2016-2017 ACADEMIC CALENDAR€¦ · Year 13 Awards Evening 7.00pm Fri 9 Sept Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am Whole School Welcome Mass Sat 10 Sept Sun 11 Sept No act of kindness,

2016-2017 ACADEMIC CALENDAR

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Day Date Staff Meetings Parent Events Assessment & Reporting Exams Worship Other

Thur 1 Sept INSET DAY: Induction for new staff Disaggregated day for Appraisal & moderation meetings throughout the year

Teacher Training Day Pupils not in school

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Fri 2 Sept INSET DAY 8.30am - 3.35pm Staff Meeting 9.00am


All Staff/ MAC Feeder School Welcome Mass

Sat 3 Sept Sun 4 Sept ‘Let us always meet each other with a smile’ Mother Theresa Mon 5 Sept Staff Briefing

8.40am – 8.50am Term Starts Pupils in school

Publish updated SEND Register, Care Plans & EAL guidance

Term Starts - Pupils In Tutor time Period 1

Tue 6 Sept Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Target setting Years 8, 9, 10 and 11

Wed 7 Sept Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Thur 8 Sept Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Year 13 Awards Evening 7.00pm

Fri 9 Sept Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Whole School Welcome Mass

Sat 10 Sept Sun 11 Sept No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted Mon 12 Sept Staff Briefing

8.40am – 8.50am

Year 10 KS4 Meeting including information on new grading systems 6.30pm

Tue 13 Sept Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am NQT Meeting 4.00pm – 5.00pm

Wed 14 Sept Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am Twilight Training (1) 4.00pm – 5.00pm

Year 11 Food and Nutrition Assessed Practical – periods 1 & 2

Thur 15 Sept Staff Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Year 7 Transition evening including Cyber Safety and information on new grading systems 6.30pm


Lunchtime Service in Chapel 12.30pm

Sat 17 Sept Year 10 Bronze DofE Assessed Expedition

Sun 18 Sept You are the light of the world Year 10 Bronze DofE Assessed Expedition

Mon 19 Sept Staff Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Gideon’s Year 7 Year 10 Elevate Study Skills 9.00am - 10.15am


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Open Evening Prospective Year 7 6.00pm - 8:30pm Presentations at 6.00pm and 7.00pm




Year 7 Alcester Maths Trail

Sat 24 Sept Sun 25 Sept Make me a channel of your peace Mon 26 Sept Staff Briefing

8.40am – 8.50am Years 7 and 12 Tutor and Parents’ Meeting 5.15pm – 7.15pm


Year 11 Drama GCSE Unit 2 - pm


Year 11 Drama GCSE Unit 2 - am



Sat 1 Oct Year 10 Bronze DofE Assessed Expedition

Sun 2 Oct Aspire not to have more, but to be more Year 10 Bronze DofE Assessed Expedition

Mon 3 Oct Staff Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am Staff Meeting 3.45 - 5.00pm

Years 8 and 9 Parents’ meeting about new grading systems 6.00pm – 6.30pm

Year 10 History trip to Hardwick Hall Date TBC

Tue 4 Oct Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Harvest Mass 5.00pm Year 11 Drama GCSE Unit 2 – period 4

Harvest Mass 5.00pm Year 9 vaccinations

Wed 5 Oct Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Delivery of Harvest Boxes

Thur 6 Oct Staff Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Year 7 - 13 grades due in Eucharistic Ministers Training all day

Fri 7 Oct Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Cafod Family Fast Day Lunchtime Service in Chapel 12.30pm

Year 9 BattlefieldsTour depart TBC

Sat 8 Oct Sun 9 Oct "Christ has no body on earth but yours" Mon 10 Oct Staff Briefing

8.40am – 8.50am Year 9 BattlefieldsTour

return


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Tue 11 Oct Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am NQT Meeting 4.00pm – 5.00pm

Year 11 Drama GCSE Theatre Trip TBC

Wed 12 Oct Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Year 11 Parents' Evening 4.15pm – 7.15pm to include information on new grading system

Year 13 Hamlet Conference




Sat 15 Oct Sun 16 Oct What is impossible with man, is possible with God Mon 17 Oct Staff Briefing

8.40am – 8.50am HoDs’ Meeting 3.45pm - 5.00pm

Year 11 Work Experience week

Tue 18 Oct Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Year 11 Work Experience week Year 9 Art trip to Compton Verney TBC

Wed 19 Oct INSET DAY Teacher Training Day Pupils not in school

Deadline for Staff Appraisal reviews & targets for 2016/17 submitted to Headteacher DDP submission to Headteacher Deadline



Year 7 - 13 grades to parents



Break for Half Term Year 7 Liturgy time TBC All Saints Assembly

Year 11 Work Experience week RAF Stem roadshow KS3 Science (G & T) 9.00am – 12.20pm Non-school uniform day

Sat 22 Oct Sun 23 Oct Mon 24 Oct Tue 25 Oct Wed 26 Oct Thur 27 Oct Fri 28 Oct Sat 29 Oct Sun 30 Oct Be who you were born to be and set the whole world ablaze


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Mon 31 Oct Staff Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Return to School Year 11 Revision lists available on school website

All Saints’ Assembly

Tue 1 Nov Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am NQT Meeting 4.00pm – 5.00pm

All Saints' Day Holy Day of obligation Mass

Wed 2 Nov Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Year 11 Science ISA Day (1) All Souls' Day

Thur 3 Nov Staff Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Year 10 Parents' Evening 4.15pm – 7.15pm

Fri 4 Nov Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Netball trip to Liddington departs

Sat 5 Nov Sun 6 Nov Netball trip to Liddington

returns Mon 7 Nov Staff Briefing

8.40am – 8.50am TOK Week Commences

(all week) Tue 8 Nov Pastoral Briefing

8.40am – 8.50am Year 12 Senior Maths

Challenge 9.00am – 11.00am



Year 13 Parents' Evening 4.15pm – 7.15pm

Year 10 Art trip Pitt Rivers and Ashmolean TBC


Lunchtime Service in Chapel 12.30pm Remembrance Day Assembly 3.00pm

Sat 12 Nov Sun 13 Nov Power of good Remembrance

Sunday

Mon 14 Nov Staff Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Tue 15 Nov Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Sixth Form Open Evening 6.30pm - 8.30pm



Year 11 Liturgy 11.20

Speaking and Listening Day for Years 7 - 11



Sat 19 Nov Sun 20 Nov Christ the King Mon 21 Nov Staff Briefing

8.40am – 8.50am

Year 11 Mock Exams begin


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Tue 22 Nov Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am NQT Meeting 4.00pm – 5.00pm

Year 11 Mocks


Yr 11 Awards’ Evening 6.30pm – 8.00 pm

Year 11 Mocks


Year 11 Mocks


Year 11 Mocks Lunchtime Service in Chapel 12:30pm

Sat 26 Nov Sun 27 Nov HOPE- first week of Avent Advent begins Mon 28 Nov Staff Briefing


Year 11 Mocks St Andrew's Day Year 8 trip to Alton Castle departs Year 7 Book Award Launch TBC

Tue 29 Nov Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Year 11 Mocks


Year 12 Parents' Evening 4.15pm – 7.15 pm

Year 11 Mocks

Thur 1 Dec Staff Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Yr 9 Baseline Maths Exam in Sports Hall

Fri 2 Dec Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Year 8 trip to Alton Castle returns

Sat 3 Dec Sun 4 Dec JOY- second week of Advent Mon 5 Dec Staff Briefing

8.40am – 8.50am Staff Meeting 3.45pm - 5.00pm

Tue 6 Dec Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Wed 7 Dec Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Carol Service 4:30pm and 7.00pm services


Grades due in for all year groups


Year 9 Revision lists available on school website


Sat 10 Dec Sun 11 Dec LOVE- third week of Advent Mon 12 Dec Staff Briefing

8.40am – 8.50am Advent prayer station

in chapel

Tue 13 Dec Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Day of Reconciliation

Wed 14 Dec Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Year 10 Worcester Infirmary History trip TBC


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Year 7-13 grades to parents


Break for Christmas Christmas Mass Non-school uniform day

Sat 17 Dec Sun 18 Dec Mon 19 Dec Tue 20 Dec Wed 21 Dec Thur 22 Dec Fri 23 Dec Sat 24 Dec Sun 25 Dec Christmas Day Mon 26 Dec Boxing Day Tue 27 Dec Wed 28 Dec Thur 29 Dec Beckett Feast Day Fri 30 Dec Sat 31 Dec Sun 1 Jan Your light has come Mon 2 Jan Bank Holiday Tue 3 Jan Combined MAC Schools’

INSET Day Staff Meeting 9.00am


Staff Service in Chapel

Wed 4 Jan Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Term Starts - pupils in Year 7 and 12 Target setting Target reviews all other year groups

Thur 5 Jan Staff Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Fri 6 Jan Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am


Sat 7 Jan Sun 8 Jan Let your light shine Mon 9 Jan Staff Briefing

8.40am – 8.50am Year 13 Mock IB exams

begin

Tue 10 Jan Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Year 11 Parents' Evening 4.15pm - 7.15 pm

Year 13 Mock IB exams Year 11 Drama GCSE 2hrs

Year 8 Black Country Museum History trip date TBC


Year 13 Mock IB exams Year 11 Drama GCSE 3hrs

Year 10 London Science Museum Maths Gallery TBC


Year 13 Mock IB exams


Year 13 Mock IB exams Lunchtime Service in Chapel 12:30pm

Sat 14 Jan Sun 15 Jan ‘Do not be afraid to become saints of the new millenium’- Pope Benedict XVI


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Mon 16 Jan Staff Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am Staff Meeting 3.45pm - 5.00pm



Year 13 Mock IB exams Year 11 Drama GCSE 1hr






Year 13 Mock IB exams finish

Sat 21 Jan Sun 22 Jan Heart speaks to heart Mon 23 Jan Staff Briefing

8.40am – 8.50am

Year 9 Exams begin

Tue 24 Jan Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am NQT Meeting 4.00pm – 5.00pm

Year 9 Exams Year 13 Biology Olympiad (IB Biology students)

Wed 25 Jan Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am Twilight Training (2) 4.00pm – 5.00pm

Year 9 Exams


Year 9 Exams


Year 9 Exams Lunchtime Service in Chapel 12:30pm

Sat 28 Jan Sun 29 Jan ‘Do good while you still have time’- St John Bosco Mon 30 Jan Staff Briefing




Wed 1 Feb Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Year 11 Public Speaking competition Year 9 Ski trip to USA Dates in Feb TBC

Thur 2 Feb Staff Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am


Year 9 Liturgy time TBC

Years 9 and 10 Intermediate Maths Challenge 1hour am

Fri 3 Feb Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Grades due in for year 13 Years 8 and 9 Spanish Theatre group, in school pm

Sat 4 Feb


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Sun 5 Feb It’s not what we do, but the love we put into what we do. Mon 6 Feb Staff Briefing

8.40am – 8.50am

Tue 7 Feb Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am


Year 13 grades to parents

Year 12 ToK visit to B’ham Art Galleries




Grades due in for years 7-12


Sat 11 Feb Sun 12 Feb Love one another Mon 13 Feb Staff Briefing

8.40am – 8.50am

Tue 14 Feb Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Speaking and Listening Day for Years 7 - 11


Year 9 Parents’ Evening and Options Evening 3.45pm – 7.45pm

Year 11 Science ISA day (2)



Break for Half Term Year 7-12 grades to parents

Non-school uniform day

Sat 18 Feb Sun 19 Feb Mon 20 Feb Tue 21 Feb Wed 22 Feb Thur 23 Feb Fri 24 Feb Sat 25 Feb Sun 26 Feb Lent Mon 27 Feb INSET Day Inset Day – Pupils not in

school Reading Week

Alcester Year 8 Book Award Launch TBC

Tue 28 Feb Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am NQT Meeting 4.00pm – 5.00pm

Return to School Reading Week Year 5 Students from Feeder Schools in for World Maths Day event TBC

Wed 1 Mar Ash Wednesday Mass St. David's Day

Reading Week

Thur 2 Mar Staff Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Reading Week World Book Day

Fri 3 Mar Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Lunchtime Service in Chapel 12:30pm

Reading Week Year 11 meningitis vaccinations (catch up)


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Sat 4 Mar Sun 5 Mar Give, Act, Pray Mon 6 Mar Staff Briefing

8.40am – 8.50am Year 10 Exams start


Year 7 Book Award

Tue 7 Mar Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Year 10 and 11 Apprenticeship Awareness Evening

Year 10 Exams

Wed 8 Mar Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Year 10 Exams


Year 10 Exams


Year 10 Exams

Sat 11 Mar Sun 12 Mar Christ be beside me, Christ be before me Mon 13 Mar Staff Briefing


National Science Week Year 8 Salters Chemistry Challenge (4 students)


“Pi Day” Activities


Year 11 Biology Challenge


Year 8 BBC School Report Project am.


St. Patrick's Day

Sat 18 Mar Sun 19Mar Fasting Mon 20 Mar Staff Briefing

8.40am – 8.50am NQT Meeting 4.00pm – 5.00pm

Year 10 Biology Challenge





Grades due in for all year groups

Year 11 Additional Maths Mock exams


Year 11 Additional Maths Mock exams

Sat 25 Mar Margaret Clitherow Feast Day

Sun 26 Mar 40 days and 40 nights


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Mon 27 Mar Staff Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am Staff Meeting 3.45pm - 5.00pm

Year 8 exams start 1.15pm

Tue 28 Mar Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am NQT Meeting 4.00pm – 5.00pm

Year 8 exams


Year 8 exams Sixth Form Celebration Mass


Grades to parents - All year groups

Year 8 exams Year 10 Liturgy

Fri 31 Mar Final day of normal IB course, year 13

Year 8 exams Stations of the Cross Assembly 3.00pm

Sat 1 Apr Sun 2 Apr The way of the cross Mon 3 Apr Staff Briefing

8.40am – 8.50am Lent Prayer station in

Chapel Year 10 Hungarian Exchange

Tue 4 Apr Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Reconciliation day

Wed 5 Apr Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Thur 6 Apr Staff Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Fri 7 Apr Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

End of Term. Break for Easter

School Mass for Easter

Non-School Uniform Day

Sat 8 Apr Sun 9 Apr Palm Sunday Mon 10 Apr Tue 11 Apr Wed 12 Apr Thur 13 Apr Fri 14 Apr Good Friday Sat 15 Apr Sun 16 Apr Easter Sunday Mon 17 Apr Tue 18 Apr Wed 19 Apr Thur 20 Apr Fri 21 Apr Sat 22 Apr Sun 23 Apr Easter St. George’s Day Mon 24 Apr Staff Briefing

8.40am – 8.50am Term Starts Pupils in school

Targets set for all year groups

Year 11 Drama GCSE Unit 3 Assessed Practical Exam date tbc

Tue 25 Apr Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am



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Wed 26 Apr Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Thur 27 Apr Staff Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Years 7 and 8 Junior Maths Challenge 1hour am

Fri 28 Apr Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

IB Exams begin Crowning of Our Lady Assembly

Sat 29 Apr Sun 30 Apr May is the month of Mary Mon 1 May Bank Holiday IB Exams continue

Tue 2 May Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Year 11 Art Exam commence (all week)

Year 9 HPV2 vaccinations

Wed 3 May Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am


Year 11 BTEC Jamie Oliver Assessment Day

Dibdale Feast Day Year 8 HPV1 vaccinations

Thur 4 May Staff Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Fri 5 May Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Sat 6 May Year 10 Silver D of E practice weekend

Sun 7 May Do not be afraid Mon 8 May Staff Briefing


Year 8 Alcester Book Award


Year 11 BTEC External Exam day



Year 11 Celebration Mass 4.00pm


Year 11 not in school Lunchtime Service in Chapel 12.30pm

Year 11 Prom 7.30pm - 11.00pm Year 11 not in school Year 12 Biology Field Trip

Sat 13 May Year 12 Biology Field Trip Sun 14 May Year 12 Biology Field Trip Mon 15 May Staff Briefing


Year 12 Biology Field Trip


GCSE Exams in school commence



Grades due in for years 7-10 and 12


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Year 13 IB Exams finish

Sat 20 May Sun 21 May The difference between ordinary and extra ordinary is that little extra! Mon 22 May Staff Briefing

8.40am – 8.50am Year 7 Revision lists

available on school website

Tue 23 May Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am NQT Meeting 4.00pm – 5.00pm



Grades to parents


Break for Half Term Marian Procession 3.00pm

Non-school uniform day

Sat 27 May Sun 28 May Mon 29 May Tue 30 May Wed 31 May Thur 1 Jun Fri 2 Jun Sat 3 Jun Sun 4 Jun Pentecost Mon 5 Jun Staff Briefing


Return to school Year 12 Exams begin Year 9 Marle Hall trip departs Year 9 Science House Competition Year 10 Geography Field Trip to the Lake District departs

Tue 6 Jun Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Year 12 Exams

Wed 7 Jun Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Year 12 Exams

Thur 8 Jun Staff Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Year 12 Exams Year 8 Liturgy

Fri 9 Jun Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Year 12 Exams Year 9 Marle Hall trip returns Year 10 Geography Field Trip to the Lake District returns

Sat 10 Jun Sun 11 Jun The Holy Trinity Mon 12 Jun Staff Briefing

8.40am – 8.50am Year 8 Carnegie

shadowing/Author event


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Sat 17 Jun Sun 18 Jun Corpus Christi Mon 19 Jun Staff Briefing


Year 7 Exams begin Year 12 Group 4 Project


Year 12 Group 4 Project Last GCSE Exam

Vaccinations Years 8,9,11 Year 9 trip to Bletchley Park TBC




Corpus Christi procession 2.35pm

Year 12 Biologists British Intermediate Biology Challenge


Sat 24 Jun Sun 25 Jun Be somebody who makes everybody feel like a somebody Mon 26 Jun Staff Briefing

8.40am – 8.50am

More and Fisher Feast Days

Tue 27 Jun Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am NQT Meeting 4.00pm – 5.00pm

Year 6 Induction Day for pupils Year 6 Induction Evening 6.00pm – 8.00pm



Saint Peter & Saint Paul Mass


Assessment Grades Due Year7-10 and 12

Year 7 Trip to Cheddar Gorge TBC

Sat 1 Jul Sun 2 Jul Be kind always Mon 3 Jul Staff Briefing

8.40am – 8.50am Year 12 Induction Day Year 12 Induction Evening 6.30pm – 7.30pm

IB Extended Essay Week Year 10 BTEC Jamie Oliver Assessment periods 3,4,5

Year 12 BTec Work Experience

Tue 4 Jul Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

IB Extended Essay Week


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Wed 5 Jul Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Commence writing Tutor Reports

IB Extended Essay Week

Thur 6 Jul Staff Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

IB Results Day

IB Extended Essay Week Year 10 Food and Nutrition NEA Assessment Periods 1,2,3

Fri 7 Jul Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

IB Extended Essay Week Year 7 “Nature in Art”

Sat 8 Jul Sun 9 Jul Work hard, pray hard Mon 10 Jul Staff Briefing

8.40am – 8.50am Feast of

St Benedict


Year 10 Food and Nutrition NEA Practical Periods 1,2,3

Year 7 “Nature in Art”


Year 9 Parents' Evening 4.15pm - 7.15 pm


Fri 14 Jul Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am

Feast of St Benedict Mass 9.30am

Whole School Sponsored Walk and PTA Event

Sat 15 Jul Sun 16 Jul Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8 Mon 17 Jul Staff Briefing

8.40am – 8.50am


Sports Day Year 12 HE Day 9.00am – 2.35pm


Sports Day Year 12


Presentation Evening 5.00pm – 6.00pm

Grades and Tutor Reports to parents

Fri 21 Jul End of school year Whole School Mass Non-school uniform day

Documents

2016-2017 ACADEMIC CALENDAR€¦ · Year 13 Awards Evening 7.00pm Fri 9 Sept Pastoral Briefing 8.40am – 8.50am Whole School Welcome Mass Sat 10 Sept Sun 11 Sept No act of kindness,