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Are you, or do you know an Old Bonaventurian?
Did you attend our school, maybe a Brother, a Sister or a Father?
Sir Ned Fennessy
If this is the case, we are trying to build up our records of Old Bonaventurians and what they have done since they left the school.
All Old Bonaventurians are inspirational role models for our current students.
Chris Hughton
So let us know.
Lewis Iwu
William Sharp
We now have a new website that will help us to use all of our google apps more effectively.
Our staff, Governors and Students can log in directly to google on this new page.
I hope that you all like the look of our new 21st Century website.
If there is anything missing that you would like to see, please tell us.
St Bonaventure’s has been selected to become a National Teaching School.
Teaching Schools take a leading role in recruiting and training new entrants to the profession. They identify and develop leadership potential; they provide support for other schools, and work with schools across their alliance to raise standards of teaching.
St Bonaventure’s is one of 54 schools in England to be granted teaching school status in the latest round.
Introduced in 2011, Teaching Schools are all rated as “outstanding”. They work with partner schools in an alliance to ensure high quality school-led initial teacher training and professional development opportunities for teachers at all stages of their career.
They raise standards through supporting other schools, engage in research and development, and ensure that the most talented school leaders are spotted and supported to become successful Headteachers.
Paul Halliwell, Headteacher of St Bonaventure’s said: “It is really exciting to be able to develop and influence the next generation of exceptional school teachers. Our alliance is a group of schools across the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brentwood and so we will be able to work with schools across Essex, the Eastern Boroughs of London and into East Anglia. As a National Leader of Education I am looking forward to working with and assisting colleagues across the country to help raise standards of education.”
The National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) has responsibility, in partnership with Headteachers from the Teaching Schools Council, for the designation and quality of the teaching schools programme.
The latest designation round takes the number of Teaching Schools to over 700.
Roger Pope, Chair of the the National College for Teaching and Leadership, said:
“I’d like to congratulate St Bonaventure’s – they should be very proud of this achievement.
“Teaching schools have shown themselves to be at the heart of school improvement. They’re supporting other schools, attracting and training the best new teachers and developing the next generation of leaders. At NCTL, we want to do all we can to support their work.”
The successful schools will be invited to attend a national Teaching School induction event.
The cloud website gives seamless integration to Google Apps, the realsmartlearning portfolio and loads of other great apps from the web.
The google apps can be used anywhere, at anytime but the real power to RealSmartCloud is in the collaborative working within this website.
We have added a selection of the apps available to the widget menu on the right, you will see these when you log in.
To read about the vision behind your new school website read more here
