St Cuthbert's R.C Business & Enterprise College

Saint Cuthbert High School

The Enterprise word of the week is having a “Can- do attitude” and the Year 7 pupils will also be concentrating on the Enterprise skill of “Teamwork.

Sally Williams, from the BBC's 'Insideout', visited the St Cuthbert's English department last week to explore the impact poetry has on learning.

The programme followed three poets from the Northwest: Carol Ann Duffy, John Cooper Clarke and Mike Garry, St Cuthbert's poet in residence.

The programme wants to investigate the power that poetry can have in different contexts, with a focus on poems that have a strong regional identity.

The programme explored the impact that Mike's poetry has had on students of

St Cuthbert's and filmed him working with a Year 7 and Year 11 class. Two former pupils, Alice Francisco and Honey, returned to school from university to discuss the impact that Mike's poetry had on their educational experience.

They described how they still wrote their own poems as a consequence of Mike's teaching.

The programme is to be broadcast on the 5th December, BBC 1 7.30pm.

Following Bradley Smith's involvement with Blind Football he has now been offered a place to train at the Blind Football Academy, whilst studying for his A’ levels at the Royal National College for the Blind at Hereford. He will be taking part in 16 hours of training alongside the England team.

His placement depends upon available funding. We wish him well and will be following his progress.

Years 7 and 8 chose the Operation Christmas Child shoebox appeal as the Colleges Advent Charity this year. Pupils were able to work in form groups or individually to produce a shoebox that was wrapped and full of gifts and presents.

These boxes are sent to orphaned children all over the world who are living in countries ripped apart by conflict - this year our boxes are bound for Kurdistan.



This week’s assembly was in preparation for the season of Advent which began on Sunday November 27th

The year seven attendance challenge was won by 7.6, Miss Hussain’s form with 100% attendance.

Well done to 7.6 a fantastic achievement!

The “You have to be in to win competition,” was won by Krystian Baker form 7.5

Finally, congratulations to the year seven five a side boys football team who are champions of Rochdale schools and are now through to the regional round.

Diary Dates:

December 1 - Year 13 Parents Evening

December 8, 9 and 10 - College Play