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Dear Parents and Carers HIGHLIGHTS p.3 Welcome Year 7! p. 4 Meet the new School Council p. 6 Results Day Celebrations p.7-8 Christian Values Enrichment Day p.11 Visit from the Bishop p.13 The Breck Foundation p.15 Watersports 2016 p.16 Children of Eden rehearsals p.17 World Smile Day p.18 Lancashire Book of the Year
89% of pupils with 91% - 95% attendance achieved 5+ A*- C What a fantastic start to the including English and Maths term we have had! 66% of pupils with 86%-90% Our Year 7 pupils are setattendance achieved 5+ A*- C tling in well and quickly be- including English and Maths coming part of ‘Team St Michael’s’. They look ex14% of pupils with attendance tremely smart in their new below 85% achieved 5+ A* - C uniforms, are trying many including English and Maths of the extra-curricular enrichment activities on offer We are looking forward to and making new friends. celebrating with Year 11 on Wednesday 30th November Pupils in other year groups when Mrs Julie Heaton, forare responding to the chal- mer headteacher, will be lenges of their studies: Year our principal guest at 11 commencing their final Awards Evening, when year with us, both Years 9 GCSE certificates and prizes and 10 embarking on their will be distributed. GCSE courses and Year 8, who will begin to start It is such an honour to lead thinking about their future this wonderful school and I option choices in the next have been extremely few months. touched and greatly encouraged by the support I Once again we were all ex- have received in my new tremely proud of last year’s role as Headteacher. It was Year 11 who gained outa real privilege to welcome standing GCSE results. the Bishop of Blackburn, Overall, 89% of all pupils The Rt Reverend Julian achieved 5+ A* - C grades Henderson to school, along including English and with representatives of the Maths, the best results in diocese, local authority, the school’s history. These governors, parent repreresults show just what can sentatives and pupils for be achieved when pupils, my commissioning service staff, parents and carers at the start of term. This work together. was followed by a visit from another Bishop, this time I would also like to share The Rt Reverend James with you the following figNewcome, Bishop of Carures in relation to these lisle who visited school as results, which highlight the part of the Diocese Crossimportance of good attend- roads Mission. Bishop ance in ensuring success: James led our Eucharist service where he spoke 94% of pupils with attendance about ‘Happiness’ and the above 96% achieved 5+ A*- C source of true happiness including English and Maths and was then involved in a
question and answer session with some of our Year 11 pupils in their Religious Education lessons. We will end our term on Friday with a Eucharist service available for pupils in addition to our usual Worship services. Mr Chadwick and Miss Sephton have embraced their new roles as Deputy Headteachers. Supporting the senior leadership team, we also have a temporary ‘extended leadership team’ comprising of Mr Allcock, Mrs Clapp, Mr Kirkpatrick, Mrs McCaffrey and Mrs Rackstraw and hope to be able to appoint a permanent assistant headteacher later in the school year. Mrs Amanda Ferguson and Mrs Hannah Bain have returned from maternity leave and we also welcome several new colleagues to St Michael’s: Miss Sophie Whiteley and Miss Sarah Howard to the Science department, Miss Jade Carter to History, Mr Paul Topping, Mrs Lynn Catell, Mrs Kathryn Stansfield and Mrs Alicia Moreno to Modern Foreign Languages, Mrs Victora Finch to the PE department and Mrs Christine Maxwell to the Food and Nutrition department. P.T.O.