Message from our Chaplain Mairie
This week we have been celebrating the feast of Christ the King, which is also World Youth Sunday. This Sunday we celebrate the young people of the world who carry our hopes and dreams for a future built on our gospel values of tolerance and peace. As we enter into Advent, we prepare for the birth of Emmanuel, God is with us. The idea of God as a little child reminds us of how important young people are. We pray for all our children and young people across the world. We pray that they will all be given the opportunity to nurture their gifts and talents to create a better world.
Advent begins this Sunday. Although the advent calendars may not open their doors until the 1st of December, Advent begins on the Sunday closest to the feast of Saint Andrew ( 30th November). Next week we will have our Advent assemblies and launch our Advent charity which as always will be to support the work of the SVP and the local food banks. We appreciate that the need for these charities has increased over the past years. We also appreciate that our own families may well be suffering financial hardship. We only ask that families donate what they can to help others in need. We thank you in advance for your support at this time.
St Nicholas Sixth Form Applications for 2023 are now OPEN, and can be found on the school website, or click on the link: 
Following the recital we took part in a vocal workshop with the College’s Director of Music. It was challenging but also gave us an opportunity to consider how you can sight-sing or sight-read a piece of music successfully. It was a hectic but inspiring day and we headed back to school at 5pm.
Year 9 are trialing a board games club to help encourage socialising and friendships. If invited to the club, students are welcome to bring up to two friends and spend the lunchtime (once per week) playing classics such as Twister and Monopoly. If you have not received an invitation and would be interested, please let Mrs Senior know!
The first meeting of Book club this year was a huge success. We welcomed many new members and had a great time discussing the Cheshire School’s Book Award books, making predictions about which books were going to be our favourites and deciding which books to read first. We’re already looking forward to our next meeting which will be the last one before Christmas so get ready for some festive treats!
Our Year 10 GCSE Business students were very fortunate to have a Q&A session with very successful entrepreneur Jo Stone, Founder of Puddle Ducks swimming classes. Jo shared her story with our students and covered topics such as franchising, finance, risk and reward of setting up a business, market segmentation, market research and the importance of having a USP! We are so grateful to Jo for giving up her time to inspire our students.
Well done to Scarlett Day who won a first place rosette at the weekend. Scarlett is a show jumper and jumped 50 cm on her horse Apollo.
The NSPCC are highlighting the value of talking and offering advice to parents and carers about having a difficult conversation.
This month’s Parent and Carers Newsletter talks about
Whilst we hope that everyone is coping well with the present situation, this is a difficult time and we appreciate that there may be some families who are undergoing hardship because of changes in work or personal circumstances. The majority of Foodbank users will only access the Foodbank three times. but those three times will make a difference. 
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