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Yr 8 Football

Champions

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Open Day

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Year 10

STEM work-

shop

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Charity Fund

-raising

5

Yr 12 Home

Economics

Class get

healthier

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Library/

Numeracy

Corner

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Senior Prize-

giving

8/9

Year 8 Footballers win the League!!

D E C / J A N

C O L L E G E

N EW S L E T T E R Read all about it!

Well done lads! Great team effort

The whole team celebrate this great victory. Mr Walker is absolutely delighted with his team! Josh Martin and Peter McGrath particularly pleased with themselves as they scored 9 goals between them. Go New-Bridge!

Gifted and

Talented

Year 8

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Year 8 played their fourth league match against St. Brigid’s High School under the beautiful setting of Armagh Cathedral. Leading up to the match the team knew a victory would win them the league, having previously played Tandragee, Drum-glass and Markethill High. The match started briskly with an early goal from Peter McGrath that set the tone for the rest of the match. Fur-ther goals from Peter McGrath and Josh Martin saw New-Bridge com-fortable at half time leading 6-1.

The second half saw changes being made with subs brought on that allowed the boys the oppor-

tunity to thoroughly enjoy the game. Further goals from Peter McGrath, Niall Lennon and Lewis

McMillan allowed New-Bridge to go on and win the game comfortably 14 -1.We look forward to

the presentation of the League Cup and medals in the near future. Man of the Match, scoring 6

goals was Peter McGrath.

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OPEN DAY AT NEW-BRIDGE

INTEGRATED COLLEGE

Many thanks to all our New-Bridge pupils and

staff who helped make Open Day such a

wonderful experience for the P6/P7 pupils

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OPEN DAY AT NEW-BRIDGE INTEGRATED

COLLEGE

Over 270 families visited our school on Saturday 19th

January 2013—what a day!

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After

school

homework

club —

Tuesday,

Wednesday

and Thurs-

day. Come

join us!

Northern Ireland Electricity

Engineers visit New-Bridge

Sentinus in partnership with NIE delivered an exciting STEM workshop on Tuesday 22nd January 2013. The STEM workshop was targeted at Year 10 students and was designed to give the pu-pils an insight into career op-portunities in Engineering. The timing of these work-shops will allow Year 10 stu-dents to make more in-formed decisions regarding subject choices at GCSE. NIE is a major employer of engi-neers and the event proved most informative and benefi-cial to our students. They particularly enjoyed making fully operational generators!!

Recom-mended Read for January

New-Bridge Integrated College U15 Team played their Semi Final match in the South

Down League against Dromore High School in Cheney Park, in horrendous condi-

tions, on the afternoon of Tuesday 29th January 2013. While the weather played a

huge part in the game, New-Bridge were able to get the ball on the ground making a

series of passes to score 2 excellent goals. Well done lads!

New-Bridge U15 in South Down League Final

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Pay It Forward at New-Bridge! Sixth Form Students Kristiane Cooke and Rebekah Gilpin co-ordinated the very successful ‘ Fall Fete’ held in the College recently. The initial aim of the ‘Fall Fete was to raise money for charities and school funds but as the evening progressed it was evident that it achieved so much more. Staff and their children together with the students enjoyed an evening of fun and games and chat with the local community. Over £500 was raised and rep-resentatives from the nominated charities Buddy Bear trust and the Northern Ireland Chest Heart and Stroke foundation visited the College on Mon-day 17th December 2012 to receive their cheques.

The Buddy Bear trust is a school in Dungannon with specifically designed education programmes essential for children suffering from cerebral palsy and other motor dis-orders. The charity is especially personal to New-Bridge as Sixth Form student Tammy Reid’s cousin Jack is a pupil at the school. Jack visited the College with his parents and the Patron of the Charity Mr Brendan McConville to be presented with a cheque for £200. Mr Doyle, our Network Manager, who is an avid fund raiser himself, received a cheque for £200 on behalf of the Chest, Heart and Stroke Foundation. Well done to all the students who contributed in some way towards this fund raising event.

New-Bridge Eco Club new members received their club badges at the first meeting and created a display for visitors on Open Day. They also received a visit from Miss Aishling Higgins a member of RSPB to inform students about the “BIG SCHOOLS’ BIRDWATCH” challenge. Club members were given guidance on how to observe and record a variety of birds around the school site and in their local area. A large variety of birds were observed by club members to include Robins, Starlings, Wrens, Rooks, Black-birds, House Sparrows, Blackbirds, Magpies and Wood pigeons. Information can be found at www.rspb.org.uk/schoolswatch and www.naturedetectives.org.uk/adventure. The Eco Club are look-ing forward to planning their new spring activities around the school site and supporting the Woodland Trust to improve biodiversity.

Eco Club meet ‘at least once a week on a Friday

at break in 1MV’.

New members welcome!

New-Bridge Eco Club

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Year 12 Home Economics Students Receive Certificates In Healthier Food and Special Diets

Year 12 pupils studying GCSE Home Economics have recently obtained the Level 2 Award In Healthier Food and Special Diets from the Char-tered Institute Of Environmental Health. The benefits of a healthy and varied diet are indis-putable. This qualification has been designed to provide a good, basic understanding of nutrition. All employees in catering environments are in-volved in the selection of menus, recipes and in-gredients. It is also relevant for those in the health care and education sectors. Finally the Award helps pupils to understand the link be-tween diet and health

In GCSE Home Economics Child Development at New- Bridge Integrated College the pupils have the opportunity to take the Virtual Baby home for a night. It helps the pupils to under-stand that parenthood, is busy. Caring for the Virtual Baby enables them to experience a real life event of juggling parenthood with a social life and homework. The pupils are keen to take the Virtual Baby home for a night. One pupil said “Looking after the Virtual Baby was bene-ficial to me ,as it taught me just how difficult it to care for a baby and how much commitment is required on a daily basis. It was a good ex-perience for me and I thoroughly enjoyed it” Another pupil said” Taking the baby home was a good experience however it was a demand-ing night but I enjoyed it”

Year 12 Child Development Students take Virtual Baby home for a night!

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Recommended read for January I was really puzzled about what to recommend this month, maybe

a pick-me-up book to while away the January blues. But after

looking through the new books we received in November, I stum-

bled across the book Border Crossing by Pat Barker. I thought it

was another book about ‘The Troubles’ but instead found a very

cleverly written book for teenagers. It is about a child psychologist

who saves someone from drowning in a river. After the rescue, it

becomes apparent that the two men had met before when Danny,

the person drowning, was imprisoned for killing an old woman

based on evidence from Tom, his rescuer. It is a gripping book,

filled with moral challenges for the reader. So I’m sorry for not

giving you a mug of hot chocolate in book form, but a cool slushy

which you will still enjoy, despite how cold it gets outside!

Mrs McKinstry Teacher in charge of Library

Library Corner

NUMERACY CORNER

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Senior Prize Giving Night was an opportunity for New-Bridge Integrated College to reward Senior Students for their GCSE and GCE A Level achievements for the year 2012. Our Guest of Honour was Conor Mcauley, NI BBC Journalist.

Senior Prize Giving at New-Bridge Integrated College

TOP A LEVEL STUDENT Congratulations to Matthew Dodds who achieved 4 A* in his A lev-els—Biology, Maths, Chemistry and Music. Matthew is now studying Chemistry at Queens University. Matthew also came 2nd in Northern Ire-land in A Level Music. We are very proud of his achievements.

Congratulations to last year’s Year 12 students who achieved Best in Subject Award at GCSE Level: Sarah Hamill—Top Student in GCSE Eng Lit, Technology and History Orla Casey—Top Student in GCSE Art Roseanna Gibbons—Top student in Spanish Charlie Davies—Top student in English Mark Campbell—Top student in GCSE Add Maths, Maths and ICT Mark Carvill—Top student in GCSE Geography and Double Award Science Tara Curran—Top Student in GCSE Music Colm McGivern—Top student in Single Award Science Claire Berry—Top student in Occupational Studies

Congratulations to Nicole Mc Keown who won the Award for Top Enterprising Stu-dent for her work in Young Enterprise. This glass trophy was sponsored and presented by Michael Young, from Telepizza. Well done Nicole!

Top Girl at A Level went to Scarlatt Loughhead. Scarlatt achieved 2 A and 1 B

TOP BTEC and Occupational Studies Students The following students received Top BTEC Student Award across all the schools in the Banbridge Area Learning Commu-nity and the awards were presented by Margurite McConville from Southern Regional College. Orla Casey—Top in BTEC Media; Mark Carvill—Top in BTEC Engineering; Daniel Cham-bers—Top in BTEC Construction; Andrew Douglas—Top in BTEC Countryside & Environment; Claire Berry—Mann Award ; Grainne O’Hare—Adamson Award

Top Student at GCSE Level went to Mark Carvill who achieved 6A*,4A, 1B. Well

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Senior Prize Giving at New-Bridge Integrated College

Best in Subject Award at A Level: A Level Chemistry, Biology, Maths = Matthew Dowds A Level Sports Studies = Ryan Dennison BTEC Level 3 Media = Scarlett Loughead A Level English = Peter Stains A Level RE = Jason Tate A Level Geography = Patrick Morgan A Level ICT = Nathan Salley

Top Students in Year 11 for Performance in GCSE modules went to Aaron Busby and Karen Johnston Top students for overall performance at GCSE Level went to Mark Carvill and Roseanna Gibbons Well done!

Achieving 5+A*/A grades at GCSE Level for Performance in Year 11 GCSE Modules and Year 12 GCSE overall: Aaron Busby, Marissa Cooke, Rebecca Cossar, Rebekah Houston, Karen Johnston, Mark Campbell, Daniel Cham-bers, Jonathan Copeland, Tara Curran, Roseanna Gibbons, Sarah Hamill, David Taylor

Top Performing A Level stu-dents who achieved Grade A*/A in A Levels: Matthew Dowds, Scarlett Loughead, Danaan Markey; Patrick Mor-gan,, Peter Staines

Platform party at Senior Prize-Giving—Guest Speaker BBC NI Journalist, Conor Mcauley; Mrs Nicholl, School Governor; MrsAnderson, School Principal; Mr Kane, Mrs Hasson, Mrs Harbinson and Mr Thompson, members of Senior Leadership Team

Top Performing AS students who achieved a 2+ A grades at AS level Aran O Hare Paul Martin Colm Canavan Liam McGarry Kristiane Cooke Pearce Nicholl Jenna McAnearney Good luck with A2 exams!

Amy Jordan, a Year 8 student at New-Bridge Integrated College, Loughbrickland joins 120 young musicians from both sides of the border to take part in a national tour as the internationally acclaimed Cross Border Orchestra of Ireland led by Ireland’s premier conductor Maestro Gear-oid Grant. The CBOI, established in 1995 as a peace initiative, has de-veloped ‘Peace Proms’ over the past 18 years, the ultimate vision being to create a cross culture and cross community link between Catholic and Protestant school children throughout Ireland and to educate children about commit-ment, tolerance and friendship through the medium of music. It is recognised as one of Ireland’s most important education initiatives providing outstanding cultural oppor-tunities for young people while promoting peace, unity and tolerance. A vision understood and shared by New-Bridge Integrated College.

The musical programme which highlights pop, folk and traditional cultures of the Island of Ireland uses all the instruments of a full symphony orchestra and includes the Lambeg Drums, Uilleann Pipes and High-land Pipes. This year to help them showcase their combined cultural talents and work together towards a better future for all the CBOI will be joined on their national tour by the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Associa-tion Northern Ireland Branch which now has far and away the largest membership of any branch of the Association and is, in its own right, one of the largest pipe band organisations in the world. Amy is looking forward, in particular, to the final two performances of the tour which take place in the

Waterfront, Belfast on Sunday 3rd March at 2pm and 7pm respectively, tickets priced at £10. Here the

CBOI will be joined on stage with a 700 strong choir of schoolchildren from all over the North of Ireland

and Co. Louth and Amy’s family, friends and teachers will be able to enjoy for themselves the fruits of

Amy’s hard work! We are very proud of Amy and wish her good luck!

Gifted and Talented at New-Bridge

Year 8 Student Heads off

on Peace Proms 2013 National Tour. Go Amy!

After school homework

club —Tuesday,

Wednesday and Thurs-

day. Come join us!