The weekly newsletter of St Bartholomew’s School.

END OF SUMMER TERM AND START OF AUTUMN TERM Term ends on Tuesday 22 July 2014.

Students will be dismissed at 12.30pm.

Please remember to take all your belongings

home for the holiday.

Bus Services on 22 July

Service 3 to Hungerford

St Bart’s students will be collected on

Buckingham Road at 1240.

Service 4 to Lambourn

St Bart’s will have a 1240 collection on

Andover Road. This service will go via the

bus station and then continue to Lambourn if

students stay on board.

These changes should be advertised on the

buses in advance. If there is any uncertainty

please contact your bus company.

Start of Autumn Term 2014

Mon 1 Sep Staff Training & Development

Day

Tues 2 Sep Staff Training & Development

Day

Wed 3 Sep Staff Training & Development

8.30am – 11.00am

Wed 3 Sep Student Term Begins

New Y12 report to Sixth Form

Area at 11.00am

New Y7 report to the Hall at

11.15am

Y8 – Y12 report to Tutor

Rooms at 12.15pm

Thur 4 Sep Normal day for all students

Y13 only report to Tutor

Rooms at 8.30am to receive

timetables

FINALISTS IN LANGUAGES SPELLING BEE COMPETITION Two Year 7 students successfully reached the

final of the Routes into Languages Spelling

Bee competition held at Anglia Ruskin

University in Cambridge on 4 July. Joseph

McLaughlin 7E2 and Poom Narongpun 7E1

took part in the German challenge and had to

revise 200 words, then performed under

pressure in front of an audience of other

competitors and their teachers.

The boys were up against 36 competitors from

across England and enjoyed the experience.

This was a fantastic achievement and Joseph

and Poom are to be congratulated.

They were accompanied to Cambridge by

Miss Collinson and found time during the day

to have a look around this famous city.

BartholoNews

15 July 2014 www.stbarts.co.uk Issue No: 730

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ST BART’S FILM MAKERS ARE THE PEOPLE’S CHOICE On Tuesday 7 July, three teams of

film-makers from the St Bart’s

Cineclub were invited to the annual

Silver Star awards event at

London’s prestigious BFI Southbank venue.

Zombie shocker ‘Apocalyptic’ was shortlisted

for best film and best homage, while invasion

thriller ‘The Last’, was a nomination for the

secondary Jury Prize. The highlight of the

ceremony, however, was when assassin battler

‘Hitman’ won the People’s Vote award, a

well-deserved recognition of the work put into

it by its cast and creative team: Hasan

Sheperia, Matt King, Ben Stillman and Oliver

Gyorffy.

‘Apocalyptic’ was made by Hannah Money,

David Brind, Sasha Howgate, Corin Dockley,

Tom Lamden and Kyle Smith. ‘The Last’ was

a third production by Marc Jenner, Lewis

Beechey, Stephen Chooi and Joseph

Hennessey, whose Lantern Parade

documentary can currently be seen on the

Corn Exchange website. Harry Murphy and

James Owens joined the crew for this film.

The event was something of a day out for

West Berkshire schools, with Trinity and

St Gabriel’s winning prizes, and Brightwalton

also shortlisted. This is due in no small part to

the invaluable support from the Corn

Exchange’s Learning and Participation

manager, Sarah Gregson.

Cineclub runs on Tuesdays and Wednesdays

after school in C013. It is open to students in

all year groups, and free to join. We intend to

win more prizes next year!

Mr Evans & Mr Mitchell,

Department of Media and Film Studies

FOLLOW US ON TWITTER

You can now follow St Bart’s

on Twitter

@St_Barts_School

EXAM NEWS READ ALL ABOUT IT ! There is now a new addition to the

exam page on our website.

This will continually be updated to give you

all the information that you need at your

fingertips.

Currently there are all the post results services

forms available should you require them after

results day

Next term we will publish the new JCQ

Regulations for 2014/2015, GCSE November

timetable for English/Maths retakes, and also

the Year 11 Practice Exams.

Don’t forget the important dates for August

GCE RESULTS 14 August

GCSE RESULTS 21 August

Have a great summer!

Exams Dept – Ms Hazel Parr, Ms Nicky

Hampson

SECOND HAND UNIFORM The increasingly popular PA

second-hand uniform shop has

been doing good business recently,

raising nearly £1000 in the last

month through sales at the Year 6

House welcome evenings, the fete, and the

usual Friday afternoons. All the money goes

directly into the PA fund to be spent on the

school.

The trouble is that with all those sales our

stocks are running low! Please help refill the

shelves by donating any unwanted uniform

and PE kit so that we can continue to recycle

and reuse, while raising useful money for the

school. Clothes in any reasonable condition

are very welcome. Please leave them in a

clearly marked bag at the school reception

desk.

The shop is open every Friday in term time

from 3.00pm to 3.45pm, just inside the

community entrance.

ONWARDS AND UPWARDS The school has received news that

former student, Will Dace, has been awarded a

First in his Medicine Degree at Oxford. Many

congratulations to Will.

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EVERS HOUSE NEWS Junior House Colours

Congratulations to Albie Embleton, Maddie

Hunt and Ciara Wilton (10E3) on achieving

their Evers House Colours!

KS3 Awards

Bronze Silver

Charley Tibbenham

(7E2)

Tom Lerpiniere

(9E2)

Lucy Farley (7E2) Mark Davies (9E2)

Oliver Brooker (8E3) Callum Wyatt (9E2)

Adrienne Van Vuuren

(9E2)

Ties Abram (9E2)

Georgia Featherstone

(9E2)

Gold

Gabriel Berger (9E2) Anna Linehan (9E2)

Max Uden (9E2) Alex Henderson

(9E2)

Caitlin Watters (9E2) Ellena Butt (9E2)

Joanne Carter (9E2) Abby Graham (9E2)

Michael Seath (9E2) George Freer (9E2)

Alissa Thiel (9E2) Sam Donoghue

(9E2)

Izzy Sanderson (9E2) Matt Pudney (9E2)

Ben Beckwith (9E2) Amber Layton (9E2)

Fionn Grady (9E2) Ellie Wooldridge

(9E2)

Mencap fundraising

Thank you to Beth Parker (12E3) who raised

money for our House charity, West Berkshire

Mencap, by creating revision timetables for

other students.

Look out for our end of year report in next

week’s BartholoNews!

Mr Rose, Ms Evans and Ms Willcox

ROUNDERS NEWS Well done to the Y9 rounders team who have

won their league. They beat Theale Green in

the final 22 ½ - 13 ½. Rebecca Shaw was

awarded player of the match.

Also, well done to the Y10 team who have

finished third in their league. They beat

Kennet in the 3rd

v 4th

playoff 12 – 6 ½.

Saskia Spencer, Emily Brooker and Saffron

Langley were awarded players of the match.

STUDY SUPPORT Do you need somewhere to do

group work?

Do you want somewhere quiet to

do homework?

Would you like to complete

coursework?

Then you need to come to Study Support.

It’s in the school library everyday in the

morning, 7.30am – 8.30am and in the

afternoons from 3.30pm – 5.00pm from

Monday to Thursday.

Refreshments also available.

LATIN FOR BEGINNERS To parents of current Year 8 students Beginners Latin for Year 9 students

will be available from September

2014. Lessons will take place for one hour a

week after school (day to be confirmed).

Letters are being sent out to parents whose

child has expressed an interest in taking up the

subject next year. If your child is interested

there is still time to sign up by taking a letter

(available from Ms Coin in the English office)

or by contacting ecoin@stbarts.co.uk

DUKE OF EDINBURGH’S AWARD

EXPEDITION SECTION

Good luck to all those completing their

Bronze expedition, practice and

qualifying, from 11 – 15 August. If anyone

else is interested in joining this expedition

based at Rushall Farm, Bradfield, please

contact Mrs Sims for further details.

For all those with the expedition section

outstanding in their award, the next

opportunity will be in March 2015 for the

training, followed by a practice expedition in

April 2015 and the qualifying expedition in

May 2015.

Specific dates and further information will be

supplied as soon as it is available.

For all those completed other sections of the

award this summer, good luck.

Mrs M Sims, Deputy Headteacher

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FALKLANDS LIBERATION CAKE SALE

On Friday 13 June 8P1 held their second

record breaking cake sale. The cake sale is

done on the nearest day to 14 June which is

Liberation Day in the Falkland Islands where

8P1’s tutor, Mr Zuvic, hails from. Liberation

Day is an important day as it marks the end of

Argentine occupation when British forces

restored the freedom to the islanders during

the Falklands War in 1982.

The

luxury

cake

stand

The budget cake

stand

The cake sale was

much anticipated

after the success of last year’s and the students

of 8P1 delivered yet again. The standard of

baking was high with luxury cakes decorated

with penguins and

the Union Jack.

Molly Overend’s

Union Jack cake

set a high standard

The cake sale was planned and executed with

military precision. It was great to see the

whole tutor group involved with two mobile

cake selling teams and two static teams

offering a choice of beautifully presented

luxury and budget cakes in the hub. £189.59

was raised for the Patterson House charity and

not a single cake was left! An incredible

achievement for the young bakers of 8P1. Can

we beat this total next year?

Cakes

selling fast

ENTREPRENEURS OF THE FUTURE Many congratulations to Fiona Paus (9P1) and

Rachael Coombs (9P3) on becoming the

winners of CULTIVATE!

As reported in the spring edition of the

Enterprise Bulletin we had three teams who

successfully went through to the final of this

new Education Business Partnership

competition held at Bayer on 3 July. After

regular meetings with business mentors who

provided them with invaluable advice and

support, all three teams presented their

businesses to the panel of judges. Our

students were up against teams from other

schools and organisations including the Corn

Exchange, Kennet, Chiltern Edge and Prospect

and we were absolutely delighted to learn of

Fiona and Rachael’s success.

As winners they were awarded a cheque for

£500 towards the further development of their

business – tie dye T shirts - which they have

been successfully selling since coming up with

the idea for the St Bart’s own Year 9

Apprentice Challenge run during Global

Entrepreneurship Week back in November. A

fantastic achievement! A full report will

appear in the end of term edition of the

Enterprise Bulletin.

The photo shows Fiona and Rachael being

presented with their cheque by (left to right)

Amanda Richards - Education Business

Partnership West Berkshire, Emma Picknett -

Bayer, Paul Brill – Nat West, Fiona Paus,

Michael Sansom – Vodafone and Lisa

Ford-Stranc – PL Plumbing.

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CONFERENCE AT DOUAI ABBEY On the 3

July we travelled to Douai Abbey,

situated just outside of Bucklebury, for a

political and sociological conference for

Year 12 students . Just short of 20 students

from our school attended the conference which

was titled ‘Is Democracy in Crisis?’ The

primary objective of the conference was to

allow us students to further our understanding

of the political world in a context outside of

examination boundaries; which was obviously

very appealing.

While at the Abbey we received topical

lectures from several speakers, including a

former UK Ambassador to Thailand and local

MP Richard Benyon. However, it was not

simply a case of us sitting back and listening

to others talk about how democracy was

failing around the world, we were required to

partake in a couple of activities ourselves. The

first activity involved us researching and

preparing a presentation on a given country.

For this task we split off into small groups and

carried out a process of information collection

on our country and then relayed our new found

knowledge to the rest of the group. The group

as a whole then discussed whether there was

indeed a crisis in democracy or rather then

issue was being exaggerated.

After this we had a couple more talks from

visitors and were then asked to split off into

our groups again. Once in our groups we were

faced with the task of creating the ideal state,

and then to contrast this with the countries we

had learnt about earlier on in the conference.

Shortly after all the groups had discussed and

drawn up plans for their new state we came

back together to discuss what each of us had

decided upon. Again this allowed for us all to

further our understanding of topics we had not

necessarily had prior knowledge of. It enabled

sociology and politics students to debate topics

which one another may not have previously

acknowledged.

The trip itself lasted a couple of days and we

were all provided with accommodation and

food. The Abbey was an ideal setting for the

conference and allowed for a relaxed but

productive couple of days. Overall the trip was

a real success with both students and teachers

thoroughly enjoying their time at the Abbey; a

lot was learnt and good discussions were had.

Alex Murtagh 12C2

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END-OF-YEAR TEXTBOOK

RETURN Please return all textbooks from

Years 7 – 9 before the end of term.

You will need to do this in your own

time if your class is not brought down in a

lesson.

ONLY EXCEPTIONS:

● Year 7 should keep Smart Science.

● Year 9 should keep their Science textbooks.

● If you have exchanged your textbooks in the

past few days for next year’s books.

If you still have books from this year in

September you will not be able to borrow new

ones, so please make sure all books are

returned to the library before 22 July.

Mrs Thomas, Librarian

SIX LIBRARY BOOKS FOR THE SUMMER

Choose up to six books from the library to

read over the summer holidays.

Only for those who don’t have any overdue

books!

SUMMER ACTION PACK The summer action pack is now available from

Newbury’s Visitor Information Centre (VIC)

at the Town Hall in Newbury. The pack costs

just £1 and gives information about local

attractions plus the 101 Things to Do in West

Berkshire list. Many of the 101 list activities

are free or under £7.50 each. Packs are limited

and cannot be posted.

More details 01635 30267,

www.visitnewbury.org.uk

CHINESE LESSONS The languages department is now

recruiting students for Chinese

lessons starting in September.

Classes run after school on a

Thursday and we have groups

catering for students from complete beginners

to those who have already completed three

years of Chinese.

If you would like more information please

collect a letter from the MFL office.

CRICKET RESULTS

Y7 beat Park House to finish 3rd

overall in the

league. Poom Narongpun was man of the

match, scoring 25 runs and taking a superb

catch. Top bowling highlights included 2

wickets for 8 runs for Harry Greenwood, and

wickets for Josh Young, Toby Parker and

Kieren McMichael.

Y8 attended the South of England Chance to

Shine tournament at Bristol Grammar school

on Monday. The first game was up against

Gloucestershire where we narrowly lost by 3

wickets. After this the team sparked into life

comfortably beating Dorset bowling them out

33 and chasing it in 1.3 overs. The final match

was against Oxfordshire where we won after

posting a total of 73 in 6 overs. Big

congratulations go to the whole squad who

came third overall in the South of England.

Squad: Tom Cole, Jake Pemberton, Jamie

Wardle, Lauren Bell, Louis Mortimer, Archie

Awford, Theo Thomas, Jack Graham, Ben

McCarthy, Joe Middleton and Isaac

Fernandes.

Y9 beat Park House in the league semi final

last week. They opened the batting and scored

180 runs for the loss of 6 wickets, and then

bowled Park House all out for 40 runs. Top

scorers with the bat included James Bird – 56,

Oscar Day 20 and Matt Smith 17 not out. Max

Hayman scored his first 6 of the season. Stand

out bowling came from Michael Seath who

took 3 wickets in only one over, Laurie Gale

who took 2 wickets in one over for only two

runs, and the most celebrated wicket of the day

came from Harry King. Year 9 will play in the

final of the league at Falkland Cricket Club.

Y10 beat Downs School in the area league.

Stephen Ansell and Alex Harvey top scoring

with the bat and Luke Parkes and Oli Browing

taking 7 wickets between them. They will play

in the semi final of the league.