St. Cuthbert’s RC Business and Enterprise College

An image of the completed project at St Cuthbert’s

On Friday 27 September the technology department organised a coffee morning for Macmillan Cancer as part of a national fundraising event. Pupils and staff could get a hot drink and cake, with all funds going directly to the charity. Thank you to everybody involved, whether you baked the delicious cakes or gave up your free time to support the event.

Monday 30 September saw the first session of maths class for parents. Parents learnt different methods for arithmetic that are used in class today and the different types of numbers such as prime, multiple and factor. They then went on to find factors, multiples the highest common factors and lowest common multiples of numbers, finishing off by completing GCSE style questions. Thank you to Miss McKee who is running the sessions and two Year 11 pupils; Tom Murphy and Marta Dolchuk for helping with the event. The next session is on Monday 7 October for parents of pupils taking the foundation paper.

Tickets are selling fast for the school production of Joseph and his Technicolor Dreamcoat. The shows will take place on Thursday 17, Friday 18 and Saturday 19 October. Anybody wishing to purchase a ticket should send their child to the finance office. Tickets cost £7 for adults, £5 for concessions or £20 for a family ticket (2 adults & 2 concessions).

Year 7 photographs have now been sent home, all orders should be placed with the correct money in the sealed envelope provided. If you wish to pay by cheque please make the cheque payable to Tempest Photography, with your child’s name and form clearly printed on the back of the cheque. Orders must be placed before Friday 18 October.

Attendance Challenge, well done to the following Key Stage 3 forms:

Year 7 – Miss Walker and form 7.5 with a weekly attendance of 99.6%
Year 8 – Mrs Ward and form 8.4 with a weekly attendance 99%
Year 9 – Mrs Ellidge and form 9.8 with a weekly attendance 99.1%

Any pupil who has achieved 100% attendance is entered into a weekly draw to win 100 VIVO points. The winners this week were:

Year 7 Jake Pearson form 7.2
Year 8 David Atkinson form 8.5
Year 9 Horacio De Assuncao 9.2

Well done to you all! Points have been rewarded to VIVO accounts
This week’s Top VIVO Achievers were:

Year 7 – Callum Edwards form 7.1
Year 8 – Joshua Brookes form 8. 2
Year 9 – Nicole Tordoff form 9.6

Our theme for this half term is welcome and new beginnings. This week’s enterprise word was risk. Our Saint of the week was St Francis of Assisi. Born in Assisi, Italy in 1182 to a rich family of merchants. He had a vision of Jesus telling him from the cross to “Repair my Church”, meaning the whole Church as a world-wide community, not just its buildings. Francis took himself away from his family to pray and offered his whole life to God. Francis put in place a rule for his companions to live by which led to the creation of the Franciscan Order.

As we enter October, we dedicate the month to the Holy Rosary. Mass is celebrated weekly in the chapel on Wednesday lunchtime by Fr. Martin Collins. This week the readings and prayers were led by 10.4.

The new edition of St. Cuthbert’s News is now available to read online at www.scrchs.com/about-us/. If you would like a paper copy then please contact the school. The newsletter contains lots of articles about the wide variety of activities the pupils at St. Cuthbert’s experience during their time at school.