CHRISTMAS FUNCTIONS

I hope many of you will attend one or two of the following functions which the school will be putting on for Christmas:

• This year we are changing our format. There will not be a pantomime, but instead there will be a production of ‘Bugsy Malone’. This promises to be a superb evening’s entertainment. Our primary schools will be seeing it during the day and it is available to our students and staff on the evenings of 2nd and 3rd December. Please order your tickets on the attached reply slip. Prices are £5 for adults or £3 for concessions.

• On Saturday 11th December the PFA Christmas function will take place in our main Hall. This year it is a Christmas Ceilidh and it promises to be a super evening - guaranteed, as it will be a cabaret as well! I know this because the Ceilidh will be led by Mr Phillip Rush’s band and nobody, in my experience, provides a better Ceilidh than when Phillip is calling! There will be a licensed bar and supper will be available. Tickets for entry to the Ceilidh are priced at £2 for adults and £1 for children under 16 (food not included in ticket price). Again, you can order tickets on the reply slip at the back of this newsletter.

• Our Christmas carol service ‘Carols by Candlelight’ will this year take place on Tuesday 14 December at the Immaculate Conception Church in Stroud. It starts at 7.00pm and tickets, priced at £2, (free to senior citizens and students under 18) will be available from the school reception at the beginning of December. This is always a marvellous way to start the festive period and I hope the Church will be full.

• Christmas lunch will be served on Tuesday 14th December. There will be the opportunity to purchase tickets for Christmas lunch in advance. The price of Christmas lunch will be £2.75 students and £4 for staff. Details of when and where to purchase will be announced on the school tannoy early in December.

Yr 11 Presentation Evening - I was extremely disappointed that only 31 of our former year 11 students wanted the opportunity to be presented with their GCSE certificates. I find it rather strange that after five years of hard work the students decide they do not want public acclaim for the work they have put in. That, however, has to be their decision and although we had to cancel the year 11 celebration evening, I am delighted to inform parents that we will combine the GCSE presentation of certificates with the presentation of A-level certificates to last year’s year. This will therefore take place on Monday 20 December in the School Hall. Further details will be published in the near future.