Events

Leavers Ball May 2008

We would like to wish all our Year 11 students every success in the future; we celebrated the end of their five years at Saint Paul's with a Leavers' Service, at which they remembered the highlights of their school careers, and with our traditional Leavers' Banquet.

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Salters' Festival of Chemistry

On Wednesday 11th June 2008, three Year 8 students, Ikenna Okorie, Samantha Dowdle, and Laura Townsend, took part in the Salters' Festival of Chemistry at South Bank University, London.

The London South Bank University Festival was one of 52 events that took place across the United Kingdom this year. The day's activities were intended to give students an idea of what it is like to be a practising chemist.

During the day, the students had to take part in two different Science challenges, the Salters' challenge and the University challenge. The students from Saint Paul's worked very hard, contributed to the day very well, and came second in the University challenge.

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Pioneers - leading the way!

A wonderful celebration of hope and commitment of our students took place on Thursday 3rd July at the Academy. Through the guidance of Niall Mc Cann, Assistant Principal, Rev Father David Camilleri celebrated the launch of the 'Pioneer Youth Group'. The Pioneer Total Abstinence Association (PTAA) was founded in 1898 by Fr. James Cullen in Dublin to address the problem of alcohol abuse which was rampant in Irish Society at that time. The Pioneer association has, over 1000 years spread throughout the world and its membership is continually growing in countries in Africa and Latin America.

The Pioneer Youth is dedicated to providing a pathway for young people from the age of 12-16 to making informative decisions about alcohol. The group of students who received their badges have made a promise to the Sacred Heart and themselves to abstain from drinking alcohol until they reach 18. The evening was celebrated by friends and family of all students as well as Mr Conn Dee, special guest and also a member of the PTAA in London.

Congratulation to all involved. If anyone would like further information on the Pioneer Youth group, please contact Mr McCann at the Academy or follow the link - www.pioneertotal.ie

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Mozambique - partnership through sport

The Dreams and Teams project, which was set up last October by Mr McCann and Mr Bradley from the sports Department, is growing from strength to strength.

We must begin by thanking all those families, partner schools, governors, staff and other stakeholders in the academy for their interest and kindness in supporting our African project.

We welcomed our Mozambique teaching colleagues last week to London. Of course, we showed them the array of sights in our capital city but our main focus with the project is the cultural exchange of sport and education. They were shown round by our three very able Portuguese speaking year 7 students and given an insight into our successes, into our structures and policies, or vision and ethos and most importantly our sport.

They were amazed at the lasting impression that sport has on our students. They were very impressed with the behaviour and the dedication towards learning especially in the many subject areas they were able to observe. Antonio, the English/Sport teacher and Cardosa, the Principal were able to go and watch an Under 16 Gaelic football match in Peckham Rye, where our boys from Yr 9-11 were competing against the Round Towers team from Mitcham and afterwards visitedSaint Alfeges Church, in Greenwich, where the music Department were holding 'An evening of Music' which we all, including our visitors, were amazed with the array of talent and performance as a whole.

They have now returned to Mozambique with many wonderful colourful images and stories to share as well as a variety of new initiaitvies which can be introduced into their school. They have been in communication with us since their return thanking us all for the support and commitment to the project and the generosity given to their children in Mozambique.

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