St Bede’s Catholic College

Long Cross, Bristol BS11 OSU

Tel: (0117) 3772200 Fax: (0117) 3772201

E-mail: stbedes@bristol.gov.uk Visit our Website: www.stbedescatholiccollege.org

NEWSLETTER 117 28th January 2011

2010
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY FREE SCHOOL MEALS
2nd February 6.00-9.00pm St Brendan’s Open Evening
You are eligible to claim free school meals if you
3rd February 4.30 – 7.30pm Year 11 Parents Evening
th
4 February INSERVICE DAY – COLLEGE CLOSED TO
receive Income Support, Job Seekers Allowance
PUPILS (income based), Child Tax Credit but are not
entitled to Working Tax Credit and your income
MISS LOBBETT SINGS FOR THE POPE does not exceed £16,190, support under Part VI
Miss Lobbett, Music teacher, of the Immigration and Asylum Act 199, the
had the opportunity to sing for ‘Guaranteed element’ of Pension credit, Income
the Pope last weekend. Her choir related employment and support. Applications
were invited to sing at the can be made or renewed online at www.bristol-
Vatican and she sang a solo part cyps.org.uk/fsm
in a Beethoven mass which was
rescored for the event.

PAST PUPIL
Congratulations to Samuel Abrahams whose
short film Connect has been nominated for
Best Short Film in the 2011 BAFTAs.
Tel: (0117) 3772200 Fax: (0117) 3772201 E-mail: st_bedes_s@bristol-city.gov.uk
PARIS TRIP
Please return completed medical forms to
Madame Carroll this week.
CLOTHES FOR A CAUSE
A big thank you for all the clothes that were
donated for Clothes for a Cause. We
collected a total of 256kg which made the sum
of £108.80 for our charities. Thanks also to
the Year 11 pupils who helped with the event.
We will collect clothes once again in the
summer term.
DICTIONARY SALE
French and Spanish dictionaries are on sale at
half price for £4.50. See Madame Carroll if
you would like one.
Tel: (0117) 3772200 Fax: (0117) 3772201
BRISTOL PARENT CARERS
Bristol Parent Carers is an organisation that gives
parent carers of children with disabilities and
special educational needs a voice in the planning
and development of services. They are holding a
conference on Tuesday 15th February at The
Vassall Centre. Sherrie Eugene Hart, HTV News
Presenter, will talk about her experience of being
a relative of a disabled child and senior local area
service managers will speak about the future of
services for disabled children. For further
information, please contact Miss Hanley at the
college.
OXFAM BIG SWISH
Oxfam are holding a clothes swap at Create on
12th February at 11.00-3.00pm. Bring two or more
items of good quality clothes to ‘drop off’ (11.00-
1200) and exchange for tokens. Preview the
clothes until the Big Swish begins at 1.00pm.
E-mail: st_bedes_s@bristol-city.gov.uk
ATTENDANCE LINE
Please ring as early as possible on the first day
your child is absent from college.
 Tel: 0117 377 2228 Coombe Dingle in a repeat of last year’s
Always give your child a note to give to final.
their tutor when they return to college
following an illness. DATES FOR SPORTING DIARY
We are delighted that on Friday 11th
February both Year 7 and Year 10 teams will
WISE WORDS!
be playing in the Bristol Schools Rugby
There are always a lot of people so afraid
Finals
of rocking the boat that they stop rowing.
Year 7 vs. Bedminster Down
We can never get ahead that way.
Year 10 vs. Orchard
Harry S Truman (1884-1972) 33rd U.S.
President .
BRISTOL SCHOOLS SPORTSHALL
ATHLETICS CHAMPIONS
Congratulations to the Year 7, Year 8 and
Year 9 boys’ Sportshall Athletics teams who
SOFTWARE OFFER were all crowned Bristol Champions. The
The Head of ICT & E-learning, Mrs Ferrand, Year 10 boys and year 10 girls also finished
would like to make parents aware of an offer runners up at the same finals after qualifying
from Microsoft for students to buy Microsoft
from the regional heats earlier in January.
Office 2010 (PowerPoint, Word, Excel,
Publisher software etc) for just £38.95. Year 7 Boys Year 8 Boys
This offer is only open to school students and 1st St Bede’s 173 1st St Bede’s 161
their parents from these two websites: 2nd St 161 2nd Henbury 153
http://www.software4students.co.uk/ and Bernadette’s 141 3rd St Bernadette’s 148
http://www.rm.com/shops/thebasement/ . You 3rd City Academy
Year 9 Boys Year 10 Boys
will also see other great offers on this website 1st St Bede’s 171 1st Cotham 104
all discounted only for school students. 2nd St 147 2nd St Bede’s 100
If any parents would like to take up this offer Bernadette’s 145 3rd St Bernadette’s 90
but are new to Internet shopping then you can 3rd SMRT
find some guidance on safe Internet shopping Year 10 Girls
1st Redland Green 129
at the government's Consumer Direct website
2nd St Bede’s 121
at this address: 3rd SMRT 116
http://www.consumerdirect.gov.uk/before_yo
u_buy/online-shopping/safe-shopping Good luck to the Year 7 boys and Year 8
boys teams who now qualify for the County
BRAINTEASER Final at UWE in February.
Which eight digit number, when multiplied
by nine, gives a nine digit number with all BASKET BALL RESULTS
the digits the same? Senior Boys vs Oasis Won 30 – 18
Junior Girls vs Orchard Lost 24 – 52
BRAINTEASER ANSWER
28 fish We eagerly await the results of today’s Year
8 girls’ netball county finals.

SPORT RESULTS
YEAR 10 RUGBY TEAM MAKE
BRISTOL FINAL
Congratulations to the Year 10 rugby
team who beat St Mary Redcliffe 20-0 in
the semi-final. They now play Orchard in
the final on Friday 11th February at