Cardinal Newman Catholic School

Dear Parent/Carer,

On behalf of the Governors I am writing to inform you that we have appointed Dr James Kilmartin as Headteacher of the school.

As you will know, Dr Kilmartin has been Acting Head of the school since December 2011, when Mrs Sanders became ill. During the intervening period he has led the school with flair, commitment and with real dedication for the good of our students.

We have had a rigorous selection process over the last two days, and Dr Kilmartin proved himself against a very strong field.

As Governors we have complete confidence that in appointing Dr Kilmartin we are entrusting the leadership of this wonderful school to a person of outstanding personal qualities of integrity and ability, and who has a deep commitment to the school and everything it stands for.

Do please keep Dr Kilmartin and the school in your prayers as he formally takes over the leadership of the school. With best wishes,

Charles Wookey
Chair of Governors

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We are currently updating the School Travel Plan. We are particularly interested in the methods of transport used by our students to travel to school. Part of the work of the School Travel Plan working party is to investigate how we could encourage parents and students to adopt more environmentally friendly and sustainable methods of school travel. We would like to consult parents about this issue and in order to gather as much relevant information and ideas as possible, we would like to invite parents to complete the short electronic survey attached. As always, your ideas and viewpoints are very important to us and we look forward to receiving your response.

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to Anna Fenton-Garvey in year 10 who has just gained a sought after place in the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. Over 4,000 young people applied for a place and Anna is one of only 500 who have been chosen to take part in a two week intensive training course in London this August. This is great news and we wish her every success.

to the Newman Music Tour group as they have been successful in their audition to perform at Disneyland Paris in July this year. The group will be previewing some of the tour material at the Music Department’s Summer Concert on Thursday, 27th June at 6.00pm.

If attending school for revision classes students must sign in/out at reception. Any students attending for exams only will be registered in their exam venue. However if students are in for both exams/revision they still must sign in / out at reception

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