St Cuthbert's RC High School

St Cuthbert's RC High School at the Rochdale Schools’ Indoor Athletics Championships

St. Cuthbert’s going Global – E-safety Campaign

On Tuesday the 7 February it is Safer Internet Day organised by the UK Safer Internet Centre (https://www.saferinternet.org.uk/about). The day is acknowledged globally and schools from over 200 countries spend the week educating young people about the issues they can run into whilst using the internet.

This year there are two separate subjects for KS3 and KS4. KS3 students will be learning about “Selfies” and the risks of sharing images of yourself online or via instant messaging, KS4 students will be learning about “Digital Footprints” and their impact this can have on their futures.

To start our campaign off in school we decided to put an image on our Facebook page and see in 48 hours how many times the image can be viewed and shared and how far we can get the image to go, the totals were staggering, 365 people shared the image, over 22,000 people viewed the image and it was seen in over 25 countries including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UAE and South Africa.

The image will be presented to students to show them just how far and wide a simple image can go and imagine that this was a picture of them doing something wrong or naked.

Mr McCabe will be presenting a video and taking assemblies week beginning 6th Feb to discuss these topics and more with students.

Year 11 boys’ football team

Year 11 boys’ football team are through to the final of the Rochdale cup - a trophy they won last year against tonight's opponents. Although they started well and created two good chances, it was Cardinal Langley who scored with their first clear chance.

Again, St Cuthbert's were creating more but squandering the chances as with less than 20 mins gone in the first half they were two goals behind. Fabio Tavares was making some excellent runs and it was he who set up Faith Okayunde 5 mins before half time to reduce the deficit.

Kelvin Ade Coker came on at half time and he smashed in a shot from 20 yards to level the match. Cuthbert's were on top but Tavares had to come off to go and get his teeth checked so they did not manage to take any more of their chances.

The ref blew up early, after consulting with both managers as the light was getting bad, and we went to penalties. Jack Kelly was the hero of the hour as he saved a couple of the penalties and also scored one. Cuthbert's won 4 - 3 on pens- well done boys!

Under 14's girls’ football team

The Under 14's girls’ football team have thoroughly enjoyed playing in the Rochdale Schools girl's league over the past few months. The Super sixes final night was held on Tuesday 18th January with the B team finishing in 6th place and the A team finishing in 3rd place.

Rochdale Schools’ Indoor Athletics Championships

Congratulations to the Year 7 girls and boys who participated in the Rochdale Schools’ Indoor Athletics Championships. The students participated in events such as the standing triple jump, shot put and track events. The girls’ team managed to come a respectable 3rd place, and the boys’ clinched 2nd place after an outstanding performance in the running events. Well done team Cuthbert’s!

Yoga

This week we have been trying a new activity with our Year 10 students. With a focus on building our core strength in a calming manner, the students tried yoga! It was well received by all as they practiced their ‘Tree’, ‘Warrior’ and ‘Cobra’ positions– well done girls.

Other News:

Year 11 Health and Social Care should be attending the lunchtime and afterschool intervention sessions if they still have missing controlled assessment tasks.

Year 10 have been discussing the environmental and economic factors that affect our development, including watching an interesting documentary on child poverty in the UK which prompted lots of interesting discussion.

Tuqeer Hussain is our Business Studies All Star for this week for his outstanding efforts in class.

In Art year 9 and 10 have been focussing on the human form and have been creating fantastic observational studies. Edmilsa Cassandra and Martyna Chudzinska are making particularly good progress and are both aspiring to the top grades in Art.

In Drama Year 7 have been working on 'The Street'. The theme is old age and community. Pupils are responding with real sensitivity to some of the challenging issues presented by the work.

Pupils in KS4 who have been invited on the theatre trip to see 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time' need to return money and slips to school asap to reserve their place.

Year 5 Visit the LINC

Sacred Heart came along to complete their final session all about promoting their school.

This time they created Digital adverts which could be used on the school website or digital signage. The students were eager and full of enthusiasm as they created, animation video’s sound bites and selected uplifting music to accompany their work.

During the second part of the session it was time for the students to edit and create their individual adverts. We then watched their amazing creations as a group. Well done Sacred Heart.

Overall winners from last term:

Congratulations to the following forms who achieved the highest attendance in their year groups last term:

7.8
8.1
9.7
10.5
11.6

The entire form was treated to a breakfast in our cuisine area, consisting of bacon and sausage sandwiches, delicious Danish pastries and a selection of fruit juices and hot drinks. Attendance is extremely important and has a significant impact on the progress and attainment of each student. Well done to each and every student who consistently maintain a high level of attendance.

Stars of the Week

Congratulations to the following students who have been nominated as ‘stars of the week’ by their teachers.

Expressive Arts

• Emilis Navickas, Ella Goulding and Abigail Dinnen for their outstanding Movie Music performance assessments. Mr Turner
• Diogo Almeida Miranda for a really convincing performance in Drama. Mrs Maloney
• Delphine Nonleh for her outstanding characterisation as ‘the girl in the street’. Mrs Knox

Maths

• Erin McKenna for continuing her positive attitude. Mrs Murray.
• Summerlea Dutton for her hard work and perseverance. Mr Zahoor
• Lauren McGreary for improving her test and therefore her score! Mrs Easby 
• Mohsin Shah for his complete turnaround of effort and attitude. Mrs Didyk-Wild 
• Callum Yeoman for trying extra hard with FDP. Mrs Holt 
• Aimee Duncalf for great work. Mrs Vishnyakov Fionnhbar Qayum for showing resilience. Mr Meara 
• Jacob Butler for working consistently well all year. Mr Duffin 
• Kieran Toohey for his great attitude! Mrs Holden

Geography

KS3:
Abbey Marsh
Vivianna Ripa
Owen Donahoe
Christian Weston
Holly Parnum
Junior Lopez

KS4:
Daisy O’Neil
Beltus Nonleh
Jordan Hennessey

History
KS3:
Joe Mulkeen
Chloe Mullins

KS4:
Ellie Gillespie
Jacob Butler
Callum Yeoman

Modern Foreign Languages

• Joseph Isungu for an excellent start to his French course. Mrs Ward
• Joe Baker 7:2 for showing excellent effort in his writing and speaking assessment. Mrs Gutic
• Zuhaib Zulfiqar (Year 10) for his continued effort and enthusiasm. Miss Taylor
• Tyler McNally (Year 7) for a fantastic start to his Spanish lessons. Miss Phillips