Author: Julie Bush

RESIDENTIAL TRIPS 2020

26 Jun 2019

Due to the unprecedented uptake on the school residential trips for next year, we are pleased to advise that we have managed to secure further places for all of the trips. Anybody who had requested to be put on the waiting list has already been notified and the places are now available for general booking on ParentPay. Please be advised that all residential trips are operated on a first come, first served basis. If the places fill up again, we will return to holding a waiting list.

Liddington 2020 – Next Payment Due Monday 1 July 2019

26 Jun 2019

A reminder that the next instalment for the Liddington trip is due for payment on ParentPay on Monday 1 July. Thank you

CANCELLED – Year 5 Lexia

25 Jun 2019

Year 5 Lexia is cancelled for the rest of this week due to staff illness.

Upcoming Events

21 Jun 2019

Upcoming Events

UPDATED Clubs for the Week Ahead – Monday 24 June to Friday 28 June 2019

21 Jun 2019

Cricket for Year 5/6 for Thursday after school has been added Clubs for the week ahead 24 June to 28 June 2019

Safeguarding and Wellbeing Newsletter Summer 2

18 Jun 2019

Safeguarding and Wellbeing Newsletter Summer 2 2019

Plastic Bottle Cap Collection

18 Jun 2019

Plastic bottle caps for fundraising appeal: We would like everyone to know that we are going to start collecting plastic bottle caps. We would like to bring this into our daily routine we will make little bins for bottle caps. This will help with recycling in school and support our Eco School activities. Why do we need to collect them? We need plastic caps because it is hoped that 10 TONS of plastic bottle caps will be collected to help raise money for some treatment for a young girl who needs urgent care and support with her medical condition. Her family are collecting so they can raise funds for the amount of weight they have with the bottle caps from the recycling plant. Why just the plastic bottle caps and not the bottles themselves? We are asking for bottle caps because the bottle caps and the plastic bottle are made of different plastics the plastic cap is made out of polypropylene and the bottle is made out of polyethylene terephthalate. The polypropylene is easier at the moment to recycle and can be exchanged for cash. So, over to you! Get collecting and help reduce, reuse, recycle! We would like it very much if each class could continue with collecting bottle caps over the next few weeks up until the Summer holidays. We will stop collecting on Friday 19th July. These can be brought into school and passed to your Form teacher, Mrs Simmons on Reception, Mrs Keggans in the Library or Miss Downes in her Office in Room 8. Thank you for your support

Liddington 2019

18 Jun 2019

We now have a provisional list of activities for Liddington which does include a wet activity where pupils will probably end up in a lake. Since some pupils are timetabled to do this on Monday afternoon and we have no way of drying clothes, these will be very smelly by Friday. We would, therefore, highly recommend that pupils have one set of very old clothes which can be thrown away after their session. We will advise pupils on Friday at their final briefing if they are timetabled to do this activity on Monday afternoon so they can come dressed appropriately. Mr Bailey

Super 6 Athletics

18 Jun 2019

This is the week when our pupils’ hard work on the athletics field pays off, with all the district competitions taking place. On Monday, we started the week with the Super 6 team event, comprised of 12 Year 7 and 12 Year 8 pupils. Each pupil takes part in a track, field and relay event, competing to win points for their team. All our pupils were ready to go after cancellations last week and they performed brilliantly! Both our Year 7 and 8 teams finished in first place overall, which is a huge result after not winning last year. This means that both teams will go through to represent Redditch in the Worcestershire School Games on the Tuesday 2 July! Well done to James, Rio, Lewis, Riley, George, Preston, Hallie, Danni, Olivia, Julia, Eden and Poppy from Year 7 who all did brilliantly and Santos, Tom, Stan, Reuben, Fin, Tom, Lucy, Aoibhe, Carmena, Mia, Evah and Eleanor from Year 8 who really did themselves proud!

Clubs for the week ahead – Monday 17 June to Friday 21 June 2019

14 Jun 2019

Clubs for the week ahead 17 June to 21 June 2019

Upcoming Events

14 Jun 2019

Upcoming Events

Prayer for this Half Term

13 Jun 2019

Our Prayer for this Half Term as we strive to live intentionally and prophetically. Loving Lord, We ask that You guide and keep us during this new half Term. We thank You for all the wonderful resources and gifts You have given us here in our school Community. Help us to live intentionally and treat all that we have received with care and consideration. May we treasure each other and respect all those whose lives we touch with our own. We ask that we may live prophetically, as witnesses to Your love and mercy and be strengthened in our faith as we intend with your help to act justly, love tenderly and walk humbly with You, our God. We ask these things in Your Name. Amen. St Bede, Pray for us! Our Lady of Lourdes, Pray for us!

Mini Vinnies Update #20

13 Jun 2019

Welcome to this 20th update for the St Bede’s Mini Vinnies group. Today we have made our sandwiches once again for the soup kitchen in Birmingham City Centre. We have now begun working collaboratively with the Staff and pupils at St Augustine’s as they have started putting together special treat bags with biscuits and cereal bars. These will be given out along with the sandwiches we make for the homeless outreach every time we support the SK. Today we also celebrated a prayerful and joyful Mass of thanksgiving for all our Year 7 and 8 pupils who are currently serving Mini Vinnies here in school. Also, many thanks to all who have begun to bring in toiletries and bottled water for our brothers and sisters in need. We are still grateful for donations, however small and in particular men’s toiletries including shaving foam and shower gels. Here is a reminder of the items, which will be most gratefully received by the SVP. The SVP would be most grateful for any donations of the following items: Small Bottled water or 500/600ml sized bottles Male and female deodorants – sprays and roll-ons Male shower gel and shaving foam Sunscreen/lotion/sunblock/ – cream or sprays Wetwipes/Baby wipes Donated water, sunscreen/lotion and deodorants can be brought, either to Reception and placed in the red collection box or passed on directly to Miss Downes here in school by Wednesday, 17th July 2019. May the Lord bless you for your kindness and generosity to those in most need in our locality. “Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of Mine, you did it for Me.” Jesus. Matthew 25:40 Thanks so much for all the practical and spiritual support that you provide for the Mini Vinnies to continue their sterling work and service…

Thursday 13 June 2019

13 Jun 2019

The Most Holy and Blessed Trinity Jesus said, “When the Spirit of Truth comes, He will lead you to the complete truth, since He will not be speaking as from Himself but will say only what He has learnt. Everything the Father has is Mine; that is why I said: all He tells you will be taken from what is Mine.” John 16:13, 15 The earliest prayer to the Holy Trinity was the Doxology the words of which we also use for the prayer “The Glory be” This Sunday the Church will celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. Every time we make the Sign of the Cross, we are affirming our belief and trust in the Holy Trinity of Love, for we say ‘In the Name of the Father, and of the son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. We worship One God, One Lord, but who has three ways of interacting with us. God the Father who created us in love. God the Son, Jesus Christ who redeemed us in love by His sacrificial Death and Resurrection. God the Holy Spirit, who empowers, equips and makes us Children of God and who makes us holy in love. Our Creed, our Profession of faith, which we pray every Sunday, states clearly that which we believe as Catholic Christians. All Christians worship a Trinitarian God, God in Three Persons. God the Father, in His deep love created the world, the universe and the heavens. He created us with love and through Jesus His Beloved Son. Jesus, out of Love for the Father, chose to come to live amongst us. By the power of the Holy Spirit, He came to be born on earth as a man, from the Spotless Womb of our Blessed Lady, Mary. Jesus lived a perfect…

CANCELLED – KS3 Quads Thursday 13 June 2019

13 Jun 2019

CANCELLED Please be advised that today’s KS3 Quads has been cancelled today due to weather forecast and coaches… It has been rearranged for next Thursday 20th June, same timings.

National Book Token Competition

11 Jun 2019

National Book Tokens have launched a competition for a school to win £5,000 of new books for their school library and £100 of new books for the entry winner, if your name is chosen. If you are interested, fill out the competition entry form and nominate St Bede’s to win: https://www.nationalbooktokens.com/schools (If you leave the second box un-ticked, you will not receive any further marketing material.) The drawer closes on 31 July 2019.

Year 6 Liddington 2019 Kit List / What to Wear

10 Jun 2019

PGL-Kit-List-2019 PGL-What-To-Wear-Checklist 2019

KS3 Sports Day – Friday 12 July 2019

10 Jun 2019

Sports day poster KS3

KS2 Sports Day – Tuesday 16 July 2019

10 Jun 2019

Sports day poster KS2

Clubs for Monday 10 June to Friday 14 June 2019

7 Jun 2019

Clubs for the week ahead 10 June to 14 June 2019.pub

Reading Data Friday 24 May to Thursday 6 June 2019

7 Jun 2019

Top Boy & Girl Reader Year 5 Ayomide A 5SH (2 books read) 116,724 words Celia A 5EM (3 book read) 102,716 words Year: 107 books / 1,310,973 words Year 6 Amy-Louise 6VS (3 books read) 160,916 words Peter J 6VS (1 book read) 106,821 words Year: 84 books / 1,706,692 words Year 7 Katherine D 7JS (3 books read) 236,277 words Noah B 7ABR (1 book read) 105,143 words Year: 60 / 1,237,210 words Year 8 Sion D 8SC (1 book read) 116,396 words Sarah G 8MDi (1 books read) 79,620 words Year: 26 books / 591,141 words New Word Millionaires – Two more pupils join the St Bede’s Word Millionaire Club … Noah B, Y7 ABR, with 1,018,331 words, 22 books read (this school year) Maud R, Y8 RJ, with 1,325,964 words, 27 books read (this school year) Fantastic Achievement. Well done. 44 pupils are now Word Millionaires – see their names below; St Bede’s Word Millionaires Club Natalie C (& see below) Lucy B (& see below) Aaron V (& see below) Zia I Peter J Isabelle R (& see below) Evina J-B, (& see below) Adaa A (& see below) Mahad I Ruby S Colin S Maya G Chikondi M (& see below) Isabella S Hirah A Sion D Sarah N Aoibhe W Tristan K Leah J Oskar G Kathleen T Jaypreet R Dhiya E Amy R Billy B Charlotte S Charlotte M Katherine D Lewis W Tia S Katie R Evie W Olivia-Grace L David D Paige R Teagan G Georgie R Rayan M George S Finn G Celia A Lucas K Katie R St Bede’s Word-Multi-Millionaires Club New: Peter J Y6 VS (2,494,387 words) Isabelle R Y8 SC Aaron V in Y6 VS Chikondi M in…

Accelerated Reader (Year 5 – Year 8)

6 Jun 2019

Accelerated Reader (Year 5 – Year 8) What is Accelerated Reader? Accelerated Reader is a computer program that helps teachers and parents manage and monitor children`s independent reading practice. Your child picks a book at his/her level and reads it at his/her own pace – ideally 20 minutes each day. When finished, your child takes a short 10 minutes quiz on the computer – passing the quiz is an indicator that your child has understood what has been read. The Accelerated Reader program measures the growth and progress of your child on a regular basis through termly Star reading tests – multi choice question tests – and it also provides accurate and up-to-date reading ages. This is considered as very important data by many high schools when considering which set your child should be in or when deciding on any extra reading inventions if necessary. Pupils are able to select books appropriate for their individual reading level and interests. The difficulty of the text varies from 0.5 (easy) to 13.5 (very challenging). Each book is also labelled with a number of points your child can gain and these points refer to length and number of words within a book. Accelerated Reader helps all children become better readers from pupils with special needs to those who are gifted and talented. Accelerated Reader encourages children to read books from their library for at least 20 minutes each day and to take quizzes at least once a week during English lesson held in the library. When children read books at their appropriate level, they experience success and grow in both confidence and reading stamina. Many of our children are already reading more, making better progress and are enjoying taking a quiz each week. Children, as well as parents, can see which books they…

Thursday 6 June 2019

6 Jun 2019

Pentecost Sunday 2019 ‘When Pentecost day came around, the apostles had all met in one room, when suddenly they heard what sounded like a powerful wind from heaven, the noise of which filled the entire house in which they were sitting.’ Acts 2:1,2. This Sunday at Mass will be the celebration of the great feast of Pentecost, the Birthday of the Church. Pentecost is a Greek word meaning ‘Fiftieth’ or ‘Fifty Days’ and was a Jewish harvest festival called ‘Shavuot’ which would be celebrated to thank the Lord for all His goodness to them as provider and sustainer of His people. Jews still celebrate Shavuot also known as the Festival of Weeks (Jesus Himself would have celebrated this feast along with His disciples.) On this special day already holy to the Jews, some fifty days after Jesus had risen triumphantly from the dead, the promised Gift of the Holy Spirit is given to all the disciples as they waited in the Upper Room in Jerusalem, just as Jesus had instructed them, and Mary, the Mother of Jesus was with them. Thus the early Christian Church was born. We too have received this promised gift of the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity when we received our Baptism. This made us children of God and members of His Family. The Holy Spirit strengthens us every time we receive Jesus in Holy Communion at Mass and when we come together to celebrate the Eucharist. He also moulds and shapes up into the people we are to become through the healing Sacrament of Reconciliation or Confession. The Father has lavished His love upon us by calling us His Adopted Sons and Daughters and He has generously poured forth His Holy and Life-giving Spirit to us and has filled our hearts and lives with…

All Things Wild Trip – for selected pupils

24 May 2019

All Things Wild Trip

Clubs for Monday 3 June to Friday 7 June

24 May 2019

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Clubs for the week ahead 3 June to 7 June 2019

Upcoming Events

24 May 2019

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Upcoming Events

SVP Summer Appeal 2019

23 May 2019

As the weather now begins to get warmer and as summer begins, the SVP are appealing for donations of the following at this time for our homeless brothers and sisters in need on the streets. The SVP would be most grateful for any donations of the following items: Bottled water or500ml sized bottles Male and female deodorants – sprays and roll-ons Sunscreen/lotion/sunblock/ – cream or sprays Wetwipes/Baby wipes After Half Term, from 3rd June until 17th July 2019, here in school we shall be collecting donations of these items for the SVP. Donated water, sunscreen/lotion and deodorants can be brought either to Reception and placed in the red collection box or passed on directly to Miss Downes here in school by Wednesday, 17th July 2019. May the Lord bless you for your kindness and generosity to those in most need in our locality. “Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of Mine, you did it for Me.” Jesus. Matthew 25:40 We have had a generous response to the SVP summer appeal so far. Thank you to all who have been diligently bringing in bottled water and deodorants. Your support is so very much appreciated. May the Lord bless you for your kindness and generosity. Please do continue to keep these coming in. Here is a reminder once again of the SVP Appeal for your information. The SVP have asked for donations of the following: Bottled water 500ml sized bottles Male and female deodorants – sprays and roll-ons Sunscreen/lotion/sunblock/ cream or sprays Any donations of water or deodorants can be brought either to Reception or passed on directly to Miss Downes here in school by Wednesday, 18th July 2018. “Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of Mine, you did it…

Thursday 23 May 2019

23 May 2019

Sixth Week of Easter Jesus speaks of the promised Holy Spirit. Jesus said, “If anyone loves me he will keep my word and my father will love him, and we shall come to him and make our home in him. But the advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name will teach you everything and remind you of all I have said to you. John Chapter 14 The Easter season is drawing to a close. The radiant dawn of the Risen Christ is soon to give way to glorious day as we draw closer to when the promised Holy Spirit, the Helper, Advocate, Friend and Guide, the Paraclete, (the One who stands beside us) will come in all His brightness, splendour and gentle power in the glorious Feast of Pentecost. Very soon, we will celebrate with joy the Confirmation of our Year 7 and 8 pupils when they will receive the promised Holy Spirit and welcome Him into their lives. We ask that the Lord in His love will bestow many blessings upon these young people, who are themselves the future of the Church. As we approach the joyful Feast of Pentecost very soon, may we learn to embrace with love and commitment the Third Person of the Most Holy Trinity and allow His influence to transform our lives during this joyful Easter Season. As we continue on our Easter journey, we also travel closer to the wonderful event of Jesus’ Ascension into Heaven. As He is the first-fruits of the new Resurrection Life which we, who believe in Jesus, will also receive as He ascends in Glory, we too will rise with Him and follow where He has gone. He has gone before us to prepare a place for us and He will come…