole Bowers (8D3) has recently raised £535 for the Wallace and Gromit Children’s Charity by giving a cello

concert at his local pub. This was his latest endeavour for a cause he has supported since he was 8 years old, raising over £2500 in total!

The charity help children in UK hospitals and hospices funding items such as sensory equipment and beds for parents to stay in.

Around 50 people attended the recent concert. In his rendition of “Eleanor Rigby” Cole was supported by his fellow members of Berkshire Maestros quartet, Quattro Strings, St Bart’s Students; Elliot Crouch (violin), Emma Leeson (violin), Hannah Pollard (viola).

No stranger to the spotlight, Cole often participates in concerts, In May, he played Bohemian Rhapsody at the Corn Exchange and last week, he played some wartime tunes at a WW2 poetry reading evening at Greenham Control Tower. Well done Cole!

YEAR 11 GEOGRAPHY FIELD VISIT TO RUSHALL FARM On Thursday 26 and Friday 27 September, we took our Year 11 Geography students to Rushall Farm, near Bradfield. The aim of the visit was for students to collect river data to help them prepare for the Paper 3 Skills exam next summer.

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After putting on our waders and listening to a briefing from the Rushall Farm staff, we all set off in groups on a tractor and trailer to different sites along the River Pang. We visited three sites in total and at each site students had to measure the depth, width, wetted perimeter, bedload shape and size, river discharge and gradient. The data from each site was then used to identify how the river changes along its course.

Despite the rain showers the visits were a success and the students worked efficiently to obtain all the relevant data they needed. Since the visits students have been writing up their findings. They will then apply this knowledge to exam style questions to prepare them for the exam next summer.

Mrs Roberts, Geography Department

ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENT We would like to emphasise the importance of abiding by parking restrictions and speed limits in and around the school site. There has recently been a road traffic accident where one of our students was knocked over by a car as they crossed the road. Due to cars waiting on yellow lines the student could not clearly see to cross the road and could not be seen by oncoming traffic until they were halfway across the road. This has been reported to the police and to the Council’s Traffic and Road Safety team.

Please do not wait on yellow lines, they are there to ensure the safety of pedestrians and apply equally to everyone. Please drive with extreme care when dropping off and picking up, with a large number of students entering and leaving the site it is very important that you observe a low speed, the speed limit on site is 5 mph. Please do not block junctions, drive ways or park in private parking spaces.

Thank you for your co-operation.

Ms J A Mortimore Headteacher

Calendar

Y10 Separate Science Day

Weds 9 Oct

Sixth Form Art & Design Figure Drawing

Fri 11 Oct 12.30-3.30pm

Y10 CCF Field Day

Fri 11 Oct

Parents Association Event,

Sat 12 Oct Hall - 7.00pm

Y9 & 10 Poetry Talk

Mon 14 Oct Oxford – 5.30–9.30pm

Parents Association Meeting

Tues 15 Oct WMR - 7.00pm

Y10 & Sixth Form Holocaust Survivor Talk

Weds 16 Oct Hall – P3

Y13 EPQ Showcase

Weds 16 Oct WCC – 3.30-5.30pm

View all school events in our online calendar, click here to go straight there

HARVEST APPEAL Please bring in tins/packets of food (soup, meat pies, stews, tinned veg and fruit etc.) to your House office by 18 October to support Fair Close Centre and

Loose End Charities.

CHRISTMAS CARD COMPETITION Remember, entries to be submitted to the Art Office by Friday 11 October. Please see previous BartholoNews for more information.

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Sixth Form Open Evening for September 2020 Entry

Thursday 7 November 2019 5.30pm – 8.00pm

Come to the St Bart’s Sixth Form Open Evening and find out everything you want to know about St Bart’s Sixth Form.

Discover over 40 subjects on offer with faculty talks and subject drop ins.

Enjoy refreshments and talk to current students about the vibrant social scene, clubs and societies.

Pick up our 2020 Prospectus & Application Form

Pre arranged daytime visits are welcome throughout the year

General Enquiries: 01635 57636, sixthform@stbarts.co.uk

PARENTS’ ASSOCATION NEWS Do you use Amazon? Select “St Bartholomew’s School Parents’ Association’ under the Amazon Smile logo when you buy and 0.5% goes to the PA funds to raise money for student activities. PA Committee Meeting Everyone is invited to this meeting on Tuesday 15 October at 7pm in Wormestall Meeting Room. Come and find out all about our activities.

Find the Parents’

Association on Facebook!

VACANCIES

SITE MANAGER Permanent, required as soon as possible

Full-time, 37 hours

Salary FTE £24,799 – £26,317 gross pa Do you have the skills and experience to deliver a safe, well maintained and efficient School Site? You will need to have a working knowledge of Health and Safety regulations, COSSH, Fire Safety, Legionella testing and building management systems so that the School and grounds meet the needs of the curriculum, Headteacher, Governing Body and hirers.

You will lead the Site and Maintenance Teams in day-to-day management, training and development to ensure the smooth running of the school and the school lettings. If you are energetic and enthusiastic with good communication skills we would like to meet you.

Closing date: Sunday 20 October 2019

----------------------------------------------------- CASUAL MINIBUS DRIVER Hours will be flexible and paid on a timesheet basis at £10.89 per hour.

We wish to appoint a driver with a D1 licence to safely drive the minibus to sports events and on school trips, and to manage the upkeep of the vehicle. A full clean driving licence is required.

Closing date: Sunday 3 November 2019 -----------------------------------------------------

For full details of any of the above vacancies, or to apply, please visit: www.stbarts.co.uk

Successful candidates will be subject to a DBS enhanced check along with other relevant employment checks.

Tel: 01635 521255 E-mail: recruitment@stbarts.co.uk

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PE

Wear Pink in PE Week Between 14 & 18 October we are encouraging as many students as possible to wear suitable PINK clothing in their practical PE Lessons to raise money for Breast Cancer Research. Just bring a donation at the start of your PE lessons.

Rugby Congratulations to the Year 7 rugby team, over fifty boys played their first match for the school against The Westgate School.

Year 8 played a squad match against Park House, with Park House winning this time. William Spain and Thomas Fountain were players of the match.

Year 9 played Maiden Erlegh School in the County Cup. They won, 41-22. Player of the match was Louis Moore who scored four tries.

Year 10 played Reading School. They won, 26-5, to progress to the next round of theNational Vase Competition.

Football Year 8 played Larkmead School. They won, 6-1, in the national cup. Players of the matches were Freddie Stewart and Danny Gonzales-Birchall.

Netball The Year 7 Netball team played league matches against The Downs School. Results and players of the matches are as follows:

A team, won 8-1, Chloe Shore and Meg Archibald.

B team, lost 6-0, Lyra Baily and Holly Conway.

Year 7 A team also played a league match against Little Heath School. We won, 13-1 and the player of the match was Scarlett John.

The Year 8 and 9 teams played league games against Theale Green School. Results and players of the matches are as follows:

Year 8, won 17-6, Darcy Hunt.

Year 9, won 18-10, Erin Cahoon and Tally Glendenning.

The Sixth Form team played a friendly match against Theale Green School. We won 14-9 and the player of the match was Lola Callaghan.

Lacrosse Last weekend the senior lacrosse teams played in the U19 A and B South West Rally.

The first team finished 4th in their morning group. Playing in division 1 for their afternoon matches, they won all of their matches and went through to the semi finals where they lost 4-3 to Heathfield School. This was a reallygood achievement.

The second team won 1 and lost 2 games in the morning and also played in division 1 in the afternoon. They won 2 games and lost 1. In the semi finals they lost to St Mary’s Calne, the eventual winners. This was also a really good achievement.

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Boxercise Class Record Attendance! Last week a record 35 students came to Boxercise!

Classes continue on Tuesday mornings, 8 – 8:20am in the Sports Hall. All years, boys and girls, are warmly invited to attend this inspirational club which is run by an external coach. Come and have a go!

RECEIVING SCHOOL EMAILS If you have not been or you stop receiving emails from St Bart’s we would advise you to check that they are not going into your SPAM folder. Some email providers have a ‘safe list’ feature. To make sure you receive emails, add SC8695402a@schoolcomms.com to this list. If

after doing this you still do not receive emails, please let us know.

KEY CONTACTS REMINDER

School: 01635 521255

(Reception open 8:30am -5:00pm)

Email: office@stbarts.co.uk

Attendance Hotline (Y7-Y11): 01635 576372

Attendance Hotline (Y12/13): 01635 576366

Subject Hotline: 01635 576358

subjecthotline@stbarts.co.uk

Sixth form email: sixthform@stbarts.co.uk

Sixth form enquiries: 01635 576368

Parents’ Association: stbartspa@gmail.com

Address: St Bartholomew’s School Andover Road, Newbury, Berkshire. RG14 6JP

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2019 KS3 Awards

DESIGN TECHNOLOGY

Best Achievement Best Effort Product Design Amber Ashby 10D3

Cameron Fritz 10D2 Annabel Grant 10D2 Lucas Price 10D2

Nathan Delavere 10C2 Zoe Gomes 10D2 Emily Hobdell 10D1 Louis Wilkinson 10P1

Food & Nutrition Annabel Gibson 10C2 Harvey Miller 10D3 Laura Mills 10P2 Will Walke 10D3

Grace Collins 10C2 Polly-May Gibson 10D2 Lewis Meechan 10P3 Harry Riggs 10P1

Textiles Penny Cooper 10D2 Eva Dijksman 10C2 Denisa Ichim 10D2 Chloe Wemyss 10D2

Leila Braidwood 10D1 Polly Hassell-Collins 10E2 Nyle Wilcox 10P1

ENGLISH

Best Achievement Best Effort Aaron Howell 10D1 Baijal Kumar 10D3 Peter Tinsley 10P2 Jenny Tonge 10C1

Aila Butt 10D1 Annabel Grant 10D1 Scott Pender-Thaw 10P2 Adam Turner 10C1

EXPRESSIVE ARTS

Best Achievement Best Effort Art Harry Day 10P3

Isabel Moscinska 10E2 Jakub Skrodzki 10D3 Charlotte Swanson 10P1

Connor Butler 10C1 Emily Denton 10P2 Sophie Lawrence 10D1 Patrick Middleton 10C1

Dance Clara Allison 10D2 Bailey Benitez 10D2 Jonah Hood 10D3 Ebony Whitehouse 10D1

Sam Cheney 10D1 Ben Gilmour 10C1 Mabel Stewart 10D2 Olive Wallace 10E1

Drama Alana Campbell 10P2 Macauley Farry 10D3 Edan Forrester 10E1

Tylan Carruth 10D3 Coral Dyson 10C1 Ellie-Louise Walsh 10P1

Abi Scott 10E1

George Waters 10D2

Music Rhianna Bailey 10P1

Eva Dijksman 10C2 Adam Edwards 10E1 Kunj Patel 10P2

Michael Dann 10E1 Carmen Lukacs 10E2 Amit Manna 10E2 Jenny Tonge 10C1

GENERAL EDUCATION – PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Best Achievement Best Effort Nathan Delavere 10C2 Georgia Humphreys 10D2 Josh Lefever 10C1 Gemma Moon 10E2

Tomoya Burton 10C1 Francesca Parker 10D3 George Shakespeare 10D2 Izzy Smithson 10P3

HUMANITIES

Best Achievement Best Effort Geography Edward Denton 10D3

Maisie Dixon 10D3 Baijal Kumar 10D3 Adam Turner 10D3

Bailey Benitez 10D2 Rose Clark 10D1 Rocco Power 10D1 Lily Whitby 10E1

History Haaris Begg 10P2

Katie McGall 10P1 Kalia Tu 10P2 Drew Tucker 10P1

Joseph Allison 10P3 Zahra Kateregga 10D1 Kate Lawrence 10P3 James Martin 10D1

Religious Education Max Chaplin 10D2

Piers Fulcher 10D3 Abbie Holland 10E2 Sophie Lawrence 10D1

Will Featherstone 10E2 Elise Garland 10E1 Olivia Raines 10D3 Daniel Shaw 10D1

COMPUTING

Best Achievement Best Effort Isaac Ayling 10C2 Sophia Earle 10E1 Aditya Sanyal 10E2 Jenny Tonge 10C1

Joseph Allison 10P3 Edmund Breckenridge 10P3 Daisy Herne 10P1 Abbie Holland 10E2

MATHEMATICS

Best Achievement Best Effort Brendan Courtney 10P2 Annabel Grant 10D2 Georgia Humphreys 10D1 Scott Pender-Thaw 10P2

Robert Doherty 10P1 James Lewin-Gander 10P3 Jennifer Reilly 10D1 Alice Wells 10E1

MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGES Best Achievement Best Effort French Piers Fulcher 10D3

Laura Gillott 10C2 Zahra Kateregga 10D1 Lucas Price 10D2

Henry Garrety 10E1 Shreeya Heejebu 10C1 Parth Patel 10P1 Thanvi Sasikumar 10C1

German Emily Denton 10P2

Amit Manna 10E2 Matthew Pinfold 10E1 Marcelle Van Blerk 10P2

Tomoya Burton 10C1 Aditya Sanyal 10E2 Emily Tucker 10E2

Spanish Jack Carter 10E2

Patrick Middleton 10C1 Isabella Robinson 10P1 Lucy Westbury 10C2

Katelyn Dent 10D2 Callum Doddington 10P2 George Greenwood 10D1 Jess Soulby 10E1

PERSONALISED LEARNING

Best Achievement Best Effort Ellie Adams 10P2 Maisie Clark 10P1 Harry Kimber 10P2 Rocco Power 10D1

Colum Bailey 10D2 Molly Bortoli-Holmes 10P1 Quin Humphrey 10E2 Niamh Pearce 10P2

SCIENCE

Best Achievement Best Effort Biology Abigail Cogan 10P3

Kate Lawrence 10P3 Josh Nichols 10P2 James Robinson 10P2

Ellie Adams 10P2 James Davies 10P1 Toby Turner 10D1 Katie Wellman 10C2

Chemistry Tianna Allum-Gentle 10P2

Will Featherstone 10E2 Charlotte Swanson 10P1 Shyam Taank 10E1

Samuel Cheney 10D1 Penny Cooper 10D2 Matthew Fowler 10P3 Amelia Repton 10D2

Physics Poppy Muckleston 10P2

Kunj Patel 10P2 Anwyn Price 10D3 Daniel Rawlins 10P1

Oliver Davey 10P2 Maisie Dixon 10D3 Chloe Goddard 10C1 Parth Patel 10P1

NEWBURY TOWN TWINNING ASSOCIATION AWARD

Lucy Colston 10C2

HOUSE AWARDS

CURNOCK HOUSE

Overall Achievement Award Lucy Colston 10C2 Patrick Middleton 10C1 Adam Turner 10C1 Lucy Westbury 10C2

Determination Award Tomoya Burton 10C1

Eva Dijksman 10C2 Josh Lefever 10C1 Halley Sharp 10C2

Contribution Award Isaac Ayling 10C2

Lili Fenwick 10C2 James Newton 10C1 Jenny Tonge 10C1

DAVIS HOUSE

Overall Achievement Award Piers Fulcher 10D3

Georgia Humphreys 10D1 Zahra Kateregga 10D1 Daniel Shaw 10D1

Determination Award Denisa Ichim 10D2

Kaleb Fox-Jones 10D3 Charlie Mabbatt 10D3 Chloe Wemyss 10D2

Contribution Award Lucas Price 10D2 Rocco Power 10D1 Alice Rawlins 10D1 Ebony Whitehouse 10D1

EVERS HOUSE

Overall Achievement Award Sophie Bhatt 10E1

Edan Forrester 10E1 Abbie Holland 10E2 Amit Manna 10E2

Determination Award Sophia Earle 10E1

Quin Humphrey 10E2 Benjamin Kaesser 10E1 Alice Wells 10E1

Contribution Award Izzy Duly 10E2 Adam Edwards 10E1 Henry Garrety 10E1 Emily Tucker 10E2

PATTERSON HOUSE

Overall Achievement Award Abigail Cogan 10P3

Oliver Davey 10P2 Laura Mills 10P2 Scott Pender-Thaw 10P2

Determination Award Callum Doddington

10P2 Harry Riggs 10P1 Charlotte Swanson 10P1 Kalia Tu 10P2

Contribution Award Ellie Adams 10P2

Rhianna Bailey 10P1 Elliot Crouch 10P3 Matthew Fowler 10P3

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GOLD AWARDS

The following students are to be congratulated on attaining Gold Awards:

CURNOCK HOUSE Isaac Ayling, Lucy Colston, Nathan Delavere, Eva Dijksman, Coral Dyson, Annabel Gibson,

Chloe Goddard, Halley Sharp, Jenny Tonge, Adam Turner, Katie Wellman, Lucy Westbury, Elizabeth White

DAVIS HOUSE

Samuel Cheney, Lottie Codling, Penny Cooper, Katelyn Dent, Piers Fulcher, Lucy Godwin, Annabel Grant, Georgia Humphreys, Zahra Kateregga, Baijal Kumar,

Sophie Lawrence, Jaime Little, Rocco Power, Lucas Price, Alice Rawlins, Sam Robinson, Mabel Stewart, Ebony Whitehouse

EVERS HOUSE

Sophie Bhatt, Lisa Bunce, Caitlin Cox, Izzy Duly, Sophia Earle, Henry Garrety, Polly Hassell-Collins, Abbie Holland, Benjamin Kaesser, Amit Manna, Gemma Moon, Matthew Pinfold, Jess Soulby,

Emily Tucker, Olive Wallace, Alice Wells

PATTERSON HOUSE Ellie Adams, Rhianna Bailey, Elliot Crouch, James Davies, Lillie Essen, Matthew Fowler, Isabella Robinson, James Robinson, Charlotte Swanson, Drew Tucker, Ellie-Louise Walsh

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DUKE OF EDINBURGH BRONZE AWARDS Rhianna Bailey, Annabel Bennett, Maisie Clark, Lottie Codling, Anna Colston, Elliot Crouch,

Adam Edwards, Piers Fulcher, Annabel Grant, Joshua Hatton, Shreeya Heejebu, Benjamin Kaesser, Baijal Kumar, Isabella Langley, Sam Macgregor, Harvey Miller, Finn Sheridan, Harshi Singh,

Jessica Soulby, Emily Tucker