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Date published: 24 November 2016
Mary’s Meals, St Cuthbert’s Advent Charity
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Advent Charities
We are getting ready for the season of Advent and the start of the Church’s New Year this coming Sunday 27 November.
As part of our preparations, it has been decided that this year, the whole school will support Mary’s Meals as our Advent charity www.marysmeals.org.uk
Mary’s Meals provide a daily meal in school to attract very poor children into education and so set them free from poverty in adulthood. They feed over a million children every school day across four continents, however there are 300 million chronically hungry children in the world, so their work is just beginning.
Their work is carried out mainly by volunteers in the name of Mary, the mother of Jesus, who brought up her own child in poverty.
It costs just £12.20 to feed a child with Mary’s Meals for a whole school year. That’s just 5p per day!
Our Advent challenge is for every form class in every year group to raise a minimum of £12.20 each to feed a child with Mary’s Meals for a year.
This will mean St Cuthbert’s will be feeding almost 40 children for a school year but we have a feeling we can do even better than that!
Heads of Year have been launching our appeal for Mary’s Meals in assembly and challenging their form classes to think of effective and creative fund-raising ideas.
“If you cannot feed 100 people, then feed just one.” St Teresa of Calcutta.
Expressive Arts Stars of the Week:
Peaches Kwetane for an excellent performance in Drama. Bobbie-Jo Donaldson for stunning work in Art. Tanniqua Heyliger for a fantastic response to the M6 Theatre Group. Abigail Dinnen for excellent keyboard work in Music.
Specialisms News:
Tickets are now on sale for the school production of ‘We Will Rock You’. The show runs from Tuesday 13 – Thurs 15 December. It promises to be a fantastic show for all the family. Please support our young people who have put months of effort into rehearsals.
Year 7 musicians have been learning about music copyright law, and how this affects what they are allowed to use in their own performances. They have also just begun to learn how to read and write music for the first time.
Year 8 Musicians are nearing the end of this term’s project on Music from the Movies. Having performed a range of film themes from Disney to James Bond and Star Wars, they will soon be ready for their upcoming performance assessments on the Keyboards.
Year 9 GCSE Musicians have just completed their first class band performance project and are currently working on their second, looking at the music of John Legend, while Years 10 and 11 are hard at work on their composition coursework pieces.
The show band have now almost completed learning all of the songs for We Will Rock You, and will soon be rehearsing with the cast for the first time. It has been an exciting time for the show band with many new challenges to overcome, which they have risen to marvellously!
Yr 11 Technology students have been focusing on preparing exam questions for their written assessment in December. Mrs Rothwell is very pleased with the commitment shown by the pupils.
Yr 10 Media students have been tapping into their creativity to generate ideas for their TV trailers. Students are working with a range of genres from comedy to crime drama.
Modern Foreign Languages Pupils of the Week:
Maths Stars of the Week:
LINC News
This week we were pleased to see the first of the two Year 5 groups from St. Vincent’s. The pupils were full of enthusiasm and were fully prepared for the Publisher lesson. Each student produced a full colour leaflet and found the features of the software easy to understand. Miss McGuinness was so pleased with the progress she decided to take the electronic files and finish them off in class during the afternoon session. We had a lovely morning with St. Vincent’s and look forward to seeing them once again in the New Year.
Teens and Toddlers Program
The new cohort of Teens and Toddlers had their first visit to St John’s nursery this week, they had a great time meeting the children that they will be mentoring over the coming weeks.
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