19 July 2019 NEWSLETTER ISSUE 39

Message from the Headteacher

It has been another busy week at school, with our Remembrance service,

Post 16 Open Evening and Peace conference. However the highlight was meet-

ing representatives from Coventry Cathedral, who have informed me that the

school has been awarded the International Cross of Nails award (ICONS). This

award recognises the work of Mr R Davies, the Peace and Justice group, our

chaplaincy and work we carry out within the community. We will be receiving

our award on the 2nd December at a prestigious ceremony in school, more

details to come.

Ms Emma O’Connor

Cardinal Newman

Catholic School

Holy Cross Catholic Multi Academy Company

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Weekly Prayer

Eternal God, you are present in all places, so

that we cannot be in any place where you

cannot be found. Give us the sense of your

presence and knowledge of your fatherly

love. We commend to your care and

keeping all those who travel by road or rail,

or walk to distant places of our land.

Protect them by your power and bring them

safely to the end of their journey. In the

name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Donations are urgently required to support the Coventry

Foodbank. The Foodbank is a long term project the school is

involved with.

Food bank numbers have increased by 13% in the last year

with 1.3 million people now attending them.

Items urgently required are: coffee, sugar (500g or 1kg), rice,

rice pudding, long life milk (UHT), tinned fruit, long life juice,

squash and toiletries.

Additional items needed are carrier bags (For items to be

taken away in), winter hats, scarves, gloves and socks. Also

with Christmas approaching any Christmas based food items

that can be packed into family hampers.

If you are able to support, please send your items into school

reception. Thank you.

Peace & Justice Group

Donations are urgently required to support the Coventry

Foodbank. The Foodbank is a long term project the school is

involved with.

Food bank numbers have increased by 13% in the last year

with 1.3 million people now attending them.

Items urgently required are: coffee, sugar (500g or 1kg), rice,

rice pudding, long life milk (UHT), tinned fruit, long life juice,

squash and toiletries.

Additional items needed are carrier bags (For items to be

taken away in), winter hats, scarves, gloves and socks. Also

with Christmas approaching any Christmas based food items

that can be packed into family hampers.

If you are able to support, please send your items into school

reception. Thank you.

Peace & Justice Group

Talking Point

The Results are in!

Talking Point (WB 28.10.19:

As nobody can agree on a deal, Brexit should just

be cancelled.

After some excellent discussions during tutor time:

73% of our students AGREE

27% of our students DISAGREE

Upcoming Talking Point: Fireworks should not be

sold to the general public. They should be sold to licensed

establishments only.

Dates for your Diary

Year 10 Parents Evening - Thursday 21 Nov

4.30pm - 7.15pm.

Christ The King Parish Mass - Sunday 24 Nov

12pm.

Year 7 Trip - ‘The Boy In The Dress’ - Thursday

5 Dec 12.15pm - 4.15pm.

Year 11 Trip - ‘A Christmas Carol - Saturday 7

Dec 1.45pm-6.30pm.

Gaelic Football Team

On Sunday 3rd November St Finbarr's U14s girls Gaelic

football team took on a challenge match against Lancashire

County. The girls are undefeated in Warwickshire at their

age group so accepted the challenge. They ended up winning

comfortably 9-4 0-1 (31-1). Some of our girls have

been chosen to represent Warwickshire County and have

played over in Ireland.

Players from Cardinal Newman: Olivia Sharman (Captain),

Sophie Cotterill, Katie Bowns, Abi Thorpe, Mia Rowan,

Zandie Ndlovu, Kiera Kabama, Angel Pregely, Molly

Kavanagh, Kiera Nee and Ava Walsh.

We look forward to starting training again

in the summer and we welcome any new

players to the squad!

St Elizabeth's Mass- Sunday 10th

November.

On Sunday 10th November students helped to lead the

Liturgy at Mass at St Elizabeth's. A number of our students

are active members of this Parish and serve the Church as

altar servers and trainee youth leaders- which Fr Moses

mentioned in his Sermon on Sunday. Students also helped to

lead the Liturgy by readings, presenting the offertory gifts

and helping with the music. a huge thank you to the Parish

and Fr Moses for a warm welcome and to the students for

their support.

Peace Conference

Cardinal Newman students have been superb ambas-

sadors at the Lord Mayor’s peace and reconciliation

conference. They have come up with lots of ideas on

how to make our city, community and school a lot

more peaceful.

Year 8 Mass Friday 8th November

On Friday 8th November Year 8 celebrated Mass together

taking time to reflect upon the Gospel of the day. The

students worked hard in preparation creating beautiful

artwork, rehearsing the music, readings, choosing prayers

and creating a drama to explain the Gospel message. The

message was "Invest in goodness", Year 8 showed their

goodness in the celebration of Mass and we are very proud

of them. A huge thank you to Fr Pat for celebrating Mass

for us.

Year 9 Masses

On Thursday 21st November Year 9 will celebrate Mass

with Fr Pat, the students will prepare the Liturgy and we are

looking forward to seeing what they offer.

During this term Year 9 are also planning and leading class

Masses, preparing a small Mass for their RE class which is

then celebrated on Friday before lunch time. The students

have all worked hard so far in preparation for these Masses

and they are a very peaceful, intimate celebration of Mass

away from the busy life of our school in our school Chapel.

ARYPT - Drayton Manor

On Saturday 2nd November 12 Year 7 students were given

the opportunity to experience a youth day with the Andy

Robinson Young Peoples Trust. We joined over 60 other

young people from Catholic primary and secondary schools

in the city for this day. We started the day with a youth

Mass at St John Fisher, followed by breakfast batches and a

short journey to Drayton Manor. We spent the day in

Drayton Manor enjoying the rides, games, arcades and

performances. We finished the day watching an incredible

fireworks display. The students had a fantastic day and we

are really grateful to Maria Bracken and the Andy Robinson Young Peoples Trust for giving our students this opportunity

and for all the hard work they do fundraising to help young

people in Coventry. You can find more information on

Facebook and Twitter - search Andrew Robinson Young

peoples trust- for information about the work of the trust

and ways to support.

Remembrance service

On Monday 11th November we held our annual

remembrance service. Our whole school community stood

in the beautiful sunshine to honour a 2 minutes silence in

memory of those who gave their lives through war and

conflict. We listened to scripture and devoted prayers to

our loved ones who are no longer with us.

We were delighted to be joined by parents and relatives of

former students. This year we were particularly pleased that

Dennis Davidson daughter, Heather could join us for our

remembrance service. We prayed for his eternal rest and

gave thanks for the wonderful legacy he has left at Cardinal

Newman. Year 7 students (Ethan Peters, David Kazembe

and Hannah Humphries) lay wreaths in the peace garden to

honour the memories of all our loved ones.

Thank you to some of our Peace and Justice students (Fergal

Walsh, Molly Wilson, Kiera Jones, Mya Richard, Jesse

Mbanga, Cynthi Atem, Jessica Harris-Cardwell) who helped

with meeting and greeting our visitors. They were real

ambassadors for the school. Well done to our beautiful

readers, Exauce Malula , Paul Makavore , Faye Taylor,

Bridget Williams , Oliwia Luszcz , Ellie Moorcroft and Oliver

Kelly who led the service with reverence and respect.

A special thank you to Mr Kennedy, one of our school

Governors who read “Flanders Fields” with dignity and

decorum . We also would like to thank Fr Pat for his

blessings upon the school.

Thank you to all who attended. We were incredibly proud

of all our students.

Cardinal Newman Remembers

Remembering the lives of past students, staff and friends of

Cardinal Newman is very important to our school

community. Our remembrance service is a key date in our

school year and we gather focused around our peace garden

to remember those who gave their lives to protect our

country but also to remember the lives of those who have

been part of our school community. In our peace garden we

have a number of memorial plaques, if you would like a loved

one, who was part of our Cardinal Newman community, to

be commemorated on our memorial wall please contact

Laura Byrne for further details:

laura.byrne@cncs.school

Basketball

On Wednesday 13th November our KS3 and our KS4

basketball teams played Finham Park 1 away. The KS3 team

were clear winners by 25 points and our KS4 team lost by 1

point after a very close game.

KS3 player of the match: David Odeh

KS4 player of the match: Ryan Pahile

KS3: Cardinal Newman 41 - 16 Finham Park 1

KS4: Cardinal Newman 19 - 20 Finham Park 1

KS3 team: Kaidon Mackey (C), David Odeh, Ashly Wilks,

Fabian Sniegocki, Richard Naglis, Kyle Ojong, Nicholas

Imagbovomwan, Kian Murray, Daniil Banys

KS4 team: Ryan Pahile (C), Madhav Ketheeswararajah, Louis

Forsyth, Amman Ali, Ashwin Kugan, Melkas Jonas, Bobby

Dickinson, Sol White, Hollie Cox.

Shoe box appeal

Thank you to all who participated in this years shoe box

appeal, we have managed to make an amazing total of 127 shoe

boxes.

Exciting Times

Cardinal Newman are hosting a variety of exciting

lunch time clubs which will be available from Monday

18th November!

Clubs include:

Drama

SOFT Archery

Games

Cooking

Bath Bomb & Soap Making

Basketball

Chess

Computer

Mindful Colouring

Origami

Top trumps

Xbox/Boardgames

Y11 Revision Club

Peace & Justice

Stars of the Fortnight

Members of staff have been nominating students who they feel have been 'stars of the fortnight'. Students have been

awarded for a variety of things including excellent effort, excellent pieces of work, improved attendance and acts of

kindness to name but a few. Well done to you all. Nominations from the last two weeks are:

Headteacher’s Nominations

Ava Walsh 7KAY For her promotion of girls sports

Konrad Zeno 9AHR For outstanding History

Leadership Team Nominations

Miss Goodwin Kieren Purewal 12JDE For his excellent presentation at open evening

Mr Versey Adam Mutusik 11THN Consistent focus and effort in Maths

Miss Caherty Kiera Jones 11NML For showing consistent compassion and kindness.

Mr Timmins Roshaan Sothlingham 13MKY For his high quality coursework and excellent level of detail in ICT.

Mr Panjanaden Fabian Sniegocki 9TRD For working well in R.E, but also in general in all subjects for the

past few weeks.

Faculty Nominations

Art Kayleigh Campbell 10JGD For her outstanding standard of art skills.

Computer Science Devandara Danesh 12AMY Outstanding and consistent effort in ICT.

English Daniel O’Hara 10AMI For developing in confidence in English.

Music Rebecca Stevensen 9TDS For supporting the choir.

R.E Niamh Owens 11HRS Excellent exam technique.

P.E Sophie Cotterill 10SWN For achieving 100% in the last two GCSE PITSTOPS.

Science Kiera Jones 11NML For fantastic commitment to her science revision.

Student Support Maisie Douglas 11HRS For outstanding support and kindness whilst mentoring another

student.

Vocational Education Hope Gibson 11NML Demonstrating a very positive and mature attitude to her

childcare studies. Well done!

Head of Year Nominations

Year 7 Molly Leatherbarrow 7RCY For stepping in last minute at St Elizabeth’s Mass

Year 8 Joshua Flaherty Dedvukaj 8ECM For his compassion and understanding.

Year 9 Edwin Barry 9ABI Represented the school fantastically well at a peace conference

Friday and had some great ideas.

Year 10 Rose Tiernan 10LEN Displaying an outstanding attitude and approach to her studies

keep this up!

Year 11 Mamy—Yaie Kalainkay 11MBE For outstanding effort

Special Mentions - Year 9

David Odeh, Kaidon Mackey, Kaidon Hand Wills, Kanye Messam - Represented the school fantastically well at he the peace

conference Friday.

Chaplaincy Nomination

Brinna Okechukwu 7TGN For stepping in last minute to read at St Elizabeth's Mass