DESIGN A CHRISTMAS CARD COMPETITION

ANTI-BULLYING WEEK 2012 & COMPETITION!

ANTI-BULLYING WEEK 2012

GOOD NEWS!

Anti-Bullying Week 2012 has been extended for the whole month of November!

THE THEME:

 ‘We’re Better Without Bullying’

Mrs Owen hosted an interesting, informative and encouraging assembly on Monday for the whole school, to raise awareness about all the different types of bullying and to launch the Chetham’s Anti-Bullying Competition!

COMPETITION!

Following on from the Anti-Bullying Assembly on Monday 19^th November

Anti-bullying Poetry Competition

Closing date: Break time on Monday December 3^rd.

There will be four age categories:

Juniors

F1 and F2

F4 and F5

Lower and Upper Sixth

There will be a winner and a runner up in each category

Please email your entries (name and form included)  as an attachment to me.

The poems should obviously refer to bullying.  I would like to display the winning poems around school so it would be good if the poem could have a helpful, positive ending – possibly suggesting ways in which the bullying can be brought to an end.

*Happy Diwali*

Festival of Lights

Diwali is perhaps the most well-known of the Hindu festivals.

The word Diwali means 'rows of lighted lamps'. Diwali is known as the 'festival of lights' because houses, shops and public places are decorated with small earthenware oil lamps called diyas

Celebrating Diwali

For many Indians this five day festival honours Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth.
People start the new business year at Diwali, and some Hindus will say prayers to the goddess for a successful year.
Lamps are lit to help Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth, find her way into people's homes.
They also celebrate one of the Diwali legends, which tells of the return of Rama and Sita to Rama's kingdom after fourteen years of exile.
In Britain, as in India, the festival is a time for:

• spring-cleaning the home,
• wearing new clothes
• exchanging gifts (often sweets and dried fruits) and preparing festive meals
• decorating buildings with fancy lights.
• huge firework displays often celebrate Divali.

In India Hindus will leave the windows and doors of their houses open so that Lakshmi can come in. Rangoli are drawn on the floors - rangoli are patterns and the most popular subject is the lotus flower.

The meaning of Diwali

The festival celebrates the victory of good over evil, light over darkness and knowledge over ignorance, although the actual legends that go with the festival are different in different parts of India:

• In northern India and elsewhere, Diwali celebrates Rama's return from fourteen years of exile to Ayodhya after the defeat of Ravana and his subsequent coronation as king;
• In Gujarat, the festival honours Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth;
• In Nepal Diwali commemorates the victory of Lord Krishna over the demon king Narakaasura;
• In Bengal, it is associated with the goddess Kali.

Here at Chets...

The Sodexo team cooked up curry for dinner to mark the occasion and set the tone with brightly coloured menus-very festive!

House of Horrors: Gallery of Ghouls

Below is photographic evidence of the paranormal activity and unwelcome visitors witnessed at the House of Horrors Party on Friday evening.  Do you recognise any of these creatures?

Mwah, ha ,ha, ha, ha, ha! Mwah , ha, ha, ha...

Girls' House has been more like Slytherin this week, with a terrifying array of vampires, witches, ghouls and the undead. 

On Halloween Miss Mercer was ready with her face paints to help the girls have a ghoulish time! 

GHKC: Cupcakes, glitter and icing sugar

Miss Deady and Miss Healy staged a takeover of the dining hall on Thursday evening for the latest instalment of the Girls’ House Kitchen Collective.  The girls got creative with icing sugar, edible glitter, chocolate drops, writing icing and sprinkles!