End of Term Mass

By Mr L LYNCH15th July 2015

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Thank you to everyone who helped make our end of term, and end of year Mass so special – If you were there, that means you!

Some numbers:

1 priest.

1 alumni sound engineer.

1.5 hours of pack down

2 exhausted caretakers (see above and below!).

4 hours of set up.

5 readers.

6 sacristans.

7 pupil ministers of Holy Communion.

10 choristers.

14 actors.

15 musicians (pupils and staff).

16 ministers of Holy Communion commissioned (pupils and staff).

22 stage block movers and gazebo builders (pupils and staff).

Around 60 pupils contributed to prepare and contribute to the Mass for a congregation of 1024 members including pupils and staff (approx.). A real team effort.

A special thank you to those listed above and everyone who continued to pray for the sunshine and kept the faith despite the presence of dark clouds all morning.

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Arts For Change

14th July 2015Anthony Da-Silva

Arts for Change: a three day Art / Drama / Music AG&T collaboration between Year 8 students and staff from St Joan of Arc, St Clement Danes, Queens’ and Watford Palace Theatre.

Following an initial workshop from The Time to Change campaign, students from the three schools were led by Arts Professionals in exploring the theme of challenging stigma attached to mental health and produced some inspirational and highly creative work. Here is a selection of photos from the workshops.

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Year 10 History Trip – Somme 2015

By Mr J COOPER14th July 2015

Sixty seven Year 10 History students visited the battlefields of the Somme at the end of June. During our trip we visited cemeteries to the British, Commonwealth and German war dead, trench systems, and a museum. At these locations we witnessed the scale of loss in WW1 on both sides and how deadly WW1 actually was. We also had the opportunity to pay our respects to the war dead for the sacrifices they made at Tyne Cot and also the Menin Gate where we witnessed the Last Post Ceremony. The excellent weather, combined with the mature and engaged attitude of the students contributed towards a great trip.

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Einstein’s Army

10th July 2015Anthony Da-Silva

St Joan’s  very first science journal – Einstein’s Army –  written by pupils for pupils has been released and is available HERE and can be accessed from the right hand menu of this website..

Please enjoy reading.

A.R.C Food Bank Initiative

By Miss T GAUGHAN10th July 2015

We would like to take this opportunity to thank Year 9  for all their generosity with supporting the  food bank drive. We feel the food bank is a great cause to support, it has made us aware of the sufferings that people in our local community are going through and it felt great to offer them some support, we found it amazing how grateful they were for our donations. It has also made us aware of how blessed and privileged we truly are. We hope to continue supporting this great cause next year as we feel it has given us an opportunity to actively follow Jesus’ teachings to help those less fortunate ‘For I was hungry and you gave me food’.
Year 10  A.R.C Peace and Justice

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300 Ft Bungee jump for Udayan

By Mr C DURRANT15th June 2015

On Sunday 21st of June Miguel Machado completed a 300ft Bungee jump at Bray Lake Windsor in aid of Udayan. Click here to sponsor him

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A.R.C Food bank initiative

By Mrs M PETRIE11th June 2015

A huge congratulations to Years 7 & 8 for your generosity and to the Year 10 A.R.C students for all their hard work in organising the food bank drive.
In total the amount collected weighed 171.32KGs which is an incredible amount.
The food bank had this to say:
“It is through the generosity of people like yourselves that enables us to continue to provide for local people undergoing crisis.The food bank provided emergency food – containing sufficient food for three days for 1105 people.”
We are sure that year 9 will respond equally well.
We would like to encourage you to think about providing toiletries as the food bank tell us that these are in short supply.