FINANCE OFFICE

Yr 8 Retreat & Yr 7 Hindu Temple: Permission slips and payment should be brought to finance office without delay.

Ski trip to the USA: Second payment of £300 is due by 30th June.

CAMPION NEWSLETTER

Issue 14.14, Thursday, 16th June 2011

Tel: 01708 452332 www.campion.havering.sch.uk Email: contact@thecampionschool.org.uk

CONGRATULATIONS!

Christopher Hatwell, 10 Garnet, has been awarded a Robert Lewin Scholarship of £400 towards a new Classical Guitar through the Awards For Young Musicians scheme.

George Seaton, 9 Fox, has received a Jack Petchey Award for achievement in Judo and will be participating in the Venray International Competition in Judo in Holland.

SPORTS DAY & GARDEN PARTY Saturday 9th July, 12 – 4pm

Donations Don’t forget we are collecting items for the Garden Party, particularly china for smashing, bottles for the bottle stall and toiletries and gift sets. This year we are planning a plant stall – so if you are green fingered you could “pot up” some cuttings or plant up some seedlings for the stall – please bring the plants in on the day or the afternoon before.

Stalls Why not have a stall at the Sports Day & Garden Party . Stalls are only £10 plus a raffle prize.

You could also advertise in the Garden Party Programme at just £20 for a full page and £10 for a half page.

If you are booking a stall we can offer a discounted price for advertising in the programme of £10 for a full page and only £5 for a half page. Details are on the school website.

Help needed Spencer Seaton who is co-ordinating the Garden Party is looking for help-ers between 11.00 and 4.00 – so if you can help, even if it’s only for a couple of hours, please email SpencerSeaton@aol.com

LEADERSHIP TRAINING FOR SENIOR PREFECTS

On Tuesday 14th June, the new team of School Officials and Senior Prefects took part in a Leadership training day facilitated by Mr Des Kelly, former Deputy Head at St John Payne School. The day had a distinctly Catholic flavour as we reflected upon the servant leadership model as exemplified by Our Lord in the gospels. Bill Gates, team games, communication skills, problem solving scenarios and prayer also featured in a packed and thought-provoking programme." Mr R Pearn, Head of Sixth Form

SPORTING NEWS

Montell Douglas, GB sprinter came in this week to give a Q&A session and an inspirational practical session for our Yr 9 & Yr 10 pupils.

ESSEX SCHOOLS ATHLETIC CHAMPIONSHIPS

25 of our pupils competed for Havering at this event. There were several outstanding performances with our students achieving at least top 10 status.

YEAR 7 Moyin Oladapo (Y7) 100m 8th; Harry Rogers (Y7) High Jump 11th

Junior Boys (combined Y8&9 events) Darren Eghan (Y9) 400m 6th; Clarke Bogard (Y9) High Jump 15th Dan Browne (Y9) Javelin 8th Jon Animashaun (Y9) 6th; Alex Sharp (Y8) 9th both in Hammer.

Intermediate Boys (Combined Y10 & 11 events) Bernard Adeniran (Y10) High Jump 11th; Callum Pettigrove (Y11) Triple Jump 4th

We had three excellent results with two outstanding performances.

Intermediate Boys High Jump Israel Ojo 2nd 1.81m

Junior Boys Triple Jump Ross Ozongwu 1st 12.47m

Junior boys Long Jump Ola Aina 1st 6.41m

Not only did these two boys win the Essex championships they also achieved the National Standard in their event in both becoming ranked number 1 in the country.

The success of our pupils in this event is the sportsmanship in Farrell Roberts and Jesse Osazee trading their events for Ross and Israel respectively to achieve their successes.

YR 8 CELEBRATE SUCCESS

Well done to those pupils who qualified for the Yr 8 Reward Trip to Rope Runners. The school provided this trip to recognise that, in the Interim Review, their progress against their individual targets was outstanding. The pupils had a great day, taking part in three ropes courses, slides and the very scary Fan Dive. The key questions now are:

How many subjects can you beat your Minimum Expected Level in?

Will you be on this trip next year?

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY:

Wednesday 22nd June:

Year 12 University Information Evening

7.30 pm

Monday 27th June:

Year 10 Interim Assessment Week

Tuesday 28th June:

Introduction Day for Year 7 (2011 Pupils)

Wednesday 29th June:

Leavers’ Day

LAKE GARDA 2011

The 2011 Lake Garda trip is over and both students and members of staff will treasure the lovely memories we were able to bring back with us!

Despite the changeable weather, which incidentally after my presentation back in May, promising plenty of sunshine and hot weather, was a source of amusement

for all our students who took great pleasure in “taking the mick” out of me for my poor forecasting, I am able to say that all parties really enjoyed all aspects of the trip.

Students exceeded all my expectations and were really well behaved and a pleasure to be with. Many of them showed a fantastic sense of humour and provided a lot of entertainment for us all! Furthermore, our Italian teachers were very impressed with the students’ effort, enthusiasm, linguistic ability and, above all, behaviour. I was even complimented at Verona’s airport by security for the students’ ability to be well organised and disciplined. Their behaviour was, at all times, a great credit to their parents.

During the week we had several competitions and many winners. For the “Tidy Room competition” students were very competitive but, only marginally, the prize was won by Luke Magarinos, Joseph Sheridan and Samuel Edwards. The 1st place for “Best Students” was awarded to Tomas Curran, 2nd place to Nathan O’Connor and 3rd place to Matthew McLone but the Italian teachers found it very difficult to choose winners as most students demonstrated a lot of commitment and ability. Our annual “Campion has got talent” contest was very good and we had to increase the number of winners; in fact we had two joint 3rd places: Femi Dada and his assistants Michael Ring and Alfie Briden with some very good card tricks. The other 3rd place was awarded to Liam Pattullo for his beautiful poem about Italy, written in English with perfect rhyming. In 2nd place was Christopher Gell, also with a selection of very well and confidently executed card tricks. For the first time we had to add a new category as we had some very entertaining acts and we felt they deserved to be recognised for their entertainment value. The prize for “The most entertaining act” was awarded to Ben Nugent, Thomas Barrett, Patrick Leary-Kiernan and Phillip Bond for their “Body machine” performance which was very funny indeed. However, our worthy 2011 “Campion has got talent” winners were Callum Attew and George Welch with a poem about languages which they composed in Italian and, apart from being very good, it demonstrated their linguistic ability. BRAVISSIMI!!!!

In conclusion, I would also like to take this opportunity to thank all the members of staff who covered our lessons. I am extremely grateful to Mr Miller and Miss Delimesle who accompanied me on this trip for their valuable help and in particular Mr Johnson, as this was his Lake Garda farewell trip. His help, company and experience will be profoundly missed by all but especially by me! Grazie a tutti! Mrs E. Robinson

LIBRARY BOOKS

A reminder to all Year 11 and Year 13 pupils that all library books must be returned and all debts settled before study leave starts, as leavers’ forms will not be signed if there are debts outstanding. Mrs Keysell, Librarian

REMINDER TO PARENTS

Students should have money for the pay phone at all times. They are not allowed to use the front office phone as the office is very busy.

YEAR 12 UNIVERSITY INFORMATION EVENING

A reminder to all parents/carers of Year 12 students that the University Information Evening will take place in the Main School Hall at 7.30pm on Wednesday 22nd June. As well as information about the UCAS process within Campion, there will be a speaker from The University of Essex to talk about finances.

Finally, a new government website on this subject has recently gone live and is well worth a visit www.yourfuture.direct.gov.uk R Pearn, Head of Sixth Form

CAMPION OLD BOYS’ FOOTBALL TEAM

From next season Campion Old Boys’ football team will be running a Saturday team in addition to the established Sunday team. We are therefore looking for any old boys, staff or parents who are interested in playing. Training takes place on Wednesday evenings at 8.30 pm on the all-weather pitch at the school. Please contact Mr Connor before attending to check that it is on! Matches are played at Cottons Park, Romford.

The team are also seeking sponsorship. Any company/individual interested should please contact Mr Connor at the school on 01708 452332 x251 or email cconnor@thecampionschool.org

2012 OLYMPICS: One Year to go to prepare for Modern Olympic Truce

Brentwood Justice and Peace Commission, in conjunction with Westminster and Southwark, are launching various initiatives for peace in the build-up to the 2012 Olympics details of which have been given to your parish priest who will be displaying the information in a prominent place in the parish. We urge you to read the information given and more importantly make a commitment to participate in whatever way you can in these events.