24 November 2017

Messages from the Headteacher

Dear Parent/Carers

Congratulations to Carmel Keane - We were delighted to hear that Miss Keane was award-

ed the CYMFED Inspiring Youth Leader Award for England and Wales at the ‘Celebrating Young

People Awards’ in London on Thursday night. This is in recognition of the outstanding work that

Miss Keane does to support young people in our community and is thoroughly deserved!

Exams - Over the next three weeks students in all year groups will be taking part in exams and end of term assessments.

They start next week when students in Years 12 and 13 will be sitting their mock exams. These will be followed by Year 11

mock exams during week commencing 4 December. All remaining year groups from Years 7-10 will be taking part in end of

term assessments that also begin next week. Students should be using their Assessment Booklets and other revision material

to help them prepare for these important assessments. We wish all students the best of luck.

Year 9 Parents’ Evening - We look forward to seeing all Year 9 students and their parents at Parents’ Evening on Thursday

7 December, 4.30-7.15pm. Subject staff and the tutorial team will be on hand to discuss targets and the progress being made

on your son/daughter’s individual courses. Following feedback from parents, we are trialling a new online booking system,

therefore it is really important that parents and students are on time and keep to their 5 minute appointment time. If parents

have any problems booking appointments please phone or email the school for support.

Year 12 Parents’ Evening Advance Notice - We look forward to seeing all parents and students at Years 12 and 13

Parents’ Evening on Thursday 14 December, 4.30-7.15pm. This is a very important evening for Years 12 and 13. Subject staff

and the tutorial team will be on hand to discuss targets and progress being made. This is the first of two parents’ evenings for

Years 12 and 13. The second takes place on 15 March 2018.

Safer Travel to and from School - Students are reminded to be careful travelling to and from school during the dark

winter nights. Students should always try to avoid travelling alone and make sure that they never talk to strangers.

Non-uniform Day - To support our Advent fundraising there will be a non-uniform day on Friday 1 December. Students will

be allowed to come into school in their own clothes in exchange for a £1 donation.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend, Mrs Marina Kelly, Headteacher

NEWSLETTER ISSUE 11

www.cardinalnewman.coventry.sch.uk

DATES FOR

YOUR DIARY

Year 9 Parents’

Eve -

Thurs 7 Dec

Year 12/13

Parents’ Eve -

Thurs 14 Dec

Christmas

Extravaganza -

Wed 13 Dec

Carol Service -

Wed 20 Dec

Break Up for

Christmas -

Fri 22 Dec 17

Spring Term

Starts -

Mon 8 Jan 18

Greetings from America

Last week we had a further update from former student, Alex Morgan, who is studying Liberal Arts at Connecticut College.

Alex has been voted House Sentor and is now part of the student government. Alex has signed up for his classes for next

semester - History of Modern Philosophy, German, Computer Science and History of Modern Latin America. Alex will be travel-

ling to Cuba in March on an all expenses paid trip as part of his History of Modern Latin America course. Students had to be invited to take part in

this course and Alex was invited by his History professor.

Alex will be spending Thanksgiving with a friend in Connecticut but hopes to visit us after the Christmas break.

Mr R Davies

Primary School Chaplaincy Team Training

On Wednesday 22nd November we hosted a training day for our primary School chaplaincy teams. We started

the day with Advent prayer stations, followed by gospel dramas, a giant Advent wreath and we finished the

training day by preparing the Mass together. The chaplaincy teams were fantastic and prepared absolutely

everything for the Mass themselves - the music, drama, dressing the altar, setting up the hall, leading the

Liturgy of the Word and writing bidding prayers. We had a team of Year 9 helpers who worked really hard

to make the day a great success. Thank you to Fr Pat for celebrating Mass for us and to all the staff and

pupils in both schools that made the day possible.

Laura Byrne

Great News for all Skiers!

After extending the deadline, the ski trip now has the required numbers to run. Further information to follow.

Mr N Minshull, Head of PE

Young Writers: Truth or Dare Poetry

The English Department would like to wish a massive congratulations to any students from Years 7 – 9,

who entered and have had their poem selected for the Young Writers: Truth or Dare Poetry

Competition

Successful students are to have their poem published in an anthology to be released in January 2018

More competitions will be announced soon.

Ms Devine – English Department

Winners:

Angela McIntosh, Taylor Bailey, Zoe Lafferty, Molly Wilson, Joe Trevis, Caoimhe O’Brien, Jessie-Leigh Clough, Ryan Pahile, Hannah Gibson,

Anisha John, Precious Wella, Caitlin Clark, Aaron Humphreys, Daniel Strumidlo, Jake Shaw, Charlier-Rose Sharples, Harry Molloy, Kate

Evans-Jewkes, Charlie Parsons, Lewis Smith, Regine Butiri, Noelly Okandjo, Ben Royle, Mickenzie Steane, Callum Twaites, Nikodem Sarnecki,

Emily Flynn, Alex Davies, Leyton Atkins, David Finn, Connor Ward, Aleyna Erkul, Georgia-Deann Sherrad, Geogria Mcguigan, Kirtthi Sir-

baskaran, Dylan Pahile, Lydia Moore, Shalimar Good, Aliyah Morgan, Ellie Patrick, Karsten James, Joshua Olden-Cook, Mason Weston, Louis

Forsyth, Freddie Painter, Martyna Makaruk, Abbey Taylor, Charly Skendrovic, Ocean While, Eloise Roberts, Liberty Smith, Erin Rafferty,

Shilla Nyamekye, Kady Dowling-Hamilton, Keriane Rudasingwa, Jakub Lewandowski, Rebecca Heath, Lauren Humphreys, Mia McIntosh, Jas-

mine Simmons, Maddison Clark, Sean-Paul Bracken, Harley Mee, Julia Janicka, Adriean Tshawe, Shelby Labbett-Codden, Kyla Gomes, Joseph

Barr, Daniel Prew, Aimee Morley, Jordan Sherwin, Lucy McBrearty, Cavan Jordan, Lewis Roberts, Hope Gibson, Caelan Corkery, Abbie

Quinn, Sannvi Chauran, Sol White, Finlay Howat, Natalia Klimazyk, Caitlin Suand, Molly McEnery, Daniel Baker, Madhav Ketheeswararajah,

Bradley Stretton, Sonia Quaye, Jakum Slezak, Amba McKenna, Wiktoria Olkowska, Jiya Kohli, Brandon Williams, Sam Gibson, Aaron Prota,

Emma Jackson, Kyle Ajong.

‘A Christmas Carol’ Trip

On Thursday 30th November, we are taking 205 students (students from Years 11 and 10) and 15 members of

staff to the RSC theatre, in Stratford, to see a production of A Christmas Carol (GCSE English Literature set

text).

Please see below the plan and expectations of the evening trip:

There will be no Period 6 on Thursday 30th November for Year 11 students.

Students should, where possible, go home at the end of the school day and have dinner at home.

Students should arrive back to school from 5.15pm and should report to the Pope Francis Hall where they will sign in and find

out which coach/group they are in.

Students must be in school by no later than 5.30pm.

Students should wear smart/casual dress; no hats/caps are permitted as these may restrict views in the theatre.

The coaches will leave the school site at approximately 6.15pm.

Students must not eat on the coach, nor in the theatre during the performance.

Students should be reminded that the RSC is a reputable, established and extremely popular theatre. There will be members

of the public there on the evening and students are acting as ambassadors for Cardinal Newman School. Perfect behaviour is

expected.

There will be a short interval during the performance, where students may purchase ice creams and snacks, however we advise

that students bring a snack from home as queues will be long and the performance will resume after the scheduled interval.

Our estimated time of arrival back to school is 11.15pm; updates will be posted on Facebook and Twitter, so please follow

our social media.

All students MUST have handed in their reply slip which informs us how they plan on getting home after we return back to

school site.

Students are expected in school the following day.

A huge thank you to all the staff who have supported with the planning and organisation of the trip, and a particular thank you to the staff

who have offered to give up their Thursday evening and join us for this festive performance.

I am sure the evening will be enjoyed tremendously by all those involved!

Miss K Grieve, Head of English

Results Round Up - week ending 24 November 2017

Sport Year Group Opponents Result

Badminton KS3 Tournament against

Finham Lost 58-15

Football Year 11 Kenilworth School Won 4-1

Football Year 7 Trinity School Nottingham

Lost 4-0

Football Year 9 President Kennedy Lost 2-1

David Walliams Day

On Wednesday we had a fantastic day in the library celebrating the hugely popular

and entertaining children’s author David Walliams. Inspired by Roald Dahl Day, a

national annual event, I decided to create a David Walliams Day to ensure that

literacy was relevant and accessible to all students across the school.

All students that borrowed a book from the library yesterday were issued with a raffle ticket to be entered into a prize draw to win a David

Walliams book. We also ran a competition for students to decide the title of David Walliams next book…this proved extremely popular

and certainly makes for some interesting reading! I will be sending all of the suggestions to David Walliams himself so you never know, he

may be inspired by some of them!

Charlotte Kennedy, Librarian

Swimming Success for Ellie

Woodcock 8AME

Ellie, who swims for City of Coventry

Swimming Club participated in a high class

competition last weekend in Luton. It was the first gala of the season

and the swimmers had been training hard. Huge personal best times

and strong performances were achieved by all.

Ellie won 6 medals in total which is a fantastic achievement.

3 Silvers : 200m Butterfly, 100m Butterfly and 100m Backstroke.

3 Bronze : 50m Butterfly, 200 Backstroke and 50m Backstroke.

Ellie also achieved some personal best times and is a little closer to

achieving qualification times for the West Midlands Championships

next year. We are so proud of your achievements Ellie and cannot

wait to hear all about the next competition, when she will be going

for Gold !

Mrs Donohue, Head of Year 8

Magdalena wins an iPad after

attending Sixth Form

Open Evening

Following last week's Sixth Form Open

Evening, Magdelena Mikus in 11SMN

was the lucky winner of an Apple

iPad. All 131 students who attended

were entered into the prize draw

which took place in assembly. There

were three other prize winners: Ryan

Bailey, Eve Willden and Emily Thorp

who all won tickets to the end of year prom.

Students in Year 11 are now completing applications to transfer to

the Sixth Form. The deadline for applications is Monday 4th

December 2017.

Mr C Courtney, Assistant Headteacher

Don’t forget to check the school’s website for all the latest news: www.cncs.school

You can also find us on Twitter at @newmancoventry and Facebook Cardinal Newman Catholic School Cov.

Coventry Blaze School Offer

Ice Hockey at the Skydome Arena

3rd December vs Manchester Storm - faceoff

5.15pm

9th December vs Braehead Clan - faceoff 7.00pm

£6 per ticket

(cannot be exchanged for cash, maximum of 2 adult and 3 child tickets per

booking)

To book tickets, please email dalebuckland@coventryblaze.co.uk by

the Friday before the game.

Last year we donated over 800 Advent Calendars to children in

Coventry. Such a small thing can bring joy to others at this time of year.

This year we would love to match that number ... could we give more?

Please donate either an Advent Calendar or contribute to a collection

that tutor groups are is organising for calendars.

The deadline for bringing calendars into school is

Wednesday 29 November 2017.

Miss C Keane - Charity & Fundraising Co-ordinator

Holy Family Christmas Bazaar

Church Hall

Penny Park Lane

Saturday 25 November 2017

12.00 noon - 3.00pm

Admission & Parking Free

All donated items are gratefully received.

Please leave at Priest’s House or Church

Hall on Friday from 10.00am onwards.

Review of Health Care Plans

Cardinal Newman Catholic School are currently reviewing the

Medical Health Care Plans for all students who require them.

In order to maintain accurate records and manage your child's

medical welfare at school, parents and carers will be asked to let

us know of any changes or new developments of your child’s

medical and healthcare needs.

In the event of any significant changes, we will invite parents and

carers to attend a meeting at school to discuss individual needs

and the review Health Care Plans together.

If you feel that your child should have a Health Care Plan but

does not currently have one, please contact Miss Sarah

Matthews, our School First Aider who will be happy to assist.

Mr P Wells

Weekly Prayer Eternal God, you are present in all places,

so that we cannot be in any place where

you cannot be found. Give us the sense of your presence and

knowledge of your fatherly love. We commend to your care and

keeping all those who travel by road or rail, or walk to distant

places of our land. Protect them by your power and bring them

safely to the end of their journey. In the name of Jesus Christ,

Amen.