Ms Logier arranged for medical students from King’s College London to come in to speak to Year 12 A level Biologists for a clinical skills workshop yesterday, March 15, and it was a huge success.

Students were really engrossed in the workshop and learnt a lot about how to do CPR on a dummy and how to extract blood albeit fake blood of course.

Ms Logier went on to say: “The workshop and simulations exposed them to a lot of new practical and vital skills and they threw themselves into the lesson fully. It was marvellous to see them getting involved and interacting with the medical students who were fantastic by the way. It was a very useful session.”

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Last Friday’s Family Fast Day simple soup lunch in support of the CAFOD Ukraine Emergency Appeal and organised by our Year 10 and 12 Chaplaincy Team managed to raise a wonderful £425.

Our caterers Olive Dining provided the broth and a roll lunch to make certain all money went to the worthwhile appeal. We are so grateful to them for their support and to all the students and staff who participated.

Watch this space for more fundraising Lenten drives we have planned including CAFOD and the Ukrainian Humanitarian Appeal.

This Friday, March 11, we are holding a Family Fast Day lunch in support of the CAFOD Ukraine Emergency Appeal.

For a minimum donation of £2.50 (the cost of a lunch) students will get a portion of vegetable soup.

This will be both a fundraiser and a powerful act of solidarity with those who do not have enough to eat on a daily basis.

Parents will need to pay via ParentPay by 10am on Tuesday March 8.

Thanks for your support.

What would you do if you found a purse containing a significant amount of money, credit cards and personal belongings on your bus ride one morning?

We all know what we should do and what the right course of action should be, but this Year 11 student had no hesitation whatsoever as he knew exactly what he had to do.

He is being praised for doing the absolute right thing and taking it straight in to school so staff could do some detective work and set about reuniting it with its rightful owner.

After some inquiries, the purse’s owner was identified and it was returned to its worried owner who was both relieved and highly delighted to get her purse back.

The student picked up a certificate from the Headteacher yesterday, March 3, for his honesty, integrity and his calm and mature decision that day.

We would expect no less from a St Bonaventure’s student.

He is a fine young man and we are hugely proud of him.

We are looking forward to National Careers that runs from March 7 – 12.

Posters highlighting inspirational quotations are now on display in the careers’ room at school and around the corridors giving our students lots of food for thought.

Our students and teachers will also be taking part in activities around what high performance means to them and their non-negotiables.

To top it off there will be an exciting competition for students to enter.

Ms Raja, our Careers’ Advisor, is always available for helpful advice and information in school too should our pupils need to see her about their future paths.

This Thursday, March 3, St Bonaventure’s will join over 100 countries around the globe to celebrate World Book Day.

World Book Day changes lives through a love of books and shared reading. Reading is a very important part of our culture and we want all our students to develop a life-long habit of reading for pleasure and benefit from the improved life chances this brings them.

As part of our celebration, staff and students will be discarding their usual uniforms and work attire and swapping them for a variety of colourful and wonderful costumes and dressing up to encourage reading.

There will be prizes awarded for the best-dressed students, as well as fun and games around the themes of reading taking place throughout the day.

There’s still plenty of time to get thinking and put together a costume for Thursday and join in the fun.

We can’t wait to see the magnificent outfits that come through the school gates as this is one of our favourite dates on the school calendar.

All their hard work, dedication and practice paid off today, January 31, when these three sportsmen took part in a Boccia competition at Newham Leisure Centre playing against three other local schools and were declared the overall winners.

The team will now go on to represent Newham in the finals of the London Youth Games.

Mr Gilbey went along with the boys and was thrilled to share in their joy when they found out they had won.

Boccia is a Paralympic sport similar to bowls or pétanque.

It was a close final match and Mr Gilbey said the boys were over the moon with their performance.

So are we! Well done from everyone at school.

Year 12 Psychology students have begun studying the topic Attachment and Mr Rahman has asked his students to conduct a fun and eggs-iting experiment to demonstrate how attachments are formed and maintained.

The psychologists were tasked with caring for an egg for two weeks and they embraced the challenge with their eggs accompanying them everywhere.

Eggs will soon be seen in the library, on the bus and even in their Psychology and Sociology lessons.

They were asked to name and personalise their eggs to begin to form an attachment and were issued with a 14 day diary to detail what their wards get up to. This will help them to link back to the topic later on.

Mr Rahman explained to students that their eggs had to accompany them absolutely everywhere unless they could arrange suitable childcare. This will help them to learn about multiple attachments.

We wish them lots of luck in this cracking assignment and we look forward to meeting the new oval visitors around school.

Headteacher Commendations were given to these Cipher Club students thus week for their codebreaking skills in a nationwide competition – The National Cipher Challenge.

This is an annual cryptographic competition organised by the University of Southampton School of Mathematics and our boys completed all ten challenges set in the exciting task for schools that was called ‘The Lighthouse Conspiracy’ this year.

The challenge this year was to track down and defeat the Lighthouse Conspiracy by solving encrypted messages and our students loved the challenge and solving the codes.