Autumn Messenger 2019

As we approach the Christmas break, it is important that we stop a while
to reflect on all that has happened and the many things that we should
be grateful for this term. As a staff we appreciate all the continued
support from our parents and wider community and also the efforts of
our fantastic students.

The term has been a particularly busy one, which has seen our staff and students throw themselves
not only into the hard work of day to day education, but also into their wholehearted buy-in to our
desire to give back. The number of charity events and community engagement opportunities
continue to escalate and without exception our students are rightly lauded by all that come into
contact with them. The remaining days of this term will see further efforts in supporting our ASPIRE
charities; Leeds United Foundation, St Gemma’s and Leeds Irish Health and Homes. With carol
singing, seasonal collections and the annual Senior Citizens’ Christmas party, it promises to be a
busy but valuable end to the year, one in which we continue to be humbled by, and proud of, our
combined efforts.

This term sees us say farewell to Mr West as he takes up a new post at Spen Valley Academy, but
with every departure there follows the warm welcomes to new colleagues. Mrs Willis will continue
delivering within the Science department, providing continuity, excellence and wholehearted
commitment. January will also mark the arrival of Mr Bourke who joins us as Year Leader for Year 7.
He has already spent a short time with staff and students and is excited about the opportunity to
lead this year group and work alongside excellent colleagues.

Another milestone for Mount St Mary’s is the arrival of our final report from Ofsted following their
visit to us on 9th and 10th October. The report has been made available and whilst the new report
format does not contain the detail of previous reports, what is extremely satisfying is that we have,
as a community, been recognised as “Good” in all areas. Whilst as ever there are areas for us to
focus on moving forward, we believe these are already integrated in the work we undertake. Most
important for us are the many positive comments made about the ethos of the school, the
aspirations and high expectations we hold for all our students and the exemplary manners and
conduct of our young people. The passion for Mount St Mary’s and all our work was palpable
throughout the inspection and, as we know, is not something any of the community switch on for
the benefit of visitors, we live our ethos every day and it is heart-warming to have this recognised.
We look forward to our continued journey of improvement and high-quality provision and thank
you whole heartedly for supporting us in this.

We remember all those facing challenges as we approach the feast of Christmas and know that our
motto of “Quid Retribuam” will continue beyond our doors this holiday time. On behalf of all the
staff we wish you a restful, safe and enjoyable Christmas and look forward to welcoming everyone
back on Monday 6th January 2020.

Kindest regards

Mark Cooper Our Mission
Headteacher
The community of Mount St Mary‛s is called to develop the full
potential of each person - Spiritually, Academically, Socially and

Physically - and to create a safe and happy and caring school.

Open Day / Open Evening Coffee Mornings
For Macmillan
Over 200 pupils from our Catholic feeder schools visited Mount
St Mary’s for a taste of life at secondary school. They were The first Macmillan Coffee Morning
treated to a number of lessons including Science, Technology at Mount St Mary's in 1992 was
and Performing Arts. The day also included a free taster of the organised by Mrs Kearney, such a
wide range of food available at lunchtime. long time ago. Students and
colleagues were encouraged to hone
The evening then saw us open our doors to the wider community their baking skills before buying back
to showcase the school’s work ethic and talents. their buns to raise money. Mount St
Mary’s has supported Macmillan
ever since and we have raised a total

of £5723.66, before this year's

contribution is added. We are led to
believe this would fund a Macmillan
nurse for a month, for all the
medical, practical and emotional
support they give.
So well done all of you for keeping
this tradition going. Many lives have
been touched.
Long may it continue.

Welcome Mass

Year 7 started the year with a Welcome Mass,
that saw our school hall full to the maximum
with student’s and their families.

This was a great event that celebrated the start
of each student’s journey here at Mount St
Mary’s. The theme of the night was ‘Dare to
Dream’ and we want all our Year 7 students to
follow their dreams, no matter how big they
are! At the end of Year 11 we have a Leavers’
mass at Leeds Cathedral and at this point their
dreams should start to become a reality.

Junior Engagement
Engineering Programme

Fifteen of our Year 7 students started
a year long collaboration with the Junior
Engineering Engagement Programme (JEEP).
They are aiming to develop ideas to invent
something that can be installed at Mount St Mary's to make us more sustainable.

MSM @ St Patrick’s Schools Question Time

MSM were in full voice, leading the Mass On Friday 8th November, Miss Evans took a group of Year 11
at St Patrick's on Sunday 20 October 2019. students to Schools Question Time at Leeds Minster. Students
A massive "Thank You!" to all students questioned the panel – including Leeds Central MP Hilary Benn
and staff who gave their time and efforts on a range of issues including Brexit, funding for schools and
to make it such a successful event. immigration. Students were praised for their eloquence and
confidence in their questions when they spoke to panellists at
the end of the session.

St Gemma’s Collection Year 8
@ The Roundhay Bonfire Football team

On a cold, damp bonfire night, 16 Our newly formed Year 8 team
of our young leaders and prefects have produced some
braved the weather to collect for outstanding performances in
St Gemma’s Hospice. their 11 a side games and 7 a side
tournament. We have a really
Their resilience and enthusiasm exciting team who are playing
exceptional football. Our stand
resulted in £488.00 being out performers so far have been
Lee Morrison, Ashton Cudahy,
collected in 2.5 hours. Ahawsi Kyeremateng and
Mansour Shurkian.

Year 9 Rugby Success!

On 6th November 13 Year 9 students went to the Leeds Rhinos training ground to take part in the Leeds and
Hunslet schools plate competition, where they played against Cockburn School, Leeds West Academy, Allerton
Grange and Brigshaw High.

As Captain Bobby Hartley led them out to begin their first game it was apparent they were “In it to win it”,
starting with a try in the opening seconds from the MSM team. Throughout the tournament the students
demonstrated some fantastic skills and impeccable attitude which led them to victory on every occasion. During
difficult games the students realised that the other schools could not contend with their powerful runners and
very quickly adjusted their game plan, breaking through their defences, creating space for a second line of
attack.

We left the tournament as overall and unbeaten winners due to the team’s outstanding attitude and dedication
to each other both on and off the pitch.

Team pictured above:
Bobby Hartley ©, Preston Campbell-Quinn, David Hohlatsjov, Clinton Owusu, Yordi Furtardo, Cameron Feeney, Rhus Muluebrhan,
Reece Scannell, Aleksander Gruszka, Jahiem Gumbs, Daniel Santos Da Mata, Hamza Ymeri, Craig Mhonyera

Oxbridge Talk Year 7 Football off to a flying
start!
Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School
invited us to a talk about Oxford and The Year 7 football team, this academic year, have proven to be
Cambridge Universities. We discussed the an extremely competitive and resilient group of individuals;
application process, the pros to going to made stronger by outstanding teamwork. With competition rife
these established and prestigious and changes being made across each of the fixtures we have
universities, and the different played, we are beginning to find our form which was evidenced
opportunities they can provide. in our recent trip to Cockburn High School for a tournament with
Some of our brightest Year 10 students each of the ‘Central and South Leeds’ schools in attendance. The
showed that they can compete and achieve team was able to go unbeaten, reaching the final of the
alongside the most intelligent students in tournament captained by Liam ‘Lynchpin’ Sample but were
the country, and it has inspired them to disappointingly beaten by a strong Morley High side. Other stand
continue to aspire for their dreams and out performers across recent fixtures include Craig Chikwanha,
goals! Festus Ofori and Gilbert Ohene.
Mr Walker (Year 7 football team coach).

Trinity Careers Trip

Some of our most promising students went along to a careers day held at the Trinity shopping centre.

Whilst having a tour of the site, students learnt a great deal about how many different jobs, companies and
effort goes into the running of a business. We then took part in several workshops run by leading business
people who are experts in their fields. It was a very informative and inspirational day that has given our students
some big aspirations for the future.

Prayers of Year 10 Art
Remembrance
Year 10 art students have been creating charcoal
They shall grow not old self-portraits inspired by Antonio Mora’s photography
as we that are left grow old; work. Students were asked to explore the theme together
and apart, then refine their ideas and create a final piece
age shall not weary them, which reflects their personality in some way. Students had
nor the years condemn. the opportunity to refine their charcoal tonal work as well
At the going down of the sun as focus on developing their creativity skills by creating an
outcome which was personal to them. Edson Year 10, “I
and in the morning, chose to draw oysters coming out the top of my head to
we will remember them. represent silence because I don’t like to express my
We will remember them. emotions. I think
oysters show silence
because they are
alone in the sea. They
are also hard to open
up but once you open
one you might find a
pearl, which I think
represents me.”

Couldn't Care Less Project

This project works with young carers around Leeds to help Reagan Farr - Yr10 taking part in one of the workshops!
build their skills, their confidence, their team work skills and
much more. The final session of the day allowed our young
carers to meet lots of different health care professionals from
many sectors and explained how all the skills our students
have as carers can be transferred to hundreds of health care
jobs in the future!

ITV Script Writing Workshop

On Friday 22nd November Mrs Rudge and Miss Hetherington took 16 students to ITV to participate in a
screenwriting workshop. They worked with the senior script Editor and Producer on creating a series of scenes
for the characters of 'Emmerdale'. They worked on storylines and scripted scenes with the script editors from
the show and were able to tour the 'Emmerdale' set, including the famous Woolpack pub.
The highlight of the afternoon was when three of the show's actors came into the workshop and acted out the
scenes the students created for their characters. It was a fantastic opportunity for our students to see the
diverse career pathways available at ITV as well as a chance to brush shoulders with the soap's stars. Feedback
from the actors and the crew were that the students are a credit to our school and their parents/carers' for their
creativity and approach to the activities usually aimed at much older students.

Year 8 Kingswood Valley Residential

Just before October half-term, 37 Year 8 students along with Mr West, Miss Finucane and Mr Woodley,
visited the Kingswood Dearne Valley centre for a two-night Risk & Resilience residential. It was a very
successful experience and both students and staff enjoyed themselves thoroughly.
There was a wide range of challenging activities ranging from archery to abseiling. The ‘Scrapheap
Challenge’ involved students using their initiative, teamwork – and a whole lot of rubbish – to build
the most effective ‘Shuttle’ that aimed to protect a loaded water bomb from exploding after being
thrown from the roof of the centre. Only one of the bombs survived which meant selected students
were then allowed to throw it, and the remaining water, at Mr West!
It was an absolutely brilliant
residential and it was great to see
the students thoroughly enjoying
themselves in what was, for some,
their first time away from home. A
huge ‘well done’ to all the students
who came on the trip, you were a
credit to yourselves as well as the
school. It was great to see so many
students persevere with each of
the activities which were
challenging and tricky at times!

Women In Leadership

The Women in Leadership programme initially started in Year 10 and has continued into Year 11, where
the 15 students currently participating are giving up their own time during school holidays to work
offsite at TransUnion.
This has been a fantastic and stimulating opportunity for the students to become part of an
international programme, participating in work experience to develop their skills and knowledge of
the working environment.
It is all credit to the students’ hard work, maturity and commitment that they have been invited back;
they embraced the activities and challenges,
exhibited great energy and have surpassed the
expectations of TransUnion.
After successfully completing the initial
programme, the students were invited to work
alongside some of the Mentors who are
professional high achieving women from the
Finance Industry.
This has been an exciting and rare opportunity
which the students have seized with vigour and
enthusiasm, demonstrating their ability to be
responsible and resilient in overcome challenges
that take them out of their comfort zone.
More recently some of the girls were able to practice the skills learnt and have become Head Girl,
Senior Prefects and Prefects.

Presentation Evening
2019

On Thursday 14th November Mount St Mary’s celebrated
the success of students both past and present, at our
annual Presentation Evening.

Yaniat Menghish The theme for our evening was ‘United in Ambition’ and Nassra Salim
Award for outstanding it was a pleasure to see so many of our staff and Award for outstanding
students unite together for such a joyous evening,
GCSE Results celebrating the achievements of our diverse community. Progress
Clare Mcgrath William Cullingworth
Phillip Durant Award We welcomed Margaret House OBE, Vice Chancellor of Outstanding contribution
Leeds Trinity University as our keynote speaker and
parents, carers and staff were also treated to a to performing arts
sneak preview of this year’s school production of
Jesus Christ Superstar.

All students involved Agata Wroniecka & Gideon Amofah
fully derserve the Service to the School
recognition they
received for their
commitment to their
studies and the school
community. As always it
was wonderful to see
so many of our past
students.

Gloria Domfeh Edith Brightwell
Subject Prizewinner for Subject Prizewinner for

French History

Regina Aikins Lois Ampadu, Kristopher Correya, Sandria Onyia, Jakub Jedrzejak
Subject Prizewinner for Monique Silcott, Chan Yu Wang Subject Prizewinner for
Hospitality and Catering
for 100% School career Attendance. Performing Arts

Cameron Moyles Darija Skeryte Phoebe Dawson Emma Rooley
Subject Prizewinner for Subject Prizewinner for Subject Prizewinner for Subject Prizewinner for

Geography Science Physical Education English



The Big Sing

On Wednesday 6th November, we
welcomed our Catholic feeder primary
schools for our annual Big Sing, a
celebration of singing and collective
worship. The day was a huge success
with big thanks to our Young Leaders
who made the day run smoothly!

Carol Singing at Year 7 Technology
St Gemma’s Hospice
Year 7 students have
Year 8 student volunteers from class 8O participated in a carol been working hard on
singing event at St Gemma's Hospice in Moortown, Leeds. The their leadership and
19 students involved sang their hearts out for an hour, giving teamwork skills in
patients, family members and staff at the hospice a real treat Technology lessons,
with a great variety of songs. They started off singing to a to help each other
small crowd but as the noise and word spread the crowd improve their
grew. practical skills as well
The patients at the Hospice really did appreciate all the efforts as create safe and
of class 8O. Their singing and routines lifted up everyone’s productive
spirits with the help of 2 buskers - Mr Fox and Mr Bromwich. environments.
This was a great example of students giving back to their Lead learners have
community and allowed those present to start feeling like the been appointed who
festive season had began. are responsible for
different roles in the
workshop as well as
helping each other
develop their teams
techniques further.

Year 9 Breathe Leeds Project

This half term 12 Year 9 students have taken part in a #Breathe Leeds
Project. This was run by a company called IVE who aim to develop creative
thinking. On the launch day, professionals from The NHS, Leeds City
Council and The University of Bradford came to inform the students about
all the issues caused by air pollution in Leeds.
Following that the students worked in two groups, once a week after
school, to develop their own ideas to help reduce pollution in Leeds. On
28th November the two teams presented their proposals at the Town Hall
in a “Dragons Den” style competition. The “Dragons” were professionals
working in different companies, but all with the aim of tackling air
pollution.
The results will be announced soon
and the winning idea will be taken
forward into development. Fingers
crossed for both our teams who
worked extremely hard and
delivered two professional and
innovative presentations.

Diocesan Youth Leadership Group – “The Twelve”

Caitlin Wolstenholme, Year 11 student, has recently been commissioned as a member of the Diocesan Youth
Leadership Group - “The Twelve”.
Twelve representatives from across the Diocese have been asked to speak on behalf of all the youth living within
the Leeds Diocese. We are extremely proud that Caitlin has been approached, and she is a true inspiration of
Catholic and Christian living in all she does.

Caitlin writes…
“Being a member of ‘The Twelve’ is a great honour and
privilege. It has enabled me to gain confidence in myself and
become a better leader. I began being a member, being
nominated by a member of my parish.
Whilst being in ‘The Twelve’, I have made new friends who are
also members and I have also had the privilege of meeting
Bishop Marcus, the bishop of the Diocese of Leeds. As part of the group, we are collaborating with Bishop
Marcus in finding ways to encourage youth within our churches and parishes, to become closer to God and
attend Mass on a weekly basis. This is an experience of a life time, one which I can shape in many ways, and
something I feel privileged to be a part of.”

King’s College London Mentoring

Since October, Mount St Mary’s students have been receiving email mentoring
from King’s College, London students, focusing on a drive towards a career in
law in the future. This mentoring has been led by former Mount St Mary’s
student Sam Clare, who is now studying Politics at King’s College, London and is
the treasurer for the KCL Bar and Mooting society. In January KCL students will
visit MSM to help students further with their careers in Law.

One of Jesus’ most memorable teachings is that we should
“Love our Neighbour”. St James backed this up by stating that “Faith without action is
dead.” We are called to show our love for our neighbour through our actions.
Each half term at Mount St Mary’s we put this into action in many ways. One of the ways
we show that we love our neighbour is by supporting our MAD campaign. Each half term
students and staff “Give Back” as much as we can, in order to Make A Difference to the
lives of those less fortunate within our local community.
We focus on giving one item of everyday food, which we offer to support the work of the Sisters of Renewal
who live and work within our local area. During our first half term we focussed on Soup, and were able to offer
a complete car boot full of a whole variety of tins and packets…
We have moved on to Cereal this half term and hopefully will be able to offer even more to support the sisters’
work before Christmas. Thank you for your ongoing support.

Students rise to the Christmas Card
Bebras Computing Challenge Competition

All Year 7 and 8 students, along with the Year 9 and 10 students 7C recently entered the Yorkshire Police
that are currently studying GCSE Computer Science took part in Christmas Card Competition.
this year’s Bebras Challenge. Between 4th and 15th November
they all completed the 40 minute online challenge. This Fingers crossed one of them have come up with
comprised a set of 18 questions designed to test the students’ this year’s winning design!
problem solving and logical thinking skills, all of which are
important for the study of Computer Science. The results are
now in and thirteen of our students have achieved scores in the
top 10% in the country.

The Year 7s entered the Junior challenge and competed against Year 10 Football
80,005 students in the UK of which 2,660 were from West
Yorkshire. Jakub Kordonski, Alexander Francis, Kwame Osei, The Year 10 team started their season with a
Laura Staruzyk and Weronika Motyl all scored in the top 10% in victory at home to Co-operative academy. They
the country. The Year 8s and 9s entered the Intermediate have also won the first 7aside tournament of
challenge and competed against 130,809 students in the UK of the year, beating all who stood before them
which 3,498 were from West Yorkshire. Robyn Thompson, and conceding just 2 goals. Wins against both
Lily Allswell, Samuel Bradley, Jakub Dybikowski, Yonatan Habtit, Cockburn teams, both Woodkirk teams and
Morley ensured they will go to the next
Jacob Andalis, Jaleel Shahin, and Noor-E-Huda Sayed all scored tournament in January as reigning champions!
in the top 10% in the country. The Year 10s competed in the
Senior challenge against 22,731 students in the UK of which 471
were from West Yorkshire. None of them made it into the top
10% in the Country but James Bravo achieved the best score in
the school in the Senior category.

All students who achieved in the top 10% have received a Phillip Mundenda scored a hat-trick. Special
personal invitation from Professor Peter Millican of Hertford mention also to man of the match Luis Jurada
College Oxford to take part in the online 2020 Oxford Computing who was immense at centre back and
Challenge in early March. This aims to encourage students to George Jordan whos scored our fourth goal. A
develop their skills further and produce programmed solutions promising season ahead for these lads.
to computational thinking problems. This is a great honour and it
is hoped that these students will use the resources provided by
Oxford University to help them prepare and take full advantage
of this opportunity. Some of the Year 10 GCSE Computer Science
cohort are keen to assist the Year 7s and 8s with their
preparations. Look out for the results in the Spring Messenger!

Science Mentoring Debate Mate

26 of our Year 11 students applied to receive 30 Following the success
hours of one to one mentoring from a Leeds of becoming national
University student. champions at the end
of last year, Debate
The mentoring is to support Year 11 in their journey Mate has started again
towards their Science GCSE. 13 were successful and at Mount St Mary’s,
can be seen here with their mentors in the school this time with MSM
library. staff training the
students. 133 students
All the students have signed up to learn how to formally debate in order
are studying to build confidence and develop critical thinking and
‘STEM’ subjects public speaking skills. Miss Evans, Miss Coen,
which is a Miss Rathore, Mr Woodward, Mr Hawkins, Mrs Gibson,
degree in Mr Hinchley and Mr Lawson are all leading sessions on
Science, Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
Technology,
Engineering or Please see Miss Evans if you are interested!
Maths.

MSM House system Year 8 Basketball

An extraordinary amount of students applied to represent A fantastic
their year group to be a house captain this year and in the squad of
end 27 were chosen. Over the last number of weeks, the Year 8
House Captains have been busy planning their focus areas for basketball
the year. Some of these areas are creating awareness of the players lead
house system, producing promotional content, working with the U13s
our partner charities and building the Leeds North
profile of the house system further West
within school... So watch this space! Basketball League 2019, undefeated through
They also got to take part and help the Autumn term. We look forward to seeing
decorate their house trees! how far we can go in this league as we play
through the winter. From Left to Right:
Jack Burns, Sandro De Almeida,
Corey Maynard, Favour Onyia,
Stewart Balogun, Alexandre Henriques,
Desire Lwanga and Michael Sharkey.

Ask, Seek, Knock Social Media Trip

During the Advent Staff Liturgy, members of A group of students in Year 9 took
staff were ASKED to SEEK out a hat, scarf, of part in a social media workshop.
gloves, ready to go out and KNOCK on doors The workshop was about the
and listen to the NINE READINGS of Advent, effects both positive and
presented by our Year 10 students, and respond negative, of social media. We
then compared life with and
by joining in the singing of the NINE without social media which was
CAROLS of Advent. difficult because we live in a
society where social media has a huge impact in our daily
lives. We did several activities such as: having live debates
with our peers and we also created Instagram profiles
(professional and unprofessional) to show how social
media can sometimes effect employment. By the end of the
workshop we all had a good amount of
knowledge about social
media and how it can
affect our future.
(By Paris Tchokwako and
Joceleny Goncalves)

Bar Mock Trial

On Saturday 30th November, Miss Evans, Mr Hinchley, Miss Rathore and Miss Coen took a group of Year 10 and
11 students to the Bar Mock Trial competition at Leeds Magistrates Court. Prior to the competition, students
prepared two cases for trial, working as prosecution and defence teams.

Students competed in three rounds against other schools from
around the region, defending in the first two rounds and
prosecuting in the third. Faith Odeyo, Carmella Messu Pianta,
Bradley Barker and Harvey Drummond were outstanding lawyers,
with Bradley and Harvey receiving exceptional praise from one of
the professional barristers. Johanna Jermy, Jevic Juma,
Sophie Newton-Harvey and William Swafi acted as witnesses and
knew their roles extensively, dealing well with the interrogation
from the other side. Anna Saine and Comfort Boateng provided
essential service as court staff, while Iliham Negash, Zoe Kirabo,
Jenicy Fernandes, Harriet Owusu-Nsiah and Lois Asante used their
debating skills to serve on the jury.

Results will be released in the coming weeks. Well done MSM!

MSM MSM Cheerleading Team
READCYCLE
The Cheerleading team was set up at the end
• Millions of trees are cut down of September and there were approximately
each year to create new prints of 120 students who attended the team try outs
books. At MSM, we are only supplying over a two week period. We now have two
our library with second hand books in teams: KS3 (Y7, 8 & 9) and KS4 (Y10). Both
order to reduce our environmental teams are currently working at UKCA Level 2
impact. with the KS3 team already learning some of
• Approximately 40% of printed the UKCA Level 3 group stunts. The girls
books are returned unwanted, pulped have attended the
and turned into cardboard. At MSM, UKCA Winter Cheer
we are only stocking the library with Championships to see
books recommended by staff and the top level
students to reduce waste. performers in
• During the creation of books, cheerleading to gain
carbon dioxide is released into the insight and inspiration
atmosphere, contributing to global for their own routine. The trip gave them a
warming. At MSM, we are only chance to see some of the teams that they
stocking the library with second hand will be competing against in the National
books in order to reduce our environ- School Cheerleading Finals in June 2020. The
mental impact. teams will hopefully be performing in
• Valuable animal habitat is lost upcoming assemblies so you may see them
each year for the creation of books. At perform sooner than you think!
MSM, we purchase our library books
from charity shops, helping reduce Leeds Trinity Carol Concert
unnecessary book production and
supporting a variety of charities, 50 students from Years 7-11
performed at Leeds Trinity
including those that University Carol Concert to
preserve the preserva- rapturous applause, singing in
tion of trees. 4 part harmony ‘Carol of the
@MSM English Bells’, ‘God rest Ye Merry
#secretlibrary Gentleman’ and ‘The Holly and
the Ivy’
Videos of the performance can be found on on our school
YouTube Channel by searching for ‘MSM player’.

SEPT—DEC 2019

NCOP +

Careers

OCT// Year 10 students had the opportunity to visit OCT// Year 11
the ITV Studios in history students took
Leeds for ITV News part in an informative
Day. Here students tour around Leeds to
learnt about all the look at Leeds history.
different careers The day provided the
options available opportunity for
within the media students to meet current students studying at the
industry. Students were able to use industry University of Leeds and also professionals who are
equipment, have a go at presenting and even did the working in the cultural sector across Leeds. The day
weather with well-known weatherman Jon Mitchell. included a specially tailored Leeds Black History Walk
Students were informed of the routes into ITV, finding that revealed
out more about apprenticeships, college courses and otherwise unseen
university degrees and were able to ask the narratives in our
professionals questions about their careers. local landscape.
There was also a
OCT// Into University have been in school to work guided tour of Leeds
with some of our Year 10 and 11 students to talk about City Museum’s new
choices and a look into what University life is like! exhibition: ‘A City
and it’s Welcome’: three centuries of migrating to Leeds.
Upcoming events (Spring Term)
- Media Makeup course - Year 9 and 10 NOV// Year 10 students visited Northern Ballet for an
exciting opportunity aiming to equip students with the
- Robotics Club—Year 8 knowledge needed to pursue a career within the creative
- Leeds College of Music taster day—Year 9 arts industry. Students were given the opportunity to
- Leeds Sports Academy leadership camp—Year 10 meet professionals working within dance and were given
tips on how to pursue a career in the sector.

MATHS + DOCTOR %

× - Do you have the following symptoms?
Phobia for maths and persistent headaches learning the subject
÷√
Difficulties with certain topics = +
Homework problems

Difficulties completing tasks in lessons and at home
Confidence issues with learning maths

Problems solving past exam questions

Worry no more, a cure is at hand! See the doctors in the maths department.

All welcome, from Year 7 - 11 Thursdays 3:10 - 4:10

Make a date with us. What’s more you will earn house points for attending!!!

Every Friday at lunch time 12.40 – 13.10PM in LA1 Ask, Seek, Knock
With Annabelle the French language assistant!!
All the
Watch movies! Play games! Listen to music! hats,
In a FUN AND FRIENDLY environment ! scarves
and
Everyone is welcome! If you are curious about gloves
Spanish or French cultures “Le Club de Langues” is provided
by
made for you!! members
You’re welcome to bring your lunch ! of staff
during
the
Advent
Staff
Liturgy
were donated to "St George's
Crypt" to help the homeless
living on the streets of Leeds.
Thank you all for your generosity.

Lourdes 2020

Each year a group of our Year 10
students join the Leeds Diocesan
Pilgrimage to Lourdes. This year is
no exception. Our students always
act as incredible ambassadors of the
school throughout the Pilgrimage,
their generosity in giving to all they
serve is always highlighted and well
complimented.
Please pray for our current Year 10 students as they begin their
preparations for Lourdes 2020.