June 2011

From the Head Teacher

Golden Book Nomineesfor May 2011

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Thomas Redpath (Yr 8) who plays for ChippenhamU13’s Football Team who this year won the double andLeague Cup. Well done!Congratulations to Rachel Cleife (7T) and JoshuaRogers (7C) who both attended a Field Craft andSurvival outward bound course on Salisbury Plain overthe weekend of 11th & 12th June. In addition to themany fun activities, they learnt how to skin and clean arabbit, and how to build a ‘basher’ (an outside shelter)where they had to sleep on Saturday night during allthat rain! Josh and his team won medals for Volleyballand Rachel’s team won medals for the generalknowledge quiz. Rachel also won a medal for heroutstanding r i f le ski l ls. They are both going toundertake an Adventure Week in August in SnowdoniaNational Park, where they will be rock climbing, abseiling,kayaking, canoeing and walking to the summit of MountSnowdon. Well done and good luck to both of them.

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Ex-student, Catherine Cavan, performed her finalrecital at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Dramarecently. She is about to complete her B Mus after

Year 7 William Cornwell (7T), Joseph deJaeger (7C), Niall Ellis (7F), AdamGordon (7T) & Samuel Mitchell (7T)for being nominated to attend theDorset & Wilts School of Rugby trials

Year 8 Hannah Birtle (8M) for her excellentcommunity work with the WiltshireWildlife Trust

Year 9 Katharine Farrell (9C) for achievingthe highest award a Guide can receive– the Baden Powell Challenge Badge

Year 10 Elliot Wheeler (10F) for completingthe British Heart Foundation 50 milecycling eventEdward Bull (10B), Emily Dixon(10T), Jonathan Galbraith (10B),Benjamin Hardy-Phillips (10F), KiriHudson (10M) & Reuben Porter(10M) for completing the Ten Tors 35mile challenge in second place

Dear ParentsAugustine became the first Archbishop of Canterbury and is known as the ‘Apostle of the English’. We cametogether as a College and celebrated his feast day through the presentation of house ties to all students inyears 7 to 10. During our extended assembly, in addition to hearing about the life of St Augustine of Canterbury,we reminded the students of the significance of their house Saint. In reinforcing the house system we aim tofoster a greater sense of community within each of the five houses encouraging a feeling of identity andbelonging. In addition to rewarding students for academic achievement in the classroom, students will berewarded for positive community contributions by staff and sixth form students at any time during the schoolday.The public examinations are drawing to a close and the college will revert to its normal timing of lessons fromMonday 4th July, with morning break following lesson two and lunch following lesson four. I would like to thankthe students, who sat exams, for their exemplary conduct and parents for the support that they have giventheir sons/daughters during this challenging time. I recently addressed all students and reminded them that if they bring a mobile phone onto the college siteit must remain switched off and out of sight. Please continue to support us in this area by contacting receptionif you need to get an urgent message to your son/daughter.

Joe AlsopHead Teacher

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four years and has been accepted by the College todo a Masters in Performing for the next two years. Catherine played beautifully with such maturity andcomposure. She has been on a placement with theBBC National Orchestra of Wales and will, hopefully,become a professional orchestral player once she hascompleted her Masters!! Congratulations!

Former St Augustine’s Student, Trowbridge sprinterDaniel Talbot, has been picked to represent GreatBritain for the first time outdoors in the European TeamChampionships in Stockholm later this month.Talbot, 20, the fastest in the country over 200m outdoorsso far this season will represent Great Britain over thatdistance in Stockholm on June 18-19. Talbot, who iscoached by Corsham’s Dan Cossins, has alreadysecured a UKA A standard for this summer’s WorldChampionships in Daegu after a blistering start to hissummer campaign, and has already earned his GB vestindoors earlier this year. Daniel will also join MarlonDevonish, Christian Malcolm and Craig Pickering in the4x100 relay squad for the event. We wish him goodluck!

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SPORTSPORTSPORTSPORTSPORTIntra-CompetitionsIntra-CompetitionsIntra-CompetitionsIntra-CompetitionsIntra-CompetitionsRowing Challenge

Over the week of the 4th – 8th April the young sportsambassadors have been running a rowing relaychallenge for all years in the school gym. With studentsand teachers participating from every year, this hasbeen a massive success with over one hundred peoplegetting involved. It has been amazing to see such adiverse range of students of all skill levels competingagainst each other; even the teachers were going allout to beat each other and be top of the leader board!The winning team get a fantastic opportunity to spendsome time in a real rowing boat and have the chance topractise techniques from a qualified instructor, allexpenses paid. By running events like this we hope toincrease the amount of exercise students, and eventeachers, in extra-curricular hours. We hope to beorganising more fun events like this in the future.

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On 14th June we hosted a Year 10 girls’ and boys’ TennisTournament. It went smoothly and turned out to be agreat success.

Year 10 GirlsAlexandra Howlett and Georgia Montague-Nelsonwon the girls’ doubles tournament.Alice Dixon (Yr 9) and Evangeline Hicks came 5th.

Year 10 BoysMatthew Toledo and Elliot Newton came 3rd in theboys’ ‘A’ event.James Whipp and Conor O’ Rourke won the boys’‘B’ tournament.

Also, on June 16 year 7’s boys’ and girls’ team beatKingdown 6 – 0, winning all their singles and doublesmatches. A great result in very wet conditions.

Year 7 BoysJoseph De Jaeger, Edward Palmer, Max Johnson,Christian Wye, Henry Bilsdon, Jakub Smolz andRodrigo Castillo.Year 7 GirlsAlice Bradley, Eirian Williams, Sarah Whipp, AbigailWales, and Eleanor Humprey.

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This will be starting after half term and will run onTuesday lunchtime in the Sports Hall.

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As part of this year ’s Sports Award Evening weare creat ing a role of honour. Please couldstudents and parents make us aware of anysporting achievements over this academic year atnjb@st-augustines.wilts.sch.uk.

Yr 10 RugbyYr 10 RugbyYr 10 RugbyYr 10 RugbyYr 10 RugbyThis season the current Year 10 rugby team were mostsuccessful, winning all but one of their matches. Theseason culminated with them reaching the final of theYr 10 Wiltshire County Cup for the first time in theschool’s history. Their opponents, St John’s, the

previous season’s winners, were hotly tipped to repeatthe feat. It was a hotly contested match where StAugustine’s showed great spirit and determination.Coming back from a half time score of 16-0, they ledfor most of the second half only to be beaten 26-19 inthe last ten minutes by a resurgence in their opponent’sperformance. Overall it was a brilliant season with manyexcellent team and personal performances. The entiresquad should be very proud of what they achieved, theteam spirit, their consistent development over theseason and credit deservedly goes to the coaching staffof Mr Andrews and Mr Faulkner.

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On 14th June some Year 9 students who have beenselected to take part in the “Bath Rugby Club BusinessProgramme” visited the Recreation Ground in Bath.Guided by Harley Caswell and Jimmy Dean of Bath RFC,they were given a tour of the stadium and took part in avariety of educational activities designed to help themunderstand a bit more about the business side of therugby club. Future sessions of the programme willinclude a local factory visit to a business which isdeveloping strong links with the club.Participating students were: James Vecchio, WilliamEllis, Elliott Hopkins, Charlotte Emery, OliviaBomani, Sharna Hale, Miamph Hanlon, AngelikaCis, Jessica Nicholson, Stephanie Pepler, NathanBurrows, Jack Kelly, Michael Farebrother andChloe Mortimer.

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On Thursday 16th June students were presented withthe new college tie. The new tie has a banner of housecolour designed into it and was received very well bythe students.

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6th Form BallNational Sports WeekNew Yr 7 Induction Visits

4th Yr 8 Retreat (B)Yr 10 Enrichment DayNew Yr 7 Induction Visits

5th New Yr 7 Induction Visits6th 6th Form Next Step Conference

New Yr 7 Induction VisitsNew Yr 7 Evening

7th Yr 7 Learning2Learn ShowcaseNew Yr 7 Induction Visits

8th Yr 12 Induction DayNew Yr 7 Induction Visits

11th 6th Form Focus Group InterviewsEnterprise Day

12th Enterprise Day13th Yr 5 Open Evening14th Yr 8 Learning2Learn Showcase

Sports Evening Awards15th Yr 10 Sports Day18th Yr 8 Sports Day19th Yr 7 Sports Day20th Yr 9 Sports Day22nd Year 7 to 10 Reports

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There have been several incidents recently wherewe have been unable to contact parents in anemergency due to incorrect telephone numbers. Itis imperative that we have up to date contact detailsfor all students in case of an emergency. If youchange any of your contact details, especiallymobile telephone numbers, please inform the officestaff in writing or by email immediately so that ourrecords can be updated.

Can I remind parents that no cars are permittedto move on to the college site between 8.30 and9.15 am and again between 3.00 - 4.30 pm.Please drop off on Wingfield Road only.

Please note that no make-up is to be worn bystudents of the College. As educators of youngpeople across this specific age group, we are awarethat self esteem can be affected by the appearanceof blemishes, acne, etc. For this reason studentsare permitted to use concealer to level out the skin’sappearance. It is difficult to ask a student whocomes into college with full foundation, and who istherefore asked to remove the make-up, to then gothrough the rest of the day with no concealer forproblem areas. Many thanks in advance for yoursupport in this area.

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We now have a new YouTube Channel which we hopeto use to post college performances, activities etc. thatare related to St Augustine’s. You can access this newchannel through the website in ‘Follow us on’/‘YouTube’.You can also find more videos by checking if ‘relatedvideos and more’ is on the video and clicking this. Ifany student has video that they want added please seeMr Portlock.

YouTube:College related things on video on our YouTubeChannel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/StAugustinesCC

Facebook:You can now get all the latest news from our Facebookpage:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/St-Augustines-Catholic-College/119264314785003

Twitter feed:

http://twitter.com/#!/staugustinescc

All links are also available from the ‘Follow Us’ tag onour main college website:http://www.st-augustines.wilts.sch.uk

Can parents, students and teachers make sure thatNO students wear hoodies under their schooluniform and also make sure that they do not comeinto the buildings or any classroom until the first bellhas sounded for registration.

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Chloe Tucker, Isobel Kammeyer, Lydia Turner,Catherine Hindess, Tia Pinnell, Niamh Smith, LydiaMawby, Jessica Billington and Emma Austin fromYear 7 shadowed the Red House Book Awards this year.The award is split into three categories, our readinggroup’s challenge was to read all the books in eitherthe Younger Readers’ Category or Older Readers’Category. Our group's favourite book was ‘Shadow’ byMichael Morpurgo and it won the Overall Award. It ishis third time winning this award, more than any otherauthor. Other highly rated books were ‘Time Riders’ byAlex Scarrow (which won best award for older readers)and ‘Red Pyramid’ by Rick Riordan.Each student completed the chal lenge - Chloemanaged to read all six! Well done to the group for allthe reading they have done this year.

There will be a small number of second hand StAugustine’s uniforms for sale at the St John’s SchoolFete on 2nd July.

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