All Saints Advocate · As our first year of Sixth Form is coming to a close, choosing the career path we are going to take after studying at All Saints is becoming more and more important

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Vol 5 No 5 May 2014

ALL SAINTS

ACADEMY

Dear Parents

What a difference a year makes! This time last year we had just taken possession of our external All Weather Pitch (see picture). One year on, after careful maintenance, we now have beautiful grounds and four excellent tennis courts. In addition to this, we have state of the art cycle parking and a campus of which we can be proud.

The Academy is getting ever busier and from a school roll of 529 in 2012 we currently have approximately 700 students. In September 2014 we shall house 880 students – a full Academy! We are now oversubscribed in Year 7 and we have a waiting list, and numbers continue to rise in Year 9.

The atmosphere around the Academy is excellent and student behaviour at all times is extremely positive. Visitors continue to tell us how calm the environment is at All Saints.

I am obviously proud that we are very calm because we do wish the best preparation for all Year 11, 12 and 13 students who will be sitting examinations in May and June. We will do our best to continue to have high levels of behaviour, politeness and citizenship so that all students sitting their exams

From the Principal have the best possible lead in for these very important tests. Good luck to all students in these busy times and I look forward to some excellent

results in the Summer.

In the meantime, the Academy facilities continue to be a focus for local schools and I

am delighted that we have entered teams for new sports for the first time, for example Tennis,

Dodgeball and Gymnastics. We acknowledge excellent reports from two major visits recently:

the visit to Krakow was a universal success and our third Sports Tour to Holland was the best one so far. As we now move close to our first full cohort as an 11-18 Secondary School I look forward to an even greater range of extra-curricular activities.

Tom Waterworth Principal


Come and join in the fun and be part of the All Saints Academy

Cheerleading Team.

Competition training will run every

WEDNESDAY after school, 3:30 – 4:30.

All ages, genders and abilities welcome!

Kelly Mannion

Teacher of Sport, Health and Leisure

CHEERLEADING COMPETITION

NEW MINIBUS I am pleased to announce that the Academy now has a new, second minibus. This is a modern, lightweight transit minibus which seats 14 people. It is proving to be a valuable resource, which helps to provide students with access to school fixtures, visits and residentials, as well as extra-curricular activities. Many of the Academy’s staff have already undertaken minibus driver training to allow them to drive the new vehicle safely. Fortunately, this includes all the Academy P.E. staff. It now means getting to fixtures and sports events is made easier, with more students able to participate.

Not only has this lifted the spirits of the staff and students, but gives good consideration to the Academy’s profile within the community and provides our students with better opportunities to visit new places and learn new things.

Paula Burgess Assistant Vice Principal – Finance & Operations

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Girls during one of many practice sessions


I am delighted to announce that Keely Sharp, Sixth Form Student, has joined the Advocate Planning Team as our Student Journalist and will be writing a range of articles for this and future editions of the All Saints Advocate. Keely will choose stories and events of personal interest to her and will interview relevant members of staff and students to gather details for her articles. It is hoped that Keely will also be able to conduct a series of interviews with key Sponsors/Governors during her time with us so watch this space!

Keely would like to pursue a career in magazine journalism and is currently researching which universities offer the relevant courses.

Keely is a welcome addition to the Team and we hope that you will enjoy reading her valuable contributions. Please join us in supporting Keely in her ambition to become a journalist – I hope you will agree that she has certainly made an excellent start with her article on Page 8.

Sharon Reid

PA to Principal

STUDENT JOURNALIST AT ALL SAINTS

Cheerleading Competition Page 2

New Minibus Page 2

Student Journalist Page 3

Red Cross Dance Competition Page 4

Coca-Cola Enterprise Project Page 5

Bike Shelters Page 6

Ian Rose Visit Page 7

Psychology Trip Page 8

Dunstable Rotary Club Visit Page 9

Maths Challenge Page 10

Afternoon Tea Page 11

Sports Tour Pages 12 & 13

Rounders & Athletics Clubs Page 14

School Games News Page 15

Vivo Miles Page 16

Information Pages Pages 17,18 & 19

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE


On Saturday 21 June 2014 , nine Year 12 BTEC Level 3 students will be

taking part in the annual Red Cross ‘Dance Make Your Move’ competition.

We are currently in rehearsals for the 8 minute Street/Contemporary

Dance Routine ‘Capturing Innocence’, which is centred on children who

are taken as child soldiers and made to fight against their will before being released to regain their

childhood.

The performance will take place at Pollhill Campus, University of Bedfordshire at 3pm on Saturday 21 June.

If you would like to show your support, tickets are currently on sale on the Red Cross Dance Make your

Move website £8/£6.

www.redcross.org.uk

Students are currently fundraising for

the Red Cross Charity and if you would

like to make a donation, please speak

to myself. Any donation would be

gratefully received.

Heather Howard 3rd in Curriculum, Creating & Designing

RED CROSS FUNDRAISING DANCE COMPETITION

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Year 10 Business students had to come up with a NEW juice brand. The winning team was invited to attend the Coca-Cola Enterprises Ltd in London on Wednesday 19 March 2014. The visit was completely free of charge and involved a short video presentation on Business Marketing and a tour of the Coca-Cola plant.

This visit benefited the students by bringing the industry alive giving them a first-hand experience of the manufacturing and business world.

The visit provided our students with the opportunities to make connections between work done in the classroom and real life business practices.

In addition, it supported them with the preparation for the world of work, and enhanced delivery of the national curriculum, supporting the work-related and enterprise agenda.

Farzana Asghar Acting CL– ICT & Business

BUSINESS - COCA-COLA ENTERPRISE PROJECT

“This was the first time that we have had students from All Saints Academy. We would have no hesitation to welcome students from All Saints in the

future. These students are a credit to your Academy with their exceptional behaviour.”

Joseph - Education Centre Manager

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Our fantastic new bike shelters were officially opened for use on Friday 2 May when Dave Osborne, the Bicycle Drummer of ‘Puncture Kit’, did the honours before leading an assembly for Year 7, encouraging them to aspire, strive and achieve their passions, whether it’s music, sport, academic study or a career path. Students were even able to try their skills on Dave’s drums, which is built around his bike frame and converts from drum kit to bike in five minutes.

Shelters over the bike-parking area were one of those things not provided by the new building programme. We were really fortunate to get support from SUSTRANS in finding a grant from Central Bedfordshire Council for the full amount for superb new shelters, installed before Easter. As the British Summer approaches, students know that their bikes and scooters are not only safe but also dry for their return journeys home, which is a further encouragement to use them for getting to school.

Many thanks to Dave Osborne, Derek Smulders from SUSTRANS, and Nick Shaw from CBC for their help and support at the Academy.

Alasdair Coles AVP - Chaplain

BIKE SHELTERS

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Ian Rose visited our students this term to provide them with sessions relating to their confidence, challenges and goal-setting. The students thoroughly enjoyed the session with each of them setting 3 short term goals to achieve. These goals are individually related to each student and have been checked against the students’ progress. In the afternoon Ian organised and taught a Judo session where students learnt the basics of Judo and were able to see the strength of our Paralympian medallist. The day was a great success and students are more motivated than ever to plan our Sky Sports Summer Festival.

Martin Conway

Teacher of Sport, Health and Leisure

SKY SPORT LIVING FOR SPORT VISIT

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As our first year of Sixth Form is coming to a close, choosing the career path we are going to take after studying at All Saints is becoming more and more important. Luckily enough, at All Saints we are regularly given opportunities which help things become a lot clearer during this very stressful time. On 26 March 2014 the A Level Psychology students visited the University of Bedfordshire for the day to get an insight into what a Psychology course entails at university. We started the day by taking a tour of the University; visiting classrooms, lecture theatres and social areas, and we even got to look at the accommodation. Additionally, we got to visit Moot Court, which is where law students practise their theory – the layout was similar to the one of a real court. It was really interesting to be told how psychology links in with law. I was really impressed with the overall building and the facilities there - the design and furnishings are also very new and modern! After lunch, we went to a ‘mini’ half hour lecture that the University had put on especially for us, so we knew what to expect from a Psychology lecture. The lecture was about aggression, and explained what aggression is and how it manifests itself – explaining the frustration-aggression hypothesis. Next on the agenda was an interactive workshop in which we learnt about research methods. The lecturers conducted an experiment with us as the participants, which involved us filling out a form on our original opinions on the death penalty. Then, after showing different scenarios on a slideshow involving the death penalty (real life court cases) we filled out the same form to see if our opinions had changed. This was really beneficial as it gave us as students a chance to revise research methods (in an applied way) as it’s a topic that is coming up in our exam this May. This visit to the University really opened my eyes to what a Psychology course at University has to offer.

Keely Sharp Year 12 Student and Student Journalist

PSYCHOLOGY VISIT

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On Wednesday 30 April 2014 All Saints Academy was delighted to host a visit by members of the Dunstable Rotary Club. President Roger Sharp and his wife, Margaret were joined by Trevor Rix (Secretary), Barry Sinfield, Reg Fossey, Robin Fletcher and Clare Tozer-Roodt for a tour of the Academy with Tom Waterworth.

Our visitors were very impressed with the building and the calm atmosphere and have expressed an interest in working with our students as they prepare for the world of work. We very much look forward to a second meeting when we will agree the best way forward on this.

The Rotary Club is an organisation of men and women of all ages who are business and professional people or community leaders keen to utilise their skills and resources to help others. For information there are 33,000 clubs in some 200 countries boasting 1.2 million members.

If you would like further information about events and activities organised by the Club, please follow them on @DRotary or DunstableRotaryClub. Information is also available on the main website www.rotary.org

Sharon Reid PA to Principal

DUNSTABLE ROTARY CLUB

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http://www.rotary.org


A number of students recently sat the UKMT Intermediate Maths Challenge. The Intermediate Challenge is aimed at students in Year 11 or below in England and Wales, Year 12 or below in Northern Ireland, and S4 or below in Scotland. The challenge involves answering 25 multiple choice questions of a high degree of complexity with a high order of mathematical thinking.

Congratulations go to all who attempted the challenge.

We had some monumental results.

Chandler Russell achieved a Gold Award and progressed on to the pink kangaroo which is only for the top 2000 students in Years 10 and 11 in the UK

Two of our Year 11 students, Luca Panconi and Ben Watkins achieved the Silver Award, with Luca only being two marks away from the Gold Award

We obtained five Bronze Awards

- Diana Ogonyo and Connor Field in Year 11

- Steven Attfield in Year 10

- Jade Windley and Chloe Gray in Year 9

We have also run the Junior UKMT Challenge, putting forward 12 of our Year 7 students, and we are awaiting the results for these students who are the first in the Academy to sit this award:

Daniella Da Silva, Hugh Holland, Kirsty Foster, Lewis Lee-Taylor, Cody Robinson, Liam Lindgren, Nat Connolly, Alex Vincze, Jasmyn Gooding and Hamza Benmoussa.

Jeffrey Bowes Curriculum Leader - Maths

UKMT MATHS CHALLENGE

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Year 10 Catering students visited Priory House for Afternoon Tea on Monday 28 April 2014. The visit was very successful and students gained hands-on experience of Presentation and Service of Afternoon Tea. Students were inspired by the excellent service and presentation of the food and drinks, which included more than 20 different flavoured teas, freshly-made scones served with homemade jam and cream, and a variety of cakes and freshly-made sandwiches. Students asked detailed questions and walked away with lots of information and inspiration for their Controlled Assessment.

Thank you to the excellent staff at Priory House and well done to all the students who attended, as they were outstanding representatives for the Academy on the day. Also, thanks to the teaching and support staff who enabled this visit to go ahead.

Samia Dokhan

Teacher of Food Technology

AFTERNOON TEA

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In the Easter holidays the Sport, Health and Leisure Curriculum Area took 30 enthusiastic sports students on the annual Sports Tour to Valkenburg, Holland. The students were a credit to themselves and the Academy and they enjoyed a fun-filled packed week of sport, which included 3 basketball fixtures per team, 2 training sessions, bowling, tobogganing, laser tag and a tour of PSV Eindhoven Football Stadium. The Students seemed to embrace a different culture and country and enjoyed competing against what were competitive, experienced Dutch and Belgium basketball teams; both the boys and girls basketball teams did themselves proud. On our return to the Academy a Sports Tour awards presentation was held to celebrate our success whilst in Holland, so well done to all students involved and congratulations to the following winners of the awards:

Outstanding Contribution Award – Georgia Meredith

Masterclass Girls’ player of the week (Team A) - Millie Henderson - Williams

Masterclass Girls’ player of the week (Team B) – Shannon Stack

Masterclass Boys’ player of the week (Team A) – Ben Adamson

Masterclass Boys’ player of the week (Team B) – Anthony Kennett

All Saints Girls’ player of the week (Team A) – Rebekah James

All Saints Girls’ player of the week (Team B) – Rebekah Gearey

All Saints Boys’ player of the week (Team A) – Ben Burgess

All Saints Boys’ player of the week (Team A) – Aiden Skipp

Girls’ Tournament winners - All Saints B – Molly Smyley, Ciara Craig, Rebekah Gearey, Ellen Cox, Eliza Ankrah, Grace Sharp, Shannon Stack, Chelsea Jefcoate

Boys’ Tournament winners – All Saints B – Aiden Skipp, Anthony Kennett, Drew Cooper, Aron Mander, Kory Ball, Mitchell Rutterford, John Shipley

Girls’ Top Scorer – Molly Smyley

Boys’ Top Scorer – Jordan Knight

Mark Gilbert

Teacher of Sport, Health & Leisure

SPORTS TOUR - VALKENBURG, HOLLAND 2014

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SPORTS TOUR

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Come along to Rounders Club on a Tuesday after school! Develop your throwing, catching and batting skills each week as well as playing regular fixtures against other schools. Currently, All Saints Academy is entered in to a mixed Year 7 league and girls’ Year 9 and Year 10 leagues respectively so there is a lot of opportunity to play games.

See Miss Small or Miss Mannion for more information.

Charlie Small Teacher of Sport, Health & Leisure

ROUNDERS CLUB

ATHLETICS CLUB

ATHLETICS club every THURSDAY after school

3:20 – 4:30 with Mr. Conway, Miss Small & Mr Gilbert.

Try out new events such as triple jump, hurdles or high

jump.

Try and improve your times/distances in running/

throwing events.

Or just come to keep fit and have something fun to do!

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On Friday 7 March 2014, the School Games hosted the Winter Games based at Inspire Village, Luton. The event was very successful with an excellent representation of teams from the Dunstable and Houghton Regis partnership. Congratulations to the following schools:

Throughout this summer term, once again there will be a variety of School Games competitions leading up to the Summer School Games event in July. All Saints Academy will be hosting the Years 3 & 4 Cricket and Tennis Festival as well as the SEN athletics. There is also a range of cricket, rounders, golf, tennis and athletics festivals hosted at our surrounding local schools and sports clubs such as Dunstable Tennis Club and Dunstable Cricket Club. Good luck to all the schools entered in these up and coming events.

Stephanie Reed

School Games Organiser

School Event Final Position

All Saints Academy Year 9 Boys’ Dodgeball 4th

Barnfield Vale Academy Boccia 5th

Caddington Village School Years 7 & 8 Dodgeball 6th

All Saints Academy Girls’ 14-18 years Dodgeball 4th

Queensbury Academy U16 Boys’ Dodgeball 1st

All Saints Academy U18 Boys’ Dodgeball 1st

Ashton Middle School Years 5 & 6 Hockey 7th

Streetfield Middle School Years 7 & 8 Swimming 8th

The Chiltern School Inclusion Swimming Gala B 2nd

Ardley Hill Lower School Years 3 & 4 Tag Rugby 8th

Barnfield Vale Academy Years 5 & 6 Tag Rugby 8th

SCHOOL GAMES AT ALL SAINTS ACADEMY

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Below are the top five students in each year group with the highest number to date.

Vivo Miles is the Academy’s reward system, awarding students under various categories, which will then

enable them to collect virtual money; working in the same way as Tesco Club Card!

Each student is given individual login details and can access their account from home. If you would like to

know more about Vivo Miles please visit www.vivomiles.co.uk

If you would like to look at your child’s Vivo Miles account, please speak to your child and they can give you

a separate ‘parent login’.

The Top 5 students in each year group with the greatest amount of Vivos are…………..

At the time of printing the student with the

most Vivos is Diana Ogonyo , Year 11 , with 2,693.

Well Done to you Diana !!!

Louise Lissaman

AVP - Student Achievement

VIVO MILES

YEAR 7 YEAR 9 YEAR 10 YEAR 11

1

2

3

4

5

Jasmyn Gooding

Jersey Villanueva

Kelsey Taylor

Lewis Lee-Taylor

Grace Bukebo

1

2

3

4

5

Jade Windley

Melville Nyatondo

Paul Mead

Shania Fitzgerald

Sangeetha Kumar

1

2

3

4

5

Ciara Craig

Charlie Allen

Molly Smyley

Krishvinie Aravinthan

Penny Kearey

1

2

3

4

5

Diana Ogonyo

Ben Clarke

Nikini Jayakody

Paul Downing

Tessa Osborne

YEAR 12 YEAR 13

1

2

3

4

5

Alexander Thomas

Jack Gorgone

Lucas Robinson

Shanelle Bowyer

Georgia Craig

1

2

3

4

5

Samantha Arkley

Paige Wyllie

Lauren Reynolds

Rachael Elmes

Paul Leversidge

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http://www.vivomiles.co.uk


We would like to say well done to the students who received an Easter egg for maintaining 100% attendance this academic year. Keep up the good work! Students also received rewards for being on or above our Academy target of 95%, and for most improved attendance. Tutor groups with 100% attendance for a continued number of weeks are being rewarded with a free lunch; some have decided on ordering pizza while others have chosen chicken and chips. If any students have any ideas for future rewards please let me know. Medical Appointments A reminder to Parents/Carers that medical appointments should be made out of school hours where possible. We do appreciate that this is sometimes difficult and would ask that students only take the necessary time out of school, not the whole day. Medical evidence will be requested for all students. Punctuality Please ensure that your child arrives on time for school. Students need to be on the Academy premises by 8.25am so that they will not be late to registration at 8.30am. Students who arrive late will be required to do a 20 minute detention on the same day. Failure to attend will result in an hour detention with their Achievement Leader on a Friday afternoon. Being frequently late for school adds up to lost learning:

Arriving 5 minutes late every day adds up to over 3 days lost each year Arriving 15 minutes late every day is the same as being absent for 2 weeks a year Arriving 30 minutes late every day is the same as being absent for 19 days a year

Attendance & Persistent Absentees The Academy attendance target is 95%; any students below this will be monitored and if they drop below 85% All Saints Academy will need medical evidence to be able to approve any absence. Medical evidence can be any one of the following: a copy of an appointment card/letter, a note from the GP/Practice Nurse giving reason for absence, a copy of a prescription made out to the student, or any other suitable documentary evidence. A decision on whether or not to authorise the absence will be made by the Academy. To give you an example of how your child’s attendance can be affected please see the facts below:

20 days off per school year = 90% attendance 90% attendance = 4 whole weeks off school 90% attendance in Years 7 – 11 means half a year off school 90% attendance for your child throughout Primary and Secondary School means they will have missed a whole year of school in their education

Absence All Absences should be reported at the earliest possible convenience on each day of absence, by calling 01582 619700 and selecting Option 2. Please be aware if the Academy has not been advised of student absence there is every likelihood that Mr Copperwheat (Education Welfare Officer) will carry out a door knock and visit the family home. Holidays during term time Mr Copperwheat is supporting the Academy in the use of Fixed Penalty Notices where parents/carers take students out of the Academy for a holiday. Penalty Notice fines for holidays in term time are £60 per parent per child if paid within 21 days and £120 if paid between 22 and 28 days. May I thank you for your continued support in ensuring that attendance at All Saints Academy continues to improve. Mrs Emma Gaskell

Attendance Manager

ATTENDANCE - CONGRATULATIONS

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A reminder to Parents/Carers that the Academy does not employ a nurse and members of staff are not

medically trained. However, a number of staff are trained in First Aid. The following procedure should be

followed in the event of a first aid incident or in the event that a student feels unwell:

If a student feels unwell, they should report to Student Reception where a first aid trained member of

staff will make an assessment. Students are encouraged in the majority of cases to return to lessons

unless they are obviously very unwell. It is worth noting that the Academy cannot issue painkillers to

students and any student reporting a headache will be assessed, offered a drink of water and

encouraged to return to class as soon as possible with the option of returning if they continue to feel

unwell or their symptoms become worse.

If a first aid trained member of staff feels that a student is too unwell to remain in school, they will

contact the Parent/Carer to get permission to send the student home or to make arrangements for the

student to be collected.

Only once all of these steps have been followed are students permitted to sign out of the Academy.

Students should NOT contact their Parents/Carers via mobile phones and ask to be collected without the

above procedures having been followed, otherwise the absence will be recorded as unauthorised.

The Academy thanks Parents/Carers for their continued support in this regard.

FIRST AID PROCEDURES

A reminder for all Parent/Carers to please advise the Academy of any change of address or telephone

numbers.

It is important that our records are up-to-date, and the correct telephone numbers are vital in order that we

can make contact in the event of an emergency.

EMERGENCY CONTACT DETAILS

Visitors’ parking on site is limited but we are pleased to advise that there are six allocated short-stay parking

spaces (including one designated disabled parking space) immediately outside the Main Reception for visitors

to the Academy, including our Parents/Carers.

Please note that, for the safety of our students, the main gates on Houghton Road will be closed every am

from 8.20 to 8.35 and at the end of the school day from 3.10pm to 3.30pm Monday to Thursday, and 12.55pm

to 1.15pm on Fridays.

VISITORS’ CAR PARKING

CHANGE TO SWITCHBOARD OPTIONS Please be aware that the options at switchboard, between 8.00am and 4.00pm (1.00pm on Friday) have been

amended. Please listen to the whole message before selecting the option you require.

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Diary Dates 2014 May 2014

Fri 23rd Year 11 Transition Day

Mon 26th - Fri 30th Half Term Holiday

June 2014

Mon 23rd National Sports Week Starts

Tue 24th Public Examinations End

Wed 25th Academy Sports Day

Thur 26th Year 10 Parents’ Consultation Evening

Fri 27th Year 11 Prom

Year 13 Leavers Day

Houghton Regis Family of Schools Festival of Sport

Mon 30th Literacy Focus Week

Sixth Form Induction Day

July 2014

Tue 1st - Fri 4th Transition Days for rising Years 7 & 9 students

Fri 11th - 13th Humanities Visit to WWI Battle Fields

Tue 15th Year 7 End of Year Celebration Evening

Houghton Regis Family of Schools Summer Concert

Thur 17th Year 9 Parents’ Consultation Evening

Wed 23rd Last Day of Term - Early Closure

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Principal: Tom Waterworth BA MA

ALL SAINTS ACADEMY DUNSTABLE

HOUGHTON ROAD

DUNSTABLE LU5 5AB

Telephone: 01582 619700 Fax: 01582 619701

Email: [email protected]

Web: www.allsaintsacademydunstable.org


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All Saints Advocate · As our first year of Sixth Form is coming to a close, choosing the career path we are going to take after studying at All Saints is becoming more and more important