WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS FOR FOURTH YEAR

By Publicity Manager22nd March 2016

St Bonaventure’s travelled to Leyton Score Centre last week to compete in the London Youth Games School Games Final Fours Under 14 Boys competition.  A mouthful indeed but the title is important because they emerged the victors.

It wall all the eights after Year 8s Basketball stars earlier beat Harrow High School a phenomenal 88 to 18, they were very confident. 

Confidence was running high after winning the title for the last three years and Mr Senior had faith in his students performance.

When Year 9s played Greig City Academy from Hornsey a day later there were old scores to settle as they had lost to St Bon’s last year but despite all their efforts they couldn’t clinch it and St Bon’s won with a final score of 76 to 62 giving St Bon’s the Under 14s title for the fourth year running – a brilliant achievement. 

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DONTE DONATES AWARD MONEY TO DT DEPARTMENT

By Publicity Manager21st March 2016

DONTE

Donte Costales who is in 7 Kolbe has been given a prestigious award from the Jack Petchey Foundation.

11-year-old Donte joined st Bonaventure’s in September from St Edwards Catholic Primary School and straight away immersed himself into secondary school life.

He volunteers for everything and is a kind and considerate student.

Donte receives the February award for his positive attitude, his flexibility in adapting to school and being an excellent role model for others.

The DT Department will benefit from his £250 award money.

Well done Donte, you are a star.

MUSICIANS RAISE MONEY FOR CANCER CHARITY

By Publicity Manager21st March 2016

Singers and musicians from all Year groups held a Spring Charity Concert last week with solo performers, group ensembles, bands and choirs all performing in a bid to raise money for pancreatic cancer research.

The talented students put  on a show to remember on Wednesday March 16 and managed to raise a fantastic £178 for the worthwhile cause.

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NEW JACK PETCHEY FEBRUARY WINNER ANNOUNCED LATER

By Publicity Manager21st March 2016

The February winner of the Jack Petchey award in school will be named later today.

The lucky student will join this year’s list of achievers, Renee in Year 12, John in Year 12, Klaudio from Year 10 and Nicholas who’s in Year 9.

An announcement will be made later.

ARE YOU AN OLD BONAVENTURIAN?

By The Head Teacher19th March 2016

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

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

Chris Hughton

So let us know.

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William Sharp

William Sharp

ST BON’S NEW WEBSITE

By The Head Teacher19th March 2016

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.

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ST BON’S TO TRAIN THE NEXT GENERATION

By The Head Teacher13th March 2016

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. 

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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.”

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The successful schools will be invited to attend a national Teaching School induction event.