ST BEDES CATHOLIC COLLEGE

PARENT CALENDAR 2012/2013

Please note: Some dates are subject to change
Term dates for Academic Year 2012/2013 College will also be closed on the following inservice dates:

Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4 Term 5 Term 6

Monday Monday Monday Monday Monday Monday

3 September to Thursday 25 October 2012 5 November to Thursday 20 December 2012 7 January to Friday 8 February 2013 18 February to Friday 22 March 2013 8 April to Friday 24 May 2013 3 June to Wednesday 24 July 2013

Thursday 20th December 2012 Friday 1st March 2013 Friday 3rd May 2013 Monday 15th July 2013

Please note that some of these dates may differ slightly from those of Local Authorities. We have exercised our option to amend term dates to those which most suit the pupils of our school.

Second edition correct at 10.10.2012

September 2012

Monday
3 4

Tuesday
5

Wednesday
6

Thursday
7

Friday

Saturday/Sunday
8/9

START OF TERM 1 WEEK A (Cycle 1) Theme for the week: HOPE & BEGINNINGS INSET DAY

10

11

12

13

14

15/16

WEEK B Theme for the week: EXPERIENCE

17

18

19

20

21

22/23

WEEK A (Cycle2) Theme for the week: SUPERIORITY

Year 7 Retreat Day Yr 11 Drama GCSE pupils to watch play in London Woman in Black Drama cast workshop day in Tobacco Factory for pupils participating in Macbeth play

24

25

26

27 The Big Assembly, Clifton Diocese event at Colston Hall involving some Upper School pupils

28

29/30

WEEK B Theme for the week: GIFTS & BLESSINGS

7.00-9.00pm Open Evening

October 2012
Monday
1 Oct 2

Tuesday
3

Wednesday
4

Thursday
5

Friday

Saturday/Sunday
6/7

WEEK A (Cycle 3) Theme for the week: SERVICE

09.00 Yr 7 Photograph Cafod Family Fast Day

10

11

12

13/14

WEEK B Theme for the week: Shakespeare Schools Bristol 14-19 Careers
festival performance Fair 5.30pm-8.00pm Yr 10 Drama group Yr 9 History Battlefields trip leaves

Sat- Yr9 History Battlefields trip returns

GENEROSITY

15

16

17

18

19 Yr 7 Review home Yr 8 girls HPV vaccinations

20/21 Sat- St Brendans Open Day 10.30am 2.00pm

WEEK A (Cycle 4) Theme for the week: EXCUSES

22

23 Year 8 off timetable Play your part workshop

24

25 Pink Day Charity fundraising for Breast cancer campaign

26

27/28

WEEK B Theme for the week: FAMILY & FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS

6pm-9.pm St Brendans open evening 6pm-9.pm St Brendans open evening END OF TERM 1 29 30 31

November 2012
Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday
1 Nov 2

Friday

Saturday/Sunday
3/4

5 START OF TERM 2

10/11

WEEK A (Cycle 5) Theme for the week: MEMORY & REMEMBRANCE

Cifton Diocese Sixth form day at Tortworth Court

5.00-6.00pm Dry ski slope training

12

13

14

15

16

17/18

WEEK B Theme for the week: ENEMIES

5.00-6.00pm Dry ski slope training 6.30pm Yr 12 Certificate evening, 19 20 21 Yr9 assembly to launch Upper School Curriculum choices 22 23 24/25

WEEK A (Cycle 6) Week of launch of Theme for the week: FRIENDS & FRIENDSHIPS

Upper School curriculum choices Yr 7 assembly to launch Thinking Skills

5.00-6.00pm Dry ski slope training

26

27

28

29

30

1/2 Dec

WEEK B Theme for the week: DARKNESS & LIGHT

6.30pm Yr 7 Tutor/EPR/E-safety evening 5.00-6.00pm Dry ski 5pm-7pm St Brendans slope training Advice & Information Evening

December 2012
Monday
3 4

Tuesday
5

Wednesday
6

Thursday
7

Friday
Yr 8 & 9 Reviews home Yr 9 Options booklet goes home

Saturday/Sunday
8/9

WEEK A (Cycle 7) Theme for the week: BIRTH

Yr 11 Mock exams begin

5pm-7pm St Brendans Advice & Information 5.00-6.00pm Dry ski Evening slope training

10

11

12

13 Deadline Yr 13 Extended essay

14 Yr 11 Mock exams end Yr 8 girls HPV vaccination

15/16

WEEK B Theme for the week: IMAGINATION

4.30-7.30pm Yr 10 Parents evening

17

18

19

20 Inset day END OF TERM 2

21

22/23

WEEK A (Cycle 8) Theme for the week: CHRISTMAS

6.30pm Advent service

9.20am Carol Service ,

24 Christmas Eve

25 Christmas Day

26 Boxing Day

27

28

29/30

31

1 Jan 2013 New Years Day

5/6

January 2013
Monday
7 START OF TERM 3 8

Tuesday
9

Wednesday
10

Thursday
11

Friday

Saturday/Sunday
12/13

WEEK B Theme for the week: RESOLUTIONS

IB Yr 13 Mocks begin at St Brendans

Science, History, Psychology Business Studies modular GCSE period begins

14

15

16

17

18

19/20

WEEK A (Cycle 9) Theme for the week: CHURCH UNITY

Yr 13 IB mocks end 6.30pm Yr 9 Upper School curriculum evening

21

22

23

24

25

26/27

WEEK B Theme for the week: QUARRELS & DISAGREEMENTS

4.30-7.30pm Yr 8 Parents evening

28

29

30

31

1 Feb

2/3

WEEK A (Cycle 10) Theme for the week: HEALTH & SICKNESS
Sun Charity scratch GCSE Modular period orchestra, Colston Hall ends

February 2013
Monday
4 5

Tuesday
6

Wednesday
7

Thursday
8

Friday

Saturday/Sunday
9/10

WEEK B Theme for the week: LONELINESS

Yr 8 assembly to Intermediate Maths launch option choices Challenge for Yr 9 4.30 7.30pm Yr 11 Parents Evening Yr 11 English Poetry live, Colston Hall 6pm-9pm 3rd St Brendans Open Evening

Ski trip departs

END OF TERM 3

11

12

13

14

15

16/17 Ski trip returns (Sat)

Ash Wednesday

18

19 Services to mark the beginning of Lent Service of reconciliation

20

21

22

23/24

START OF TERM 4 WEEK A (Cycle 11) Theme for the week: SACRIFICES
Cafod Family Fast Day Yr 10 RF mock exam 6.30pm Yr 8 Curriculum Evening Yr 13 Reports home

25

26

27

28

1 Mar

2/3

WEEK B Theme for the week: HUNGER

6.30pm Yr 11 Study Skills evening Yr 11 Photograph 4.30-7.30pm Sixth form (provisional date) Parents Evening

Inset day

March 2013
Monday
4 5

Tuesday
6

Wednesday
7

Thursday
8

Friday

Saturday/Sunday
9/10

WEEK A (Cycle 12) Theme for the week: QUESTIONS

Yr 9 Reports home

11

12

13

14

15

16/17

Year 8 Paris trip 14th 17th March WEEK B Theme for the week: SCIENCE, TRUTH & THE UNIVERSE
4.30-7.30pm Yr 9 Parents Evening Deadline for return of Sat- Bristol French Yr 9 Option form drama festival at UWE Sun- Yr 8 Paris trip return

18

19

20

21

22

23/24 Sat Berlin History trip leaves

WEEK A (Cycle 13) Theme for the week: HOLY WEEK

am Holy Week reflection

END OF TERM 4

25

26 Berlin History trip returns

27

28

29 Good Friday

30/31

April 2013
Monday
1 Apr Easter Monday 2

Tuesday
3

Wednesday
4

Thursday
5

Friday

Saturday/Sunday
6/7

10

11

12

13/14

START OF TERM 5 WEEK B Theme for the week: TOLERANCE & DIFFERENCE
2.15pm Year 12 talk from University of Bath re UCAS applications Yr 12 IB Mock exams begin at St Brendans

15

16

17

18

19 Yr 7 reports home

20/21

WEEK A (Cycle 14) Theme for the week: SPRING & NEW LIFE
Yr 12 IB Mock exams end

Yr 10 exams end

22 GCSE exams begin WEEK B Theme for the week: HONESTY Yr 13 IB exam period begins at St Brendans

23

24 Yr 8 exams

25 Junior Maths Challenge 5pm-7pm St Brendans Advice & Information Evening

26

27/28

29

30

WEEK A (Cycle 15) Theme for the week: EXAMINATIONS

May 2013

Monday
WEEK A (Cycle 15) cont. Theme for the week:

Tuesday

Wednesday
1 May 2

Thursday
3

Friday

Saturday/Sunday
4/5

Yr 12 UCAS reference writing begins 6.30pm Prize Giving

Inset day

6 BANK HOLIDAY

10

11/12

WEEK B Theme for the week: WORK

4.30-7.30pm Yr 7 Parents Evening

13

14

15

16

17

18/19

WEEK A (Cycle 16) Yr 8 girls HPV

vaccinations

Theme for the week:

Yr 8 Reports to Tutors

HUMOUR & LAUGHTER

20

21

22 Yr 12 IB group 4 project begins

23

24

25/26

WEEK B Theme for the week DEPENDENCE & INDEPENDENCE

Yr 12 UCAS references to Head of 6th form Yr 12 IB group 4 presentations end End of Yr 13 IB exams Mass for the Feast of St Bede & commissioning of Eucharistic Ministers END OF TERM 5

27 BANK HOLIDAY

28

29

30

31

1 Jun

June 2013
TBC- College Production dates House Charities week

Monday
3 4

Tuesday
5

Wednesday
6

Thursday
7

Friday
Yr 10 Reports home

Saturday/Sunday
8/9

WEEK A (Cycle 17) START OF TERM 6 Theme for the week: AMBITION

10

11

12

13

14 Yr 8 Reports home

15/16

WEEK B Theme for the week STRENGTH

17

18

19

20

21

22/23

WEEK A (Cycle 18) Theme for the week: STATUS

24

25

26

27

28 Yr 11 Prom Clifton Diocese secondary pupils pilgrimage

29/30

WEEK B Theme for the week JUSTICE

Final day main period Yr 11 Leavers GCSE exams Assembly

July 2013
Monday
1 Jul Fortnight of Year 10 controlled assessment trips 2

Tuesday
3

Wednesday
4

Thursday
5

Friday

Saturday/Sunday
6/7

WEEK A (Cycle 19) GCSE Geography Theme for the week: LANGUAGE

Yr 12 Reports home

Yr 6 Transition day

Sports Day (provisional date)

8 Yr 13 IB results day

10

11

12 Yr 12 UCAS references to St Brendans

13/14

WEEK B Theme for the week

St Bedes Sixth Form St Bedes Sixth Form Induction day induction day

15 INSET DAY

16

17

18

19 Yr 12 CAS & extended essay study period ends

20/21

ENRICHMENT WEEK

Yr 12 CAS & extended essay study period begins

22

23

24

25

26

27/28

WEEK A (Cycle 20) Theme for the week ENDINGS

END OF TERM 6

August 2013
Monday
29 30

Tuesday
31

Wednesday

Thursday
1 Aug 2

Friday

Saturday/Sunday
3/4

10/11

12

13

14

15

16

17/18

19

20

21

22 GCSE exam results day

23

24/25

26 BANK HOLIDAY

27

28

29

30

31