Friday, 5 February 2010
Teacher Profile - Mrs F Tonge
What was your least favourite subject at school? It was P.E. (but only because we had to do a lot of running around).
What is your favourite subject? ART!!! The messier the better!
When were you born? I was born towards the end of the last century!
Have you ever had a birthday party? Yeah, I have had loads of them, more than I can remember! I have always had a cake too!
What are your hobbies? I like catching up and hanging around with my friends, I really enjoy playing badminton. But I love going shopping with my sisters the most.
What is your greatest fear? Apart from being interviewed for this article, my biggest fear is the taking off the run-way in an aeroplane.
Has this fear stopped you going abroad? Not at all, the holiday is really worth it. I love going to Greece.
The Teacher Profile is brought to you each half term by Tomiwa. Watch out, next edition: Mrs McDonald.
GYMNASTIC FANTASTIC
On the 14th January, eight people from the year 6 class were selected to take part in a Tchouk ball tournament on the Secondary Site. Bradley, Ryan, Travis, Bianca, Maya, Courtney and Rebekka played really well as a team. In our rounds we competed mainly against Blackshaw Primary School, this time we lost by just one point. To play Tchouk ball, which was invented in Switzerland in the 1960’s, you need a small ball and an angled bouncy net called a “trampet”. You throw the ball at the net and get a point if it hits the floor before an opponent catches it. After all the rounds, we came in 4th place, which Mrs McDonald was very pleased with.
Meanwhile, year 1 and 2 were involved in a gymnastics competition on the 18th January. The children competed against three other schools and tried really, really hard.
The students that took part were Joshua, Shauna, Dillon, Stephanie and Callum.
There were three parts to the competition. Body Management, Floor and Vault.
Our very own Callum Stevens, pictured above, came first place in Body Management and floor. He had 45 minutes to learn a routine and then perform it for the judges.
Everyone who took part got a certificate. Mrs McDonald commented “I am very impressed with Callum for learning the routine so quickly—he is a natural. We are very proud.”
Also in sports, BSCA’s under 11 football team played against other teams in Bolton in the Premier League tournament, held at the Bolton Arena. The competition, organised, by “Football in the Community”, was very enjoyable and the whole team played wonderfully together.
SNOW-WHERE TO GO
The whole country came to a standstill in the first week back after the Christmas holidays. Schools up and down the country were closed because it would not have been safe for staff and pupils to come in.
At Bolton St Catherine’s Academy primary site, the playground, car park and entrance was piled up with snow. Mr Cole managed to get a big JCB tractor so that he could move the snow onto the grass.
It took a long time for the snow to be moved and the school to be made safe enough. Even two weeks after all the snow had melted on the playground, there were still huge piles on the grass verge!
As you can see from the satellite picture taken by NASA, the whole of the United Kingdom was covered by the snow, causing chaos for thousands of people. We had fun though, building snowmen and igloos in our gardens!
HELP FOR HAITI
Bolton St Catherine’s Academy’s School Council have raised a huge amount of money selling cakes in aid of the earthquake disaster in Haiti.
In Haiti, there has been a terrible earthquake, meaning deaths, injuries and heart breaking moments for children who have lost their parents.
The minute-long quake was felt all over the island and reached 7.0 on the Richter scale, which measures the strength of the tremors.
Lots of buildings, including the national palace and a hospital in capital Port-au-Prince, were destroyed.
Aid agency, the Red Cross, say that as many as three million people could have been affected by the quake. Saffron Clegg, year 5, came up with the idea to raise some money and send it over to Haiti to help them.
She approached Bethany and Tomiwa, her class representatives, who put the idea forward at the next meeting.
The school council members decided that it was a fantastic idea and that they would decorate and sell cakes for the appeal. The money will be used to replace water pipes, homes, shops, schools, hospitals and to make sure that the children who have lost their families have somewhere to stay and enough food to eat.
Mr Hill and Mrs Renshaw, who help the school council, have been busy getting cakes and decorating ingredients, which have been kindly donated and made by the teachers.
Everyone we interviewed about the cakes commented that they were really yummy. Mr Hill’s favourite cake was the “Marshmallow Mountain”, made by Mrs Hill, which Mrs Tinsley was heard saying, “That is the best cake I have ever tasted in my life!”.
Mrs Renshaw commented on how proud she was of the school council members for being so dedicated in taking action to help people on the other side of the world.
With donations from teachers, friends of the school, and money raised from selling cakes, the school council has managed to raise £360.00 in total and has sent it off to Haiti.
As a special thank-you for buying so many cakes and raising so much money in just one week, a fabulous platter of cakes was put together for one lucky winner. The names of people who had bought cakes during the week were put into a hat and one was drawn in the Friday Celebration assembly. Ashleigh, year 4, was the winner of the platter.
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