Challoner Update 616

4th March 2016

From the Headteacher…...

CHALLONER update

On Thursday 3rd March Bishop Challoner joined in the celebration of World Book Day. This was

an opportunity for the pupils to come together to appreciate reading. There were so many

amazing characters of all ages spanning the school. Read-a-thon continues to run into next week

and also supports World Book Day.

At Bishop Challoner we educate the pupils to be tolerant of each other and to show respect. All

members of Bishop Challoner community are expected to show courtesy and consideration

towards others. Recently we have had some inappropriate behaviour from a minority of pupils

and I am afraid that inappropriate behaviour will not be tolerated. I would like to reassure

parents that matters of this nature are dealt with in accordance with school policy and taken

seriously.

I am delighted to see that we have retained the majority of our year 6 and they will be

continuing their educational journey into year 7 in September 2016. I am equally pleased with

the response from external prospective parents wishing to choose Bishop Challoner for their son

or daughter.

There were many sporting activities happening towards the latter part of last week. Last

weekend Tom, Scott, Alessio and Thomas competed at the British Schools Team Championships

at Brunel University. Amelia, Georgia and Gabriella won bronze in the U/15 Girls Epée, Foil and

Sabre events. William Youden attended the ISA National Cross Country Championships at

Princethorpe College, Rugby and came 12th in the U/9 boys event.

Today The Women's World Day of Prayer service was held at The Baptist Church, Beckenham

and prepared by the women of Cuba. We were pleased that some of our children were able to

take part in the service.

Our Open Morning will be starting at 9.00am tomorrow and we are looking forward to many

new visitors to the school who have already pre-registered. I would like to thank you in advance

for your continued support and for allowing your son or daughter to be ambassadors for the

school.

Paula Anderson

@Challoner_head

Year 9 created some wonderful masks that were

judged excitedly by the Year 5 class.

The masks were part of the English assignment to

design a mask for their favourite character in

Much Ado About Nothing, based on the

masquerade in Act 2, Scene 1 (Art and Design

skills came in handy too).

We are looking forward to following this up with

our trip to the Globe Theatre on the 18th March,

when the students will have a tour of the venue,

be able to visit the exhibition and have the

opportunity to do some acting with a professional

actor!

Mask making

Senior Update

The Youth Travel ambassadors have been

spending time working on a pitch to

ensure students walk in single file on the

way to and from Shortlands Station. They

have launched a competition to design a

banner on A4 paper to encourage students

to walk in single file to the station. The

banner should be bright and eye catching

and get the message across to everyone

who views it. There will be prizes for the

best 3 banners and the winning banner

will be printed and hung up to remind

students. The deadline for

the competition is Wednesday 16th

March. Please hand any entries to Mr

Raveney or to Cameron or Ryan in year

7. We look forward to receiving your

banners.

Junior Notice

JTA Competition

Notices

It is the time of year again when we start

collecting the Active School Vouchers.

Every £10 spent shopping in Sainsbury's

equates to 1 voucher. These vouchers are

then used to purchase a range of

sports equipment for

the school. Please place any vouchers in

the box outside the staff room. Many

thanks in advance for your support.

Mr Raveney

Sainsbury’s Active Kids Vouchers

Under shadow of The Shard our junior fencers

competed in the ISA Soft Fencing Tournament. A

huge thank you to Mrs Colling and Mrs Afzal for

coming to support and thank you to the London

Christian School for hosting the event.

Well done to all who competed and congratulations

to Reece and Tristan for winning silver medals and

Jacques and Isaiah for winning the gold.

SOFT FENCING

NATIONAL

CROSS COUNTRY

Three Challoner runners

qualified through their regional

events to run in the Nationals

held at Princethorpe College in

Rugby. In fields of over 100

competitors our boys came

home in the top 20 of each of

their events.

Congratulations to William

who came in 12th on the U/9’s,

Luke 21st and Charles 17th in

the U/13’s

The British Schools Team Championships took place at Brunel University. It is a

two day event with all three weapons. The junior team competed in the U/11 boys

Foil. We had two teams in this event and they all fenced brilliantly and enjoyed the

competition. Congratulations Jacques, Reece, Lukas, Joshua, William and Oliver on a

great day of fencing.

The senior fencers entered all three events over two days. A huge thank you goes

to Alessio and Thomas who have only been fencing from the beginning of the year. Without them Tom and Scott would not have had a team.

The girls however have been fencing together for a while. On the Saturday they fenced in the U/15 Girls Epee and fought their way to the semi-

finals , only being beaten by the Millfield A team to win the bronze medal. On the Sunday they needed all the energy possible to compete in two

events. First the Sabre, where again they were beaten by Milfield A into bronze position. Later that day, they fenced in the Foil event, where they

narrowly missed out on the finals by two points. So close for another bronze medal. Congratulations Gabriella, Amelia and Georgia.

BRITISH SCHOOLS TEAM

CHAMPIONSHIPS

World Book Day Gallery

Nursery News

J4 trip to the Museum of London Junior News

As part of their History topic children in J4 had

the opportunity to visit the Museum of London

on Tuesday 23rd February. They enjoyed an in-

teractive, hands-on session where they each dug

to find Anglo-Saxon artefacts unearthed from

London’s streets. They explored these ancient

objects they had found, seeking to find evidence

as to what they may have been and what they

could have been used for. Through drama, the

children meet Viggo, a Viking from the far

north and explored evidence of other settlers in

the museum’s galleries.

The children were extremely well behaved and

enjoyed the experience of using public transport

by getting the train and the tube in order to get

to and from the Museum.

Mrs Nixon

Congratulations to Lukas Razinskas in J6-

winner of the February Monthly Maths

Challenge.

House points have been awarded to all students

who entered.

Junior Maths Challenge

The Nursery joined in with gusto with the

World Book Day festivities on Thursday.

The children dressed as their favourite

book characters and Ms Ludlam as the

white rabbit even found her Alice!

Thanks to all the parents for their support

in getting the children ready and helping

them look so amazing.

Diary Dates

Monday, 7th March

Year 11 PE Controlled Assessment

Year 4 & Year 11 First Aid

Tuesday, 8th March

11+ Supplementary Assessment

13+ Sports Scholarship Deadline

Year 10 Parents’ Evening

Thursday, 10th March

ISA Indoor Athletics

Friday, 11th March

Juniors-Eagle Heights visit to school

Y9 & 10 Mass

PTA Meeting

Saturday, 12th March

Bromley Schools Cross Country

Due to limited interest, Pamper Evening

has been postponed.

Design an Easter Egg

EITHER draw (no larger than A4)

OR use a real egg (blown)

OR make an egg out of papier mache

Use any method to decorate

Best in the following categories will win a prize in each key stage and earn house points for their house:

Most original design

Most fun design

Best overall design

The decorated eggs will be displayed in the front Reception of the school.

Hurry! Closing date is Friday 11th March.

House Competition

Pamper Evening Postponed

PTA

Charity News

Jamie presented the school’s £470.00

cheque for the Latch Project in Brom-

ley. This was raised at the ‘Wear a

Christmas Jumper’ fundraising event in

December.