St Cuthbert's RC Business and Enterprise College

St Cuthbert's RC Business and Enterprise College

Sports News

Under 14s Basketball team represented Rochdale in the Greater Manchester Schools Basketball competition. They played some great basketball and finished in 5th place overall.

Under 14s girls competed in the super sixes Rochdale schools final finishing in 5th place.

St Cuthbert's are currently benefitting tremendously from rugby coaching from South African Wyand Van Zyl thanks to the All Schools Rugby project which has seen pupils from the school design and have manufactured their own kit to play in. There has been a great increase in the number of boys and girls playing in Year 7 who are now looking forward to playing some tournament rugby.

Library News

This week pupils took part in Harry Potter Book Night (at Lunchtime!) In The Library Hub The first ever Harry Potter Book Night was celebrated throughout the world and here at St Cuthbert’s we had our own special lunchtime of wizard activities, including Mr Hargreaves and Year 7 pupils taking part in the fiendish Harry Potter Trivia Challenge!

The Scholastic Book Fair was a great success and for every £1 spent by pupils on books 60p was given to the school to purchase additional books for the library, Thank you to all parents and pupils who supported this event.

Year 11 News

After picking up mock results last week Year 11 were keen to see what they needed to do to improve on grades and achieve at their best level. Today's study skills session was received well. Year 11 were shown how competitive the job market is and the importance of getting the best results they can. They were shown the need to plan their revision and will receive help to map out their own revision timetable over the next week. Today's top revision tip was how to use pictures to memorise material for exams. Over the next few months Year 11 will receive a top revision tip each week from different staff through their assemblies. Today was the first day of the rest of their lives!

Year 7 news

The highest form attendance went to 7.2 and vivos were issued to the whole form group.

Safer Internet Presentations

Members of the schools e-safety team have been working towards improving student's awareness of security features in popular social media platforms like Facebook.
The message was to compare your online safety to the real world , for example would you allow people access to your holiday photos, allow them to copy them and send them to anyone, the same was then asked if you post them to Facebook without having your security settings set this is exactly what you are doing.

The team were very impressed that a majority, around 90% of students were using the security settings in Facebook and Twitter with a majority saying they block and deny people who cause offence.

All students were aware of CEOP and You Think You Know as well as who to notify if they had concerns about either themselves or a friend.
http://www.scrchs.com/our-school/e-safety
http://youtu.be/_o8auwnJtqE

Mission Week

Next week is our School Mission week when we will be thinking about issues locally and considering our vocation. We will be welcoming many visitors and speakers into lessons to help us to live out our motto ‘In Christ we serve’ by considering others.

Pupils have been reminded again about use of mobile phones. They should not be using them to make calls during the school day and we would ask for the co-operation of parents in supporting us with this matter; if it is an emergency school will contact you, if school is closed it will be on the school web site or the LA web site and you will receive text notification (please ensure that we have your mobile number)

Should you need to contact your child please phone reception at school and messages will be passed on.