The Friday Letter Edition No 151 Friday 17 June 2016

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1 Saint John Houghton Catholic Voluntary Academy part of Saint Robert Lawrence Catholic Academy Trust The Friday Letter Edition No 151 Friday 17 June 2016 [Follow us on and on We pray for all whose lives have been touched by tragedy, whether by accident or a deliberate act. For those who mourn, immerse them in your love and lead them through this darkness into your arms, and light. For those who comfort, be in both the words they use and all that's left unspoken; fill each heart with love. We ask this through Jesus Christ, whose own suffering brought us life, here and for eternity. Amen John Birch Dates for your Diary Academic Year Monday 27 June Inset Day 5 Tuesday 26 July Break up for Summer Holiday (Early finish at 12.30) Academic Year Monday 05 September Inset Day 1 Tuesday 06 September Inset Day 2 Wednesday 07 September Students Return (Term 1) Sports Success at Saint John Houghton Congratulations Freya Congratulations to Freya Barry in Year 7 who returned to school on Monday with her silver medal she won at the European Deaf Tennis Championships. We are so proud of you Freya. Year 8 Activity Week to Glaramara On Monday 6 June, 56 students and 6 staff made the 5 hour trip to Glaramara Activity Centre in the Borrowdale Valley. Despite the forecast of rain, we arrived to sunshine and warm temperatures. We began the week with teambuilding and orienteering activities which took place in the local area. Tuesday to Thursday students took part in a range of outdoor education activities including canoeing on Derwent water, climbing and abseiling at Wodens face, gorge scrambling in Honister as well as completing Via Ferratta at Honister slate mine. On Tuesday and Wednesday night, all students camped out for the evening in a midge invested campsite. They cooked their evening meal and either assembled their tent or took it down. The week finished with a small awards ceremony with night prayer and short affirmation.

2 All students approached the activities with enthusiasm and it was lovely to see real bonds and friendships being built over the week. A big thank you to all the staff who accompanied the trip Mr Ritchie, Miss Pearce, Mrs Davies, Mr Price and Mr P Long.

3 EREWASH SCHOOLS TRACKMEET On Tuesday it was the turn of Year 7 and 8 to take part in an athletics competition at the Rutland Sports Park. Again our athletes performed brilliantly and Year 7 finished in 1st place. YR 7 WINNERS Congratulations to: Kate Roach, Caolan Dobney, Jacob Duda, Nathan Hunt, William Wallbank, Tia Longdon, Marie Estada, Iris Castro and Sienna Grant.

4 Year 8 Team Well done to: Theo Shelton, Leah Smedley, Anya Smith, Jack Stadler, Oliver Wheeldon, Ellie Neads, Maisie Beardsley, Oliver Jasper and Anny Riley. DERBYSHIRE SCHOOLS ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS On Saturday 11 June a number of students took part in the Derbyshire Schools athletics championships at Moorways stadium, Derby. This event featured the best athletes from across the county. Congratulations to the following: Ryan Smith 4 th 800m Destiny Jade Blake 5 th shot put Mae Leek 4 th hurdles Alex Price 4 th hurdles Martyn Popek 4 th long jump William Collings 4 th javelin Declan Lambert 5 th 300m The following students all finished in 2 nd place and have been selected to represent Derbyshire in the midlands competition next Saturday at The Alexander stadium, Birmingham. Taya Joslin 800m Ben Marchewka Long Jump Lewis Hayes Shot Put Congratulations to all who took part and good luck to the 3 competing for Derbyshire next Saturday.

5 Good luck Daisy Daisy Lee in Year 8 has been selected for filming a role in the BBC show Doctors. Good luck Daisy and we look forward to hearing all about your experience on your return.

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8 All boy s Act of Worship On Thursday the 16 June, we had an 'All boys' Act of Worship to try and address some of the issues as to why boys are underachieving in school. We were lucky enough to have Mr Devine as a guest speaker. Mr Devine is a parent to a pupil in Year 9, but is also a physiotherapist at Nottingham Forest Football Club. He told the boys about his former career as a professional footballer; his role as a physiotherapist and gave them an insight to what it is like to perform at the top level. The Act of Worship highlighted the importance of hard work and will hopefully inspire the boys in our school to work to the best of their ability and be a great success. Chaplaincy Department Let us pray together: Lord God, we are all Learners in your kingdom. Help us as we journey together to support one another, to share our lives, and to work to see your kingdom come, In Jesus' name. Amen. Oasis Team Rachel would like to thank Year 9 for their wonderful manners in Act of Worship this week. Please accept the invitation to become part of the Saint John Houghton Oasis Team, you need to write a letter to Rachel saying why you want to be on the team, what experience you may have and you will need a reference from an adult, the deadline is Wednesday 22 June 2016 at 1.15pm. Please see Rachel if you have any questions or concerns. Rachel would like to thank you for listening and reacting to the 'make a splash and save water' Act of Worship. We have given over 200 raffle tickets away, find out if you have won a bottle of water in next week s Friday Letter.

9 Rachel would like to thank John Wildey and Steven Mitchell for staying behind school on Monday to prepare for the Lourdes Pilgrimage. Book Club All welcome to Book Club on Tuesday lunchtimes in our Upper Room, well done and thank you Mia for preparing the snack, we look forward to Katie May's snack on Tuesday! How lovely to see Canon John Berry in school this week. Thank you for joining us in the dining hall. Heroes of the week: Canon John Berry, Anna Pancisi and Adam Kavanagh, thank you for leading the way. Thank you Canon John for being available for our young people, we are very fortunate to have the sacrament of Reconciliation in school. Team Chaplaincy Rachel would like to thank Team Chaplaincy for all their hard work. Please speak to Rachel and your Tutor if you would like to be part of Team Chaplaincy Kwik Cricket is back! Years 7-9 Starts Tuesday 21 June pm See you there!

10 Mr Curtis and the department would like to praise all year 9 for their behaviour in our season of Shakespeare plays. On Wednesday students from the different groups performed and witnessed a selection of scenes from a variety of Shakespeare s plays. Year Excellent attitude towards learning Improvement in English 7 Jack Wood, Sophie Calladine and Nathan McMullan and Liam Amos Alfie Stringfellow 8 Eireann Harnett, Bethia Hawley Emily Riley and Chloe Large and Mert- Han Harry 9 Joshua Forbes, Steven Mitchell and Josh Dunbavand Lucy Hulse-Russell and Christian Harrison 10 Jess Davis and Charlotte Webster Martha Robinson and Isaac Sewell GCSE RELIGIOUS STUDIES Over the next two years, students will study: Year 9 have now started their GCSE Religious Studies course. They are the first groups to follow the new specification for GCSE, with a great deal of change to subject content and structure of exams. We are following AQA Syllabus B Roman Catholicism. The GCSE is made up of 50% study of Catholic beliefs, practices and impact on life, 25% ethical issues and 25% Judaism. CATHOLIC CHRISTIANITY Catholic beliefs, teachings, practices, sources of authority and forms of expression in relation to six topics: creation incarnation the Triune God redemption church eschatology PERSPECTIVES ON FAITH Theme A: Religion, relationships and families Theme B: Religion, peace and conflict JUDAISM Beliefs, Worship, Family life and festivals Our new GCSE textbooks have arrived and we hope to have an electronic version for students to use from September. However, if you wish to support your child s learning in RE, the textbook is available and published by Oxford University Press.

11 Year 7 Computing Mrs Boddice has been really impressed with the programming skills of all of 7BP. In our latest unit where Maths, Art and Computing were combined, some excellent Celtic and Islamic art has been produced by the whole class, in particular Nathaniel Bradford, Caitlin Stevenson and Ben Scott. In addition, the following students either met or exceeded their target level in the recent Dynamic Learning tests: Liam Amos, Amelia Baddeley, Lucy Carter, Evie Draper, David Dunbavand, Liam Evans, Samuel Fowodu, Elia Gladdin, Tom Hampson, Phoebe Hill, Millie Jones, Ben Kells, Kai Lilienfeld, Tia Longdon, Rebekah Ludlow, Kian McEvoy, Libby McKentie, Lewi Richardson, Oliver Shawcross, Katie-May Smith, Caitlin Stevenson, Grace Thornhill, Katie Tolan, Liam Ward, Wilbur Watts and Mia Wiltshire. Week 1 Update: A quiet start we have some entries but are looking for a lot more. Eleanor Higgins blasted the leader board to take first place which she currently holds by 3 seconds to Charlie Brough following by the current third prize position 9 seconds further afield with Samuel Crick. Remember it's every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday lunchtimes in Room 6, come along to watch if you want to know more. 3 for practise and tuition, 2 to set a time or have another go. Mr Quenby would like to congratulate Year 8 for completing the Rap and Hip-hop project. The assessments have been amazing to see and well done to all those who took part. We will be watching the videos back next week so look forward to seeing yourself on the big screen! Mrs Hartharn would like to congratulate the following members of 7 DC for meeting their target levels in the most recent Geography assessment: Clara Barlow, Danny Batty, Ellie-May Byard, George Duckett, Ellis Haddon, Victoria Halford, Emily Hall, Chipego Hamonga, Megan Harper, Angus Henshaw, Eleanor Higgins, Nathan Hunt, James Kelly, Demi Leek, Aiden O'Donnell, Lucy Oliver, Sophia Stayte, William Wallbank, Joshua Watson and Mackenzi Wood. Congratulations and keep up the hard work.

12 PTA We've created a Twitter account, please follow to keep up to date with our latest events and requests for help. We re hoping to launch of a new fundraising scheme which will help benefit all our students and give you the chance of winning 25,000, we'll share and update soon but we're hoping everyone from school will take part and support it. Thank You! The next PTA meeting will be on Thursday 6 October 2016 at 6.30pm. Everyone welcome. Thank you for taking the time to read the Friday Letter. Please keep in your prayers our Year 11 students still sitting their GCSE exams. Well done to the Year 10 students who have conducted themselves so well during their exams this week. I do hope you can join us on Sunday for the Fun Run and I am grateful to Mrs Morley for all her hard work in preparing this event. Let us hope the weather is on our side. Have a lovely week Best wishes Joan McCarthy

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16 Gentle rain from Heaven Talk and discussion on mercy and justice in the Bible with Rev Dr Joseph O Hanlon Wednesday 22 June Our Lady & St Patrick s in the Meadows Nottingham NG2 1JQ 7pm 9pm Tea, coffee, soft drinks and cake! Our Lady and St Patrick s has plenty of parking space, and is close to the Queens Walk tram stop. Navy Line 48 buses from Nottingham city centre stop just outside, and run until late. All Welcome Organised by the Justice and Peace Commission.

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