Information Updates
2012 Sports Awards: Thursday 3rd May
2012
The school held their annual Sports
Awards evening on Thursday to celebrate the achievements of our
sports men and women over the past year. St Mary's was
delighted to welcome as their guest speaker Mr Frank Buglioni,
professional super middleweight boxer and a local Enfield resident,
who gave an inspiring speech to our guests and students before
staying to have photographs taken and take questions (he was
surrounded by excited students wanting to hear more of his
experiences). A truly memorable evening, and well done to all our
sporting stars!
Readathon April 2012!
The school was delighted to be part of the national
Readathon charity fund raising event last month. Students and
staff were sponsored on the amount of books they could read and
managed to raise £184.02 Thank you everyone who took
part or sponsored others. The money goes to:
CLIC Sargent: the
UK's leading cancer charity for children and young people,
providing care and support for them and their families from
diagnosis, during treatment and beyond.
Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's
Charity: specialises in helping children
with serious neurological or blood conditions, providing children's
nurses, equipment, carers and toys, working with hospitals and care
organisations or directly with patients.
ReadWell:
provides books and storytellers for children in
hospital.
Readathon is not just about reading for pleasure.
Children also love to raise sponsorship money while they
complete their reading challenge. It adds to their sense of
achievement and they've told us they particularly want to help sick
children
Yr 7 Live Spanish Video Conference:
Friday 27th April 2012
Yr 7 took part in a live web link
conference with Spanish students on Friday. St Mary's students
prepared questions for the Spanish students and enjoyed practising
their speaking skills using the conference link between the Spanish
and English classrooms. (See first picture below). Spanish students
and their teacher had prepared a song that they sung. Students
reported that they enjoyed listening to Spanish spoken by native
speakers and that this helped them to really understand how Spanish
is used in real life. (See second picture below).
Picture 1 
Picture 2
Thursday:
19th April 2012 - School Second Birthday!
The School celebrated our second
birthday at the new purpose built site today with cakes baked
by our food tech students and staff. During a frantic morning
of activity over 800 cakes were produced and iced, and every
member of our community was able to celebrate together at morning
break.
Monday: 16th April 2012 - Ski Trip
Movie!
Our intrepid skiers have
all returned safe and well having had a wonderful Easter trip to
Austria. See pictures of them in action by clicking on this
text.
Wednesday, 28th March 2012 - Sport Relief
The students and staff have been
working hard in the last week to raise money for Sport Relief, with
staff versus students sporting challenges, a student cake sale and
a member of staff taking part in the Sport Relief Mile. The
total raised so far is over £300 and still growing, so well done to
everyone who has made this fund raising such a success!
Readathon: 26th - 30th March
2012
It is not too late to join the last
week of the Readathon to raise funds to support children who are
seriously ill. It's easy to do! Sponsorship forms can be collected
from Ms Syeda or Ms Martin; readers set themselves a target and
then get reading. SMHS can claim books to the value of 20% of all
funds raised so please encourage everyone to get involved.
Tuesday 27th March 2012 Basketball Academy Trials 4.30 -
6.30pm
Trials for the St Mary's Basketball
Academy will take place on Tuesday 27th March at 4.30pm.
The evening will begin with a short presentation about the Academy
and then more into the sports hall for the trials. Parents/carers
are welcome to attend. For more information please contact the
school on 01992 629124 and ask for Mr Tilbury.
Tuesday 27th
March 2012 Music Finals 2012! 6 - 8pm
The Annual Music Finals will take
place in the Main Hall on Tuesday starting promptly at 6pm. Tickets
are available from the school but are fast selling out! We are
looking forward to another evening of excellent performing arts
talent.
March
23rd 2012 - New Yr7 Parent/Carer Welcome Evening
The School hosted the new Year 7
parent/carer and student welcome evening last night. The
welcome and presentation was organised in two time slots in
the main hall, and our guests were able to take refreshments before
and after in the dining hall and speak to members of staff
including the new year 7 tutor team throughout the evening.
All our visitors spoke very
positively about their transition experience so far, and their
children are very much looking forward to joining our community in
September.
A special thank you must go to our
Year 7 Ambassadors who attended the event, as they worked very hard
guiding our visitors and were a credit to themselves and the
school.
March
15th 2012 - Student Head Teacher!
As part of the BBC Live School Report project, St Mary's has
today got two Year 11 students working as the Head Teacher and
Deputy Head Teacher. The two students are making decisions,
taking meetings and generally fulfilling the role of leadership in
the school.
Follow the link below for videos of how easy it really
is...
BBC School report
page
The new Head is quoted as saying "It's weird but
wonderful!"
March
14th 2012 Have you signed up yet?
The School now has a Twitter
account that can be used to keep up to date with what is going on
in school. The address is @SMHSch. Sign up now! (Please note that
the school will not use this account to 'follow' any users who
follow us).
There is also a dedicated account
for Sixth Form students and their parents/carers which can be
accessed on @SMHSixth. This account requires users to be approved,
so please ensure that your email address allows the School to
idenitfy you, (or notify the school of the email address that you
will be using c/o admin@st-maryshigh.herts.sch.uk
)
Make sure your Twitter account is
locked and secure. For a how-to go to: http://bit.ly/mkXxdM
March 6th
2012 - Primary School gifted & talented Science
workshop
The School was very pleased to host
a half day science workshop for students from local primary
schools. The Key Stage 1 children thoroughly enjoyed their
time with us, and left with their arms filled with the items they
had made, including bouncy rubber balls and pin badges.
March 5th
2012 - Welcome to St Mary's!
Welcome to all prospective
parents/carers and year 6 students who will be joining us in
September 2012. We are delighted to welcome a full intake
of 180 students to our community for September 2012. All families
who have been offered a place will receive a letter with an
invitation to join us for our Welcome Evening in the Main Hall at
6.30pm on Thursday 22nd March. Any family who has not yet had the
opportunity to tour the school and would like to do so, should
contact the school on 01992 629124 to make an
appointment on Wednesday 7th, Thursday 8th, Monday
12th or Monday 19th March. The tours commence at 9am for
approximately one hour.
Feb 29th
2012 - Keep Up With St Mary's!
The School now has a Twitter
account that can be used to keep up to date with what is going on
in school. The address is @SMHSch. Sign up now! (Please note that
the school will not use this account to 'follow' any users who
follow us).
There is also a dedicated
account for Sixth Form students and their parents/carers which can
be accessed on @SMHSixth. This account requires users to be
approved, so please ensure that your email address allows the
School to idenitfy you, (or notify the school of the email address
that you will be using c/o admin@st-maryshigh.herts.sch.uk
)
Feb 28th
2012 - Paris Trip
The Paris Group have returned home
after a wonderful four day visit to Paris. Click on the
link to read more. PARIS FEB
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Feb 23rd
2012 - Music & Dance Review
The school held their annual Music
and Dance production entitled "Newsbeat Live" in the presence of
the Mayor & Mayoress of Broxbourne. Click on the
link to read more. NEWSBEAT
February/March 2012: SMHS / Hemel Storm 16-18
Basketball Academy
St Mary's is launching a new sports
initiative for September 2012, in establishing a basketball academy
based at the school. Click on the link to read more. BASKETBALL
Click this link to
find out more about the trials.
Feb 2nd 2012
- SMHS hosts a visit by the Mayor and Mayoress of
Broxbourne
The School were extremely pleased
to welcome Cllr and Mrs Rowland who led
a Textiles workshop on tailoring and pattern
cutting. Click on the link to read
more. TEXTILES
January
2012 : Church Schools Awards 2012
St Mary's are delighted to have
been shortlisted this year for the prestigious Church Schools
Awards for inspiring citizens and transforming communities.
The judging process will take place during January, and we will
keep you informed of the outcome.
Previous news and
articles are archived under News & Communications, Special Events
page.
Email: The
school will now be using email as the main form of communication
with parents/carers. Please contact us on 01992 629124 if an active
email address has not already been given to the school.
Using email will mean that
we can communicate more effectively with parents/carers whilst
saving paper resources. Email will not replace telephone
conversations and face to face meetings where these are
required.