St David's Catholic College

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2010

January

Carousel tickets now for sale

Reheasals are now in full swing for this year's college production of the musical Carousel. Tickets available from St David's Performing Arts teachers or from The Gate Theatre. www.thegate.org.uk Watch students perform this Rodgers and Hammerstein favourite at the GateTheatre in Roath at 7.30pm on 25, 26, 27 February 2010. Tickets are available from The Gate Theate in Roath

St David’s features in BBC Current Affairs programme

On Thursday 14 January BBC reporter Peter Johnson visited St David's to hear from students and staff about the experience of studying at a designated sixth-form college for the Radio Wales programme Eye On Wales. Peter Johnson, who is one of the best known voices in Welsh broadcasting also interviewed Lisa Newman, St David's Assistant Principal. Mrs Newman, who…

Open Evening Success

Pupils and parents from our four partner schools: Mary Immaculate; St Richard Gwyn; Corpus Christi and St Illtyd's, along with pupils from schools in east Cardiff attended the first of this year’s three Open Evenings on Tuesday 19 January. Student involvement Members of St David's Student Council were on hand from 6-9pm to answer general questions and escort visitors…

Students Question Local Politicians

Seven History and Politics students were invited to participate in a new online show called Uni-Q on Friday 22 January. Before attending the studio recording at Coleg Glan Hafren, St David’s students submitted questions online to Julie Morgan, Cardiff North MP and Votes at 16 campaigner, Jenny Randerson, AM for Cardiff Central and Leanne Wood, Plaid Cymru’s sustainability spokesperson.…

Open Evenings 2010

Wednesday 27 January 2010 5-8pm Thursday 28 January 2010 5–8 pm For more information on parking facilities click here

Closing Date For Applications

The closing date for applications is 12th February 2010. Prospective students should try to meet the deadline but the college will continue to accept applications beyond the suggested date.

St David’s Annexe at Mary Immaculate Open Monday 18th January

The St David's Annexe at Mary Immaculate will reopen on Monday 18th January and all students should report for lessons as usual. Buses will run as normal.

Carousel Rehearsal News

There will be a rehearsal for Carousel this Wednesday 13 January. Would anyone involved please come to the theatre from 3.40 - 6.00pm. Written and composed by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Carousel will be performed at the Gate Theatre in Roath on Thursday 25, Friday 26 and Saturday 27 February 2010. Each performance will commence at 7.30pm Tickets…

2009

October

Letter To Parents on Upcoming Vaccination Programme

Dear Parent/Guardian, The School Nursing Service has agreed a programme of dates to administer the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in St David's. This vaccine programme is being offered to all female students. The virus in question, which is the cause of cervical cancer, is spread through sexual activity and so in the health interests of our students we are…

Football Legend Coaches College First Team

On Thursday 24 September former football international Alan Curtis called into St David’s to take a training session with the college first team squad. The training session was scheduled to coincide with the launch of a book about him called Curt: The Alan Curtis Story published by Random House. This autobiography was co-written by St David's politics teacher Tim…

Book club. Like fight club, but with reading.

When English teacher James Tatham advertised his new book club as "Book club. Like fight club, but with reading..." he was pleasantly surprised by the interest it generated. He said: “Being well-read and able to discuss novels in a group is key to getting a place at a good university, especially for English students.“I think we’ve got a great…

September

Oxbridge Undergraduates

This year four of St David's honours programme students have successfully secured places to study at Oxford and Cambridge in October. Zara Milner aged 18 from Canton achieved 3 As in English, biology, chemistry and a B in physics and is going to read medicine at St John's College Cambridge. Zara is a former pupil of Fitzalan High School.…

Partner School Successes at A-level

Former pupils from St David's four partner schools - Mary Immaculate, Corpus Christi, St Richard Gwyn and St Illtyd's have once again produced a number of students who have excelled at their A2 exams. St Richard Gwyn High School Helen Sanders a former pupil of St Richard Gwyn RC High School achieved four A grades and is going to…

August

St David’s College A level results

Students at St David's Catholic College are celebrating excellent pass rates across a wide range of academic and vocational subjects, strings of top A grades, and offers from leading universities to study traditional, highly specialised and unusual subjects now being confirmed. An outstanding 59% of the Honours Cohort of 48 students received A grades. Four students have secured places…

New Fundraising Target Reached

As an FE institution St David's is privileged to be the largest Welsh Baccalaureate centre in Wales. This year's lower sixth students raised a staggering £3649.44 for Welsh charities as part of the Welsh Bacc's Community Participation Unit . A variety of fundraising activities, all organised by students, took place over three weeks at the end of the summer term.…

July

Level 3 End of Year Celebrations

Students and staff gathered in the sports hall, which had been transformed into a celebratory venue on the last day of term, to listen to the different achievements -some academic, some personal - of members of the upper sixth before they left St David's for the last time. The Dominic Bryon Community Awards 2009 were hosted by the Associate Principal…

May

Praise and Thanks

With the end of the college year approaching Level 1 and 2 students gathered in the college theatre to look back on the past year, to celebrate great achievement and to look ahead with hope. The assembly was an outstanding showcase of student talent and achievement with music, reflection, presentations and movie clips. The year was reviewed by…

Annual Sports Award Ceremony

Sporting excellence and achievement were celebrated in the college theatre on Tuesday 12 May. Students representing college team sports and individual sports gathered to appreciate the efforts and success of their peers. Glowing testimonials were given in support of the various nominees who had represented the college in some fashion over the course of the year in football, hockey,…

Media Students Learn How To Classify Films

A2 media students visited the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) in London with their teachers last month. The students were attending an organised two-hour seminar which linked directly into their final exam on film censorship issues. The BBFC examiner was excellent and captivated the students with much detail and analysis of the history of the BBFC, its role,…

The Great Outdoors

Fifty four AS Geography students were involved in a residential fieldtrip to Orielton Field Studies Centre, Pembrokeshire from Monday 6th April to Wednesday 8th April 2009. The trip is an annual occurrence and is designed to help the students develop key skills and competencies for their AS level examinations. During the course of the trip students experience a variety…

Easter Reflections at St David’s

This week students were invited to the college chapel for their seasonal Easter reflections. These were led by members of the Chaplaincy team and focused on the central themes of resurrection, hope and new life. Each reflection drew on contemporary culture using film, images and music. Our next whole college assemblies will take place at the end of the…

Colombian journalists speak on human rights

On Thursday 7 May two female journalists, representatives of Reporteros de Colombia, who work on the frontline in Colombia, visited the College to talk to students about life as a journalist in the conflict-ridden country. The journalists face danger of death and kidnap daily, as they attempt to uncover the truth of Colombian army, paramilitary and guerrilla operations and…

April

Question Time for MP

The MP for Cardiff Central Jenny Willott called into St David's on Tuesday 7 April where she joined a class of Sociology and Politics students. Miss Willott spoke about her role as a Member of Parliament and gave a brief history of her political career to date. She then answered questions from students on a variety of issues…

March

Engineering Team Wins Award

Each year St David's students give up their free time to work on an engineering project as a team. After several weekends away and long evenings designing a product for use in Industry, these engineers are publicly recognised by The Institute of Mechanical Engineers for their expertise in the design and application and the teamwork skills they demonstrate as…

Holy Week

Do you know why this is the most important week of the year for Christians? The Chaplaincy team are going to explain all after the Easter holiday when they'll be giving presentations to students in the college chapel on the importance of what happened at Easter. The liturgies last for about 20 minutes and use music and images to…

Blessed Art Thou Amongst Women

Eight lower sixth female students outnumbered the two male students on the annual pilgrimage to the Eternal City for a week in March. The students shopped, went to the beach, enjoyed Italian food together as well as making early morning devotional visits to the Sistine Chapel and St Peter's -an artistic and architectural feast that only Rome can offer.…

We Love Lucie

Double congratulations to Performing Arts student Lucie Jones aged 18 from Pentyrch. Not only has Lucie won a place to study at Britain’s oldest theatre school, the Italia Conti Academy in London when she leaves St Davids, she’s also landed herself the lead role of Gabriella in the UK Premiere of High School Musical 2 for the second time.…

Sondheim Success at the Gate

This year's college production was Into The Woods, Steven Sondheim's dark musical about fairy tales. It was enthusiastically received by audiences at The Gate Theatre in Roath on March 5, 6, and 7. Congratulations to drama teachers Maggie Powell and Pam Chappell for their directing skills and to the students for their superb performances.