All Hallows Catholic College Newsletter Christmas Term Friday 12 December 2014 COLLEGE PRAYER Advent Prayer Grant, almighty God, that looking forward in faith to the feast of Our Lord’s birth, we may feel all the happiness our saviour brings, and celebrate his coming with unfailing joy. In Jesus’ name we pray
SPECIALISM SUCCESS Congratulations to the November students who have been named linguist of the month. We celebrate linguists of the month who are students who seize the opportunity to use the language they are learning as the natural means of communication. They are not afraid of making mistakes and use all the resources available to them to express themselves in the foreign language. September October November
Amen
KS3 Alistair Nickson KS4 Emma Nay KS3 Ryan Martin KS4 Charlie Fox KS3 Ashley Capinianes KS4 Grace Murtagh
EARLY CLOSURE— 19 DECEMBER The College will close for Christmas at 12pm on Friday 19 December and the bus pick up time has been amended to ensure that students will be picked up from that time. We’d like to wish all students and their families a peaceful and happy Christmas and an enjoyable festive season.
COLLEGE UNIFORM
Parents are reminded that outdoor coats must be dark coloured> Year 7 and 8 students must wear the College coat, embroidered with the College badge. Light coloured coats do not conform to College policy and must not be worn.
Please do not buy coats for school use that do not match this policy as they cannot be worn on site And will be confiscated during the school day
PARENTS AS PARTNERS - CHEWING GUM
A reminder to parents and students that chewing gum is on the list of banned items. College made this decision both for health and safety reason and for environmental reasons. We welcome the support of parents in striving to keep our young people safe and their environment clean and tidy. Some' gum' facts:
almost a billion packs of gum are bought in Britain every year
each piece of gum costs 3p to buy but 10p to clean up
three and a half billion pieces of gum are disposed of every year in the UK
nine out of ten city paving stones have had gum stuck to them
getting gum off the pavement takes expensive jet sprays or chemical treatments. In London there are over 300,000 blobs of chewing gum on Oxford Street alone in the UK, £281m is spent on chewing gum every year
the government spends £150m each year on cleaning up gum on the UK's streets
The Keep Britain Tidy Campaign says people in the UK consume 935 million packets of gum every year