Newsletter 19.07.2024

Message from our Chaplain Mairie

We have had such a lot to celebrate at the end of the school year, it was wonderful to have our Whole School Mass this week to remind us of all that we have to be thankful for. We greatly appreciate all the staff and students who step up to make our Masses real milestones in the life of the school. Thanks also to Fr Paul for celebrating with us and to our governors coming along to share the morning.

In the afternoon, Year 10 took part in the third Lucas Briscoe Memorial Rounders competition. Amazingly, the sun shone on the year group, and the mid- break brought along a very welcome Ice Cream van for some cooling cones and lollies.

Thanks to everyone who has supported the school this year in many different ways. The St Nicholas family has a lot to be grateful for. Have a wonderful summer.

Rewards Trips

We have thoroughly enjoyed being able to reward our students this week with 4 fantastic rewards trips.

Year 10 enjoyed a day out at Alton Towers on Friday, getting on lots of rides and using their fast tracks to skip some of the queues – ‘It was great that we stayed at the park until 6pm as the last 2 hours was really quiet so we got on loads of rides.’

Year 9 went to Blackpool Pleasure Beach on Monday with many braving the ‘Big One’

Students said they had a ‘Fantastic day’

‘A Great experience where they could build more friendships’

‘The best rides with some really great roller coasters – I want to go back!!’

Year 8 went to Cheshire Oaks where they enjoyed watching either Inside out 2 or Dispicible me 4 in their own private cinema room with ‘Amazing reclining seats’, followed by bowling and pizza. Students said it was ‘fun’ and ‘exciting’ – they really enjoyed the Bowling and being able to go in the Arcade after – ‘Great day had by all’.

Finally Year 7 had a great day out at Chester Zoo – many getting to see the snow Leopard for the first time! They had a lovely day with their friends and got to be more independent, planning their own routes around the zoo and developing time management skills.

Year 7 Rewards Trip

A sunny adventure to end the year!

The Year 7 pupils really enjoyed their Reward trip to Chester Zoo!! The sun shined for us and the pupils loved seeing a wide variety of animals! From bats to cheetahs, lemurs to dragons the pupils loved exploring the zoo animals! One of the favourites with the pupils was the snow leopards!!

Lucas Briscoe Memorial Competition

Rounders Competition

Wednesday afternoon saw our year 10 students enjoy a rounders tournament in the sunshine in memory of Lucas Briscoe. We shared a minute’s silence to remember him and his family and friends.

The tournament then got underway and Year 10 also enjoyed a fun afternoon followed by a visit from the ice cream van

Sports Presentation Evening

Sports Presentation Evening

An excellent evening was had by all celebrating our wonderful students sporting success.

We were extremely privileged to have Chris Edwards BEM (British Empire Medal) as our guest speaker this year the captain of the British Disabled Cricket Team. He answered questions and shared stories of beating Australia.

Well done to all our certificate and special award winners.

Have a lovely summer

Mrs Simms

Music Success

Well done to our talented musicians, all the hours of practice paid off! We’re very proud of your achievements

Seren Hodge who achieved a Distinction in Grade 1 Piano

William Jaberi who achieved a Merit in Grade 1 Piano

Aleks Wieckowski who achieved a Distinction in Grade 6 Drum Kit

Rafael Wong who achieved a Distinction in Grade 8 Violin

Geography News

Geographer of the Year

Today we celebrated the achievements of our young Geographers. The staff in the department nominated pupils from each year group they taught to be considered for Geographer of the Year. The winners are:

Year 7 – Nuno Caracas
Year 8 – Nieve Yeo
Year 9 – Aiden Sham
Year 10 – Robbie Russell
Year 12 – Sophie Crossthwaite

They received their trophies and certificates this morning from Mrs Bashford and Mr Wycherley.

So, congratulations to our worthy winners.

Business Education News

Umbro guest speaker

Our A level Business and A Level Economics students were extremely lucky to have Anthony Little, Managing Director of Umbro (which started locally in Wilmslow), visit the school and provide a tailored presentation which looked at Umbro’s unique business model, recent and future business strategy as well as discussions around Trademark disputes, brand ownership and career opportunities. A big thank you to Anthony as well as our students who listened intently throughout.

ParentPay and Edulink

ParentPay and Edulink

A reminder that you can set up alerts on you ParentPay account to notify you when your child’s account is running low.

We know that many parents find this helpful. Go to ‘manage alerts’ on your account to set up a notification.

Please also ensure that your email and telephone numbers are correct and up to date on both ParentPay and Edulink.

PTFA Newsletter

PTFA Newsletter

Dear Parents & Carers,

I wish to thank you all very much for your support over the last school year, especially to everyone who has bought summer raffle tickets.

We have helped many different departments with resources and we were pleased to be able to provide a donation towards the 6th Form Gym – very exciting.

We have also bought i-pads for various departments, sewing machines for the art department and given a donation for the breathing space room. We also as always provided ice lollies on Sports Day. We simply can’t do all this without the help & support of our parents and careers and of course our PTFA members. Thank you again to you all and to the PTFA members for their time, help & support.

We will be looking for someone to take on the role of Secretary in the new school year. If you are interested in this role or becoming a PTFA member please contact school or myself.

The Secretary

Main duty: to keep up to date records of PTFA activity.

Key jobs: to organise meetings; to prepare & distribute agendas and minutes; to build strong relationships with key school staff including office staff & caretakers.

Needs to be: organised, good at listening & have good time management.

I look forward to our meeting on 23rd September in school at 5.15 pm & to our AGM which will be held on 4th November.

I hope you all have a wonderful relaxed summer time.

Thank you as ever.

Kind regards,

Kay Melia

PTFA Chair

Summer Raffle Winners

7 Night Euro Camp Holiday – Nathan Lee

Tickets for Chester Races – Evan Andrews

Full Car Service by DC Lomas – Rebecca Robertson

Fortnum & Mason tea & biscuit hamper – Aleksandr Wiekowski

£100 Amazon voucher – Kai Lomas

Boxed whisky (Scapa) – Mrs Pardoe

2 x wine in a box – Aiden Pickering

Pack of Kopparberg Summer Punch cider – Mrs Parkes

Taylor’s Port gift set – Izzy Butterfield

Prosecco – James Cruickshank

Rose wine – Aaron Satingin

White wine – Mrs Johnston

Lynx gift set – Francis Holbrook

Candle in black bag – Oscar Ho

Pink diffuser – Annie Burgess

Autograph gift set – Arthur Rapson

Box Wine gums – Will Irwin

Box of Heros Chocolates – Sophia Dunning

Toblerone – Mrs Lyons

Library and Literacy

Adults (and teens) Read Two!

Looking for a reading challenge this summer? Head to your local library to join the reading challenge for adults and teens. 

Entrants need to read two books between 6 July and 8 September. Choose from a library book, eBook or eAudiobook, to be in with a chance to win £50 of book vouchers through our prize draw at https://participatenow.cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk/adults-read-two-2024 .

There are two prize draws – one for 13-17 year olds and one for 18+. Winners will be chosen at random.  Under 16s need parental permission to take part. 

And just for fun, from 1 August take part in their #BooketList.  Cheshire libraries have selected 30 must reads from the last 12 months including ‘Yellowface’ by Rebecca F. Kuang and ‘Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow’ by Gabrielle Zevin. The list can be used for ideas for your reading over the summer – check out the full selection here:

https://cheslive.koha-ptfs.co.uk/cgi-bin/koha/opac-shelves.pl?op=view&shelfnumber=10559

Join in the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Community Notices

Frodsham Youth Club

Frodsham Youth Club would like to invite new and old members to join them for their summer progamme.

They also have a Foodbank on site for members and their families.

Summer Entertainment for the Family!
Friday 2nd August 6.00pm & Saturday 3rd August 2.00pm & 6.00pm
The Grange Theatre, Hartford.

Some of or St Nicholas students & staff are involved in some ogre-size fun this summer with Salt & Pepper Youth Company’s production of ‘Shrek JR’. Why not join Shrek, Donkey, Princess Fiona and many favourite fairytale creatures in this hilarious and heartwarming musical adventure.

‘Shrek JR’ is based on the Oscar-winning DreamWorks Animation film and fantastic Broadway musical, featuring the famous Neil Diamond song ‘I’m a Believer’. It’s a ‘Big Bright Beautiful World’ as everyone’s favourite ogre leads a cast of fairytale misfits on an adventure to rescue a princess and find true acceptance. Part romance and part twisted fairytale; ‘Shrek JR’ is a toe tapping, feel-good fun show with a powerful message for the whole family.

Salt & Pepper are ‘A Believer’ that your summer will be a brighter shade of green if you join us in the swamp and book tickets to see this magical show!

Art News

Amazing homework

Year 7 and 8 have put fantastic effort into their end of term Art homework!
Year 7 have written and illustrated their own short story, inspired by the Tom Gates books. Whilst year 8 have crafted sculptures made from recycled cardboard.

Request for squeezy bottles

Hopefully summer is just around the corner, and we are hoping for BBQ session to start!!!

The Art department are in need of Tomato Ketchup/Mayo squeezy bottles, ideally the larger size. If you could collect them over the summer holidays, we would really appreciate as we use these to decant paint into.

Vacancy at St Nicholas

Vacancy at St Nicholas

Minibus Driver – part time

https://www.jobsgopublic.com/jobs/search/2049c54e-a666-46b3-a9d4-421f525adca0?employerId=165ba808-93b2-4a5c-8126-aa595e498afc&auto=true

Community Notices

Northwich Community Support Zero Waste initiative.

Northwich Community Support Zero Waste initiative run food hubs on a Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday at different locations around the town.

This is open to anyone.

Attendees take 2 shopping bags and pay £1 on entry and then have access to fill their bags with fruit, vegetables, bread, dairy products etc. There is also a heavily discounted pantry section to allow people to purchase meat, fish, snack food and a large range of other items for a small donation.

All the food is supplied from the main supermarkets around Northwich and then redistributed to the community in this way to prevent viable and healthy food ending up in landfill due to restrictive “end of life” dates that the supermarkets have to work to.

It can be a hugely valuable service especially in the summer holiday period when children are eating a lot more at home, they always have bread, sandwich meats, eggs, snacks and crisps for families to access and provide low cost lunches for their families.
Click here for further details