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ALL HALLOWS
CATHOLIC SCHOOL
February 2014
and Sixth Form College
CELEBRATING SUCCESS
Team Award -Year 11 Netball squad
PRESENTATION EVENING
DECEMBER 2013
Julia
Evans
is
pictured having just
received
the
Millennium
Award
for her outstanding
GCSE results. Julia
sat 12 examinations
and achieved the
highest
possible
grade of A* in every
single one! Julia is
now
studying
A
Levels at our Sixth
Form College.
The Cathedral Church of the
Bishop of the Armed Forces,
Aldershot once again hosted
our
annual
Presentation
Evening in December 2013.
Students past and present joined
members of our school community
and guests in celebrating the
success of our students.
Our
guest speaker Mr Bill James, Head
Teacher at St Josephs Catholic
Academy in Aldershot (pictured
above with Bishop Moth), gave a
meaningful and thought provoking
talk about the journey our students
make from junior to senior school
and beyond. Our new Chair of
Governors, Mr Tahourdin (also
pictured above), presided over the
evening whilst our Headteacher
Mrs Lutzeier spoke about the faith
and trust that parents place in the
staff at All Hallows in doing what is
best for our students.
Mr Laker ensured the smooth
running of the evening as the
Master of Ceremonies, whilst Mr
James presented the students with
their
A
Level
and
GCSE
certificates followed by honours for
outstanding
effort
and
achievement in the classroom and
in sports. The music department
once again provided outstanding
performances from the Chamber
Choir, String Ensemble and the
Sixth Form Ensemble.
The
evening
concluded
with
a
presentation to Mr James, by our
Head Boy and Girl, Samuel
Nichols and Rachel Green, of a
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piece of art created by Perry Scott,
one of our former Sixth Form
students seen in the photograph
below.
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our website—follow the link on the
homepage.
Advent Charity Fundraising 2013
Shooting Star Chase
By Mr Tucker
Students and staff have been involved with
fundraising during Advent. There were a variety of
activities set up to raise funds from cake sales and
mufti outfits to guess the teacher from the baby photo.
In all, over £5000 was raised for good causes with
£2,557.40
donated to Shooting Star CHASE,
£1,278.70 to Children in Need and £1,278.70 to the
Philippines Typhoon Disaster Fund. We have
received some lovely letters of thanks from these
organisations who have also highlighted ways in
which the money can be spent. Lauren Ellis from
CHASE (pictured) came into school on the last day of
term and spoke to all the students and thanked them
for their efforts and explained that the money could
pay for portable oxygen cylinders for one year for both
planned and emergency administration of oxygen.
Each year our students excel in the efforts they make
in making a difference to other people’s lives. This was a great effort by all and an excellent way of
demonstrating as a community that we are beacons of light bringing hope to others.
Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice and Great Ormond Street Hospital
Sixth Form Senior students invited Georgie Welch from Phyllis Tuckwell to the school to be presented with a
cheque for £793.56. The monies were raised from the activities and events in Rag Week. The students chose
to support the hospice as their local charity. They raised a similar figure for Great Ormond Street Hospital.
From Phyllis Tuckwell website...
BECAUSE EVERY DAY IS PRECIOUS
Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice is the only adult Hospice caring for
terminally ill people and their families across the whole of West
Surrey and part of North East Hampshire, both at the Hospice
and in the community.
Our care helps patients manage pain and improves the quality
of life for both the patient and their family.
Seeking care through our Hospice isn’t about giving up hope or
hastening death, but rather a way to get the most appropriate
care in the last phase of life…because every day is precious.
By Mrs Fanshawe
Farnham Food Bank
The Sixth Form students were set a very competitive interform challenge to see who could collect the most food items
to be donated to Farnham Food Bank. The collection ran for
two weeks and the students generously gave items ranging
from Angel Delight all the way through to luxurious mince
pies and Christmas puddings!
Overall, the Sixth Form students did a fantastic job,
collectively donating just over 500 items which meant that
approximately 24 families in the Farnham area had food for 4
days. The winning form groups were 12SB who donated
over 70 items and 13NG who donated over 140 items!
Superb effort all round and a MASSIVE
THANK YOU to all staff and students who
gave to such a worthy cause!
By Miss George
Sixth Form Chemists visit Southampton
University
On Wednesday 15th January the Year 12 Chemistry class
went on a trip to Southampton University to participate in
experiments. It gave us all a chance to use new equipment
and get a feel for what chemistry would be like to study at
university. We left school at lunch to head down to the
University, and first listened to a presentation explaining the
experiment we would be doing. We learned how to extract
different substances from nutmeg and analysed results using a
chromatography process. Students studying chemistry at the
university helped us with our experiments, and it was great to
be able to use a university lab and advanced equipment.
Thanks to Miss Gowing and Mrs Parry for putting together a
fantastic trip for the class!
By Lydia Macallan, Year 12
Visit to The
National Theatre,
London.
Science Museum
On 20th January the Year 13 Physics group visited the
Collider exhibition at the Science Museum.
On Thursday 30th January, Alevel and GCSE drama
students embarked on a trip
to have a tour behind stage
of the National Theatre on
London’s
Southbank.
It
enabled
teachers
and
students to see how each
production is set up and
understand the teamwork required. The theatre consisted
of three stages; the Olivier, the Lyttelton and the
Cottesloe theatre. Due to the Cottesloe being renovated
we were able to look at the temporary theatre called ‘The
Shed’ which could be changed depending on what play
was running. These theatres together have produced
over 700 plays. This private look behind the scenes gave
us the knowledge needed to adapt our own theory-based
work to include staging. It also gave us an insight into
how theatre has changed in the last 30 years. Towards
the end of our tour we were able to look at props which
other actors had used in previous performances, and
learnt how they were made and the effort that is put into
finding the right materials for the best audience
experience. Overall, this gave us a chance to not only
see the theatre from an audience’s perspective but an
actor’s as well. Pictured above is Keira having a bad hair
day!
The physics trip was amazing, the Large Hadron Collider
exhibition was an interesting and interactive insight into
the working of the Universe.
The exhibition took us through the
discovery of the Higgs Boson and
the physics behind this.
Many parts from the Large Hadron
Collider at CERN itself were on
display, which gave us an
immersive experience; in parts we
could imagine working at CERN.
In addition, we had time to explore
the Science Museum. The day was
highly informative and fun.
By Lauren Eggleton
and Patrick Inns
By Mel Hayes, Year 13
“September in the Rain”
When going to see a play containing only two actors and a room full of those from an
older generation, you don’t really expect to enjoy yourself, especially when you don’t
know what it is about. September in the Rain, however, used comedy to engage even
the teenage watcher. With Claire Sweeney and John Thomson playing Liz and Jack, a
couple going through 40 years of their holidays in Blackpool in September, from young
to old, the use of minimal props and characters could not be faulted. The dynamics of
the two were hilarious, it was like we were watching them grow as a couple over the
years, through the good times and the bad. September in the Rain was filled with tears
and laughter, fish and chips and wet and windy promenades in September. It was fantastic!
By Danielle Elliman, Year 13
Key Stage 3 Maths Project
Students in Years 7 to 9 took part in the termly ImaP
(independent Maths Project) where they were given a task, had
to independently work out how to tackle it and then present it in
an informative and eye-catching way. Class winners were
chosen for each class and then overall winners for each level
were awarded. This was a difficult task as the standard of entry
was very high. Congratulations to Michael Smith, Lily Waywell,
Siobhan Hall and Sian Deacon shown holding their Amazon
voucher prizes presented to them by Mr Rees and to Ross
Crabbe, Ellie Ayrton, Jessica Mint, Harry Hughes, Francesca
Mizzi, Hayley Jackson, Natasha Usselmann, Greg Boniface,
Sophie Ryland, Ruth Shore, Natasha Bianco, Faisal Ahmad,
Bethan Delves, Tamzin Harris, Jasmine White, Lucy
Fiitzgerald, Rosie
Lyons, Sam Kellock, Harry Easting,
Rosemerry Gurung, Ella Federico, Isabella Rolls, Ella Stadler ,
Natasha Eggleton, Emma Barratt, Stella Davia Lui and Chloe
Howarth for being best in class.
By Mrs Farrar
Lebkuchen Day – D&T and MFL
joint project
The famous Kölnerweihnachtsmärkte came to All Hallows
School on 5th December during an innovative and creative
project between the Design Technology and Modern Foreign
Languages Department.
Inspired by the sights, sounds and smells of the traditional
German
Christmas
Markets,
Year
7
learners of German
celebrated the start of
Advent by taking on the
role of Bäcker and
baking and decorating
traditional
German
Lebkuchenherzen
(gingerbread hearts).
This was an excellent
opportunity for students
to
understand
the
German tradition of
giving gingerbread hearts and for
students to apply both their D&T and
language learning skills in a practical
and exciting way. Students learnt
and practised the vocabulary they
needed to then produce, decorate,
bake and package their gingerbread
entirely in German. They chose
authentic messages to decorate the
hearts, piped them expertly and
designed
the
labelling
and
packaging
using
various
programmes. Their German, ICT,
D&T and team-work skills were
certainly put to the test and the
finished products were of an
exceptionally high standard.
Our most sincere thanks go to the D&T Department for their
support and hard work for making the day possible and
giving the students such an exciting opportunity.
Further exciting joint projects between MFL and D&T to
follow – watch this space!!
By Mrs Boniface, Head of MFL
Speaking Team Win Again….
Our senior public speaking team managed to turn the subject
of education into a debate between Shakespeare and Pink
Floyd, a feat that so impressed the judges of the initial round
of the Aldershot Rotary Club’s public speaking competition
that they awarded them first place.
Edward Eggleton, chairing the session, asked whether the
speaker, Eamonn Lynch-Bowers would be able to prove that
‘education sets us free’. Rachel O’Boyle giving the vote of
thanks, made the audience laugh when she said that her first
thoughts on the topic might easily have been: “We don’t need
no education”.
With his impassioned defence of education, Eamonn not only
helped the All Hallows team to victory, he also won the trophy
for the best individual speaker of the evening.
Mrs Lutzeier, who coaches the speaking teams said: “We are
always very grateful to the Rotary Club for giving our students
Rachel O’Boyle, Edward Eggleton and Eamonn Lynch-Bowers
the opportunity to practise speaking in public, particularly in
receive their awards from Bruce Bulgin, president of Aldershot Rotary.
such marvellous surroundings as Rushmoor Council Chamber”
Chamber Concert
Natasha Bianco
Karel Coetzee and
Theodore Maher-Williams
On Wednesday 12th February the second Chamber
Concert for soloists was held in the School Hall. The
evening, organised by Mr Banks and our other
dedicated music teachers, was a showcase for
20 of our outstanding young musicians who
performed classical music spanning four
centuries. Pupils representing Years 7 to
12 participated and performed solos displaying
technical expertise and musical sensitivity. It was
really good to see the enthusiasm of the performers
and the willingness to share with others the sheer
enjoyment of performing music that they had taken Toby Richardson-Jones
many hours of practice to prepare. The standard of musicianship on display was
quite remarkable. We are fortunate to have very talented young people
representing our school. The performers were:
Anna Jones (Clarinet), Niamh Murray (Piano), Sanya Srivastava (Flute), Lydia
Macallan (Piano), Sam Martyn (Piano), Karel Coetzee (Trumpet), Kara Rees
(piano), Theodore Maher-Williams (Piano), Natasha Bianco (Clarinet), Alex
Johnson (Piano), Katie Mint (Clarinet), Adam Byrne (Piano), Tom Cobb
(Saxophone), Ben Rees (Saxophone and Piano), Olivia Jasper (Voice), Helena
Wood (Piano), Sian Besley (Clarinet), Toby Richardson-Jones (Violin), Brendan
Jones (Marimba) and Sam Banks (Flute)
Although many of the above students are members of school bands, choirs,
FAYO, County and National level orchestras, it is really encouraging to see that
they are also so willing to perform as soloists in front of an audience here at All
Hallows.
Presentation Evening
Year 8 Achievement Award
Awarded for attainment in each tutor group
THE ROTARY CLUB OF FARNHAM NEED IT
Mia Goodwright ~ 8A,Samuel McCarthy ~ 8C, Katherine Horton ~
8E, Isabel Cobb ~ 8J, Lavender Rodriguez ~ 8M, Sujal Gurung ~
8P, Elizabeth Fox ~ 8S, Calum Chapman ~ 8H.
Smart PE Kit
Many of you may remember last year’s hugely
successful Sportathon which involved students in all
year groups being sponsored to take part in sport for a
full 24 hours.
Lucy Dudley, a member of the Year 11 netball team
writes, “We love our new kit! For years we have been
playing without a proper netball kit and now we have
one. It make such a difference psychologically to turn
up in a kit that you are proud of wearing and definitely
helps improve performance. Doing the Sportathon to
raise the funds was
also lots of fun!”
Thanks to the excellent planning of Mrs Smart and the
huge support from members of staff, students were
able to raise a large sum of money towards much
needed new team
kits.
A huge thank you
to the students and
staff
that
have
helped select and
purchase the kits.
They
really
do
make the students
proud to represent
All Hallows.
By Miss Groves
The PE department have been able to purchase new
netball, basketball and football team kits for both upper
and lower school. Following an Olympic style photo
shoot the extra-curricular teams are now wearing the
kits when playing fixtures against other schools both at
District and County level.
E-Safety Evening
at All Hallows
On Thursday 13th February, Mr Ian McGraw from Surrey
County Council came to speak to parents of All Hallows children
about safeguarding and present some facts and advice about
internet use. The talk was very informative and also gave
parents up to date information about how to keep safe using
digital communication methods and social media.
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electronic version of the presentation.
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The students shown wearing the new kits are;
Lucy Dudley, Nathan Woolley, Sam Pedersen,
Joe Connell, Kalsoom Rafiq, Alex Cassell,
Frances Kemp, Safal Gurung and Harry Acott.
Also shown is our successful Year 11
basketball team.
Presentation
Evening
The Darryl
Harding Award
For outstanding achievements
in
Physical
Education.
Pictured is the very deserving,
Declan Kavanagh from Year
11 who represents the school
in various sports teams,
especially rugby.
Sixth Form Building Progress
Holocaust Presentations
On the 27th of January 2014, 69 years will have
passed since the liberation of the Nazi German
Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp.
During this week we were given a talk by two of the
Sixth Formers, Gemma and Anna. They talked to us
about their visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau which they
took last year. Gemma and Anna shared some
horrific stories about people’s experiences in the
concentration camp, many involving families being
separated from each other—mothers from daughters,
fathers from sons. It really brought home how lucky
and privileged we are today to live in a world where
no such discrimination takes place. From this lesson I
learnt one quote which I believe to be very important
to prevent these devastating events from ever
happening again — ‘we learn from history that we do
not learn from history’.
By Mia Goodwright, Year 9
Despite the terrible weather we are all
experiencing, building work continues
to progress at a pace on our new Sixth
Form building. Students have been able
to view from the playground the
construction of the curved roof which
merges perfectly with our Sports Hall
roof. Inside the building, new walls
appear daily and the sheer scale of the
auditorium is apparent to all those who I
have taken around the building. Sadly
the inclement weather has limited my
ability to take students for a guided tour
of their new facility, but I hope to
commence the tours after half term.
By Mr Spare
HISTORY
COMPETITION
A group of Year 9 students will
be going to the First World
War battlefields of Belgium
and Northern France this June.
To mark 100 years since the
outbreak of the First World
War, the students will be laying
a wreath during a Last Post
ceremony at the Menin Gate in
Ypres.
In order to allow our wider
school community to take part
in this commemoration, we are
inviting all students from all
year groups to write in with an
appropriate
Remembrance
message of no more than 30
words. One of these will be
The Great All Hallows Bake Off
Due to the large number of
students (over 80!) wishing to
participate in the Bake Off, I
have spread the rounds over
the whole year. Round One
was a technical bake where the
students had to make a biscuit.
The standard was very high,
and the biscuits were delicious!
Congratulations to all those
who got through to the next
round in the Spring Term.
Pictured is Kirah Ambroziak
who, along with Ellie Bunton,
was one of the ‘Star Bakers’.
By Mrs Behagg
selected by the school to
attach to the wreath of poppies
to be presented during the
Last Post ceremony.
Please give your
Remembrance message to
Mr Jones by Friday 28th
March.
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Presentation Evening
The Farnham Lions Community Award
Awarded for service to the wider community, The Lourdes
Pilgrimage Helpers are;
Matthew Arnold,
Lauren Bradshaw,
Gemma Crean,
Nathanael Crowley,
Anne-Marie
Fanshawe,
Matthew Lee,
Joseph Mather,
Manilyn Teo,
Sophia Wilson, and
Samantha
Winstanley
CHAPLAINCY TEAM
This year the Portsmouth diocese celebrates the ‘Year
of Faith in Action’ when the Christian community are
asked to reflect on how they can best serve as Christian
witnesses in our world. The Spring term is a very busy
time especially with the season of Lent fast
approaching. We began the year in January with staff
reflections on the role of chaplaincy at All Hallows and
how we might develop it in the future. The chaplaincy
team work closely with a number of priests and deacons
who serve the school in a number of ways, from
celebrating Mass with tutor groups to leading our
Awayday programme. This is an important part of the
three-way relationship between the school, the home
and the parish communities.
This term our Year 8 students have their Awayday to
Wonersh. Here students have the opportunity to explore
the theme of human rights and to work through a variety
CONGRATULATIONS TO….
of activities and workshops. The days are led by Fr.
Niven Richardson from St. Joan of Arc parish in
Farnham who always brings excitement and enjoyment
to the day. Later in the term Year 9 will have their
Pathways Mass where students gather together to
reflect on the choices they will be making with regard to
their GCSE subjects. Students prepare the
intercessions, and bring forward an example of their
best work in the offertory procession.
During Lent students and staff will be celebrating Ash
Wednesday and participating in
reconciliation services as part of the
preparations for Easter.
We are fortunate in having the support
of local clergy and the dedication they
show to the students and staff of the
school. Increasingly they are giving of
their time to help our young people in
the discovery of their faith.
Georgia (pictured)
and Alicia Griffiths
who took part in the
Supadance National
League Finals in
Blackpool at the
beginning
of
December. Alicia’s
team got to the semi
final
stage
and
Georgia’s team won
their
competition
becoming Division
One
National
Champions.
Anish Rai from Year 7 for achieving his red belt in Tae
Kwon Do earning the highest possible mark for the grade.
Anish is preparing for the GTI English Championships and
the PUMA World Championships.
Dates for your Diary
YEAR 8 PARENTS’ EVENING
Thursday 27th February
16:30 - 19:00
ASH WEDNESDAY
Wednesday 5th March
YEAR 12 & 13 PARENTS’ EVENING
Wednesday 5th March
16:30 - 18.30
8P AWAYDAY
Wednesday 12th March
YEAR 11 INTO 12 TASTER DAY
Wednesday 12th March
DANCE SHOW
Wednesday 12th March Thursday 13th March
19.00 - 21.00
Matt Arnold from Year 13 for his
recent cross country running results
and qualifying achievements. He
was fourth at Surrey County schools
which qualifies him for the English
School Championships in March.
Matt was fourth at the Hampshire
County Championships and Team
Gold, qualifying for UK Inter- county
championships also in March. (Shown on Sky Sports) and
for achieving sixth place in his age group at the South of
England XC Championships and Team Gold.
YEAR 9 PATHWAYS EVENING
Wednesday 19th March
16.30 -18.30
8S AWAYDAY
Wednesday 19th March
8H AWAYDAY
Wednesday 26th March
SPRING CONCERT
Wednesday 26th March Thursday 27th March
Please email major achievements
(include a photograph) to: [email protected]
ALL HALLOWS
CATHOLIC SCHOOL
and Sixth Form College
19.00 - 21.00
LAST DAY OF TERM
Friday 4th April 12.15
Telephone:01252 319211
Fax: 01252 328649
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.allhallows.net
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