Prayer Theme: Choices/Be Ambitious

Prayer Lord Jesus, help your faithful to respond with love and friendship to the cries of those in need. Amen.

Chaplaincy

Lectionary Readings : 28th Week of Ordinary Time Tuesday - Pope St. John XXIII Friday - Pope St. Callistus

Key Events & Activities Frugal Lunch Thank you to all pupils who unselfishly gave their time and talents to make this event a success: the Year 8 assembly team, Year 10 creative team and Year 11 supervisors. SVP Community Visiting (Monday 10th October 3:20pm - 4:30 pm) Clayton Andrews, Phoebe Andrews, Lydia Pearson and Zoe Gomes to visit the Retired Sisters of the Cross and Passion on Monday after school. Register in the dining room with Paula before boarding the taxi from the car park at reception. Creative Prayer Workshops (Chapel Wednesday 12th October 12:30 pm) As October is the month of the Holy Rosary, pupils can visit Chapel to make Rosary keychains and learn to pray the Rosary. Year 9 & 10 pupils are invited to visit Chapel on Wednesday from 12:30pm for 15 minutes. See Paula to reserve a place and get a queue jump pass for the Qube.

Year 9: Wednesday: Creative Prayer (Chapel 15 minutes from 12.30 pm) Year 10 Tuesday: Meeting for pupils who have applied for a place on the Castlerigg Visit. See red flags on SIMS (Chapel 12:30 pm) Wednesday: Creative Prayer (Chapel 15 minutes from 12.30 pm) Year 11: Head Boy/Head Girl team to meet re: school event. (Chapel 11:05 am)

Pupil Bulletin 10th - 14th October (Week B)

Sport – Fixtures & Practices Monday: Table tennis (School Hall 8:00 am) Trampolining (Lunchtime Year 7 only list on sports hall door) Netball practice (3:25 pm)

Tuesday: Table tennis (School Hall 8:00 am) Badminton (8:00 am) Handball (Lunchtime) Wednesday: Table tennis (School Hall 8:00 am) Volleyball VIP / Dance (School Hall Lunchtime) Thursday: Table tennis (School Hall 8:00 am) Trampolining (Lunchtime Year 7 only list on sports hall door) Handball GCSE PE girls / dance (School Hall Lunchtime) Year 7 netball (3:25 pm) Friday: Table tennis (School Hall 8:00 am) Volleyball / trampolining other years (please see Miss Murray) Clubs and practices finish between 4:15 and 4:30pm. All welcome

lithe

adjective: lithe (especially describing a body) thin, supple and graceful Synonyms: flexible, pliant Antonyms: rigid, inflexible Example: With a graceful bow of its lithe neck, the swan glided under the bridge and out of sight. Your challenge: Create the most interesting, lively and imaginative sentence you can using this word. Submit your entry in the box in the SLC.

Sport – Notices Lancashire Dance Festival - takes place at Winter Gardens on November 22nd. If you are not already involved and you wish to be, please come and see PE staff.

Clubs and Activities Monday: Music theory (Music Room Lunchtime) Film Club (Hall 12:35 pm) SVP visiting the Retired Sisters of the Cross & Passion (3:15 - 4:15 pm) Tuesday: Music Centre (concert band/keyboard ensemble individual tuition/musical instruments (Music Room 4:00 - 5:00 pm) Wednesday: Saint Bede’s Singers (Music Room Lunchtime) Thursday: GCSE composition (Music Room Lunchtime) Lytham Youth Choir (All years 4:00 - 5:00 pm) Lytham Community Choir (6:30 - 8:30 pm) Friday: Film Club (Hall 12:35 pm)

Numeracy Challenge 5 Alan and Adam were playing a game for two people. The winner of each game was awarded 2 points and the loser was awarded 1 point. Each game always has a winner. Adam won 4 games and Alan scored 10 points. How many games did they play in total?

Congratulations to Abbey Myerscough from 9 Harcourt. Only 15 of the 20 entries were correct from week 3.

To enter the weekly Numeracy Challenge, fill in an entry slip, and place in one of the Numeracy Challenge boxes in Mr Binns’ Classroom or the SLC.

Year Notices All years: Monday Citizenship (P5) Year 10 and 11: GCSE Shakespeare texts - Following a change to the studied text for one teaching group, there is an opportunity for pupils to swap their texts during a 'Swap Shop' Monday, 10th October in room 2 during lunchtime. Pupils who have previously purchased their own copy of 'Macbeth' should bring it to school with them.

Year 11: Bus Prefects - Meeting at break every Friday in room one.

English intervention - After school on Wednesday in English classrooms. Information on posters in classroom windows.

Mock exams - GCSE English Language and Math ematics: All Year 11 pupils will be taking part in GCSE English Language and Mathematics mock exams on Thursday, 13th (periods 1 and 2; 4 and 5) and Friday,14th October (periods 1 and 2). You will be in normal lessons on Thursday, period 3 and from period 3 onwards on Friday so will need to bring the correct books and equipment for those classes. Please ensure that you are fully equipped for these important mock exams.

On Thursday, 13th October, please register promptly at your form base. Ensure that your mobile 'phones and any other electronic devices are switched off and that you have the necessary equipment in your hand or a clear plastic pencil case. Your form tutor will escort you to the front of the Sports Hall where you will line up in silence in your form groups.

On Thursday, 13th October, the afternoon exam will start at 1.20 p.m. so you should register with your period 4 class teacher before being escorted to the Sports Hall.

General Notices Mock examinations for Year 11: Please show consideration towards the Year 11 pupils taking mock exams on Thursday and Friday this week and be quiet in the area around the sports hall. Collection of products from Food Technology and Art: Leaving two minutes before the end of the school day allows you sufficient time to collect work from those subject areas. There is no need to leave before that time unless there are exceptional circumstances.

Mr. Grice I have been delighted to hear some of the many positive comments made by parents and children who visited our very successful Open Evening. One parent commented, ‘Your school is wonderful. I wish I was eleven again and starting high school! Our prefect guides were superb - so helpful and professional.’ Thank you to everyone who prepared for and led the Year 8 Mass for Justice and Peace. It was a prayerful and thought-provoking service which challenged us to be 'instruments of God's peace'.