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Twenty four students are at Cambridge University today, February 28, with Mrs Burke and Miss McNulty for the launch of the Brilliant Club initiative.
We look forward to hearing how they get on in the coming weeks after their tutorials and specialist lessons.
Khalif Edwards from 10 Heath found out yesterday that he had won the January Jack Petchey award in school.
Khalif is a valued member of school who takes a very active role in school life. He is a member of the CAFOD team and is a talented dancer. He performed at the Easter Passion Play ‘Born For This’ and the Music Art and Drama summer showcase for the last three years.
Talented dancer Khalif is a positive role model for younger students and he was instrumental in ensuring the streetdance after school club continued after a staff member left. He went to see the Headteacher to argue his case why he thought the club should continue and the many benefits it brings to students. Mr Halliwell says he was impressed with Khalif’s maturity and reasoning and he was won over by his passion for the streetdance club adding: “Proactive students like Khalif who are passionate make my heart sing.”
15-year-old Khalif is deciding how best to spend his £250 award money.
Students from Years 8 and 9 had a STEM masterclass yesterday, February 9, delivered by an expert, Nick Naylor, from ‘Tomorrow’s Engineers’.
The workshops were a mix of practical and paper-based activities around the topic of engineering.
The areas covered included a session called ‘Our World, Your Future’ that looked at the implication of the increasing world population whilst ‘The Energy Mix’ covered renewable and non-renewable energy.
They particularly enjoyed the section on Kinetic Energy as they had to build a solar powered car which they found challenging and fascinating.
Mrs Larkin is the school STEM Co-ordinator and commented: “The boys enjoyed the workshops so much that many commented to me that they would really like to pursue the possibilities of a career in engineering which is tremendous.”
Mr Murray took a group of his Year 10 Young Enterprise Group boys to Spitalfields Market yesterday, February 8, to showcase their fantastic new invention that will help improve the safety of cyclists across London.
The budding inventors from Mr Murray’s club has spent all year developing the TecTitan which is a unique bicycle light that creates an illuminated safety lane behind your bike so other road users can gauge a safe distance to leave.
It was really well received and sold well with the students making a £30 profit in the short time they were at the famous market.
Mr Murray went along with the boys and said: ” 60 young companies from schools, colleges and universities submitted products they had devised and marketed but St Bonaventure’s came away with the most innovative idea award which was terrific. It’s testament to all their hard work and effort but they did devise a great and unique product which is half the battle I suppose. I really hope they are encouraged by this success and continue to be interested in innovation, business and marketing as they obviously have a flair for it.”
Suhaib, Hritik, Llias, Jacob, Ola are seen pictured with their awards.
The other students in The Young Enterprise Group who are not pictured are Tony, James, Atheeth, James, Isaac, Aaron and Reece.
A GROUP of five Year 7 students took part in The Big Schools’ Birdwatch organised by the RSPB today, February 9, 2017.
The survey is being hailed as the World’s biggest wildlife survey with thousands of schoolchildren taking part up and down the country.
Today Albert, Christian, Shayne, Agin and Johannes got close to nature as they went over to the beautiful, Victorian West Ham Park with the Headteacher and Mrs Racon and Ms Skelton to collect data.
Once over in the park, the boys split up into groups and made tally charts of the different birds they saw in the trees, bushes and on the ground.
They saw a variety of birds including robins, great tits, pigeons, blackbirds, goldfinch, magpies, rooks and parakeets.
It was a bitterly cold morning but the boys enjoyed the experience.
The results have been collated and sent off to the RSPB.
Mr Halliwell added: ” This was a great way to engage our students with wildlife and they were really keen to help out. They counted birds who count on us for their survival and this was a fantastic lesson for them to learn.”
Two soldiers visited school on Friday, February 3, as part of the Army Science Challenge and visited two classes Year 8 and 9 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) Science classes.
Josh from The Signals Regiment and Kieran from REME (The Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers) spoke to students and gave them a challenge based on a humanitarian mission scenario.
They were tasked with designing a helmet made from a composite material. This all formed part of their chemistry investigations as they looked at the properties of polymers and composite materials. The activities were expertly designed and developed in collaboration with the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory and the Institute of Naval Medicine.
The boys got to try on different types of helmets before using their reasoning skills to design a helmet suitable for a given scenario and then present their ideas at the end.
It was lots of fun for the students and the soldiers gave them lots of information and made the lesson very enjoyable.
Science Lead Practitioner, Mrs Racon, organised the day and added: “The boys came up with some great ideas and asked lots of questions I think it was a lesson they will never forget.”
Today, February 1, saw the launch of the St Bonaventure’s “Refugees Welcome” campaign raising awareness of the issues refugee families arriving in Newham face.
Year 8 students Ethan Suppaya, Dellon Velichore, Chinedu Uzoalor, Jesse Okoro and Tyler Cullen prepared and lead the assembly on TELCO and the Refugees Welcome campaign.
Assistant Headteacher and Director of RE at the school, Andy Lewis, said: “I am incredibly proud of these young men who are showing exactly what it means to be a student of the school. They are standing up and bearing witness, while helping those in need. Already they have lots of exciting plans to help raise funds towards the TELCO refugee housing appeal and this campaign is needed now more than ever before. The World seems to have lost some of its compassion and these are uncertain times. I am proud that our students want to help.”
The boys have lots of suggestions and ideas to raise money kicking off with a basketball tournament. After half term they plan to put up a huge display in the main school corridor highlighting the plight of the refugees to raise awareness.
Emmanuel Gotora, Lead Organiser for TELCO added: “At a time when the global political climate seeks to use fear of refugees to divide communities, St Bonaventure’s students are taking initiative to bring hope in recognition of our shared humanity at a very local level here in Newham.”
TELCO has committed £6,000 to help house a refugee family in private rented accommodation in Newham. They are asking if a local business or entrepreneur would be willing to contribute to fundraising or help in any way to please get in touch with Emmanuel Gotora on emmanuel.Gotora@citizensuk.org. It really could make a huge difference.
