Students take on Ironman Triatholon to fund their Iceland Trip.

Read more in The Citizen, Wednesday 19 November 2008.

Friday 14 November 2008

Read the article from The Citizen, Wednesday 12 November 2008

and the letter from Revd Chris Blockley

Click here to view the pictures of its installation during the summer holidays.

Read the article in The Citizen, Monday 25 August 2008.

Permisson approved at Planning Hearing in July 2008.

Read The Citizen article in Thursday 15 May issue.

Duncan Cook from Severn Sound interviewed Martin Spoor, Principal & Leandra Rios, Year 9 on Wednesday 19th March, about our proposed wind turbine - the first school in the county to apply!

The interview will hopefull be aired tomorrow (Thursday 20th March 2008), so listen out!

£405.01

raised at last count!

Well done and thank you to all those who took part!

Read

article published on Thursday 6 March 2008

from our students

Read

article published on Wednesday 5 March 2008

from our Chair of Governors,

Dr Carole Baker

During that time he has maintained the highest levels of professionalism and taught Maths in a manner that brings both enjoyment and success. Mr Chotoye has been one of the most popular members of staff because the students trust him to do his best for them, to be patient as they try to understand and to be on hand constantly to offer his support.

He has seen many changes during his career - the transformation from Oxstalls Community School to Bishops’ College being one of them - but he has met every challenge with quiet calm resolution and got on with the job. He is a credit to the profession.

We now have some new software that allows us to send text messages to

parents/guardians, re. Parents Evenings, Meetings, Emergencies, Exam reminders etc

This year we managed to raise £444.43 by wearing non-uniform

Well done and thank you to all those who donated. 

And a special well done to Michael Morgan for his collection in fancy dress!

Bishops’ College took part in World Food Day by raising money for the UN Schools Feeding Programme. Led by the newly elected School Parliament, the pupils were challenged to ‘Buy 1, Give 2 Free.’

It costs around 12p to feed two children in less economically developed countries, so when the pupils bought or ate their lunches they where encouraged to give 12p (Buy 1, Give 2 Free).

The School Parliament also spoke at a special Whole School Assembly about Harvest and being grateful for what we have. At lunchtime the school took part in a fete to raise even more money and pupils from Year 7, 8 and 9 organised stalls including ‘Guess the baby picture’, ‘Tombola’, ‘Teddy Bear Raffle’, ‘Unlucky Dip’ and ‘Soak the Teacher’. The pupils raised £130 in total which will provide 1083 meals.

Mrs Davies-Godsell entered Bishops’ in the County Council’s ‘The B1G1F’ Competition and we won!  Six members of parliament will now be going on a trip to London.  Well done everyone who took part!

Mrs N Rogers                   Miss A Mills

We bid a fond farewell to our D&T Technician, Steve Worgan, who had been with us for 6 years.  Steve has now joined Whitecross School and we wish him the best of luck.  Nina Rogers is our new appointment and will be starting on Monday 3rd December.  We say goodbye also, to our ICT Network Manager, Richard Ballard, who has moved onto pastures new.  Jim Stokes, currently at Bournside, starts in January 2008.

We also recently appointed a new English Teacher, Miss A Mills, who will start with in the new year and three new LSWs - Mrs A Willoughby, Miss N Foster & Miss E Bliss.

We wish all those who have left us the best and give a warm welcome to all those who are joining us.

Sophie Duckett & Luke Mundy cast their votes!

During the week commencing 15th October, all students were voting to elect their new members of Parliament.  They elected the following:

For more information on the student parliament, click here.

On Tuesday 9th October our College Chaplain, Revd Chris Blockley was Licensed by The Right Revd John Went, Bishop of Tewkesbury.

Views pictures of the evening and read the programme.

Kerrie Tippins, Jordan Douglas & Ryan Boucher

On Friday, 21st September BP chose Bishops’ College to receive a visit from its Climate Change Roadshow Team. The three representatives met with 200 students from Years 10 & 11 for a fun packed morning of activities designed to test their awareness of current issues and to build further their ideas and expectations for the future.

The visit was a resounding success on both sides. The students had a great morning with Year 11 narrowly beating Year 10 in the challenge quiz! Feedback from BP was very positive towards both the school, which they called a great environment, and the students who were eager to join in, knowledgeable and very polite and friendly.

The school is looking forward to building the link with BP, with two members of the science department visiting BP at Swindon with other delegates from the South of England region. They will feedback on the quality of the day and work on more resources for use in schools across the country.

102 Year 11 pupils completed their two weeks’ work experience at the start of this term.

Their placements ranged from working in schools, nursing homes, child care, hairdressers, architects, many local government offices including Shire Hall, the prison, all the utility works and many retail outlets.

The majority of the pupils gained invaluable knowledge of working life and rose to all challenges put to them in their placements. Ten pupils were offered either part time work or an apprenticeship upon leaving school!  This experience has also had a positive effect on the pupils’ attitude to school and their learning.  Many of the pupils received very positive comments from their employers: one hair dresser said they were the best pupils she had ever had and offered both girls a job.  A member of the public contacted the school to say how impressed she was with the two pupils working at her children’s nursery and how much her children would miss them when the pupils returned to school. Many employers’ commented on how polite and hard working the pupils were, with 28 students receiving excellent reports. Overall it was a very positive experience for the overwhelming majority of the pupils.

Special thanks to Mrs Welch, Mrs Matthews and Miss Rooks for their outstanding support for Year 11.

Mrs C Clark, Receptionist - started 3/9/07

Mr C Blockley, Chaplain - started 3/9/07

Miss G D'Auria, Head of English - started 3/9/07

Mr B Mitchell, English - started 3/9/07

Miss C Osolin, English - started 3/9/07

Mr L Taylor, ICT - started on 3/9/07

Mrs N Stephens, Science - started on 3/9/07

Ms J McCoy, Science & Maths - started on 3/9/07

Well Done Mr Morley & Mr Morris for successfully completing the London Marathon

Congratulations to the Year 9 New Team:

Their paper will be available to view on the website soon.

Mark Cornwell & Andy Brown presenting Callum Leese with a place at the Junior Youth Academy at Gloucester Rugby Club

Bishops’ College joined forces with Gloucester Rugby Club today (Wed 1st November) to launch ‘OVAL’ (One Voice All Listen) an initiative designed to promote listening skills and improve learning.  Mark Cornwell, Academy director and former player at Gloucester visited the school and took part in an whole school assembly that included drama, and utilised the ICT facilities in the refurbished school hall.  ‘The college has gone undergone major refurbishment in recent months and is proud of its new image and uniform. However, a college is more than what you see on the outside and the staff are determined to work with students and improve further the results of recent years.’ said Ian Taylor (VP). 

The college has recently submitted an application for recognition as a Sports and ICT Specialist College, it looks forward to working closely with the sporting community of Gloucester building on good relationships that already exist with local Basketball Football and Rugby clubs.

Callum Leese (pictured) and Jarrod Campbell both received confirmation of places with the Junior Youth Academy with Gloucester Rugby Club.

The Right Revd Michael Perham, Bishop of Gloucester, addresses the crowd

Guests including the Lady Mayoress of Gloucester