10 February 2017

Messages from the Headteacher

Dear Parent/Carers

Mrs Mellon - This week we were delighted to receive a visit from Mrs Mellon, wife of Harry

Mellon, who was the first headteacher at Cardinal Newman when it opened in 1969. Mrs Mellon is

in the process of moving house and brought in some items belonging to Mr Mellon, including a

chair made by Cardinal Newman students that was presented to him on his retirement, sketches

of the school and some old photos. Mrs Mellon also has a film of the opening of the school that she is going to give us. It was

wonderful to see Mrs Mellon and we wish her happiness in her new home.

Congratulations to Maisie Douglas - Many congratulations to Maisie Douglas in Year 8 who has been chosen to

represent England at the first Paracheer World Championship in Florida in April. This is a fantastic achievement for Maisie

who is only in Year 8 and we wish her the best of luck as she prepares for the championship.

CCFC - Well done to Coventry City Football Club who made it through to the final of the Checkatrade trophy at Wembley

in April. We had many excited fans in school this week but it was great to see former student Dion Kelly-Evans in action as

part of the winning team.

Year 8 Options Evening - Many thanks to all of the parents and students who joined us last night to hear vital information

to help their son/daughter make important decisions about their future. Attendance last night was a fantastic 94% and last

night I reminded parents of the importance of support at home to ensure academic success in school. Year 8 Parents’ Evening

takes place on Thursday 2 March 2017 and Options Forms must be returned to form tutors by 6 March 2017.

Canteen Revalve Units - Today an engineer has been on site to update the canteen Revalve units to enable the use of the

new £5 note (and the new £1 coin which comes into circulation in March this year). From next week students will be able to

top up their lunch time accounts with the new £5.00 notes.

I hope you have a great weekend, Best wishes, Mrs Marina Kelly, Headteacher

NEWSLETTER ISSUE 20

www.cardinalnewman.coventry.sch.uk

NOTEABLE

DATES

Break Up for

Half Term -

Fri 17 Feb 17

Return from

Half Term -

Mon 27 Feb 17

Year 8

Parents’ Eve -

Thurs 2 Mar 17,

4.30-6.30pm

Year 9

Parents’ Eve -

Thurs 9 Mar 17,

4.30-6.30pm

Weekly Prayer

Lord, make my every thought, word and

action be about you this day. My every

footstep, to be placed and guided exactly

where you would have me be at the at very

moment in time. To serve you above all things, so that in all that I say

and do be filled with your Holy presence, a tabernacle for your spirit, I

may be a true and living witness to the Father glory. Amen

Wasps Netball v Loughborough Lightning

Ricoh Arena

11th March 2017

£5.00

Open to Year 7-11 Netballers

Can those students who attend

Netball Club please bring their

money in for the above trip.

Attendance

The whole school attendance so far this academic year is currently 95.30%

Best year group attendance for this week (03/02/17–09/02/17) is Year 8 with

96.93% attendance.

Mrs E Ford, Attendance Office

Year 8 Football vs Bishop Ullathorne

An evenly fought home game saw our Year 8 boys bow out of the Coventry Schools’ Cup.

After the first half, in which Bishop Ullathorne raced ahead, our boys had an uphill chal-

lenge to bring the scores level in the last 10 minutes. A nail biting finish witnessed both teams miss

chances. A great individual strike by a Bishop Ullathorne boy snatched victory in a nine goal thriller.

Cardinal Newman 4 - Bishop Ullathorne 5

Man of the Match: Joel Harnett - well done for a valiant performance.

Mr N Minshull, Head of PE

Harry Potter Book Day - The Professors of Hogwarts

On Thursday 2nd February 2017, we celebrated our second annual Harry Potter Book Day Event at

Cardinal Newman Catholic School. It was also the twentieth anniversary of the first Harry Potter book

– The Philosopher’s Stone!

The event was a huge success and an opportunity for all the school Muggles (and maybe a few magic

folk) to get together, celebrate and dress up like their favourite character.

There were ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’ lessons going on across the school and a chance to find all the

creatures that had escaped from Mrs Kelly’s briefcase during lunch time. A great many fans attended from all year groups and really enjoyed

themselves.

The evening was the final event of the day. ‘The Professors of Hogwarts’ was the theme of the evening and it was hosted in the library and

reported on by the Year 8 school news reporters. The scene inside the library was amazing with a platform nine and three quarters at the

entrance and some flying letters along the wall with a wonderful mug shot peep hole which caused a lot of laughs! Classrooms from

Hogwarts were set up including a mystic Divination classroom with spells that were created by library club members and a potions area with

lots of magic creations. Dumbledore’s office which Mrs Kelly made herself at home in, also drew the crowds.

The food lovers amongst us enjoyed Harry Potter classics such as butterbeer, chocolate frogs, Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans and Fizzing

Whizzbees. For those who knew their wizarding facts, a quiz was hosted by Professor Robbins and we also enjoyed some fun Harry Potter

themed game sheets. There were competitions with winners from Years 10, 8, 7 claiming some magical prizes.

A big thanks to all the staff and students who helped decorate and make the event truly magical.

Happy wizarding and see you next year!

Aimee Morley 8HRS (BBC News Report Team)

Congratulations to our winners on the day

Best Dressed - Emily Wright, Aimee Morley and

Madhav Ketheeswararajah

Quiz Winners - The Marauders (Jessica Harris Cardwell,

Ellie Hetherton, Hannah Byrne and Elzbieta Goralczyk)

Special Award for the most involved - William Docking

and Dylon Whitehead.

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 Nomination

Ben Clayton 10SPX For his support at Options Evening

Leadership Team Nominations

Mrs French Timothy Yonas 10RGL Excellent contributions to English Lesson. Mature attitude in

discussing a sensitive topic.

Mr Hodgson Jakub Lewandowski 8NFR For his excellent keyboard solo in Year 8 assembly.

Mrs Boyle Sean Jones 8CHA For his integrity.

Miss Goodwin Dylon Whitehead 7CBN Positive engagement in the Harry Potter Day.

Mr Versey Ethan Smyth 11NML For significant improvements in attainment in Mathematics

since the November Mock examinations.

Mr Courtney Tabitha Dharmadeva 13TDS For support with lunch club postcards.

Mr McInerney Saffron Spry 11FMS Fantastic work with year book.

Mrs E Perkins Leah Downey 10OCO Excellent work and effort in Science.

Mr Alcott Martin Skudder 10NSD For support at Options Evening.

Olivia Clayton 11KGE For support at Options Evening.

Faculty Nominations

Art Ella-Louise McGlinchey 10RGL Excellent completion of ‘Landscape’ project.

Drama Julia Topkin 11JCN Excellent performance in her Unit 2 Monologue for GCSE

Drama.

D&T Antony Kariuki 11SMN For continued effort to complete their practical course

work and helping for open evening.

Zachary Ford 11KGE For continued effort to complete their practical course

work and helping for open evening.

English Martyna Dymkowska 10SPX For a fantastic performance at the Key Stage 4 debate on

Wednesday 8th Feb.

Enterprise Aimee Morley 8HRS For creating a fantastic presentation on ‘Network’ (she went

beyond expectations on her homework).

History Zara Kelly 10OCO For excellent independent research.

Geography Ellie Loughran 8CMN For outstanding progress in Geography.

Maths Mason Weston 7DHL For an outstanding effort and achievement in his assessment

and in his maths lessons,

Modern Foreign Languages Sean Jones 8CHA Outstanding achievement and performance in lessons.

Music Prefna Kombo 11JCN Outstanding solo performance.

PE Joel Harnett 8NFR Outstanding performance in goal during the football match

against Bishop Ullathorne.

RE Jaden Shearer 9MCN Biggest improvement in ATL and in pit stop assessments.

Student Support Daniel O'Hara 7DHL For his act of mentoring, support and encouragement.

Science Bartosz Kulinski 11AMM For the most correct answers on Tassomai this week!

Vocational Abigail Corrigan 9FRR Such a dedicated and highly motivated student in both

Childcare and Health & Social Care subjects.

Head of Year Nominations

Year 8 Lilly Artingsall 8NFR For commitment to improvement in RSL.

Year 9 Charlie Blaszczyszyn 9DOI Very polite and helpful young man.

Zeta Rudakemwa 9MCN Always polite and friendly does what she is meant to do to

the best of her ability.

Year 10 Kamshana Indranadan 10OCO Talking in assembly about the charity she would like our year

group to raise money for.

Year 11 Rebecca Hewlett 11KGE For continued improvement to effort and attitude to learning.

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Aspire Value

Integrity

Over the next two weeks we will be focusing

on the Aspire value Integrity. Integrity is a very

important value as it feeds into so many more - patience, honesty, responsibility,

dependability, accountability, and caring. Values that we want all our school

community to have and display in all that we do. Over the next two weeks can

you show your integrity in all that you do.

"Integrity cost nothing however its value is priceless" Jennifer Walsh

Sainsbury’s

Active Kids

Vouchers

We will be collecting Sainsbury’s Active Kids vouchers

in school until Friday 30 June.

Please bring any vouchers into school and post them

into the box in student reception.

Every half term, we open our doors to

anyone who is interested in finding out

more about the training we can offer. So

why don't you come along and see what

we can do for you?

All our Open Events will run from 10am

-6pm at our Training Centres on the

dates and at the locations specified

below:

22nd February 2017

12th April 2017

31st May 2017

2nd August 2017

Your nearest training centre is:

Coventry

12 Broadgate, Coventry, CV1 1NG, Tel:

024 7663 0703

What to expect:

All our staff will be ready to walk you

round our training centres and talk you

through what your next steps could be

and how we can support you on your

journey to getting qualified! Whether it's

Business Admin or Beauty Therapy,

Hairdressing or Marketing, or Sports or

Warehousing we will be on hand to give

you practical advice, information and

guidance. We can also outline your

options relating to any potential

bursaries (money towards travel and

training) that may be available to you,

child care provisions and any other

additional information that may help you

with your decision making process

towards investing in your future with us.

Friends and family are also welcome to

attend these events as we understand

that there is a lot of information to take

in and that they may also have some

questions for us too!

How to book:

Simply contact your local Training

Centre using the details above, or just

turn up on the day.

For details on apprenticeships in Engineering and Healthcare, please

speak to your Tutor or Charlotte Iceton

Date/Time Event

11/02/2017 - 12:00noon-2:15pm Africa's Forgotten Conflicts

Leamington Spa Baptist Church, Leamington Spa Warwickshire

25/02/2017 - All Day Talk by Director General of the UN Office at Geneva

Oculus, Coventry

01/03/2017 - 7:30pm-9:00pm Why Brexit & Trump, and What’s Next?

Friends Meeting House, Coventry, West Midlands

08/03/2017 - 2:00pm-4:30pm Women's Day Inspiration and Q&A

Coventry, West Midlands

17/06/2017 - 12:00 pm-2:30 pm UNA Coventry Birthday Party and AGM

Coventry, West Midlands

21/09/2017 - All Day Coventry Peace Day 2017

Coventry, West Midlands

21/10/2017 - All Day Internship Event

Coventry, West Midlands