10 May - St Edward's C of E School

S t . Edward’s S chool Newsl et t er
St. Edward’s C h ur ch of England Sch o ol & Sixt h Form C oll ege News l et t er
May 2010
R E A C H O U T
Inside this
issue:
Havering
Languages
Award
Information
Request
Sports Relief
2010
Election Fever 3
Sports Relief
2010 cont.
Dates to note 4
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The Old Edwardians 300 th
Anniversary Reunion
During the weekend of May 1 st the biggest reunion ever held at our school took
place involving nearly 500 past pupils and staff of St Edward’s. Two previous
Headmasters, Mr Gwinnell and Mr Drew joined the Reverend Perry in welcoming our
visitors to the school.
During the afternoon there was an open
house as Old Edwardians were guided around
the classrooms by yr 11 and 6 th form students
and they were able to reminisce about past
memories. A large exhibition of memorabilia,
including the old punishment book and
registers from the 19 th century, created a
great deal of interest and the visitors enjoyed
catching up with friends and staff from many years ago. Food and wine were served
throughout the day and the evening disco was an opportunity for people to prove
their continued youthfulness!
Summer Fayre 4
Prayer Group 4
Work Experience 4
A special celebratory service was held at St Edward’s church on the Sunday morning
for past pupils, some of whom had travelled across the world to attend the reunion.
For photos of the event please visit the web-site at
http://www.oldedwardians.com/
A Year in Basketball
After a successful 2009 campaign the year 10 basketball
team aimed to win two trophies in 2010, the Havering cup
and the London Metropolitan cup. We won the Havering cup
undefeated for the third time in a row. Unfortunately after a
hard fought and close game we came second in the London
Metropolitan to St Bonaventures at Oak’s Park School. Many
people came to support our matches throughout the year
including our very own Reverend A. Perry himself. A thank you
to everyone who came and was involved especially the kitchen
staff for a very lovely meal, to Mr. Norley our coach and the
whole team.
Written by team Captain Jonathan Ako.

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Requesting
Graduation
Information from Old
Edwardians.
If you left St. Edward’s in
the last few years and
completed your degree
at university, we would
like to know your degree
results for archiving
information about former
students as well as
celebrating your success.
Please email information
to info@steds.org.uk for
the attention of Miss J
Fox.
Havering Languages Awards 2010
Four St Edward’s students received awards for Languages from Councillor Andrew
Curtin and the Deputy Mayor of Havering at a ceremony held at Hall Mead School.
The Mike Bristow awards for languages, held by the Havering Twinning association
and Havering’s Language Colleges was set up to recognise and reward students’
achievement in languages ranging from French, German and Spanish to Russian,
Italian and Chinese.
Hannah Sterry won the year 9 award, Laura Bridger
received the award for year 7 and Lucy Vialls was the
winner of the Graham Barrable Chinese award 2010.
May 2010
The overall ‘Havering Young Linguist of the Year’ who
received the Manny Goldstein cup was St Edward’s 6 th form
student Rebecca Swan.
Linguist of the year
Sports Relief 2010
Sponsored Swim Sport Relief Report by Tom Fosbrook 11.6
For Sports relief PeterAmey 11.6, Joe Sterry 11.2 and I did a sponsored swim in sports kit. Joe wore a
rowing kit, Peter wore a tennis kit and I wore rugby clothes. We swam for the duration of lunch (60 minutes)
and had no training which didn’t help because we can’t swim! We struggled through and in the end
our huge bulging muscles got us to the end and we raised £200.
LEAP FROG - Sports Relief Report by Chester Garnish 11.6, Sam Saunders 11.4 & Martyn Veskutonis
11.4.
On Friday 19 th March, Chester Garnish, Sam Saunders and Martyn Veskutonis leapfrogged a mile around
Westlands, over each other, wearing our customised 1-1-8 costumes in an attempt to raise money for
sports relief.
This year the money that was raised went to those who live unimaginably tough lives in countries such as
Kenya, India, Brazil, South Africa, and projects within the UK. After some lunchtime training and some
calculations made by the Leapfrog crew team we aimed to leapfrog the mile in less than twenty minutes.
The mile was very hard, and meant we put a lot of effort into training and being physically ready for the
task. Much to the surprise of our team and peers we completed the mile in the time of 14 minutes and 15
seconds!
Overall, we raised around £400 between us, towards a great cause and had a good time doing it.
Members from the World Challenge trip, Molly Hayworth, Emily Wainwright, Josh Dextor and Co. hosted and organized a 3 vs 3
Basketball Tournament for all boys in Year 7 - 13. The students managed to raise money for their trip and submitted a percentage
to Sport Relief. The results of the tournament are as follows:
JUNIORS (Y 7 – 9) Total 9 teams entered
3 rd 2 nd 1 st CHAMPIONS
Year7 Team Year 8 Year 9
Joe Bell Symchay Williams Ope Mosuro
Shaquille Williams Jacob Simon Adam Goodfellow
JJ Tunde Nashon Lyn Billy Borg
Aaron Kennedy
SENIORS (Y 10 – 13) Total 9 teams entered
Kevin Obatolu
3 rd 2 nd 1 st CHAMPIONS
Edem Setsofia Daniel Opoku Joel Anderson
Kevin Achemphong Henrick Kallender Elliot Moore
Shayo Albert M’Fun Rory Glackin
Daniel Akintunde
Jordan Moore

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Election Fever
Voting
In the weeks leading up to the real 2010
General Election, St Edwards prepared itself for
its own mock election also being held on the 6 th
May. Students across Years 7-10 created their
own political parties and manifestos standing
on national and school issues. The main parties
Tension was mounting! When the polling
station opened at 8:15am on the 6 th May
and the first flurry of voters began to
appear. Throughout the day Years 7-13
voted in earnest with a final turnout of
39%.
A Helping Hand
13 votes (2.5%)
Democrat Juniors
39 votes (8.1%)
Equaliserz
35 votes (7.2%)
GAPP
78 votes (16.1%)
Juice Boxx Committee
204 votes (42.1%)
Keep Calm and Carry On
38 votes (7.9%)
that campaigned were ‘A Helping Hand’,
‘Democrat Juniors’, ‘The Equaliserz’, ‘Go Away
Politics Party’ (GAPP), ‘Juice Boxx Committee’,
‘Keep Calm and Carry On’, ‘Pride in Britain
Party’ (PIB) and finally ‘Seven’s Party for
Everyone’ (SPFE). Policies varied from Daleks
being in the British army, to bouncy castles
being compulsory in all schools, to an ice-cream
van coming into school in the summer.
In the last few days before the election, party
political broadcasts were played across the
school and the parties canvassed for support.
Juice Boxx Committee led by Ben Asante
from 10.1 came out the clear winners. A
few of their key policies were for there to
be a special school bus to Stratford, more
school non-uniform days to raise money for
the school and charities, more schools trips
and the ice cream van in the summer! The
Party has now met with Rev. Perry to
discuss some of their ideas – so watch this
space!
PIB
28 votes (4.1%)
SPFE
45 votes (9.3%)
Sports Relief 2010 continued
SKATES, HULA HOOPS & ROPES for Sport Relief by Molly Wilsher and Co.
Members of 8.6 Molly Wilsher, Romarni Brytz, Sophie Bertrand- Dure, Madeleine Clifford and Arabella Quigley deicide to raise
money for Sport Relief. We all came to school at 7.00am on Thursday 18 th March 2010 to do some sponsored activities like
roller skating, skipping and hula hoping. We all managed to do the activities for a whopping 40 minutes and were all very tired
after as we all tried our best into making the activities work. Molly, Romarni and Ms Campbell were roller skating around the
sports hall whilst Arabella and Madeline were skipping and Sophie was hula hoping. After the event we were all proud of ourselves,
but very tired as we pushed ourselves this far into raising the money for the charity. Romarni and Arabella also decided
to take part in the Sainsbury’s 3 mile run within London. Romarni also manage to ride her bike to the Tower of London and
back in aid of sports relief. She raised over £100 in doing this and we can add this to our grand total of £150. Also we sold
hand made tee-shirts during break times and lunch times, we designed the shirts and most days after school we met up with a
few other people and started on the shirts. We made between 15-25 shirts and we sold them for a minimum donation of £2
and raised £50. We are all so impressed with the amount of money we could donate to sports and hope that the charity can
truly benefit from our donation. The sporting activities and the tee-shirt making turned out really well that we have all agreed
that we could try and raise more money to donate to various different charities. On behalf of the girls I am saying a huge thank
you to everyone who sponsored us and a massive thank you to the PE department into letting us raise the money.

St. Edward’s School
Newsletter
If you want an item added to this
letter, please contact
Mr. Chapman.
Phone: 01708 730462
Fax: 01708 731485
E-mail:
info@steds.org.uk
Dates to note:
Full Governors Meeting - Wednesday 9th June
Year Seven Parents’ Evening - Wednesday 16th June
New Intake Information Evening - Thursday 24th June
New Intake Induction Day - Friday 2nd July
PTA Meeting - Monday 5th July
SUMMER FAYRE 17 TH JULY 2010 - PARENTS WE NEED YOUR HELP!
We need the support and help of parents in organising and covering the stalls and
activities on the day. Without the support of parents, we will miss the opportunity to
maximise the success of this major fundraising event and therefore our children will
not be able to benefit from the vital financial support the PTA gives to the school.
We need parents to help setting up and manning activities; car park and marshalling
duties; and more importantly your attendance on the day! There will also be a chance
to clear out and get rid of those unwanted items and outfits that no longer fit in our car
boot and table top sale available on the day.
Work Experience
A reminder to parents
and carers of Yr 9
students that work
experience Own
Placement forms must
be returned to Mrs
Copleston by 1 st July at
the latest.
Students can check the
Careers notice board to
see forms that have
been received.
Work Experience dates
are Monday 15 th
November to Friday 26 th
November 2010.
If you are able to lend a hand on the day, or wish to run or have any ideas for running
a stall/activity, can you please email Gillian Bobb-Semple (g.bobbsemple1@ntlworld.com),
Tracey Pace (tracey.pace@sky.com) or Wendy Lord
ST. EDWARDS SCHOOL PRAYER GROUP
Would you like to be involved in the spiritual life of YOUR child’s school
We are a group of parents from the senior and primary school who meet
approximately once every half term to pray for any issues involving the school.
We look forward to seeing you at the group and would be grateful if you could inform
me of your contact details so that I can inform you of the date and venue of the next
time we meet.
Feel free to contact me should you require any further information.
Matthew 6 ‘whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and
pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret
will reward you’. *
Wendy Jackson (four boys at St. Edwards!)
01708 459324
07913775672
wmaureenj@msn.com