Year 13 Prefects leading the singing of Men of Bede. Verse One Six pillars tall We hear God s call With our Mother, We shall not fall

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1 Greetings from St Bede s We have had a reasonably normal week with teaching and learning in the classroom, but a special week of events out of the classroom. The picture tells a story, and the photos of Feast Day show we had a great day, beginning with an outstanding Mass which had at the end the introduction and performance of another College song, the lyrics of which are shared later in the newsletter. Composed by three Year 13s, Harry Flett, Will Chambers and Patrick Sherwood, the intention is that is doesn t replace the existing anthem, but is another song, that would be sung in Formal or less formal situations. It was aired again at yesterday s Cultural Assembly and those leading began teaching the boys the song at Assembly. The pictures tell a story of the recent Feast Day as well good fun culminating in the Year 9 Haka Competition where the standard was excellent all round. On the Friday night 220 Old Boys met for the annual dinner and the All Time St Bede s College XV was announced, which is published in the Old Boys section of the newsletter. Yesterday we staged the Cultural Assembly and the school was treated to some significant performances, and one by Michael Thwaites (Year 12), who received a standing ovation, but this was one of many warmly appreciated by the College. The lyrics of the new song follows my hope is that at some stage the wider community may have an opportunity to hear it and perhaps join in and sing it. Until next week, Y9 Y10 Y11 Y12 Y13 23 May 2014 Top Weekly Notes Term 2 Week 3 Noah Baugh James Blenkinsop Samuel Robb Jace Donnelly Liam Geen Hamish Laing Todd Magner Nathan Arscott Lachie Bartlett Corrigan Harnett Justin Jordan Jose O Sullivan Jacob Reese Jones Edward Ziolo Zachary Heywood Matthew Jones Jared Monk Patrick Sherwood Josh Thieme Liam Toomey Justin Boyle, Rector Men of Bede Chorus We will live the life of Bede Through our motto and our creed Through our Faith and Works; our test Bringing honour to the crest And we do our brothers proud Through our actions we speak loud And we proudly say that we re the men of Bede. Year 13 Prefects leading the singing of Men of Bede Verse One Six pillars tall We hear God s call With our Mother, We shall not fall We are the sons of Mary and Bede And this the house That we will lead Verse Two We are one We are three Of God and Mary Us men of Bede And out those gates We serve your land The strength of brothers Hand in Hand

2 Mrs Nola Kilpatrick Deputy Rector Curriculum NZQA Launch App for Parents, Whanau and Employers NZQA is launching a new mobile App called NCEA Guide written for parents, whanau and employers. The App will provide quick and easy access to key information about NCEA and makes practical information about NCEA more easily accessible. Parents and whanau will be able to access simple content about how NCEA works and how they can support family members studying in NCEA (no individual student result or progress information is available).the App also supports employers seeking to understand and evaluate NCEA graduates and their qualification. Content can be viewed in English and Te Reo Maori. The NCEA Guide App will be free to download from the Apple App store and Google Play Store from early in the week of 26 May. Updating your contact details Please remember to keep the college informed of any contact detail changes. We particularly need your current cell phone numbers and details as these are used to make contact in emergencies as well as for Weekly Notes and reports. This can be done through the parent portal or by contacting Barbara Rusbridge at brusbridge@stbedes.school.nz Upcoming Events June Week 5 Mon 2 Queen s Birthday School closed Wed 4 ICASS Science Competition PTA Meeting, 7.30pm, Staffroom Thu 5 Fri 6 Fri 6 Week Six Mon 9 Tue 10 Year 9 Thu 12 Big Sing Sport and Cultural Photos Day Boy Enrolment Applications for 2015 close at 4.00pm Chamber Music Competition Mt Hutt Canterbury Gymnastics Retreats Variety Concert Images from last week s Feast Day

3 Mrs Rachel Pitcaithly Ministry Team Co ordinator Sacramental Programme At the Feast Day Mass last week we launched our Sacramental Programme. This programme prepares the boys to receive the Sacraments of Baptism, Reconciliation, Holy Communion and Confirmation. Predominately this is for our boarders who are away from their parishes for the majority of the year. Some day boys have approached me about joining the programme and I will be contacting their parish priests to let them know this. A very important part of this programme is involvement with parish life and we strongly encourage all students to go to Mass each Sunday in their parish. We ask you, parents and caregivers, to support us in this. We will celebrate our Sacramental Mass on Friday, 4 July at 1pm with Bishop Barry. You are all very welcome to join us. Please keep these boys in your prayers. Sacrament of Confirmation The Sacrament of Confirmation will be celebrated in Holy Trinity Parish Hall on Sunday 10 August at 4.30pm. Confirmation classes for students in Year 8 and upwards begin on 31 July, pm. Please contact the Parish Office, or holytrinitybryndwr@gmail.com with details of Name, Date of Birth and contact details if you wish your child to be confirmed. Mrs Nicola Leete Learning Support Learning Support Buddy Survey We are keen to receive some feedback about our learning buddy system. If your son has a senior learning buddy, could you please encourage him son to complete the survey by following this link: This link is also available on the College s webpage under links on the side bar. Reader/Writer Assistance: Volunteers and/or Donations We are still very much in need of volunteers to work as reader/writers for our students. With such high numbers of students requiring this assistance with their assessments, we rely on volunteers and donations to meet our students needs. If you are available to help on a regular basis each week, please get in contact with me (nleete@stbedes.school.nz). Alternatively, if you would like to make a donation to assist with the costs of providing reader/writer assistance, please do so at the College office. Dr Rachael Hawkey Head of Arts Faculty Forthcoming events 5/6 June Big Sing choir festival 9/10 June Chamber Music competition 12 June Variety concert 23/24 June Year 12 drama production 25 June Lunchtime concert at Pro Cathedral _bab^k=`ljjrkfqv=kbtp= Our apologies for omitting to remember in our prayers last week Nicholas James (Yr 11) he is a grandson of Denis James OB who passed away last week. Our thoughts and prayers are with Nicholas and his family. Cultural Assembly Yesterday s cultural assembly provided an opportunity for some of the talented students at the College to share their musical skills with staff and students. The Bedean choir opened the acts with one of their songs for next week s Big Sing and a quartet from the Year 12 Music class sang their version of Titanium. Michael Thwaites (Year 12) wowed the audience with his virtuosic guitar skills and Jonathan Boyle (Year 9) impressed with his confident rendition of Time of your life.

4 Honours pockets were awarded to students in the cultural and community areas of the College. The recipients were: Community William Chambers Will Foubister Jared Monk Brodie Thomas Liam Donnelly Liam Stretch Patrick Sherwood Marshall Forman coaching public speaking and debating and as student rep on the Board of Trustees theatre sports coaching theatre sports coaching theatre sports coaching for his work in the Servo group including founding a new service group this year for his work in the Servo group and as UNICEF Youth Ambassador and member of the Christchurch Youth Council for his service in providing music for weekly Boarder s Masses and Benediction for his service as a sound and lighting technician for productions, liturgies and concerts and his leadership to other students in this area Cultural Performance Keegan Fairless Xavier Fidow Bradbrook James Filoialii Marko Puni Tamahou Thoms Debating William Chambers Christopher Cooper Thomas Kennedy Drama George Berry Callum Curnow Ruairi Dickson William Foubister Jack Hodgins Luke McIntyre Hugh Mackwell Jared Monk Emmanuel Nicklin Christopher Starr Brodie Thomas Music George Berry Nicholas Bittante William Chambers Ruairi Dickson Jack Donaldson Harry Flett William Foubister Matthew Jones Connor McSweeney Patrick Sherwood Christopher Starr Peter Wilkes Visual Arts Bradley Wyatt Big Sing choir festival One of the early tasks of each year for music staff is to audition all incoming Year 9 students in their singing. This allows talent to be spotted early (rather than years down the track!) and those with promising voices are pointed in the direction of the choir. This process has slowly born fruit and this year the Bedean choir numbers 65 students. Seniors are doing a fantastic job of providing leadership to younger members and under the very capable direction of director Ms Helen Charlton, the group has prepared a programme for the upcoming Big Sing festival in a couple of weeks time. The choir performs in the heats on Thursday 5 th June at around 11am and again, in the gala concert on Friday evening at the CBS arena. Details on purchasing tickets for the event will be given to choir members on Monday at practice. The choir will also perform at next week s cultural assembly and at the Variety concert on Thursday 12 th June. Michael Thwaites L R George Berry, Jordan Kennedy, James Filoialii, Marko Puni and Zac Heywood

5 Mrs Jill Falloon College Uniform Shop Manager Winter Uniform As we are well into Term two we would like to remind all students and parents that the trousers are expected to be worn for terms 2 and 3. These are to be worn with plain black socks and a plain black belt (no big belt buckles please). Winter uniform price list Trousers $65.00 $75.00 Plain black belts $25.00 Plain black belt with crested buckle $30.00 Year 9 10 grey jersey $95.00 $ Year black jersey $ $ Black Merino socks 3 pair pack for $24.00 Wet weather jacket $ $ Shower proof Jac Pac $45.00 Footballs and Rugby Balls on Sale For the month of June we are taking 20% off our good quality St Bede s College Footballs and Rugby Balls these balls usually retail for $50.00 but for the month of June they will be $40.00 each!! Be quick as supplies are limited. Lost Property Box The Lost Property box is over flowing with 23 pairs of shoes (mainly sports shoes). I have put this in the Daily Notices and I have also displayed the shoes outside the College Shop. If your son is missing his shoes please direct him to the College Shop. Can you please ensure that your son s clothes are also named, so that when lost, we can return these items to them. Three black senior jerseys have been found in the quad this week all un named! 2014 Year 9 All year 9 uniform orders have now been completed. I have a couple of tracksuit jackets still waiting to be picked up. If your son has any outstanding items please direct him to the College Shop. Thank you for your patience during this process. Enquiries to: collegeshop@stbedes.school.nz or Extn 884 Jonathan Boyle The St Bede s College Choir

6 Mrs Clare Kissick Director of Sport Cross Country 24 students attended the Canterbury Secondary Schools Cross Country on Tuesday and we had very good results. Nick Moulai cleared out on the Under 14 boys and won by at least half a kilometre running a time of 9.34 and then runner came in at Well done Nick. The Under 14 Boys team lead by Nick ably supported by Jake Keenan (5 th ) Kyle Lobban (14 th ) and Connor High (20 th ) with the team finishing in 2 nd place. Tom Moulai came second in the Intermediate boys with Cameron Bartlett finishing 5 th, Harrison Joseph (19 th ) and Peter O Connor (22 nd ) to win the Under 16 boys. The Under 15 boys saw Kaelan Boyce in 12 th place and a gutsy run by Connor Kitto for 35 th place. The senior boys team of Michael Pitt (13 th ), Jack Donaldson (21 st ), Lachie Bartlett (23 rd ) and George Davidson (33 rd ) and Jack Nolan also performed well. On a side note, we received a message from the Assistant Regional Sports Director regarding Nick Moulai on Wednesday with a note stating that she has not witnessed Nick s action at all over the past ten years...as every boy finished the Under 14 race, Nick was on the finish line to shake their hand. Rugby There is Rugby tomorrow please check the draw below. Basketball There is Basketball tonight please check the draw below. Football Fundraiser: Firewood St Bede's College Football Club is selling firewood $ for a wire trailer load. Contact Tony Bulter at Bulter Auto s Stanmore Road or phone Weekend Sports Draws St Bede s Basketball Draw Friday, 30 May 2014 St Bede s Team Opponent Venue Game Start Time Senior A No games Under 17 No games Year 12 Shirley Blue Shirley BHS 6.30pm Year 12 Black Shirley White Shirley BHS 7.30pm Year 12 Red CATH Senior B St Bede s 6.30pm 7.30pm Year 11 Black Bye Year 11 Red STAC D St Bede s 7.30pm Year 11 White STAC B Graham Condon Centre 7.30pm Year 10A PPNU Junior A Papanui HS 4.50pm Year 10 Black PPNU Junior B St Bede s 4.50pm 4.00pm Year 10 Red CASH Cannons St Bede s 5.40pm 6.30pm Year 9A HLMT Hillmorton HS 4.00pm Year 9 Black PPNU Papanui HS 4.00pm Year 9 Red STCC Blue St Bede s 4.00pm 4.50pm Score bench Duty*

7 * PLEASE NOTE: You are now required to do score bench duty either before or after your games at St Bede's College. You need to supply three players to do this. FAILURE to do this will result in your team not being able to play the following week. St Bede s Hockey Draw Friday, 30th May 2014 St Bede s Team Opponent Game Start Time Venue 1 st XI No game 2 nd XI No game St Bede s Red No game St Bede s Rugby Draw Saturday, 31 May 2014 St Bede s Team Opponent Game Start Time Venue Duties 1 st XV Burnside High School 2.45pm Burnside High School 2 nd XV CBHS 3 rd XV 1.00pm St Bede s 2 3 rd XV Burnside 2 nd XV 1.00pm Burnside H S 1 4 th XV (U78kg) CBHS B 2.30pm CBHS 3 U16A Shirley BHS A 1.00pm Shirley BHS 1 U16B Shirley BHS B 1.00pm Richmond Park U15A Christs College A 1.00pm Christ College G 1 U15B Christ College 9.45am Christ College G 2 U15 C St Thomas U62kg 11.15am St Thomas College 1 U14A CBHS B 11.15am CBHS 3 U14B Belfast 11.30am Sheldon 1 U14 C Sydenham 11.15am St Bede s 3 Bring in flags U13 Burnside Red 9.45am St Bede s 4 Bring in flags St Bede s Football Draw Saturday, 31 May 2014 St Bede s Team Opponent Game Start Venue Time 1 st XI Coastal Spirit 18A 10.45am St Bede s 1 2 nd XI Parklands United 10.45am Owen Mitchell 3 rd XI FC Twenty 11 18C 10.45am St Bede s 2 U16 A F C Twenty 11 16B 12.30pm Burnside Park A 2 U 15 Red F C Twenty 11 15A 9.15am Avonhead Park S 5 U15 Black Waimak United C 9.15am Maria Andrews Park S 1 U14 Red Papanui/Redwood Raiders 9.15am St Bede s 2 U 14 Black F C Twenty Red 9.15am St Bede s 1/2

8 We have a busy couple of months ahead, and we would like to thank you for the wonderful support that we receive. Entertainment Books These are still available; please contact Liz Gillon at bigears@paradise.net.nz. Black Friday PTA Quiz Night This event is taking place on BLACK FRIDAY Friday, 13 June. Cost is $15.00 per person, payable on entry. Tables of six. Any queries or donations for auction please contact Melissa at johnandliss@clear.net.nz or Court Theatre Fundraiser Blood Brothers Tuesday 1 st July These tickets are selling fast Hurry and secure, this promises to be a great night out!! Tickets are available from the School Office, alternatively payment can be made electronically to account no (use your name as the reference), and send to nfsteelfamily@xtra.co.nz, advising the number you have paid for. Obituary Pat Morrison ( ) Pat Morrison attended the College in the immediate post WWII years. His immediate and wider family were strong supporters of St Bede s and were especially generous in their contributions to the Chapel in the 1930 s. Pat was a boarder for three years and his name appeared regularly in the annual prize list. In 1947 he received the class prize for general excellence in the fifth form, leaving school with School Certificate and Chamber of Commerce certification. On leaving school he went to work on the family farm in Darfield and over the years became a well known farming leader. A Nuffield Scholarship awardee he was also a BNZ director, chairman of the NZ Wool Board and NZ Wool Services International as well as serving local community groups with distinction. In recent times he was closely associated with the Central Plains Water scheme and a contemporary reflecting on his efforts said of him, He was respected by everyone and gave everything to any cause he pursued and did it with style and a great sense of humour. Pat s sons Johnny and Peter both attended the College and he was a benefactor to the fund raising campaigns of the 1960s and 1970s. The Association extends its sincere sympathy to his family. Old Boys Dinner On Friday, 23 May 220 old boys, guests and friends of the College attended the 88 th annual dinner of the Association. This was the highest attendance for many years and necessitated staging the dinner in the gymnasium. Thanks to the combined efforts of the PTA, Continental Caterers, the prefects team and assorted helpers the venue was transformed in matter of hours and a great night was had by all. The features of the evening were the announcement of the 2013 Sportsman of the Year; the presentation of specially designed black St Bede s caps to old boys who had represented New Zealand at rugby and the announcement of the All Time XV. Special thanks are also due to the senior boarders who waited on tables and generally helped. Their presence added a special touch to the night and showed the importance of the Association s links to the

9 College. Photographs taken on the night may be found on the College website Enjoying the occasion, from left to right Geoff Bailey, John Reynolds, Alan Dalton, Jim Martin, Richard Sissons, Ray Malone, Fr. John Walls SM, Phil Gourdie and Mark Craddock Sportsman of the Year 2013 Matt Henry Simon Hearsey s testimonial for Matt was as follows: Matt attended the College from 2005 to 2009 and was in the 1 st XI for three years, captaining the side in The Bedean of that year wrote that he was the inspirational leader of the side one of the standout performers of secondary school cricket he was the premium all rounder of the schools grade. An aggressive and skilled fast bowler he gained selection in the NZ under 17 side and was a member of the Canterbury Academy. On leaving school he quickly rose through the playing ranks representing Canterbury in limited overs games and also in the longer four day format. Despite occasional injury concerns he proved his ability by gaining national selection in 2013 against India. In that match he took 4/38 and was a decisive factor in the team s winning performance. Matt is the College s second Black Cap, following Shannon Stewart and we congratulate him on his performances and wish him well for the future. All Time XV Announced A highlight of the dinner was the announcement of the All Time XV. The Association acknowledges the work of the selectors Gerry Davidson, Gary Lennon and Robin Mann and thanks them for their efforts. The team is printed below and the pen portraits may be found on the College website at Wine Opportunity We had many positive comments about the wines at the Old Boys dinner and many wanted to know where they were sourced from. They were supplied by Winesale.co.nz, owned and operated by Pete Dawber (Old Boy). He is happy to supply these wines at the Corporate rate to any Old Boy wine orders: Barren Rock Central Otago Pinot Noir $14.99, Lowlands Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc $10.99, Feudo Syrah (Italy) $ Order through (enter St Bede's College with the order), phone Pete or him christchurch@winesale.co.nz.

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