Parent Bulletin Christ`s College Finchley Dates for your diary

Week Ending — 20th June 2014
Parent Bulletin Christ’s College Finchley
Official Opening of Sixth Form Block
We enjoyed a fantastic day on Wednesday with the opening of our
splendid new Sixth Form Block. A number of staff, parents, Mr Tucker
(Headteacher here for many years) students and Old Finchleans joined
David Bernstein (our guest of honour) at the ceremony.
David is a former student of Christ's College Finchley (1954-61) and has
enjoyed an incredible career in sports and business including roles as
Chairman of the F.A. and Manchester City Football Club.
We were really pleased that David was able to accept our invitation
and he gave a fine speech to provide a fitting end to a pleasant event.
The balloon race was a huge success and the Sixth Formers worked
very hard inflating all the balloons, attaching tags and then releasing
them, it really was a lovely sight watching them fly off over the building
and we look forward to announcing the winner of the balloon that
travelled the furthest.
The reception was very nice with music performed by Mark Fifield
(10F) on the guitar and Daniel Bastan-Sarabi (10E) playing the piano thank you to those boys for their fantastic performances.
Our archivist put on a fantastic display of the history of the school from
1910 to date. Lots of pictures will soon be available on the website.
We look forward to utilising this facility to encourage even higher
levels of student success here for many years.
Dates for your diary
Balloon Update
Friday 27th June - Year 12 Taster day
We have a had 2 balloons
returned to us so far!
Thursday 3rd July - Year 6 Transfer Day
9:45am
Thursday 3rd July - Year 6 Parents Evening - 7pm
The first returned to us was found in someone's back
garden in New Malden.
The second in Walton Heath, Tadworth - both in
Surrey.
There is still time so if you have purchased a balloon
you could still be a winner!!
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CCF 6th Form at Bristol University
26 students form Year 12 attended a special conference at Bristol University on
Monday 16th June. This was part of the opportunities offered to members of the
Russell Group at CCF. The conference was designed to show 6th formers a top
university at work, to raise aspirations as they prepare to apply for university and
to reveal what is expected from a personal statement. Students also attended a
lecture in a chosen specialist subject that included a politics talk about the link
between Labour and the Unions, an engineering lecture as well as a Biochemistry
hands on event regarding energy and muscles in the human body. Students all
said they now feel better prepared as they apply to university through UCAS.
Lateness
Year 9 Cricket
If a student is late to school they will serve a 30 minute lunchtime detention on the same day. If they
are late twice in a week then they will serve a 1
hour detention on that Friday.
The Year 9 Cricket team narrowly lose to East Barnet in the group
stages of the Barnet League. The game was reduced to 16 overs a
-side due to intense heat on the East Barnet astro-turf pitch and
both sets of boys were visibly flagging by the end of the match.
We batted first and scored a disappointing 97 all out with captain
Sam Hamerton top scoring with 25. East Barnet in response lost
their first wicket without scoring a run but then pushed on to
50-1 and the game looked to be lost. CCF rallied with 3 excellent
run outs and wickets for Sam (2), Safdar Jabrkhil and Ashish Sunny but with so few runs to defend East Barnet scraped past our
target with 3 balls to spare.
Year 11 Lockers
Can all Year 11 students please clear out their lockers and return keys to Mrs Neville by the 24th June.
After this date the lockers will be cleared and the
contents disposed of.
Duke of Edinburgh
Please ensure your son arrives at school for 7:15am
on Saturday with enough food and the correct kit
for his expedition. The weather forecast is promising so a large water bottle and sun cream are a
must! Thank you
Results
Cricket
Year 8 vs Highgate (Middlesex Cup) - WON by 7
Wickets
CCF Year 9/10 Athletics
The defending champs CCF got off to another dominating
start at the first Barnet schools meeting. Sprint stars Oliver
O'Sahon-Lubel, Jordan Townsend-Simpson and Leandro
Figueiredo blew away any opposition to demonstrate their
prowess in the 100, 200 and 300m. Joseph Eluwa and AbdiHakeem Shire were also impressive on the track as well. In
the field events, Joseph Bondzie came 2nd in the high jump,
Oliver O'Sahon-Lubel won the long jump, Jordan came 2nd
in triple jump and the twins Costas and Nikos Chamalidis
made imposing debuts in the shot and Javelin respectively.
Well Done boys
Athletics
Year 9/10 Barnet League - 2nd place (13 schools)
See separate report
Fixtures
Monday 23rd June - Year 8 Cricket vs QE Boys
(Middlesex Cup)
Tuesday 24th June - Year 9/10 Athletics League
Meeting (Allianz Park)
Wednesday 25th June - Year 8 Cricket vs St James
(H)
Thursday 26th June - Year 7 Athletics League
Meeting (Allianz Park)
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Refugee week
To celebrate Refugee Week this week we have had some representatives from The
Refugee Council to do assemblies and run workshops with the students.
Here is a report from Abel Butoi in 7D:
“In the Refugee week I have learned that, Marks and Spencer’s is owned by a Russian Refugee and Albert Einstein was a refugee who came to England after the war.
The UK population is 63,000,000 and the number of refugee’s who seek asylum are only
160,000 and that is 0.2% of the UK population.
Some young people who come here to seek asylum from persecution to get a better an
education as well as a better life from the abuse, violence and … threatening life.
People say that refugees come to England to steal jobs from hard workers. But they are
wrong, it’s a myth. Refugees are coming from other countries to seek asylum from the
terrible things that happened in their countries. For example they cannot work because
the factory has been destroyed by war. No jobs means no money to support their family.
We should learn to welcome these people in our school. “
Year 8 CCF v Highgate (Middlesex Cup)
The boys performed tremendously well against a well organised and talented Highgate school side. Highgate won
the toss and elected to bat on a good batting pitch. Our bowlers made it very difficult for them to score, however
some big hitting towards the end of their innings ensured a respectable score of 109 runs. Billy Blyghton was the
pick of the bowlers taking 2 wickets for 9 runs in 4 overs.
CCF could not have asked for a better start with the bat. Billy Blyghton (43) and Hassan Omar Shah put on 33 runs
together off just the first 3 overs. However, we lost 3 wickets in quick succession which made the CCF players
slightly nervous. William Herbert (33) batted superbly with Cameron McLeod (10) to ensure we reached the target
without losing anymore wickets. Christ's College are now through to the Semi-Finals of the county cup!
Christ's College Finchley won by 7 Wickets
Well done boys!!
More Able Gifted and Talented Trip
A group of Year 9 students took part in two events this week, as part of our commitment to ensuring provision for
our More Able, Gifted and Talented Pupils.
The first of these was held at University College London, who hosted a day of enrichment for specially nominated
pupils from across the country, who were recieved as 'Future Scholars'. The students in receipt of the award
were: Kelvin Lloyd Coker, Uzair Popalzai, Arek Djerrahain, Elion Leci and Neima Roodbari and together, they took
part in some challenging philosophical and moral debates and got a taste of what life is like as a student at a Russell Group University.
The second event was held at Royal Holloway University and was attended by Alexander Hughes, Jude Hogan, Rory
Rush-Patterson, Naim Shah, Daniel Burgoyne, Brando Chouthi, Amir Salar Jafarifar and Samiullah Moin. The pupils
were treated to a special tour of the historic campus and were given a valuable insight into the process of applying
for University places. They went on to complete an experiment in one of the university's impressive labs and they
produced and recorded radio interviews, with the help of a presenter from Radio Eagle.
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