ParklandsExcellence in Liverpool

In partnership with

YOUTHPARTNER

ContentsMajor Alan Goodenough. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Teen Idol 2006. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Army Visit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

History Trip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

ICT Academy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Interview with Mr Evans. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Healthy Eating. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Announcements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

The Newspaper Editing Team

Dates for Diary:

Dear ParentsAs I write this we are experiencingone of the hottest days of the yearwhich is so nice for most of us, butnot for those who are sitting theirlast public examinations in the Hall.I do hope that the fine weather isset to continue throughout thesummer and that all who have worked so hard can enjoy thebreak.

I am grateful for the support from teaching staff, supportstaff and parents throughout this year. We are all workinghard to support our youngsters and I know that the thoughtsof many will be with those who come into school in Augustto collect examination results – let’s hope that the sunshines on them on that day!

Over the summer holiday there will be a lot of work carriedout to improve teaching facilities at the College and detailsof this are provided elsewhere. The work is being fundedfrom our specialist school capital grant and the moneywhich pupils, parents and others raised during the course oflast year.

We say goodbye to a number of staff at the end of this term– Miss Bousquet, Mr Carson, Mr Houghton, Miss McHughand Mr McClean. Best wishes and thanks to them all asthey take up posts in other schools and in some cases inother countries.

I hope that you all enjoy a restful break over the summerperiod.

Yours sincerely

L D Rippon Headteacher

John Kelly 10 OW Simon Peers 10 MAStephen Beard 10 BRAdam Wing 10 WAAndrew Dooley 10 LEMichael Moorcroft 10 OWDavid Kelly 10CA

Michael McNamee 10 MAConnor McCarthy 9 OWJohn Hyland 9 KEDavid Jones 9 RIAndrew Dunbar 9 CAThomas Bennett 10 MATerence Whinnet 10 CA

Thomas Lees 10 LEDominic Barlow 10 LEWelwin Lobo 10 CACiaran Irvine 10 MASean Buckley 10 BR

n 5th July – Induction Day for Year 6

n 7th & 8th July – Last Night of the Proms

n 13th July – Enterprise Day for Year 9

n 21st July – School closes at 12:20pm forSummer Holidays

n 17th August – ‘A’ Level results

n 17th August – ‘AS’ Level results

n 24th August – GCSE Results

n 5th September – School re-opens at8:40am (years 7-12)

n 6th September – Year 13 return to schoolat 8:40am

2

An Interview with Major Alan Goodenough Major Alan Goodenough is an Officer commanding the Duke of Lancaster’s regiment recruitment team andhas been in the Army since he was 16 years old and joined as a private. Major Goodenough has worked hisway through the ranks of the Army during the last 27 years and was commissioned as an officer in 2000.

Q. Why did you choose the Army instead of the Air Force or the Navy?A. I chose the Army because in my view the Army is the most important, if the Infantry wasn’t there to clear

the ground for air fields obviously the Air Force wouldn’t be there and the Navy wouldn’t be able to win awar from the sea, so the Army was the one for me because I wanted to be defending the front line.

Q. What made you want to join the Army?A. Well, I wanted a new job every 2 years, I wanted a bit of adventure, and I wanted

a bit of action with good blokes.

Q. What age do you have to be to join the Army?A. You can apply for the Army when you are 15 years and 3 months old and if you are successful in your

application you will begin training when you are 16 years and 3 months. You can join until you are 26years old, however if you wish to be an officer, you may join between the ages of 18 and 26.

Adam Wing Y10

Book FairEvery year, the school Learning Resource Centreholds two school book fairs. The November book fairwas very successful, with the school gaining £520.00in commission fees, which the school spent on booksfor the LRC. The summer book fair holds a “buy oneget one free” scheme, as a way of saying thanks to thepupils who supported the last fair. The total for thisbook fair was over £1300.00! This is a greatachievement for the school as it is the largest amountthe book fair has raised to date. The school book fairis an excellent way for pupils to improve their literacyskills at home.

David Kelly 10CA

Design and TechnologyTrip to TechniquestA selection of Year 8 pupils went on a trip toTechniquest with Mr Langhorne and Mr Bowers as areward for those boys who had performed well inDT/ICT. Throughout the day pupils benefited from theuse of over 60 “hands on” exhibits in the 4 educationzones. They also attended a structures exhibitionwhere pupils took part in a variety of experimentsfinding out why tension, compression, bending andtorsion are all crucial to the design of everydaystructures. They also found out what happens whenthings go wrong! A very successful and beneficial tripfor all involved.

John Hyland Y9

History TransitionProject

SFX’s History Department has collaborated closely withmany of the neighbouring primary schools this year. Chiefamong them has been the impressive St. Gregory’s, whoseYear 6 made a special visit to SFX. Other schools involvedhave been; St. Andrew’s, Our Lady of the Assumption, St.Paschal Baylon, St. Mary’s, St. Mark’s and Bishop Eton.

3

Teen Idol 2006After our successful Teen Idol school auditionsduring March we had ten boys go through to the nextround of heats at Parklands CLC. The day was agreat success and at the end of it SFX had four boysto go through to the semi-final concert in May.Alastair Frederick (Y11), Adam Kilcourse (Y11),Nathan Carter (Y11) and Daniel Badger (Y10) allmade it through. The boys, who were calm, cool andcollected, rehearsed all day in the CLC and thenwaited nervously for their chance to perform in frontof a sold out crowd in the evening. After fourexcellent performances the judges went out to maketheir decision and Nathan Carter was chosen for thesecond year running to perform in the grand final atthe Philharmonic Hall on Monday 19th June. Nathangave a fantastic performance and although he did notwin, sent his congratulations to Daniel Sharples fromCalderstones School who won the competition.

Tom Bennett Y10

Interview with Mr Ripponabout School RefurbishmentSince the last newsletter all external doors have beenreplaced. The older ones were damaged and broken. Thenew doors are much more secure, and of course they looka lot better. Several windows have been replaced in themain building but windows are currently only beingreplaced on a needs basis as it would cost too much toreplace all of them. We are getting a new central heatingboiler, the old boiler was about 45 years old and had to becut up in the boiler room over the recent half term holidayand was removed by a crane. The energy efficient newboiler is currently under construction and will be ready forSeptember. Extensive outdoor seating has been providedfor pupils and more is on the way, there is also an outdoorarea for staff now. Over the summer holiday the librarywill be refurbished as will the ground floor in the sixthform block which from September will be an ICT suitewith new computers. More details of this project can befound in this newsletter.

Adam Wing Y10

Minibus Update

The Parents’ association work with the school raisingmoney for items which are not covered by school funds.Our current aim is to provide the school with a newminibus. We have been working really hard over the last18 months organising and holding various events whichhave helped us move towards our target. We are now inthe process of looking at suitable vehicles and haverecently organised a demonstration of two models on theschool grounds where staff could have a proper look atwhat we are hoping to buy.

We hope you can appreciate that finding a suitable vehiclefor boys of different ages and sizes and for differentactivities and distances is not an easy task but we areconfident of finding a suitable model. We hope to finalisedetails and place an order by the end of this year so thatthe boys can start making use of the vehicle when wecome back for the new academic year.

We hope our last function of the year ‘Last Night Of TheProms’ will add the final amount to the total needed andmight even leave us enough left over for a pair of fluffydice!! We hope you will continue to support us in oureffort.

Chairperson, Parents’ Association

Gardener Systems VisitIn June, Mr Roberts took a group of students from 8Barlow to visit Gardener Systems. They looked at howbusinesses use ICT within their companies. The pupilslearnt about how ICT is used in every day life and howit impacts on their lives without them knowing it. Theydiscussed how they used mobile phones tocommunicate, the Internet for games and how ICT isused in our everyday lives. In addition to this, they alsodiscussed how parents used ICT to perform bankingactivities and save time by using the Internet. MrRoberts said “the boys’ behaviour was fabulous andthey all really enjoyed the day”.

John Hyland Y9.Spring CompetitionWinnersCongratulations to the following pupils who each won£20.00 worth of Borders vouchers in last term’snewsletter competition:

Connor Duffy – Year 8

Philip Williams – Year 8

John Cotton - Year 8

4

Science NewsYear 12 Students attended a very successful A-levelBiology field-trip to Ainsdale at the end of June wherethey investigated sand-dune succession. The weatherwas beautiful and everyone seemed to enjoy theexperience. Students should be continuing withcoursework tasks in Biology and Physics over thesummer holidays.

Year 10 pupils should be finishing coursework. (if thishas not already been done). The ‘modular’ part of theGCSE course is finished (except for some re-sits andfor those pupils in 10/11J1 who are studying forseparate GCSEs in Biology, Chemistry and Physics –these pupils will complete extra modular tests inNovember and March of next year).

Year 9 pupils have been put into sets according totheir performance in the end of KS3 SATs. It is veryimportant that parents and pupils realise that sincecompleting the SATs exams back in May, pupils havebeen following GCSE courses and that any workcompleted after May is important and should behanded in to teachers for safe-keeping over thesummer break.

Italy Trip

In May, boys from Years 7, 8 & 9 went on a trip to Italy withthe Classics department. The boys started their trip at 4o’clock in the morning, arriving at the school early for thesix hour journey to London. They had to get up so earlybecause they had to be at the airport three hours beforetake-off. The trip lasted for seven days and the boystoured Rome, Naples & Sorrento visiting the Colosseum inRome. Mr Slattery led the group with Mr Harrison & MrFox helping out. Although the trip was educational theboys still managed to enjoy themselves by going up MtVesuvius near the ancient city of Pompeii which wasdestroyed when Vesuvius erupted in the early first centuryA.D, visiting the Vatican and the Trevi fountain in Rome aswell. The boys enjoyed the trip and hopefully it willcontinue for years to come.

Connor McCarthy 9 OW

The Army Visit to SFXOn Thursday 15th Junethe army visited Year 9at SFX. The studentswere given a chance topartake in a variety ofactivities such as paintballing, an assaultcourse and holdingfirearms. The assaultcourse was a variety ofsimple challengesincluding monkey bars,rope ladders and see-saws. The course wascalled “challenging” anda member of staff wasrecorded to have said

that “she would never have tried it”. The paintball activitywas enjoyed by most of the year group, except 9A (becausewhen it was their turn the guns ran out of gas). Thestudents had to shoot five paint balls at five differenttargets. The students were also allowed to handle riflesand sniper rifles. The pupils learned that the rifles wereeffective up to 1500 yards. It gave the pupils a realisticexperience of what the soldiers have to carry day after day.

The soldiers also did a march for all the pupils to watchduring the morning assembly. The soldiers were fullydressed in their marching uniform. The other soldierswere dressed in camouflage. The soldiers explained to usthat any wars are no longer called wars; they must becalled conflict. This was due to the “Geneva Convention”.

Each class in Y9 were given the opportunity to speak tosoldiers from the Duke of Lancaster regiment, which wasrecently formed from three battalions. The students werealso given the chance to watch a very informative videoabout the regiment and what it does. The students weregiven a variety of leaflets about the army and its careerpaths.

David Jones – Y9

Year 10 GCSE WritingWorkshopOn Friday 12th of May ten pupils from Year Ten took partin a G.C.S.E. Writing Workshop led by Steve Padget anindependent consultant. The workshop focused on theplanning of successful writing and introduced the pupilsto Logo Visual Thinking Techniques. This proved to be anenjoyable andstimulating day for theboys who producedsome very excitingwriting.

Ms. L TriggsKey Stage 4 Gifted andTalented Co-ordinator

5

Year 13 Leavers’ PartyOn Saturday 3rd June SFX held the annual Year 13Leavers’ party. It was a very successful event withover 160 staff and students in attendance. Theevent wasorganisedby MsFinlay,AssistantDirector ofSixth Formtogetherwith acommitteeof Year 13studentswhich involved planning the event and came upwith fundraising ideas. One fundraising event heldwithin Sixth Form was a football competition whichran over a number of weeks. The final was playedbetween South Liverpool FC (year 13) and MerseyReds (year 12) with Mersey Reds winning quiteconvincingly.

The party was held in the school dining hall, whichwas dramatically

changedfor theeveningwith MissEvansand MsFinlaymakingcurtainswhichwould

not look out ofplace at the Oscars! The dining hall was decoratedwith balloons and a fabulous ice sculpture wasmade of the school crest by ‘Do Me a Favour’ basedin Hunts Cross. The evening went extremely wellwith staff and students attending a champagnereception followed by a 3 course meal. Later in thenight they were entertained by the school band‘Manic Street Teachers’ and a disco with karaoke.

Ms Finlay was delighted the evening was such asuccess andwanted tothank thenumerouspeople whohelpedmake thenight somemorable.

The Clipper Around theWorld Yacht Race

The Art Departmentis currently involvedwith St. Julie's andPrimary schools inthe G10 Network inpreparing apresentation to markthe last leg of theClipper journey. Thetheme is the

Caribbean and Year 8 pupils have been working towardsproviding a visual backdrop for the event which took placeon Tuesday 27thJune at St. Julie's.Mr Rippon, MrsDouglass and MrsHarris attended theevent with adelegation of Year 8pupils and 2 sixthformers who workedon the display.

Science Primary Links(CSI : SFX)Mr Daniels and Miss Martin have been visiting localprimary schools this term as part of primary transition.They have been working with Year 6 groups from Christthe King, St. Paschal Baylon, St. Gregory’s and Holy Familyprimary schools. The theme of the lessons is forensicscience and the children have been using scientifictechniques to help solve a 'murder'. They have been usingchromatography and pH tests to produce hard evidence tobe used in a court of law. The science taster afternoonshave been fun for both the staff and pupils involved.

6

Year 9 "Mini Mouse" Project

On Thursday 15th June,several Year 9 pupils fromSFX were invited to takepart in a project called"Mini Mouse" at thePartnership for LearningCentre in Halewood. Theproject, organised andrun by a company called Set Point,consisted of 4 or 5 pupils from severalschools in Liverpool, includingBroughton Hall and St. Margaret’s.Each school was accompanied by aDesign Technology teacher (in ourcase, Mr. Bowers), and their "mice"built from materials in schoolworkshops. The event was toencourage increased knowledge inDesign Technology and to give thepupils taking part a taste forengineering.

The idea of the event was to competewith fellow schools "mice" in bothspeed and endurance tests. Thespeed test was to measure the fastestlap set by a team, whereas theendurance test was to measure howmany laps a mouse could do in a set

amount oftime. Allteams usedtwo mice forthe events,one for speed,the other forendurance.

When asked,about theirmodels,almost all ofthe teamsindicated thatthe circuit was the most difficult partof the assembly of the mice, mainlybuilt of wood and plastic. SFX finished3rd in both tests, much to thedisappointment of Mr. Bowers!

Along with the enjoyable event, co-hosts Jaguar were kind enough togive the schools a guided tour arounda “top secret” manufacturing building,where new models of Jaguar werebeing built. Many of the pupils werevery interested in the manufacturingprocess and were keen to askquestions (including Mr. Bowers whothinks he knows everything aboutcars!).

Andrew Dunbar & John Hyland

It is a huge change for boys to come from a very smallprimary school to SFX which has an impressive numberof thirteen hundred pupils. They may not have anyfriends and they will have at least ten new teachersinstead of one permanent one. The aim of the inductionday is to take away their anxiety.

Boys will have an assembly with Mr Rippon, BrotherPeter and Mrs Fay. They will sing songs with BrotherJames’ band. Some Year 7 students will attend andspeak to the students about their experiences from theprevious year.

After the assembly students will be put in groups, mixedwith different students from different schools. They willattend three lessons which could be; History, French,Mathematics, ICT, English, DT, Art, Science orGeography. They will also have the opportunity to speakwith sixth formers and they will get a booklet titled “MyNew School” and another titled “All About Me” whichthey have to complete.

Their first day here will be their next exciting meetingwith us, although Mrs Fay does visit every feeder school.

Mr Harrison, Mr Roberts, Ms Cavanagh, Mr Bowers,Miss Martin, Mr Daniels and Mrs Norris have all workedwith primary pupils this term.

Thomas Bennett, 10 Mayne

Y6 Induction Day 5th July 2006

History TripThis year the History Department, along with 40 boys fromYears 7-10, went to Ypres in Belgium on a trip to take alook at the battlefields of France and walk in the trenchesthe soldiers would have lived in, making the trip a valuablelearning experience. They visited battlefields such as TheSomme, and took take part in the ‘Last-Post’ ceremony.

Miss Durnin explained that the ‘Last-Post’ ceremony wasa special Belgium custom which has been held every daysince 1920 apart from WW2, to commemorate the lossesof WW1. Andrew Dooley of 10 Lewis laid down a wreath onbehalf of the school. Miss Durnin would like to thank theboys for their fantastic behaviour and wishes to say theyare a credit to the school and themselves,

Dominic Barlow Yr 10

7

Specialist StatusPrimary Transition UpdateYou may remember The Computer Club for Girls (CC4G)project. This is managed and led by Mr R. Roberts.Sixth Form students have been participating in primaryprojects and working collaboratively on a weekly basisin feeder and partner schools with Y6 and classroomteachers in an after school community programme. InMay, Mr Roberts and some of the Sixth form mentorswere invited to take part in a conference at CreweCollege (part of the MMU programme) The conferenceis around ‘Curriculum Continuity’. The focus is how touse CC4G as part of a Transition programme and SFX isperceived to be very proactive in this area. In June, SFX launched a Regional Induction Event to 20local schools. Very positive feedback was received andfuture events are planned. Later in the month E – Skillscontacted SFX as they are very keen to do a much moredetailed case study on SFX to be included in the DfES E-Skills National Report. The DfES E-skills team are

coming to meet with a few people involved in the projectand to visit St Gregory’s Club on Monday 10th July. Future plans for primary transition include; organising asummer school for girls focusing on the development ofkey ICT skills including the use of Databases, expandingthe project to more of our partner schools, developingstronger links with special school partners and holdingmore training events.

John Kelly and Simon Peers Y10

ICT AcademyPlanning for the KS5 ICT Academy is well underway for aSeptember 2006 launch. This will enable Option 3 studentsto follow a vocational work related BTEC Level 2qualification in ICT in school for 3 days per week and awork based NVQ Level 2 Qualification in ICT off site whichwill be delivered in conjunction with Speke Training andEducation Centre on Speke Boulevard and localemployers.

Miss Lindop will be available on GCSE results day todiscuss applications for the ICT Academy with studentswho wish to enrol. Interviews for the Academy will be heldon Friday 25th August in Boulevard Business Centre inSpeke.

John Kelly and Simon Peers Y10

Curriculum DevelopmentCurriculum changes have been implemented to expandand enhance ICT provision at KS3, 4 and 5 to include; 2hours per week provision for most of KS3, all KS4students to study GCSE ICT and the introduction of A levelComputing and BTEC/NVQ ICT as part of the ICT Academyprogramme. The Maths department has implemented afast-track GCSE in Y10 for Set 1 in September 2006enabling them to study AS in Y11. A pilot of OnlineLiteracy and Numeracy Tests was undertaken with Y11(these have an equivalency of half a GCSE each at level 2).The results were excellent with in excess of 85% passrate. The English and Maths Departments have alreadystarted to prepare Y10 for the qualification with onlinepractice materials. These new curriculum changes givepupils a chance to expand their learning and a chance togain more qualifications for higher education or the worldof work.

Dominic Barlow, John Kelly and Simon Peers Y10

Author VisitMr Roberts and Mr Evansarranged for Mr Stephen Doyle (a leading EducationalAuthor for ICTresources) to visitschool to meet withthe pupils and observelessons on 28th June.

John Kelly and SimonPeers Y10

Parklands PresentationOn Friday 9th June Denise Barrett-Baxendale fromParklands CLC came into school to present students fromY10 and Y9 with equipment funded by the CLC including; 1IBM laptop, 1 Apple Mac laptop, in excess of £1,000.00 worthof software, 4 dictaphones and a digital camera. Sheexpressed how impressed she was with the professionalismof the editing team and has offered further funding tosubsidise printing for the next academic year, extraresources and any work based visits that will enrich thisinitiative. The editing team would like to thank Denise againfor her continued and generous support for our project.

John Kelly and Simon Peers Y10

Specialist Status

8

Interview with Mr EvansStarting on the 12th of June, ICT provision in the DeLa Mennais Building is to be dramatically changedand expanded according to Mr Evans. In an interviewhe told the newsletter exactly what will be done.“Basically the Art room, 6G and 6H will betransformed into new IT rooms. In addition, 6IT and6MM will have their layout completely changed and allrooms will be equipped with new computer suites andnew technology/equipment. As well as this, IT3 is tobe changed into a Maths ICT room and IT2 will bechanged into a bookable ICTAC room which will beusable for all other departments”.

He also spoke of the need for the renovations. “Theserenovations are needed desperately. Technology movesso quickly that we keep updating our equipment every3 years to keep up with the changes and demands ofthe ICT curriculum. As we are a Maths and Computingcollege, we need to ensure we are at the forefront ofnew technologies and developments”.

Dominic Barlow Yr 10

UKMT MathematicsChallenges 2005-06Last November Year 10 pupils entered the SeniorMaths Challenge. Three pupils (David Prayle, SarahNolan and Mark Johnson) gained a silver award andthree others a bronze award. This is an improvementon last academic year when two silver and two bronzeawards were won.

In February, 85 Year 9 and 10 boys entered theIntermediate Maths Challenge. Thirteen boys achievedsilver awards and 24 bronze awards. Neil Kennedyand Scott Stamper of Year 9 won certificates for thebest marks in the school. Last year 33 boys wonawards so again this is an improvement on last year.

In April, 97 Year 7 and 8 boys entered the JuniorMaths Challenge; 6 boys achieved gold awards, 17achieved silver awards and 31 bronze awards. That isan improvement on last year in each category.Matthew Handley and Rory Back of Year 8 woncertificates for the best marks in the school. The fulllist of prize winners is displayed on the notice boardson the Maths corridor.

Well done to everyone who took part. Last year onepupil achieved so highly that he qualified for the nextround. Let’s hope that a few more of us qualify nextyear.

Mr Hope

Student Voice

9

The Presentation of the‘Good Citizen Award’ toDenzel Kadzviti (Y13)This is an annual award and it is supported by LiverpoolJohn Moores University. Denzel Kadzviti was presentedwith the award at a Roscoe Lecture in mid-May whichtook place at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. Theaward was presented by Lech Walesa, former PolishPresident and founder of Solidarity. The award waspresented to Denzel in recognition of his work for theLiverpool School’s Parliament and Alder Hey hospital,as well as the community service which he hadcompleted whilst undertaking The Duke of Edinburgh’sAward.

Adam Wing Y10

An Interview with DenzelKadzvitiOn the 17th of May I was delighted to find out that I hadbeen nominated for a citizenship award by the school. I wasnominated for the award by SFX for work I had done withschool and for the community including, helping out at anelderly person’s home, the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award andthe Liverpool School’s Parliament.

At the presentation ceremony which was at the MetropolitanCathedral, I was accompanied by Mr Rippon, Ms Finlay,Brother Peter, Mrs Fay and my parents who were all veryproud of what I had achieved. They were all proud because Ihad only joined SFX 4 years earlier. During this time thestaff and pupils at SFX helped me to settle in and cope withthe transition from my old school in Zimbabwe to school lifeat SFX. Before I was presented with the award, Mr Ripponspoke of my achievements. The award was then presentedby the former Polish President Lech Walesa, who wasattending the ceremony and also giving a Roscoe Lecture. Inhis lecture he spoke of integrity and respect.

So I would just like to leave a few words for those who areleft in SFX as this is my last year. I have only been in thisschool for a very short time but thanks to the atmosphere Ihave settled well and made to feel I belong. I would wish forthis atmosphere to continue to be present. You, the studentsare who make SFX what it is so I would like to encourageyou to carry on where I have left off, making the most ofevery opportunity you are presented with, doing good workin the community, participating in all aspects of school lifeand being successful in and enjoying whatever youparticipate/partake in. Never forget, you are the people whomake SFX what it is.

Denzel Kadsviti

Interview by Sean Buckley and Ciaran Irvine Y10

School’s ParliamentOver the past year, the Liverpool School’s Parliament metonce again with representatives from SFX. They were: DavidKelly, Adam Wing (Both Y10), Cameron Patterson (Y9),Michael Scotland (Y8) and VI Form representatives, DenzelKadzviti, Kayleigh Keane, Amy Hope (All Year 13) and ChloeMcDonough (Y12). The parliament is given £50,000 each yearto spend on projects it feels strongly about. There arerepresentatives who attend from Liverpool City Council, FairTrade, Merseyside Police and other guest speakers who giveus a brief insight into themselves and their organisation.Every school across Liverpool is invited to bringrepresentatives and by a vote, certain members are givenministerial responsibilities such as Prime Minister, andministers from other key areas in government. Meetings areevery few months and are held in Liverpool Town Hall. Lookout for further updates in next term’s newsletter.

Healthy EatingAs you may be aware, SFX has been constantly tryingto improve the choices of food available in the schooldining hall as part of the Liverpool Healthy Schoolsinitiative. The Year and School Councils have debatedsuggestions raised by their fellow pupils and thefollowing changes have occurred:

• We now have three no chip days• Turkey Twizzlers are no longer on the school menu!• A greater variety of vegetables and better

vegetarian options are now available• A pasta bar is open every day• A weekly roast dinner is available• Choices of hot or cold meals are available daily• The salad bar has been extended and includes rice

pasta & potato salads as well as green salads• A greater variety of sandwiches including different

breads, wraps and more fillings are now available• A live yogurt bar is now offered• A reward system for making healthy choices has

been implemented• Free water is available for everyone• Lo-salt is available at the tills

The next area to be improved is the ‘sweet and dessert’selection. We would welcome your comments and yoursuggestions, which will be passed on to SFX’s HealthySchools Co-ordinator, Mrs Smith.

We have been successful in renewing our HealthySchools Award Status for the next 3 years (thanks toMrs Smith for lots of hard work). The award waspresented on Friday July 7th.

David Kelly 10 CA

Student Voice

10

FundraisingYear Eight – RNLI Lifeboats UpdateSFX College is now in its 4th year of major fundraising andinvolvement with the RNLI. The amount collected since westarted is fantastic. In 2002/3 our fundraising stood at£1,034.00 The 2003/4 year group increased the total to£1,560.00 and this year’s current Year 9 have managed toboost our total up to £2,000.00 this is amazing!

Since our involvement, the RNLI has visited school topersonally thank us for our support and generosity on manyoccasions. This is greatly appreciated and in 2004 we werepresented with a limited edition award which consisted of amodel lifeboat and a very special certificate. Last year SFX

was awarded the title of “Major Supporter of the Year” (13-18 award) which was presented by the Duke of Kent inLondon.

We are looking forward to continuing to support the RNLI,and have every confidence in next year’s students.

Mr Golden and Mrs Smith would like to thank pupils andparents for all donations made in the past, and hope you willcontinue to help supporting the RNLI in the future.

Thomas Bennett, Year 10

Sport

11

An Interview with Mr. Harrison about Year 8 Football.Who were the teams you played and what were the scores?We played Cardinal Heenan in the final and the score was1-1 but S.F.X retained the title as they were the previousYear 7 holders. The final was the Liverpool Schools Year 8Cup, and the final was played at Walton Soccer Centre.

Although it’s obvious that the whole team performed wellwho would you say played the best and outshone the restof the team? All of my players are the best so you’re not getting oneparticular person. They are all picked to a formula of skill,ability and character. If they don’t show all of those thingsthey don’t get a game.

Did you make any tactical changes during the final gamethat were changed from the one’s you used to get there?It was quite a tactical battle on the whole because theopposition played five in midfield. Then they would bringfive good players on in midfield as subs which obviouslygets you thinking. We didn’t make a lot of tactical changesin that game so then we went to three at the back. We didthis so that we could match three midfield. We picked theside to win and we were winning 1-0 then we hit the post at1-0. If we had gone 2-0 up we would have won but nocomplaint for 1-1.

Did you use interchangeable formations to contend withdifferent styles of team and if so, why?Yes we do normally do that but not necessarily in that final.We either play 3, 2 or 1 upfront depending on the team butwe always play 4 at the back. Saying that, if we’re winning5 or 6 nil we might think about changing it.

If you got the chance to re-play the tournament would youdo anything differently and why? (Very long pause)……….No.

If you could manage any team at all in the world whowould it be, and not the SFX Year 8 team ?Togo … (laughs)

By Andrew Dooley and Terrance Whinnett Y10

Mr Brophy’s Sport NewsPaul Pearson and Christopher Scott (Y12) were selected forMerseyside U18’s and went on to win the National CountyTitle which was played at Anfield in May. They beatBedfordshire 3-2. Paul Rawlings also represented LiverpoolU15’s and won the English Schools Trophy which was playedat Anfield on the same day. In addition to this, the First 11’swere finalists in Schools and Colleges, reaching round 5 ofthe national competitions for U18’s. Our younger pupils alsoperformed well this year, Y8 won the Liverpool Cup and Y7were semi-finalists in the Liverpool Cup.

A Biathalon is planned on Monday 17th July in the format of aswim/run for the British Heart Foundation and Sport Relief.

Athletics City Champs ResultsY7 Michael Hartley – High JumpY8 Matthew McGiveron – DiscusY9 Nathan Smith – DiscusY10 Steven Irwin – Hurdles

Paul Rawlings – 300m

Merseyside Catholic School’sChamps Division 1 – 8 Schools

Y7 Michael Hartley – High JumpJamie Williams – 200mPatrick Finnin – 1500m (Pride of Place – Y7 1st)

Y8 Craig Jones – Long JumpY9 Nathan Smith – Discus

Ben Brown – 1500mY10 Tom Croft – 1500m

End of Year AnnouncementsYear 7 – Miss StauntonThis year, Year 7 have raised almost £2,000.00 for their charity. The year group have enjoyed plenty of sportingevents which were organised by Mr Long and Mr Platt including an inter form football competition and a swimminggala. I hope you all have a lovely summer.

Year 8 – Mrs SmithMoney has been raised for the RNLI successfully as well as money being raised for a young boy in the 3rd World,“Sony”. We had thought Sony had been “lost” in the dreadful Tsunami but were all delighted to hear that he hasbeen found safe and well. Boys will be continuing to sell equipment to raise at least £14.00 a month we need forSony. Have a nice summer boys.

Year 9 – Miss CrickettBest wishes to those taking exams and those awaiting results. This year has been a very successful one ineverything we took on, especially our strong fundraising for our Year 9 charity. We look forward to welcoming youback starting again next year as Year 10.

Year 10 – Mrs CainOn the 26th of June 2006 10 Lewis took part in employability interviews organised by Compact. The rest of the yeargroup will take part in these interviews next year. The reason for the interviews is to give the boys experience in thereal world of work and the procedures necessary to find a job. I look forward to seeing the boys next year, healthyand well.

Year 11 – Mr PedderGCSE exams are almost complete and the school is confident with the progress the boys are making. I would like topersonally wish the best of luck to the students awaiting their results. Results will be received August 24th 2006.Good luck in your future gentlemen, it has been a pleasure.

Thomas Bennett, 10 Mayne