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MESSAGE FROM HEAD TEACHER

Dear Parents/Guardians/Carers As we end November, and move into December and Advent, we as a community are preparing to celebrate Christmas. In true traditional Sacred Heart fashion, hampers, giving tree, school raffle, choir singing, the tea-dance and special services and masses, ensure our pupils experience the true meaning of this festive but primarily holy time. I ask all our parents and community to encourage our children to live their faith by continuing to help those less fortunate than themselves. My hope for you is that you take time this Advent to prepare your heart for the coming of Jesus. Give generously to the school hamper appeal, bring joy to our older community members who will be joining us at our Tea Dance next week and get to know Jesus better through prayer.

Mr S Cefai Head Teacher

Autumn Term—Issue 2

S A C R E D H E A R T N E W S

Autumn Term—Issue 11 29th November 2019

INSET Day coming up…..

Monday 2nd December 2019

SACRED HEART GRAND CHRISTMAS DRAW 2019 TAKES PLACE ON

13TH DECEMBER

School hamper appeal for the elderly in our community—please give generously!

Tea Dance

1.30pm on Wednesday 4th December

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Monday, 2nd December INSET DAY—School closed to Students Tuesday 3rd December Y7 Assembly—Human Rights Y9/10 Computing Trip—Ms Cole Y13 Psychology Trip—Ms Evans Wednesday 4th December Y9 Assembly—Human Rights Physics Trip—Ms Kemp (6.15pm) Y7 Computer Science Workshop Tea Dance (pm)

Thursday 5th December Y10 & Y13 Assembly—Human Rights Y12 Maths Trip—Ms Mukasa School Production Rehearsal (pm) Y13 NASA Talk (A10) Friday 6th December Y8 Assembly—Human Rights

Y10 Girls Football v BTG (pm) - Ms Mullens

Business reakfast (A6)

Y11 Art Exam—Ms Basra

Y9 Coding, P6.

ASSEMBLIES & EVENTS

Name: Elizabeth – 8P Found: A lower school tie &

charger plug Name: Ikenna – 7T Found: A Oyster Name: Ashley – 7M Found: A lower school tie Name: Praise – 8T Found: A Gifted & Talented

PE badge Name: Emmanuel – 8P Found: An upper school tie Name: Abigail – 8P Found: A calculator Name: Nathan – 9C Found: Ear piece

Name: Sean – 9P Found: A set of keys Name: Chidera – 12DM Found: A pencil case Name: Zilal – 10T Found: A locker key Name: Chizzy – 8P Found: A pencil case Name: Gisela – 8B Found: A set of keys Name: Emily – 7C Found: A water bottle Name: Yoana – 7C Found: A water bottle Name: Therese – 8M Found: A locker key

Name Adriana & Arielle –

7T Found: An Oyster card Name: Cristano – 8C Found: A Gifted & Talented

RE badge

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Year 10 History Trip – Westminster Abbey and The National Archives –

Thursday 21st November

Our Year 10 historians are currently studying the Elizabethan Age (1558 to 1603) as part of their GCSE History studies. To help to deepen their understanding of Elizabeth’s reign the History Department organised a trip to Westminster Abbey and the National Archives. At Westminster Abbey our pupils were challenged to think about how to use we can use a building as a historical source. We were taken on an excellent tour of the Abbey, visiting the Chapter House, cloisters and tombs of Tudor monarchs. We also got to see the coronation chair – the very one used by Elizabeth I on 15th January 1559 and that is still used today! They studied the Abbeys history and considered how key features of the building show the changes Elizabeth made to religion in England. We also visited the National Archives at Kew. We were told about the huge volume of documents held at the Archives – dating from the Doomsday Book to modern political records. Our students were given an insight into the high security procedures at the Archives and were thrilled to find out they were in the safest building in the UK! We then had the opportunity to handle real Elizabethan documents, including letters written by Queen Elizabeth I herself! Our pupils then had a go at deciphering Elizabethan handwriting to try to explore the contents of primary documents from Elizabeth’s reign. The Year 10s were fantastic ambassadors to Sacred Heart School and engaged in all of the activities throughout the day. Well done!! Mme Claughton—Head of History

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Last week was Word Week at Sacred Heart school, during which we celebrated the written and spoken word with a series of exciting performances and activities in and outside of lessons! Read on to find out more about what went on!

We enjoyed a fantastic Year 9 Spoken Word event in the school hall on Monday, with a wide range of performers and performances from pupils across all sets. Topics covered included knife crime, depression, school life… and chocolate! The Year 9 performance awards went to:

Callum Stark for best effort Ericka Ramos Quezada for best performance Chelsea Beattie for best poem

Chelsea, Rain, Tomas, Dami, Michael O, Aisosa, Elisabeth, Ericka. Porshia, Antonio, Juan, Ataylia, Naquella, Tife, Chanddy, Kimy, Faith, Annie, Nassar, Danielle, Calvin, Bruno, Lucy and Callum!

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1-0-9 In 2-0-1-9, when I say those numbers, what comes to mind? Well unfortunately I just do this sign (of the cross) as I tell you That’s how many people have died.. 109, in 2-0-1-9 have died from Gun and violent knife crime. (At the time) A mother receives a call Her ringtone a deafening sound in her head As the solemn voice on the other end informs her On why her son isn’t home at 6 in the evening She runs, she sprints, (gasp) can’t breathe Her own breath choking her body as she NEEDS To see him. Her sons body. Shot in head He lays there, dead. All she can see is red as the crimson life drains from his body Like he drained the milk from the cereal his mum had made him Just. This. Morning. A boy forces in that blade He watches as the deep ruby shade stains the school shirt The boy was wearing His hands shake, he’s too late He drops to the floor, no voice to call No hope in saying “I love you” one more time He’s running OUT, of time. Each drop is a moment lost onto the already stained pavement. Drop, a mother’s face he’ll never see. Drop, a great lover he’ll never meet.

Drop, an amazing father he’ll never be. Drop, an important life that now does cease to exist... A women screams, “That was my SON, look what you’ve done? Tell me, what have you won now that I am without my baby?” The image of him laying there, her hopelessly dragging her hands through his hair. It plagues her mind. She can’t seem to find a way out of this painful Maze in which her son’s death does Continue to follow her. All she can see is that hole in his chest and A hole in the hearts of all those who are now forced to live without his; Smile, His words, His voice, all because of another boys choice? 1-0-9, 109, 10-9, how ever you say it, it’s not fine It’s crime, and yet it doesn’t seem to be worth anyone’s time? It breaks a chain of lives that would have pros-pered To break the shackles of struggles young peo-ple Already have to deal with... Mothers and fathers have to bury their young, My own MUM said “I’ll never bury my child for they have to bury me” But now that’s beginning to seem like life’s fact And yet none of us who hear and see it every-day Seem to see a problem? ‘Cause I see a huge problem with that number 1-0-9.

And special congratulations to Chelsea who also performed her poem to all the staff before school on Wednesday! Here is her poem, titled ‘109’:

Poem entitled ‘109’

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Year 10 Performance Showcase: Year 10 provided us with a real treat when it came to their performance showcase on Monday – we had original poems, dramatic readings of GCSE Power and Conflict poems, poetry and prose inspired by and reinterpreting the themes of varied GCSE texts, amazing recreations of scenes from ‘A Christmas Carol’ and some AMAZING spoken word and rap performances.

My Favourite Book Competition

We had over 50 entries for the ‘my favourite book competition at lunchtime on Monday, which was run in the Atrium by Alex, Dawn and Angel from Year 8.A full list of the books chosen is listed.

The most popular were the Harry Potter series, which are therefore officially crowned Sacred Heart school’s favourite books! Well done to everyone who entered, especially Anu (10T) whose entry was judged the winner: Anu chose Girl A and said: “It’s a book that talks about modern life and what is going on in our society, It’s a relatable story and it’s

very touching.”

Girl A Romeo and Juliet Cool

Harry Potter (various titles) Tintin Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Mallory Towers The Hunger Games Refugee Boy

The Hate You Give We Come Apart The Red Pyramid

The Bible Wonder Kensuke’s Kingdom

Steve Jobs biography Matilda Billionaire Boy

Private Peaceful Gangsta Granny

Time Travelling With a Ham-ster

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Naruto The Secret History

Dork Diaries Lily

The Year 10 Performance awards went to: Chidi Anokuru

Chidibere Sydney

Cedrick Dukuze

Kirstie Asmah

There is so much creative talent in Year 10 – well done everyone!

My Favourite Book competition!

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We had over 50 entries for the ‘my favourite word’ competition at lunchtime on Monday, which was run in the Atrium by Alex and Jesse from Year 8. A full list of the words chosen is listed below. The most popular word was “discombobulated”, which is therefore officially crowned Sacred Heart school’s favourite word! Well done to everyone who entered, especially Maja (8T), whose entry was judged the winner! Maja wrote in a lot of detail about several words that were important to her, including “imagination” be-cause “imagination can make you unstoppable, which will help to make you anything you want to be!” Here is a full list of Sacred Heart school’s favourite words!

My Favourite Word Competition

Quaint Word Anthropomorphic

Flamboyant Trying

Fantastic Empathy Supercalifragilis-ticexpialidotious!

Boom Earth

World Sufficient Fluorescent Fun Happy

Unique Succinct Inexcusable Diabolical Mystical

Perplexed Voluptuary Commitment Humdrum Friend

Believe Independent Discombobulated Love Cunning

Fantastic Best Courage Family Caring

Honest Beginning Imagination Thoughts Rocket

Angry Food Business No Power

Year 7 Anagram Treasure Hunt and Spelling Bee

We had lots of entries in the Year 7 Anagram Treasure Hunt competition run by Ms Spiller. Congratulations to the winners who were: Jidda Janneh, Danielle Akena, Yoana Noelia Alvarez Morales, Stephanie Kankam Period 1 on Tuesday saw a highly tense and dramatic spelling bee in the school hall, which kept the whole year group and members of staff on the edge of their seats! After the first round saw three of the original 15 finalists eliminated we gradually moved on until we had five competitors left who were all tied on the same number of points. There were several more ties and in all it required three sudden death timed rounds to finally crown a winner, with Anabel emerging just one point ahead of Sienna after spelling five words correctly in 20 seconds compared to four!

Well done to the 14 finalists: Isaac, Stephanie, Annabel, Amerie, Manatsa, Anu, Ugochi E, Ugochi O, Jeminat, Jessiah, Sienna, Jidda, Carl, Leo

And a special well done to the top six, including our new Spelling Bee champion—Annabel!

CHAMPION! ANNABEL (7B)

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Year 8 Debate There was a brilliant Year 8 debate on Tuesday organ-ised by Ms Noble, with the motion debated being whether we should abolish the rank order. The whole year group were in attendance, with members of the 6th form acting as judges. Both the proposition and opposition made convincing cases, and there were also some fantastic floor speeches and questions. Congratulations to the winning team: side ‘opposition’! Also well done to Tia Latim who won the prize for best floor speech and to all other pupils who were involved: Antonio Faulkner, Jojo Forson, Henok Tecle and Alex Tavares-Correia on side ‘opposition’ and Cristiano Alves, Christine Sombay, Elizabeth Fayemi and Miah Anderson-Dosunmu on side ‘proposition’. Well done to our judges too: Grace Makiese, Daniela Athieno Jawiloka, Mirana Claye, Bethal Abbay, Makayla Fender, Berenice Boamah and Amabel Cofie. Thanks to Sarah Darkwa and Chizzy Uka-Ugbaja for help-ing with the floor speeches.

Year 8 Poetry Workshops Students from Year 8 worked with visiting poet Aneira Roose-McClew to write their own spoken word poetry. After listening to her poem on the exam system, students chose topics they felt pas-sionate about. Using Aneira’s example, they planned how to take their audience on a journey that would start with their feelings, reveal an insight in the middle, and end in what we can all do as a result of their insight. Their cho-sen topics included family, mental health, bullying, art, athleticism, education, gaming and music. Students finished the session by reading out their favourite line from their poems:

‘I’m lost/Waiting to be found/But no one seems to be looking.’ ‘Education is important so you can strive for what you want in life/Do you think it’s a game?/Take it seriously/Rich in my mind, I ain’t never broke’. ‘Art is great, thoughtful, needed, and if you fail the first few times remember to try it again.’ ‘What comes to your head when I say games?/People sitting down for hours staring at a screen/Or maybe hiding away from society./It’s cruel they say it turns your eyes square/That is just not true.’ ‘When I say family what do you think? /Annoying little brothers and sisters obsessed with pink?/ We don’t treat family like they’re supposed to be treated/Family is amazing, nothing can beat it.’ ‘A tumour of paranoid depression.’ ‘The plan was set/We could have met/Coming home from school, like a bullet through my head/Those four words: he’s gone, he’s dead.’

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Physical Theatre Workshops Students from Y9 - 12 took part in a series of Physical Theatre Drama workshops in which they explored their fears in an ever changing, hos-tile world and discussed what they would like to change if they had the chance. They worked with professional playwright Jennifer Farmer, Di-rector Seta White and Choreographer Akeim Toussaint Buck to produce mini scenes set on a double-decker bus in London. These scenes and ideas generated through discussion will be used to produce a piece of musical theatre called NOT US which centres around five young people and what it is to be a young person from a BAMER background in to-day's world, with the continued growth of the far-right and widespread justification of racism and xenophobia. On 16 December the students involved will be going to the Streatham Space Project to work with other schools who are also involved in the project, and perform the whole sequence for a live audience in the evening.

Year 12 /13 Graphic Novel Workshop On Tuesday afternoon a selection of Year 12 and 13 students attended a workshop hosted by graphic novel writer and artist Daniel Christie. Daniel spoke about how he produced and pub-lished his epic graphic novel The Legend of Eagle-Ras, as well as about his own upbringing and background. His message that whatever your circumstances or background you can achieve was very inspiring! Students then designed their own graphic novel characters and storylines which they shared with Daniel. A selection of their work can be seen below!

Harper Collins Publishing Careers Presentation On Wednesday afternoon, Year 11 English sets 1-3 enjoyed a presentation, talk and Q and A session with a range of professionals from leading publishers Harper Collins. The talk enabled pupils to gain a better understanding of the wide range of careers that ex-ist within the publishing industry. After school pupils in other year groups were also able to meet with the representatives from Harper Collins and gain their own insights into publishing. All in all a very illuminating afternoon!

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On Wednesday 20th November Ms Trustman and Ms Hetherington hosted a “Conversation Station” at Theatre Peckham following their production of “Extremism” by An-ders Lustgarten. This hard hitting play is billed as “A play about fear, friendship and the creeping polarisation of our society”. The action centres around a pupil being questioned related to the Government’s Prevent strategy but covered issues such as bullying, religious tolerance and gender equality. Eden, Layla and Seun from Year 11 saw the play and joined the conversation afterwards with members of the public. The students made thoughtful and considered contributions to a very lively discussion. For parents interested in further information about the Prevent strategy, I have included some

information below

Mme Hetherington

EXTREMISM AT PECKHAM THEATRE

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YEAR 12 BIOLOGY IN ACTION WORKSHOP

On the 18th of November, the year 12 biologists went to Educational Biology in Action Workshop. The aim of the workshop was to inspire, motivate and educate future scientists on the most cutting edge of current science discovery. Students had talks with leading professor in their field. To highlight some of the talks included look-ing at the future of cancer treatment, how medicine is becoming more and more personalised and the future of surgery, where robots could soon be performing surgery cutting down wait time vastly as well as cost. Mr Amin

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PE DEPARTMENT NEWS

Fixtures

Tuesday 3rd December — Year 11 Football vs Elmgreen @

Burgess Park

Wednesday 4th December—Year 7 Sportshall Athletics

Friday 6th December— U15 Girls Football vs BTG @ Dulwich Sportsground

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FORTHCOMING CHRISTMAS ACTIVITIES AT

SACRED HEART

1. Raffle Tickets Draw takes place on

Friday December 13th

2. Hampers (will be delivered

during the last two weeks of school)

3. Tea Dance—from 1.30pm on Wednesday 4th

December

4. Giving gifts to

Ex-Service Men and

Women

(delivering parcels on

Monday 16th December)

5. Carol Singing On Thursday 12th, Friday 13th,

Monday 16th and Tuesday 17th

December at Oval Station

6. Christmas Music Festival At Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Wednesday 11th

December 5pm

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SACRED HEART SCHOOL

Annual Tea Dance 2019

Every Year Sacred Heart holds a Tea Dance for residents of our community

who are over 60 — free of charge!

Come and join us!!!

This year our Tea Dance will be held in the Sacred Heart School Hall on

Wednesday 4th December, 1.30pm—4pm

Guests will enjoy a delightful afternoon tea while being entertained by our choir and Irish dancers. Take a trip down memory

lane as guests dance and sing to old favourite songs.

If you would like to attend this year’s Tea Dance,

please contact Sacred Heart School: 0207 274 6844

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COUNTDOWN TO EXAMS

For the dates of all forthcoming exams, please go to the Sacred Heart website –

www.sacredheart.southwark.sch.uk. Click on ‘Parents’, then on ‘Forthcoming exams’.

This page of the website is updated throughout the year as exam timetables and dates are

finalised, so please check it on a regular basis

Parents are reminded that students should not be taken out of school for any reason

during exam periods. Medical or dental appointments must not be made during this

time, as exams cannot be rescheduled or taken at another time to suit the student. A

student who misses an exam (for whatever reason) will score zero marks, exactly as

they would for a public exam such as a GCSE or an A level. In such a circum-

stance, subject teachers will base their assessment on classwork and homework and

write reports accordingly

How many school weeks away ?

Year Group Exams

1 Year 11 ‘Mock’ GCSE written exams in all subjects begin on 9th December. Y11 will be on ‘study leave’ (i.e. only coming in to school when they have exams) from 3:00pm on 9th December. Practical exams will also take place in the final week of term

3 Year 8 Year 8 Mid-Year exams will take place straight after the Christmas holidays (beginning on Mon 6th January 2020)

6 Year 9 Year 9 Mid-Year exams will take place in the week beginning 27th January 2020

8 Year 12 Year 12 ‘mock’ AS exams take place in the week beginning 10th February. Students will be on study leave for this week (only com-ing in to school when they have exams)

9 Year 13 Year 12 ‘mock’ A level exams take place in the week beginning 24th February. Students will be on study leave for this week (only com-ing in to school when they have exams)

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RAISING ASPIRATIONS/BUSINESS BREAKFASTS

Please take the time to consider attending the events below for KS4 and KS5 pupils; in each case the

speaker has volunteered to offer valuable career advice in their fields as well as answer

questions and explain their own journey in their career. This is a valuable experience, worthy of

distinguishing you in college and university interviews as well as guiding your own career and

enlightening you about jobs that you may not have previously considered.

You must register with Mrs Sparkes

Business Breakfast

Raising Aspirations

Ernst Young Friday 11th October at 8am Ferrovial Laing O’Rourke Thursday 21st November at 8am Make Associates Friday 29th November at 8am

Wavemaker—Introducing Mindshare Mentoring Monday 7th October at 3.15pm Price Waterhouse Cooper Friday 15th November at 2.50pm Harper Collins Wednesday 20th November at 2.50pm

MESSAGE TO ALL PARENTS

Please make sure that your son/daughter is

PROPERly equipped for the forthcoming exams

As a minimum, they should have several black pens, pencils, a set of colouring pencils, a

rubber, ruler and pencil-sharpener, mathematical equipment (protractor, set-square,

compasses and a working calculator). All students MUST also have a large TRANSPARENT

PENCIL-CASE.