The latest set of reports for Y7, 10 and 12 have just been produced. They show that a large and growing number of students are putting in excellent engagement in learning and independent study across the board and are therefore gaining the Very Impressive Performance (VIP) award. A remarkable 167 students in Y7 achieved this in their Spring reports which is a record for the school.

 For every set of reports, we award the tutor group who achieved the best average set of VIP points with a trophy in the whole school assembly.  Whilst we cannot do this at the moment, we wanted to celebrate the achievements of these tutor groups.

Our Shares4Schools team, until 2 weeks ago, were lying in 4^th place of 37 teams in the national competition with a return of 9.8% on the investments they have made. However...

The amount of money raised for Sport Relief from Non Uniform Day on Friday is was an impressive £1,065.92. Thank you!

As we responded to the news of school closures last week, Year 7, 10 and 11 students took time in assemblies to reflect on how they could take steps to promote their wellbeing during the uncertainty of the current times, particularly as we adapt to social distancing measures, including school closures.

Well done to tutor group P3, who have been collecting pre-loved bras. This week four large boxes of bras went off to help fund Breast Cancer Research. Thank you for your support, please do keep your unwanted bras to one side to deposit in the ‘bank’ on our return to school. 

Mrs Eastman has created a new St Bart’s recipe bank for you and your family to use while you are at home. She has included files of the recipes usually cooked by each year group, so you have the details of recipes you may have made before.

Sixth Form Student, Henry, recently walked more than 70 miles from Reading to London to raise money for Patterson House Charity, Guide Dogs for the Blind. Read his amazing story…

Congratulations to the 21 year 7s who played for the Football C team versus John O'Gaunt's A team a couple of weeks ago. The final score 0-2 did not reflect an impressive St Bart's whole squad performance that involved lots of player rotations. Players of the match were Thomas, Lennon, Ashton and Nathan.

The week before half term, 15 of our students returned from the annual Spanish Exchange trip. The students spent a week with a host family in the beautiful coastal town of Salou, located an hour from Barcelona.

We reported in BartholoNews last week on how the 1^st team got on in their round of this tournament, unfortunately the 2nd team did not get to play as their tournament was cancelled due to pitch conditions. This has been re-arranged to Sunday 15 March at St Swithuns School. Unfortunately the U13 (Year 8) Tournament also had to be cancelled.