Year 11 Exam Countdown

By admin | January 28, 2010

Sophie Richardson

By admin | March 5, 2010

Sophie starting gymnastics at the age of 1yrs old at Jumping Gym Mini’s at Rothwell Sports Centre and totally loved it from the 1st time she went. At the age of four she went to Morley sports centre and trained four hours a week and from there she was chosen by the head coach from Carnegie, Cristina Predescu who had been a Romanian National coach who saw potential in her right back then.

She did Womens Artistic 4piece gymnastics at Carnegie training 5nights a week doing 20hours at the age of 7!!! She competed at her 1st Elite competition at the age of 8yrs old coming 28th at National level and 2nd overall on the vault…the same year she competed at the Pegasus Open Championships in Maidstone against girls from all over the UK,also from France,Sweden,Germany and Holland where she came 2nd overall and won the floor routine by nearly a whole mark showing a great talent for tumbling.

Sophie also led a team of 4gymnasts at St Mary’s Primary school Rothwell in Leeds to win the West Yorkshire games last year herself being the top scorer of the day.

At the age of 10 Sophie decided she wanted to start tumbling so she switched disciplines and started tumbling again at Carnegie in Leeds training 4days a week Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday mornings.It took her a while to adjust but then competitions and medals started to arrive coming 9th at the British under 13 championships in 2008.

In March 2009 Sophie competed again in the British under 13 compulsory championships where each competetor does exactly the same 3tumble runs where she had an amazing day and came 2nd overall.

November 2009 she competed in the British under 13 voluntary championships where each tumbler does their own selected tumbles all valued at different tariffs and the start value of each tumbler varies depending on the difficulty of the 3runs and again Sophie had a great day and came 4th overall.

This year Sophie moves up into the next age group of under 15 so being only 13 in September it will be hard for her at 1st but she has just qualified for the British finals in May so fingers crossed.

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Lourdes Fundraising

By admin | March 5, 2010

Date	Activity	Venue
13^th March	St Patrick Family Quiz Night	St Austins
17^th April	Tombola at Xscape	Xscape
20^th March	Bag Packing at Asda – Wakefield	Asda
27^th March	Bag Packing at Morrisons – Ridings Centre	Morrisons
12^th June	Bag Packing at Morrisons – Leeds	Morrisons
1^st May	Bag Packing at Sainsburys	Sainsburys
22^nd May	Sponsored Walk – With St Wilfred’s	T.B.C
4^th March	Raffle at College – Dance Evening	College
23^rd April	Auction Evening	College
Ongoing	Bun sales after Sunday Masses every week
7^th March	Coffee Morning after 9.30 Mass	St Mary’s Rothwell
Ongoing	Easter Quiz	College

Request

We need items which can be used on Tombolas, raffles and on the Auction Night so any donations which can be sent in would be really appreciated.

Many Thanks for your efforts so far and I am sure that we can reach our target once the events start taking place.

S.Wilkinson

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Headteacher Update

By admin | March 2, 2010

Welcome to the new look St Thomas a Becket website.

It is still a work in progress so please bear with us!

It’s been a busy first term but I would like to thank all the staff, students, governors and parents for making me feel so welcome.

With this support we’ve been able to do the following in the first four weeks;

Re-draft the school SEF
Prepare for Humanities re-designation
Meet 85 parents at the first Head’s forum
Establish a parents focus group of 48!
Complete our Whole School Plan for terms 2 and 3
Meet our partner primary Heads
Re-visit our BASIC STANDARDS
Re-focus year 11 to make sure they do their very best
Meet the Student Council from each year group over lunch and see what appetites some of them have!
Re-establish KS3 and KS4 recreation zone
Plan to improve our facilities (meeting the local authority and the Diocese)
Get the inside of the school painted including the chapel!

Becket’s is an amazing place.

It’s a privilege and a pleasure to work here.

The job has just begun. How much more can we do?

I look forward with genuine enthusiasm in working closely with you all in the future.

Yours in Christ,

John Rooney
Headteacher.

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1st April – Changes

By admin | February 23, 2010

The 1st April was originally an Inset day but has now been changed to a normal school day.
Please make sure your child attends on this day.
Thank You.

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Basic Standards

By admin | February 16, 2010

Basic standards
Please click here for a copy of the letter that went out to all parents regarding basic standards.

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Welcome to the new portal.

By admin | January 27, 2010

We are delighted to announce the launch of our revamped website.

Following feedback we decided to give the website a brand new look. The new site still has all the useful information and tools that the old one did, but with a fresher look and easier to navigate format.

During the next few months new features and sections will be added.

As this is a community contribution website, you will have the chance to directly affect the way it grows through comments to posts like this one.

Why not give it a go and provide us with some feedback.

Simply click the comment link below. All content is moderated and tracked.

Have Fun!

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