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St Benedict's School News

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  A dazzling spectacle

  The third St Benedict’s School Dance Show

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  St Benedict’s pupil tackles Everest

  Twelve year old Tom Mythen, a pupil at St Benedict’s School, Ealing, has been trekking up Everest

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  Oxbridge Success at St Benedict’s

  Three students at St Benedict’s School, Ealing have received offers from Oxford and Cambridge.

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  An Excellent Inspection Report

  The school community at St Benedict’s School, Ealing are celebrating an excellent Inspection Report just published by the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) following the school’s inspection in November 2012.

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  Top EPQ grades at St Benedict’s

  St Benedict’s School recently celebrated yet more academic success as two Sixth Form students secured top A grades for the Extended Project Qualification (EPQ).

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  Super Shavers raise money for Crisis

  Two Year 9 pupils have raised over £850 for Crisis. Just after school finished for the Christmas holidays, Mark Arnett and Louis Grantham each had a Number One Mohican haircut.

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  St Benedict’s Pupils ‘Free their feet’

  Children from St Benedict’s School, Ealing took part in the Free Your Feet Challenge organised by Living Streets!!

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  ‘Rich Man - Poor Man’ meal raises funds for soup kitchen

  St Benedict's SVP Charity 'Rich Man Poor Man' meal raises over £200.

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  Who do I want to become?

  Year 9 Pupils Celebrate the Year of Faith with a Vocation Fair set around the question "Who do I want to become?"

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  Bennies boys and girls beat the drum for Macmillan

  St Benedict’s School pupils raised close to £500 for Macmillan Cancer Support at two separate events on Friday 28th September.

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  Lord Patten visits his Alma Mater

  Lord Patten, Patron of St Benedict's School, presents six Lower Sixth students with their inaugural awards as Patten Sixth Form Scholars.

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  Year of Faith at St Benedict’s School

  One thousand three hundred pupils and staff from St Benedict’s Junior and Senior Schools marked the start of the Year of Faith and a new school year on the first day of Michaelmas term with a special Mass in the Abbey, concelebrated by Abbot Martin Shipperlee and other members of the Monastic Community working in the School.

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  Historic Day for St Benedict’s School

  1st September 2012 was a historic day for St Benedict’s School. The School which has been under the Trusteeship of the Monks of Ealing since its foundation in 1902 is now an independent Charity with a lay Chairman, Mr Patrick Murphy-O’Connor. The School will continue to promote Catholic Benedictine values by living out its mission of ‘Teaching a way of living’. Monks will continue to work in the School and the Abbot and two of the Community will be on the Governing Body.

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  St Benedict’s Students celebrate excellent AL Results

  Upper Sixth students at St Benedict’s School, Ealing were celebrating some excellent A Level results on Thursday 16th August. Twenty-four students achieved three grade As or better and the percentage of the top A* grades, at 12%, was the highest in the School’s history. Including the Extended Performance Qualification (EPQ) results, the combined A*/A figure of 43% matches the best the School has ever achieved.

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  Explosively good ‘Gargantua’ performance at St Benedict’s

  St Benedict’s School presented ‘Gargantua’ by Carl Grose on three days in the last week of the summer term to provide a fitting finale to the school year. This was the annual Middle School Drama production, acted out by the younger pupils from Form Three (Year 7) to Lower Fifth (Year 10). Director John Padden showed his usual skill in enabling pupils to become completely transformed and to utterly absorb the audience.

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  Royal Academy success for young artists

  Ryan Clifford and Guneet Kalsi, seventeen year old Sixth Form Art students at St Benedict’s School in Ealing, have had their work chosen for the prestigious annual Royal Academy of Arts A-level Summer Exhibition Online. Over 1,450 submissions were received from the best art students across the UK and the short-listing panel commented on the high quality of work that was submitted. Head of Art Rod Pereira was thrilled with this outcome. “Only 45 pieces of artwork made the final cut and to have two students from St Benedict’s selected is fantastic.”

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  Hockey Olympian inspires young players

  Hannah Macleod, a Team Ealing Ambassador, dropped in on Friday 18th May at St Benedict’s School playing fields, where Ealing’s Youth Hockey squad were busy training for the London Youth Games in July. The new all-weather pitch at Perivale has been the venue for Ealing Youth Hockey since March. It was a special day, not just for the girls and boys but also for Hannah. Earlier in the day the GB Hockey team was officially announced and Hannah had received the news that she had been waiting for – she had been selected!

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  Vivat Regina!

  St Benedict’s Jubilee celebrations were launched on Thursday 31st May by a History Society lecture entitled ‘HM Queen Elizabeth II and the importance of the monarchy for Britain today’. The speaker, Mr Craig Wilks, Head of History, explained the pivotal role the British Monarchy has played in providing the stability and security Britain has enjoyed in recent centuries.

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  Fingertip Technology arrives at St Benedict’s

  St Benedict’s School is embracing the very latest in modern technology by installing a fingertip recognition system called VeriCool for Schools. Initially this will be used by pupils and staff to purchase food in the Orchard Hall by placing their ‘enrolled’ finger on a fingertip scanner. The immediate benefit will be that it will replace the current swipe cards which can be forgotten, lost or lent to other pupils. It will also have the added benefit of speeding up the lunch time queues. In addition staff will use this system to sign in and out of school.

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  Glowing report for St Benedict’s School CCF

  St Benedict’s School CCF had its biennial inspection at the end of last term and the glowing report from the Inspecting Officer, Colonel Mike Kelly, Deputy Chief of Staff (DCOS) LONDIST, has just landed on the Headmaster’s desk. The inspection provided a fitting send-off for the Commanding Officer, Captain Richard Finch, who is leaving St Benedict’s at the end of the summer term to take up an appointment as Director of Sport at a school in Hong Kong. Lt (RN) Nikki Woodroffe will take over the command.

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  Hell’s Kitchen at St Benedict’s School

  On Friday 27th April, St Benedict’s School welcomed 120 guests for its very own charity event inspired by Gordon Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen, with The Mayor of Ealing, John Gallagher, as the Guest of Honour. The four School Houses, Barlow, Gervase, Pickering and Roberts competed against each other to raise money for several charities including Magic Breakfast, Mary’s Meals, PESTS, Treloar’s School and Westminster Catholic Children’s Society.

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  U13’s Triumph at Rosslyn Park National School Sevens

  St Benedict’s Ealing took the first tournament of the prestigious U13 Rosslyn Park HSBC National Schools Sevens with a storming 24-0 win over Ysgol Gyfun Glantaf School in Cardiff on Tuesday 27th March. This is the first time the trophy has returned to St Benedict’s since 1991.

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  St Benedict’s celebrates its Patronal Feast

  On 21st of March St Benedict’s School celebrated the Patronal Feast of Our Holy Father St Benedict. The School was visited by Bishop Paul Hendricks, Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark, who enjoyed the Charity fundraising activities in the morning and then celebrated Mass for the whole school in the afternoon in the Abbey Church.

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  St Benedict’s Pupils help organise the Ealing Sport Relief M

  Ben Farmer and Jack Elliott, Year 8 pupils at St Benedict’s School, Ealing, helped to organise the Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Mile in Ealing on Sunday 25th March. As one of the UK’s biggest fundraising events, Sport Relief brings the entire nation together to get active and raise cash for a good cause. All the money raised helps to change the lives of people living unimaginably tough lives right here on our doorstep, across the rest of the UK and in some the world’s poorest countries.

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  Ealing pupils celebrate Commonwealth Day

  Eight pupils from St Benedict’s School, accompanied by English teacher Jayne Euvrard, attended a special service at Westminster Abbey on 12th March to celebrate Diamond Jubilee Commonwealth Observance Day. Hannah Cockshutt, Jack Davies and Matthew Barrett (Year 7), Olivia Smith, Theo Byrne and Matthew Gosztony (Year 8), and Francis Curran and Finn Hobson (Year 9) were selected because of the work they have done contributing items for the Digital Diamond Jubilee Time Capsule, a special gift for Her Majesty The Queen to mark sixty years of her reign. Olivia sent in memories of her first day in the Junior School in 2008, Finn a video from the School Molveno trip in 2010 as they travelled in the Dolomite mountains, while Matthew provided images of the Hungarian Revolution in 1956 which his Grandmother escaped. Francis’ memory was carrying the flag of St George at the St George’s Day parade in Ealing.

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  Ireland U18s Rugby Call Up for St Benedict’s Student

  Sean O’Hagan, a Lower Sixth student at St Benedict’s School in Ealing, represented the Ireland U18 rugby side against Italy on Saturday 18th February. The match was played in the small town of Badia Polesine in the Province of Rovigo. It was a close game throughout but Ireland just could not get the final breakthrough against a resilient Italian side and went down 11–17.

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  ‘Go, go, go Joseph!’

  On a desperately cold evening in February, St Benedict’s School production of ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’ provided a wonderful spectacle that gladdened the eye and warmed the heart. The school’s Orchard Hall was transformed with kaleidoscopic sparkling lights, sand, palm trees and a Sphinx that transported the audience to faraway and ancient Egypt. The production was directed by Head of Drama, Katie Ravenscroft, who staged some innovative casting and demonstrated her customary skill at getting great performances out of the pupils, with musical accompaniment under the direction of Music teacher Jane Pashby.

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  ‘All Aboard’ – St Benedict’s Gains RYA Status

  St Benedict’s School, Ealing is now a Royal Yachting Association (RYA) training centre. This allows students who are in the Combined Cadet Force (CCF) to have the chance to gain international yachting qualifications from the school’s ICT classrooms. There are only five other schools with RYA status, however, St Benedict’s is the first to offer the courses interactively with online learning.

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  St Benedict’s Pupils Scoop Prestigious Architecture Awards

  Ben Medlam and Pablo Wheldon, Year 10 pupils at St Benedict’s School, Ealing were presented with Architecture awards at a prestigious ceremony at the Cowcross Gallery on Tuesday 13th December, hosted by Open City. Ben won the Key Stage 4 Model Making Architecture in Secondary Schools Award, while Pablo won the KS4 Imaginative Design Award.

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  ‘From Russia with Love’

  Thirty students and four staff from St Benedict’s School, Ealing enjoyed the trip of a lifetime to Moscow and St Petersburg during six days of the autumn half-term holiday. An action packed two full days in the Russian capital covered the incredibly grand Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, the Mausoleum of Lenin, the world famous Red Square, the Kremlin and the Moscow Space Park. After an evening of shopping and then dinner at the Hard Rock Café, the group boarded the train for the much anticipated overnight train journey to St Petersburg, which most of the group slept through.

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  St Benedict’s U15s have look of Champions

  St Benedict’s School Under 15s have had a tremendous start to the rugby season, winning all 15 matches, scoring 1014 points and conceding just 30. The highlights of the season so far have been a 118-0 victory over St James’ Catholic High School, the 23-7 win against Wellington School and the team’s progress through the Daily Mail Cup, in which they have now reached the sixth round.

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  Harrods Internships for St Benedict’s Students

  During the summer, Sixth Form students from St Benedict’s School, Ealing, completed an internship at Harrods. They had the opportunity to fulfil a number of roles in Marketing, Public Relations and Buying, and the experiences they gained were truly extraordinary. This dream opportunity was only made possible by a generous offer from Mrs Marigay McKee, a Director on the Harrods board, and by the hard work of Miss Rachel Plant, Business Studies and Economics teacher, who organised everything at the school end.

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  The Big Draw at St Benedict's

  The annual Big Draw event took over The Cloisters at St Benedict’s School, Ealing on Tuesday 4th October. In the morning Form Three were busy building and decorating a complete town. There was purpose among the bustle and a huge buzz of enthusiasm as new buildings were constructed out of card and then decorated.

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  Co-curricular Fair at St Benedict's

  On Friday, 16th September St Benedict’s held its first ever Co-curricular Fair, an event held along the lines of a University Freshers’ Fair. It was a chance for new pupils to find out what the school’s numerous clubs and societies, now over eighty in number, have to offer.

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  Record GCSE Results at St Benedict's

  St Benedict’s School is celebrating record GCSE results as the Summer 2011 Upper Fifth cohort blew all previous statistics out of the sky. The results are the best in the school’s long history in every category.

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  St Benedict's School achieves Silver Eco Award

  St Benedict’s Senior School has achieved the Eco School’s Silver Award in recognition of the increasing work that the Eco Council is doing to improve the school’s sustainability and environmental awareness.

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  St Benedict's pupil wins Harrods Tote Design Competion

  Fourteen year old Morgan McKay, a pupil at St Benedict’s School, has won the Harrods Charity Tote Competition and a £200 Harrods gift card. Her design was chosen from hundreds of others to be printed on this season’s Autumn/Winter Harrods charity bag. It must be the dream of any budding artist to have their design featured on a leading brand’s merchandise, and they don’t come much bigger than Harrods. That dream has now come true for Morgan, who hopes to follow her parents into an art based career.

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  St Benedict's Cadets excel on National Leadership Course

  Three senior cadets from St Benedict’s School, Ealing were fortunate to gain places on this year’s Cadet Leadership Courses, run by HQ Land Forces in Nesscliff Training Camp, Shropshire. LCpls Alec Snell-Navarro, Gregory Newton Jones and Hussain Sadiq joined 120 cadets from Army, Navy and Air Training Corps units across the country for an intensive and physically demanding week, culminating in a two day overnight exercise involving various competitive field-based activities in a tactical scenario.

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  Dance Extravaganza at St Benedict's

  ‘Once upon a time, deep in the forest, was a doll shop.’ So began the Dance Extravaganza, held at St Benedict’s School on Tuesday 5th April, with a cast of nearly forty pupils. This was a new event in the school calendar, intended to showcase Dance as a vibrant and exciting sports activity.

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  St Benedict’s School opens new multi-use Games Area

  St Benedict’s School officially opened ‘The Andre Abramian Memorial Pitch’ on Thursday 10th March at the school playing fields in Perivale. This international size Astroturf pitch will extend the sporting options for boys and girls to include hockey alongside the netball and tennis already on offer.

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  International Women's Day at St Benedict's School

  International Women’s Day was celebrated at St Benedict’s School, Ealing on Tuesday 8th March and during the following two weeks. Teachers drew attention to women achievers in their subject areas, school assemblies and displays in the Library and on notice boards reinforced these messages. The sale of Women’s Day badges raised £90.21 for the charity ‘Refuge,’ which works to provide safe accommodation for women and their children suffering domestic abuse.

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  St Benedict's School presents 'A Kind of Loving'

  The Cloisters at St Benedict’s, Ealing was the setting for this year’s school production of ‘A Kind of Loving’, directed by Ms Katie Ravenscroft. Based on the 1960 novel of the same name by Stan Barstow the play focuses on the social and historical context of life in the North of England.