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Parent Pay

14/05/2012 00:00:00

ParentPay is the new school online payment system that lets you make secure online payments by credit and debit card.

You will be given an activation letter shortly from the school. Once you have received this you can login at www.parentpay.com and follow the on screen instructions. You can pay online for things like lunches, trips, and other events provided by St Angela's.

Click on the links below to download further information about parent pay:

Information Leaflet for Parents

Information Leaflet for Students

ParentPay user guide

Book Character Day 2012

05/03/2012 00:00:00

Book Character Day 2012, Thursday 1st March 2012, was a sunny & fun filled day for all the students and staff at St Angela's School.

Have a look at some of the wonderful costumes & characters the students and staff came to school as.

Insight into Industry Day

27/02/2012 00:00:00

Year 9 Insight into Industry Day was on Thursday 23rd February. It was an opportunity for us to gain a well-informed insight into a variety of different industries and possible future careers. The whole point was to give us ideas and hopefully help us in our GCSE choices, & was scheduled the 'day' before picking our subjects. I really enjoyed it because the different industries were all well explained. There were also some industries that I never thought about that really caught my attention.

Some of the industries that spoke to us included: Banking, Publishing, Town Planning, Banking, Accounting, Law, Catering, Nursing, Medicine & Fashion.

It was a fun & interesting day and I'm now really interested in pursuing publishing as a future career.

Year 9 Student

6th form entry course choice form

27/01/2012 00:00:00

Application for Sixth Form Entry 2012 - Student course choice form

Click here to download

Anti-Bullying Week

25/11/2011 00:00:00

A fast and fun way to make friends

A week filled with fun. How can this be? Anti-bullying week 2011 of course! Girls from all years came together to stand as one in our spree to stamp our bullying.

On the week beginning Monday the 14^th of November girls from every year came to enjoy the events happening in our school, and all to promote anti-bullying. The anti-bulling alliance (ABA) planned the week thoroughly. Some planned events including Friends for change, an anti-bullying fair, a wear something blue day and even a flash mob!

Friends for change, an event designed to encourage students to make new friends and get to know each other. The aim of the game was to also meet new people in other year groups. What made it more fun was that it was moulded to be speed friending instead of speed dating. So basically a fast, fun way to make new friends. The anti-bullying alliance was surprised to welcome girls from years 7 all the way up to year 10. Even our event leaders (Alicia Jordan and Daljit Kaur, 10 Dench) made new friends, the event was definitely a success. With an excellent turn out, it was a lunchtime to remember.

On Thursday of that week the anti-bullying alliance presented a flash mob! Of course being a flash mob it came as a surprise however there were many rumours circulating around school about an alleged “milking of a cow” taking place that lunchtime. Because of this a lot of students and teachers were milling around Brescia and Merici court that afternoon. One crowd got so impatient they started to chant for the cow. Luckily the flash mob was soon underway. It was certainly a lively atmosphere. The ABA team doing a dance to Queens smash hit “Under pressure”. In the excitement a lot of spectators decided to join in and learn the dance (choreographed by Yvonne Gyamfi, 10 McKewan). Most spectators stated that it was a hilarious event. A filmed version (recorded by Khiera Odle, 10 Sawalha) will soon be on the MLE for any girls who missed the event.

The last event we had was the much anticipated anti-bullying fair. On this day we also organised a wear something blue day. This was to wear accessories and little items just to silently support anti-bullying. There were many girls who wore blue head bands and flowers or blue shoelaces however one girl came in dressed in a blue wig! The fair was another success story. With many fun activities such as blue nail painting and ice your own blue anti-bullying cakes. Also girls who came to the event got complimentary face paint. They would get either a ribbon or a symbol on their face or hands. All blue of course! Mr Johnson also popped in to get a ribbon on his hand. Face painter Maria Charmaine Nadarajah said, “I’m just glad I didn’t mess up”. The cakes went really well as well. Clearly we have many budding artists in our school as the cupcakes looked excellent and tasted just as good. Also the nail-painting was excellent with many girls coming in to get their nails done. Nail painter Marianna Marcelline (10 Dench) stated, “I can’t believe how many people have come to support anti-bullying!”

The week was, overall, very eventful and was a joyous celebration. A big thank you from the ABA team to anyone who came or took part in the events to promote anti-bullying & to Ms Peacock. We couldn’t have done it without you!

Maria Charmaine Nadarajah (10 Knightley)

St Angela's School History now available to view online

22/11/2011 00:00:00

To celebrate our upcoming 150th Anniversary we have been looking back through our archives and wanted to share with you the history of St Angela's Ursuline School, from 1862 to today.

You can read all about the schools history by clicking here

We are also always looking to add to our archive, if you are an old brownie, friend, teacher or visitor and want to share your stories, memories & photos of your time at St Angela's please get in touch by either emailing: office@stangelas-ursuline.co.uk or tel: 0208 472 6022

Training School Programme now available to view online

22/11/2011 00:00:00

St Angela's Training programme is now available to view online,

click here to view our exciting teaching and learning programmes devised from years of outstanding practice, that will transform practice, develop staff and build capacity in your school.

LS&BC Award

21/10/2011 00:00:00

In the month of October we celebrate Black History Month and one event which celebrates the academic achievements of black youth in order to promote a more positive representation of young black British people are The London Schools and the Black Child Awards hosted by Labour MP Diane Abbott and held in the Houses of Parliament.

We are proud to say that between St Angela’s and St Bonaventure’s we absolutely DOMINATED the nominations this year and although no prizes were given to our students we had the HIGHEST grade results and FIVE runners up, the largest number of nominations for any London School. It was great to celebrate their success and have the British Government recognise the brilliant young people within London Schools. We would like to congratulate and celebrate our amazing nominees: Janet Talabi, Maaeme Eshun, Karmen Marie Parker, Christopher Achiampong and Anthony Enyioma.

St Angela's Waiting List Final Reminder

19/09/2011 14:42:24

WAITING LIST – FINAL REMINDER

This is a reminder for parents wishing to remain on our Waiting List for the next academic year 2011-2012, that the deadline for writing to the Headteacher, Mr Mark Johnson, formally requesting this, is Friday 23rd September 2011.

Once the Headteacher has received your request, your application will remain on our Waiting List for the new academic year September 2011 – July 2012.

If we do not hear from you by 23rd September 2011, we shall assume that you no longer wish to remain on our Waiting List and all documents will be removed.

Thank you

St Angelas Ursuline School

Project Uganda Expedition

16/09/2011 00:00:00

For the last two and a half years students at St Angela's and St Bonaventure's 6th Form Centre have been raising money to take part in World Challenge: Project Uganda.
In total the 8 students that took part raised over £24,000 to cover all the costs of the project , accommodation , food, and transport.
We set off for Kampala on the 6th of July and returned on the 29th of July. We explored Western Uganda and followed the Buwata Comminty Trail through the foothills of the Ruwenzori Mountains for the first 4 days of our trip.
We then spent eleven days at Rumuri Primary school, which is situated in Bunyarugulu, where our tasks were to complete an unfinished class room block and Library. It was a great opportunity to meet and work with the local community.
After our hard work doing manual labour and teaching classes ranging from 45 - 90 students, we had a well deserved treat with a Safari at Queen Elizabeth National Park.

Andrea Harvey

Director of Pastoral Care, St Angela's Ursuline School

Our first week in Uganda started off with mainly settling in and acclimatising. We were in rwenzori when we climbed our first mountain! It was a long trek so we spent the night with the locals up on the mountain -having a good sing-along to end the night.
The second was a day trek. It was ever-so steep so it meant we stumbled up and down the mountain. Meeting interesting locals like bongo man and sele made each trek that much more exciting.
On the second week we went to Rumuri school where we finished the building of a new school block and taught a few lessons which I must say was the best part! Teaching science, english, maths and PE to kids from the ages of about 7 to 18, some of the class sizes were huge. Josh taught a PE class to 90 children! The school gave us a magical send off putting on performances and a reception lunch.
Our final few days were an much needed period of rest and relaxation.We went on safari and a boat trip and saw the best wildlife uganda has to offer, we then went back to Entebe where we bought gifts and ate out in fancy restraunts like the Gately and China garden.
Finally departure day came and we packed up and said goodbye to Uganda getting our adjoining flight from Kenya. I'd like to again thank both Miss Harvey and Miss Mcwalter for putting up with us and our expedition leader Piers.

Moriamo Sadiq

GCSE results - another fantastic year!

25/08/2011 14:36:30

Best ever set of A'Level Results

19/08/2011 00:00:00

To download our A'Level results for 2011 click here

In memory of Margaret Tyzack former pupil of St Angela's Ursuline School

06/07/2011 00:00:00

St Angela’s Ursuline school sends it condolences to the family of Margaret Tyzack OBE, pictured below in a memorable school performance, at the sad passing of a great British actress and much loved alumni of the school. Margaret is well remembered by the Ursuline sisters of the school and her name has become part of the tradition of the school in naming a form group after famous women.

Ursuline Prayer

Gracious God,

Let us remain in harmony,

United together all of one heart and one will.

Let us be bound to one another by the bond of love,

Respecting each other, helping each other,

And bearing with each other in Jesus Christ.

For if we try to be like this, without any doubt,

The Lord God will be in our midst.

Amen

Click here to read Margaret Tyzack's Obituary

Summer Fete

02/07/2011 00:00:00

The St Angela's Fete on Saturday 2nd of July was a great day, have a look at some of the things the students, staff and local community got up to. . .

St Angela's students win Debate Mate National Championship

29/06/2011 00:00:00

This is the second year that St Angela's has been involved with the Debate Mate Programme and we are extremely proud to announce that we have just won the Debate Mate Cup!

Mentors from our 6th form and London universities have been coming into school each Thursday after school in order to train girls from years 8 -10 how to debate. We have entered several Debate Mate League competitions this year and in April we won one of the London rounds of the Debate Mate Cup held at the London School of Economics.

On Wednesday 29th June St Angela's was, therefore, in the finals of the Debate Mate Cup against the winners of the London rounds, as well as those from Manchester, Bristol and Birmingham. 120 schools and approximately 1500 pupils had entered the competition and we had reached the final 8. It was an extremely close fought competition held at The Royal Institute of Great Britian in Mayfair. The final was chaired by David Milliband in front of a VIP audience.
It's a fabulous achievement for the girls, their mentors and the school.

Under 14 Girls National Basketball Schools Finals

10/05/2011 00:00:00

England Basketball has worked alongside Competition Managers to run county based competitions, with the county champions progressing to the regional based knockout stages leading to four zone champions progressing to the final four championships.

St Angela's played Northampton School for Girls and won 76-59. The Northampton school was a good match size-wise for the St Angela’s team. However although they were a match in size, they found it very hard to deal with the speed (offensively & defensively) of the girls from East London.

In the U14 Girls final St Angela's walked away as champions as they beat Priestnall School from Manchester. We out sized and out ran the school from Manchester and got off to a great start in the first quarter, every so often the Priestnall school would make a surge to comeback into the game but St Angela’s always had an answer to their attempt, like Brenda Kipewu shooting a three pointer or Camille Francis or Amber Byrne scoring off a fast break. The game ended with a 68-50 win. Brenda Kipewu of St Angela's was awarded the MVP as she contributed 27 points in the final.

St Angela’s Win London Schools Basketball Championship

07/04/2011 00:00:00

In a very close final St Angela’s (East London) beat the National Schools Champions Grieg City (North London) on Thursday 31^st March 2011. St Angela’s got to the finals by beating teams from West, South & Central London) during that day. In the final the St Angela’s team was trailing the whole game against a very confident (3 times National Champions) Grieg City School. By the fourth quarter St Angela’s looked like they had no more to give, but with 2 mins left in the game after a last ditch time out moral boast from PE teacher Miss Charles, Brenda Kipewu got a second wind and stole the ball passed to Camille Francis who scored, then Brenda stole the ball again and this time scored herself also being fouled in the process. The game was now tied and Brenda scored her foul shot, putting St Angela’s ahead by 1 Grieg City then lost their cool and turned the ball over once again and St Angela’s converted the turn-over into a 3 point lead. Grieg City manage to get the ball to the Basket scoring, but still leaving St Angela’s ahead by 1 solitude point with 30 seconds left in the game. Brenda put up a shot that missed, Grieg City charged to their basket with the ball and Evelyn Adebayo fouled their shooter to put Grieg City on the line for 2 shots and the possibility of winning the game with 9 seconds to go. With our hearts in our mouths we watched as Grieg City missed the first shot and then the second, Evelyn grabbed the rebound, Brenda held the ball as the 9 seconds ticked away and St Angela’s pulled off a shock defeat over the reigning National Champions for 3 years. Final Score 31-30

St Angela’s are now:

1. Newham School Borough Champions

2. East London Schools Champions

3. London Schools Champions

4. UK Schools Champions

Now the only Basketball title St Angela’s don’t have is the National Schools Champions. This title will be contested for on the 8^th May 2011 in Nottingham

(And we will be there battling for that title as well!)

Drama in the Mix

18/03/2011 00:00:00

Three of our students were successful in a script writing competition orgainsed by BBC Radio London and Rich Mix in Shoreditch. The writers were Alicia Jordan (Year 9), Daljit Sharee (Year 9) and Deborah Ehinmonorin (Year 8). Their brief was to write a five minute radio drama linked to the themes of London 2012. Their script was selected from over eighty entries and performed by the students alongside 6 other plays at a live event on Wednesday 16th March. Natalie Mofus (Year 10) and Luke Davies (Year 12) took on other roles in the play and also created the sound effects! The final script was developed over a three month period and the students received professional mentoring as part of this process. The live event was attended by students from all five Olympic boroughs and there was a panel of experts who gave the students some valuable and extremely complimentary feedback about their work. The panel included Baroness King of Bow, Jeremy Mortimer (BBC Drama Executive Producer) and Tim Farr, a Paralympian (British Disabled Ski Team). This was an extraordinary achievement and two of the writers were interviewed on the day by a BBC news reporter.

Click here to view the BBC News report

Click here to listen to the radio drama on the BBC

St Angela's top ten in the country for adding value at GCSE

18/03/2011 00:00:00

St Angela's has gained national recognition as one of the top ten schools in the country for achieving the highest value added scores for GCSE in 2010.

The award from the Specialist Schools and Academies trust was marked at a celebratory event on March 16th in Central London.

"These results show the commitment and hard work of teachers and students in schools across the country. They demonstrate the power of high expectations, good teaching and the ambition for every young person to get the qualifications they need to have the best possible choices of career or education in later life." Specialist Schools and Academies Trust

Value added scores show the progress students in a school have made between their test results at age 11 and 16, according to the Jesson value-added measure (JVA), developed by Professor David Jesson.

St Angela's U14's crowned East London Basketball Champions

17/03/2011 00:00:00

The under 14 St Angela's Basketball team went into the final with only one thought in their heads. We wanted to get to the London finals this year. Having lost that privilege last year to Barking Abbey by 1 point there was no way that we wanted to miss out this year.

In St Angela's pool we had to play Abbs Cross, Bishop Challenor, Haber Dashers Aske. The girls beat every team and went into the semi-finals against our nemesis Barking Abbey. The St Angela's team went into the game with the passion that there could only be one result. Barking Abbey did not have a reply to St Angel's fast pace game and we won the game by a huge margin of 20 points. The final was against Chadwell Heath although Chadwell Heath tried their best to contain the charging St Angela's team, there was nothing that they could do to stop the St Angela's team from claiming their rightful place in the London Finals.

SACRE Art Project

14/03/2011 00:00:00

The students at St. Angela’s once again participated in the termly SACRE (Student Advisory Council for RE) in Newham. This term’s SACRE was very special because the Borough of Newham invested £5000 on an art project which involved students from schools all around the borough.

The project themed “Where and how do I belong?” asked students to reflect on how their school environment is part of who they are.

The girls at St. Angela’s created wonderful art boxes to show how the ethos of the school is part of their daily lives. The boxes will be on display in the school foyer after Easter for all to see.

Book Character Day

09/03/2011 00:00:00

We held our annual Book Character Day on Tue 8th March. Students and Teachers all came to school dressed as a character from a book.

New Mobile Phone Charter

11/02/2011 00:00:00

St Angela's new mobile phone charter.

Mobile Phone Charter

Newham Languages Speech Competition

18/01/2011 00:00:00

Newham Languages Speech Competition 2010

Overcoming their nerves and battling against strong competition, two out of the five pairs representing St Angela's at this year's Languages Speech Competition at Kingsford School became first in their language and age category.

Mrs Ostheim with the Winners (Above)

Winners for Spanish

Winners for German

Young Enterprise Centre of Excellence

10/01/2011 00:00:00

St Angela's Ursuline School and St Angela's & St Bonaventure's Sixth Form Centre are now a National Young Enterprise Centre of Excellence!

This award was given to us for the outstanding commitment to the promotion of enterprise and entrepreneurship. From participating in Young Enterprise, students have experienced a range of enterprise programmes, competed and won numerous Young Enterprise competitions, represented their company’s to high profile business people and have further gone on to be ambassadors of enterprise.

Being selected as a Centre of Excellence has highlighted and acknowledged our continued commitment towards the development of enterprise, entrepreneurship and the employability skills of our students.

Young Enterprise Company Bakers Dozen

Bakers Dozen Win Young Enterprise Award

Young Enterprise Products

Young Enterprise Company Sixth Sense win award

Sixth Sense, Anti Bullying Book Cover

Year 12 Exam Timetable

04/01/2011 00:00:00

Click here to download the 6th Form Year 12 Exam Timetable

6th Form Open Evening

16/11/2010 00:00:00

St Angela's & St Bonaventure's Sixth Form Centre held their Open Evening on Thursday 24th November on the St Bonaventure's Site.

Please click on the following link to download the 6th form centre's admissions criteria for September 2011.

Download our 6th Form Admissions Criteria 2011

Please click here to view the open evening 2010 presentation about St Angela's & St Bonaventure's Sixth Form Centre.

Sixth Form students win Business Prize

06/07/2010 00:00:00

by KAY ATWAL and LEE PEART (from the Stratford & Newham Express)

Budding entrepreneurs at two Forest Gate schools have won a business prize. Sixth form pupils from St. Angela's and St. Bonaventure's won the Best Company Report award at the Young Enterprise Company Programme awards at Credit Suisse in Canary Wharf.

Karen McWalter, business studies teacher and senior tutor at St. Angela's, said: "I am extremely proud of what the students have achieved. They showed great dedication and learnt a lot of skills that will be useful in the future and hopefully help them become budding entrepreneurs."

The Young Enterprise Programme is a charity-run scheme that aims to develop business skills. Running over an academic year, the project gives young people practical experience of business by teaching them how to set up their own company.

Pupils learn how to raise money to fund their business, and design and make a product or service to sell to the public.

They elected a board, raised share capital, marketed their brand and found finances.

The pupils, who formed a company called 6th Sense, created a book that offers advice to children on how to cope with bullying at school.

Shanice Asare, 17, managing director of 6th Sense, said the team raised more than £100 through doughnut sales and a school fashion show to pay for the book's production, The pupils now intend to sell their book directly to secondary schools.

St. Angela's celebrate Book Week

16/06/2010 00:00:00

The Book Week is a week set aside for staff and students to celebrate our love of reading and books in fun ways, and hopefully inspire those who are not great lovers of books.

A number of activities took place in the TLC and around the school during the week; book fair, book tombola, “Body in the Library” murder mystery, guess which literary character is coming to dinner, Chinese calligraphy, creating MFL miniature books and writing international poetry.

We were very lucky to have the children’s author Echo Freer visit the school and talk to students in years 7 to 9. The students enjoyed hearing about the many books she has written.

As part of our World Book Day celebrations the TLC held a lunch time Book Quiz as well as a very enjoyable session where the whole school dropped pens and bunsen burners and everyone read.

For everyone, the highlight of Book Week is Book Character Day when staff and students come to school dressed as a character from a book..

Fundraising for the victims of Haiti

02/06/2010 00:00:00

Well done to everyone on the push for the Haiti disaster which, all told, raised £1,068.77. Our hard work is helping those now in dire need.

CAFOD is supporting the relief effort and news of work and the opportunity to make further donations can be found on their website.

Regarding section 58 of the Ofsted report

02/02/2010 00:00:00

On Tuesday 2nd February 2010 inspectors on behalf of the Diocese of Brentwood came to the school for the day to judge not only the quality of the provision of the Religious Education at the school but also our provision for the spiritual, moral and social development of St. Angela’s girls. I am very pleased to inform you that the inspectors found St. Angela’s outstanding under every single category of their inspection.

I would like to thank publically Mr Paul McCarthy and his RE department (Miss Vasilliou, Miss Kerridge, Miss Afonso and Miss Buonocore) for their outstanding work in the school and particular thanks to the student body, who as ever shone so well in reflecting the spirit of Serviam within the school.