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Marie Curie Annual Collection
The annual collection for the Marie Curie Hospice once again took place in the school and, after several weeks of anticiaption, was again organised by the Year 10 pupils who have supported the charity so readily since they joined in Year 7. The usual pupils were joined by Dina Ismail and Sahra Arwo and gave up every break and dinner time throughout the collecting week. The fund-raising culminated in the Eisteddfod on the Friday when every pupil in the Lower School was encouraged to purchase a daffodil to wear. The Year 10 pupils are indebted to the younger pupils from the Dinas Powys site for their help. The collecting tins and buckets were returned to Marie Curie by the Penarth students - shown in the photograph with Mrs Karen Jones and Ms Georgina Burke from the Fund Raising Office. (09/03/2010)
Fair Trade Tea-Shirt Competition
The winner of the Fair Trade Tea-Shirt Competition is Sarah King in 8CLB. Her winning design incorporates a black background, a teacup and saucer and steam rising. This bold statement design strongly promotes the use of Fair Trade tea. Sarah will receive a Fair Trade T-shirt and her design will be printed onto t-shirts as advertisements during Fair Trade Fortnight. She will also receive a £5 voucher to spend at ‘A Class Apart’ The panel of three judges from Dinas Powys Fair Trade Group would like to thank all the students for their thoughtful ideas and found all the entries very interesting; second prize went to Jennifer Kerslake and third to James Haworth. James’ tagline, ‘Fairtrade Tea is Tea-riffic’ was a great idea. Both students will receive a £5 voucher. Some other design work was also highly commended by Rhys Lane, Dominic Curtis and Rhiannon Jeffrey all in year 8. The Fair Trade Foundation focus is on the Big Swap when it is hoped that 1,000,001 people will swap a normal product for a fair trade one e.g. bananas, chocolate, biscuits or whatever, but specifically with a focus on tea. Other age groups have been asked to design different things, again on a tea theme, and the intention is to exhibit everyone's work at the Parish Hall on Saturday 6th March. Mrs E Fisher (09/03/2010)
Penarth Town Fairtrade Forum
The AGM of the Penarth Town Fairtrade Forum took place on Friday 5th March and involved several of our pupils in major roles. Hannah Richards and Tomos Evans, both of Year 13, have served on the Forum for the last two years and, as they are now off to University, the members of the meeting, including Lorraine Barrett AM, Cllr Mark Wilson and representatives from local businesses, charities etc, thanked them for their consistent support and hard work over this time. Hannah had been elected as Publicity Officer in the last AGM and has proved to be an excellent ambassador both for the Forum and for the school. The meeting ended with a presentation by two of our Year 10 pupils, Rosa Greenburrows and Ruba Ashraf - both of whom were speaking in public for the first time. They gave an account of the work of the school in supporting the Fairtrade programme and were rewarded by a rousing round of applause for their infomrative and interesting talk. Well done girls - you also were excellent ambassadors for St Cyres School. The photos shows our students with some of the other guests and members at the meeting and Rosa and Ruba delivering their talk. (08/03/2010)
Project: Fair Trade Catwalk
You may have recently seen size zero models and unbelievable creations strutting down the catwalks of London Fashion Week and wondered how the elite fashion world can continue to relate to the needs of the population. As an alternative, on Thursday 27th February at 7.30pm a totally different view of fashion was taking place. Real size models refused to conform to stereotypes and proudly walked the catwalk promoting Fairtrade clothing from a number of manufacturers. Jan Tucker owner of ‘Fair Do’s’ in Canton kindly supplied a wide range of men’s and women’s clothing from her shop as well as accessories like hats, scarves and bags. www.fairdos.com Hannah Richards, year 13 who is publicity officer of the Penarth Fairtrade Forum was the driving force behind The Fairtrade Fashion Show. With help and advice from Mr Clarey, she enrolled Counsellor Mark Wilson, Mrs Margaret Edwards and the ladies of the Women’s Institute and several members of St Cyres School staff to participate in raising awareness of The Big Swap, 22nd February to 7th March. www.fairtrade.org.uk Highlights of the evening included two gorgeous crushed velvet dresses, a range of printed and hand beaded tops and patterned silk skirts. All the models looked fantastic and were well received by the audience with rounds of applause. The show stopper had to be Dan Payne, year 13 who wearing designer boxer shorts from ‘Pants for Poverty’ marched boldly down the catwalk, making the front row smile! During the interval, St Cyres School Choir entertained us with a wonderful performance and The Mayor of Penarth, John Fraser, gave the event a sense of occassion in the beautiful surroundings of The Paget Rooms. Although this was not a fund raising event, but more about promoting awareness, volunteers from Oxfam in Penarth Town were on hand selling Fairtrade products like coffee, tea and chocolate. By Mrs E Fisher (05/03/2010)
Mad Hatter's Tea Break
On Saturday 27th February six students from St Cyres School participated in an event at Youldon House, Dinas Powys in support of Fairtrade Fortnight. Tasmin Pickford, Jennifer Ham, John Turingan, Dominique Tsoi, Charlotte and Jessica Woodfield all gave up their Saturday morning to get creative! The task was seemingly simple, 'create the maddest hats possible with the materials provided'. That would normally be no problem for this group of talented students, however, ten wonderful local ladies with their minds set on making Easter Bonnets gave them a bit more of a challenge. Artistic ideas were put on hold so that Conversation, Compromise and Care became the key words to success. Phyllis with her partner Jessica, were the ultimate prizewinners and treated to some Fairtrade chocolate. I would like to thank Sue Hamer from the Dinas Powys Fairtrade Group who organised this event in association with Soul in Dinas. This was a valuable opportunity to socialise across generations and make connections between groups of people who would possibly never meet. The conversation flowed as we exchanged ideas about local places of interest and nattered about craft projects over cups of tea and toast. All of the ‘Mad Hats’ will be on display at Dinas Powys Parish Hall on Saturday 6th March. (05/03/2010)
St Cyres - Football Teams' Progress
For an update on our football squads progress in all competitions in each age group this season please Click Here (01/03/2010)
Royal Marines Quintet
The music department were treated to a morning's entertainment by the Royal Marines Quintet. WO2 Ian Davies MBE RM and the quintet performed for GSCE and A Level Students giving them a taste of life in the forces. Ian Davies who has played for the Queen and all around the world with the Royal Marines also gave a presentation to the group that gave an insight into the incredible opportunities that a career in the Royal Navy can provide them with. Following this visit a number of our pupils have shown an interest in joining the Royal Marines School of Music when they leave St Cyres. For further information please visit www.royalmarinesbands.co.uk (25/02/2010)
Geography Awareness Week
This week pupils in year 7-9 have been taking part in fun activities in their Geography lessons. Year 7 pupils have had a quiz, year 8 have been designing a school for the future and year 9 have been junk modelling a sustainable house. Hopefully the pupils have enjoyed their lessons, I know the staff have! (12/02/2010)
Consultation Continues with Design Team
Following the series of special assemblies that were held last week, the consultation process on the design of our new school continued today with a series of meetings with each of the Year Councils. The purpose of these meetings was to ask the pupils on each of the Year Councils for their ideas for the new buildings and to find out what facilities they would like to see in the new school. As always, the pupils came up with lots of interesting and exciting ideas and the Design Team were very pleased with the feedback they received from the pupils and they will take away and consider all of the ideas discussed during the day. (12/02/2010)
