Congratulations to all students who took part in a slightly unforgiving Cross Country course last week at Mary Hare, a beautiful setting but a challenging course, which they all took on board with grit and determination.
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Berkshire School Games
On Friday 8 March, St Bart’s hosted the Berkshire Primary Schools Indoor Athletics finals. Eight different primary schools from around Berkshire came to St Bart’s to participate in this event held by staff and Year 10 and 11 Sports Leaders.
In the morning, the Year 10 Sports Leaders had an early start, arriving at the sports hall at 7.15am to help set up and learn about their roles for the event.
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Athens Trip
Tell me, muse, of the St Bart’s trip to Greece! The A Level students of Classical Civilisation and some guests from other subjects embarked on a PanHellenic Odyssey of Epic proportions. We went to Athens, seeing the theatres, Acropolis and museums, along with the prison of Socrates, ancient Agora, and finally made our own Greek comedy/tragedy masks and watched a performance of Aristophanes’ comedies.
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MFL Theatre Productions
On Wednesday 28 February and Thursday 7 March we had the pleasure of welcoming an MFL specialist theatre company called Onatti. This company performs plays in French, German and Spanish, suitable for beginners and immediate level learners. The play we saw in German was called ‘Der Babysitter’ which tells the funny story of a babysitter agreeing to allow her ex boyfriend to come and help her but after an argument she walks out leaving the teenager in charge of the baby. In some of the scenes, the actors even invited the students to participate. This is what Matilda in Year 10 had to say about the event.
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Sixth Form House Cup Update
The revitalised Sixth Form House Cup has been a huge success this year and we are now well over the half-way point. The new format includes a wider range of activities and sports to ensure that all students are able to participate and represent their house. Since December, we have had multiple House Dodgeball events, House Film, The Big Fat Quiz of the Year, House Netball, House Basketball, Fun with Numbers, a Spelling Bee and most recently, House Girls’ Football.
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Barclays Girls Football School Partnerships
Published 14 March 2024
On Friday 8 March, St Bart’s supported the ‘Let Girls Play’ biggest ever football session. The ‘Let Girls Play’ campaign was launched in October 2021 to support England Women's Football ambition to provide girls with equal access to football and inspire communities and schools to make change.National Schools Lacrosse Championship
Congratulations to the Senior Lacrosse team who took part in this weekends National Schools Lacrosse Championship at Aldershot Garrison. On day one the team competed well against the top schools in the country (including the eventual winners, Moreton Hall) and qualified for Division Two for the second day.
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It was a delight to welcome our Patron of Reading, Peter J Murray and his wife, Kath, back to St Bart’s on Monday 4 March to celebrate during the week of World Book Day with our Year 7 students. Pete had the students enthralled with an amazing, albeit slightly scary and spooky presentation, which featured his latest book, ‘The Darker side of Wight’.
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Spanish Immersion Trip
Last month, 41 of our Year 10, 11 and 12 students visited Andalucia for a unique opportunity to improve their Spanish and to learn more about Spanish culture through a variety of activities. Each student was paired with a Spanish pen pal before the trip and met them while in Spain
Ella Lecky (12E7) tells us about her experience…
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Chinese New Year
On 26 February, a group students and Mrs Ndagire spoke to our Year 12 and 13 students about the Chinese New Year in the Sixth Form enrichment assembly.
Chinese New Year (also known as Spring Festival) is a festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar.
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