St Bede's College, Christchurch, New Zealand

Summer Sports Honours

dwilkes — Mon, 13 May 2013 02:24:00 +0000

Athletics:
Charlie Gamble
Patch Harnett
Jared Monk
Brodie Thomas
Joshua Thomas
cricket:
Jack Boyle
Blake Doherty
Tim Hanrahan
Angus Simmons
Triathlon:
Sam Elstob
Sam Blackmore
Jacob Reece-Jones
Rowing:
Nathan Arscott
David Brydon
Jake Carmody
Tremaine Cragg-Love
Stephen Dennehy
Simon Ellis
Jordan Kennedy
Matthew Lilley
Liam McArthur
Tyler McKendry
Ben Meates
Cameron Scott
Haydon Soper
James Tranter
Surf Life Saving:
Callum Wisbey
Tennis is awarded to :
Ben Grimshaw
water polo
Jordan Cleeve
Bryce Arthur

Canterbury Secondary Schools’ Golf Champions for a fifth consecutive year

dwilkes — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 01:52:21 +0000

Congratulations to the Golf team Connell Kilpatrick, Tom Hardy, Jacob Roberts and Connor McFadzien on winning the Canterbury Secondary Schools’ Golf Championships March 2013. This is the fifth consecutive year that St Bede’s College has won this event. Connell also won the trophy as the top individual player. This win has set St Bede’s College up for the New Zealand Championships later this year.

Maadi Cup Success

dwilkes — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 22:48:25 +0000

Charlie Gamble qualifies for IAAF World Youth Championships

dwilkes — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 20:22:21 +0000

Charlie Gamble has continued with his OUTSTANDING Athletics’ season which saw him finish first in the Discus at the New Zealand National Championships at the weekend with a throw of 57.63. This also led to Charlie being selected in the New Zealand Youth Team to compete at the IAAF Youth Championships in Donetsk, Ukraine in July. What an outstanding achievement and we wish Charlie all the very best for this honour.

Bedean News – Centennial Publication

dwilkes — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:25:41 +0000

View the Bedean Publication of the Centennial:
Part A the Centennial Lead-up and
Part B the Centennial Events

Results of PTA Raffle drawn 27 March 2013

dwilkes — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:07:56 +0000

First Prize: Jackie Van Surksun
Second Prize: Claire
Third Prize: Jane Hodgson
Fourth Prize: K Dixon
Fifth Prize: Kitto Family

Academic Honours

dwilkes — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 01:06:13 +0000

This week we acknowledged the academic success of students in their NCEA last year:-
• Yr 10 students who sat Level One maths and achieved an excellence course endorsement
• Students who gained a Merit or Excellence endorsement at Level One and Two
• Scholarship success

Academic Honours Pockets are awarded each year to those students who have gained an Excellence endorsement at Level 1 or 2 by gaining 50 or more Excellence credits at that level.
In Year 12 as Level One:

Chambers William
Flett Harry
Haines Angus
Heywood Zachary
Hortin Duncan
Jones Nicholas
Kane Porter Harry
Kennett Hamish
Monk Jared
Sherwood Patrick
Watts Jordan
Wynands Samuel

In Year 13 as Level Two

Batt Edward
Blackmore Sam
Brodie Joe
Campos James
Collins Samuel
George Rahul
Harnett Patrick
Laurent Thomas
Lilburne Benjamin
Maguire Benjamin
Murdoch Jeremy
Pitcaithly Samuel
Sutcliffe Adam
Taylor Jamieson
Tyrrell Liam
Wisbey Callum

Academic Gold Pocket Awards
This year our Academic prefects Adam Sutcliffe and Callum Wiseby launched a new award to acknowledge
• 100+ excellence credits at level One
• 80+ excellence credits at level Two
The first recipients of this award are:-
Level One: William Chambers, Harry Flett
Level Two: Gi Jung Lee, Samuel Pitcaithly and Benjamin Scott

PTA News Term 1 2013

dwilkes — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:55:03 +0000

The PTA has been delighted to be able to make several donations to the school in the last month, as a result of your support of our fundraising efforts:

A new Yamaha Electronic Keyboard has been donated for use at Assemblies and Masses. It has already been a great asset, with good sound quality.

We have also enabled the purchase of a car, to be used by the Sports Director and Gateway Co-ordinator and other staff as needed – a photo of the red Suzuki Swift will
be in the newsletter when signage is completed.

The PTA has funded learning equipment – ten GPS Receivers are now available for use in Science classes.
This is a novel idea with many different uses. The PTA has also donated four electronic balances, four microscopes and a set of hominid skulls to the Science Department.

So your support of our endeavours such as the Raffle, Fair, Entertainment Book and the sale of wine or beer glasses from the College Shop, benefits all our boys.

Thank you to the many families who have returned Raffle Books to date. Please check your son’s bag if necessary and remind him to drop the books back! There are great prizes and proceeds will go towards student learning equipment.

Entertainment Books will be available for purchase soon.

Watch out for our Autumn Auction and Quiz night on Sunday April 14th – always alot of fun.

Finally, a reminder the PTA AGM will take place on Wednesday 27 March at 7.30pm in the staffroom – new parents and staff are welcome to attend.

Best wishes from the PTA.

Congratulations to Scholarship Winners

dwilkes — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:28:42 +0000

2012 Scholarship results were released this week. Scholarship provides recognition and monetary reward to top students in their last year of schooling. Scholarship exams enable candidates to be assessed against challenging standards, and are demanding for the most able candidates in each subject.
Scholarship candidates are expected to demonstrate high-level critical thinking, abstraction and generalisation, and to integrate, synthesise and apply knowledge, skills, understanding and ideas to complex situations. We congratulate the following:
Matthew Everingham: Music, Classics and English (Outstanding in English)
Tom Pemberton: Geography,English, History (Outstanding in Geography)
Aaron Warner: Geography
Chris Boniface: English

Student Leaders 2013

dwilkes — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 20:36:47 +0000

Our prefects were invested at our first College mass and along with the rest of Year 13 pledged the following:

We, as young Catholic men ask for the guidance of Mary as we begin our journey as the leaders of this College in 2013. Following the example of Jesus as a servant leader we will strive to produce a safe environment in which every student from Year 9 through to Year 13 and staff member truly feels a sense of the family that comes from being a part of the Bedean cultures, being sensitive to our fellow students and sustaining a strong sense of school pride. We pledge to honour the past whilst preparing for the future and with God’s help we will lead by example and truly live out our motto; ‘Fide et Opere’, by faith and works.

The following boys are the leaders for 2013:

Head Boy	Rahul George
Deputy Head	Jack Boyle
Special Character	Patch Harnett, Hugh Morritt
Boarding	Ben Tomlinson, Josh Back
Academic	Callum Wisbey, Adam Sutcliffe
Community	Ben Meates, James Campos, Josh Thomas, Samuel Pitcaithly
Cultural	Henare Faithful, Daylee Sumner, Ben Maguire, Angus Simmons
Sporting	Charlie Gamble
Benedict	Vinnie O’Connell
Colin	Joe Brodie
McCarthy	Angus Vincent
Redwood	Cameron Botica
Mannix	Solomon Alaimalo