Bonus Pastor Catholic College
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Bonus Pastor Catholic College was founded by the Catholic Church to provide education for children of Catholic families. The College succeeded in becoming the first school in Lewisham to specialise as a Maths and Computing College, in 2006.
Bonus Pastor Catholic College, has a newly appointed Principal, Mrs R Holden, who served as the Interim Principal until her substantive appointment in 2008.
Ofsted 2008:
Grade 2 School; Good with outstanding features.
Bonus Pastor is a good school with many outstanding features.
The College intends to admit 150 students in September 2012, and intends to maintain 150, unless there are sufficient circumstances.
50th Celebrations - timetable:
Saturday 11 July
An Open House afternoon for
those who want to look around from 2.30pm onwards
Monday 13 July
Special assemblies for Years 7, 8 and 9 to launch the
50th Birthday week.
Tuesday 14 July
Fashion Show through the Decades in Winlaton Hall
– Visitors are welcome:
Period 1 Year 7 students,
Period 2 Year 8 students,
Period 3 Year 9 students
Periods 5 and 6 are Open House for any visitors who
wish to have a look around the College. Visitors will
be shown around the College by students.
Summer Sizzler Concert in the evening – all members
of the community are welcome to purchase a ticket.
Wednesday 15 July
Summer Sizzler Concert in the evening – all members
of the community are welcome to purchase a ticket.
Bonus Pastor is a Catholic College which, together with the home and church community, endeavours to provide a Christian environment in which Students and Staff are challenged to achieve their potential, intellectually, socially and spiritually. The College also strives to inculcate in all its members a respect for the dignity of others as well as sense of their own personal worth.
The highest standards of achievement, behaviour and personal response to gospel values are therefore expected and the steps by which these standards are achieved - study, prayer and self discipline - are all highly valued.
Until then, the investment programme ensures the college has up-todate facilities, particularly in ICT and Maths, Design Technology, Science, and Drama. A new state-of-the-art Learning Discovery Centre opened in 2006, and it has a super library resource/ICT centre on the Churchdown site, in addition to six other state-of-the-art ICT suites. Interactive whiteboards are available in almost all classrooms, especially in English, Maths and Science rooms. The playing fields in Whitefoot Lane, adjacent to the school, are used for games and athletics.
The College works very closely with Northbrook School, Christ the King Sixth Form College and Lewisham College. More recently (Sept 2008) it began working with students from Addey & Stanhope and Prendergast schools, who attend the College 1 day per week to take part in the new IT Diploma course - the first school in Lewisham to offer one of the Government's new Diploma courses (though many others are planned to follow over the next two years).
. Careful reading of the article referred to shows that this was in fact a story reported on by one of the school's students in the BBC News Day project, about an incident that took place in another school.
Hoodies, gloves, trousers and black socks for girls remain unacceptable.
September 2003 - December 2007 Principal: Patricia Slonecki B.Ed.(Hons), NPQH
January 2008 Principal: Ruth Holden, BA (Hons), MA, NPQH
Vice Principals: Mrs M. O'Donohue, Mrs L. Bridgland
Assistant Principals/Directors: Mr P. Kissoon, Mr G. Heatley, Mr J. Basi, Ms M De Jonge
Head of ICT Development: Ms A Augier
2003- 55%,
2004- 59%,
2005- 59%,
2006- 59%
2007- 68%
2008- 69%
2009- 72.1%
http://www.lewisham.gov.uk/NewsAndEvents/News/GCSEresults2009.htm
Table: Lewisham’s 2009 GCSE results – percentage of students achieving five or more good GCSEs at grades A*-C. All 2009 figures are provisional.
http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/cgi-bin/performancetables/group_07.pl?Mode=Z&Type=LA&No=209&Base=c&Phase=1&F=1&L=50&Year=07
Table: Lewisham's 2007 Year on Year Comparison
The letter sent to parents was as follows:
4th November 2011
Dear Parents and Carers,
You may have heard from your child, that yesterday at the end of the school day, some leaflets saying derogatory things about the school and the RE Department were being distributed to students as they went home. Please be assured that the matter has been dealt with by the police.
You may have also heard that a website has been set up about the College and in particular, resources used in RE lessons.
For security reasons we advise you not to access the website as we believe that it could compromise your email account.
Yours faithfully
Mrs Ruth Holden - Principal Mrs Pat Barber - Chair of Governors
Bonus Pastor Catholic College, has a newly appointed Principal, Mrs R Holden, who served as the Interim Principal until her substantive appointment in 2008.
Ofsted 2008:
Grade 2 School; Good with outstanding features.
Bonus Pastor is a good school with many outstanding features.
The College intends to admit 150 students in September 2012, and intends to maintain 150, unless there are sufficient circumstances.
College History
Bonus Pastor Catholic College, (previously known as Bonus Pastor RC School) opened in September 1958.50th Celebrations - timetable:
Saturday 11 July
An Open House afternoon for
those who want to look around from 2.30pm onwards
Monday 13 July
Special assemblies for Years 7, 8 and 9 to launch the
50th Birthday week.
Tuesday 14 July
Fashion Show through the Decades in Winlaton Hall
– Visitors are welcome:
Period 1 Year 7 students,
Period 2 Year 8 students,
Period 3 Year 9 students
Periods 5 and 6 are Open House for any visitors who
wish to have a look around the College. Visitors will
be shown around the College by students.
Summer Sizzler Concert in the evening – all members
of the community are welcome to purchase a ticket.
Wednesday 15 July
Summer Sizzler Concert in the evening – all members
of the community are welcome to purchase a ticket.
The College Mission Statement
Through Faith to SuccessBonus Pastor is a Catholic College which, together with the home and church community, endeavours to provide a Christian environment in which Students and Staff are challenged to achieve their potential, intellectually, socially and spiritually. The College also strives to inculcate in all its members a respect for the dignity of others as well as sense of their own personal worth.
The highest standards of achievement, behaviour and personal response to gospel values are therefore expected and the steps by which these standards are achieved - study, prayer and self discipline - are all highly valued.
College environment
Bonus Pastor is based on two sites. Years 7, 8 and 9 are taught on the Churchdown site; Years 10 and 11 on the Winlaton site. The two sites are 400 metres apart, a comfortable four-minute walk. The school is currently being re-built on the current school sites, whilst students remain in the old building until completion - due for completion in 2013.Until then, the investment programme ensures the college has up-todate facilities, particularly in ICT and Maths, Design Technology, Science, and Drama. A new state-of-the-art Learning Discovery Centre opened in 2006, and it has a super library resource/ICT centre on the Churchdown site, in addition to six other state-of-the-art ICT suites. Interactive whiteboards are available in almost all classrooms, especially in English, Maths and Science rooms. The playing fields in Whitefoot Lane, adjacent to the school, are used for games and athletics.
The College today
Bonus Pastor College is a voluntary aided, Roman Catholic comprehensive school of around 750 boys and girls in the age range 11-16. In recent years, official KS2-KS4 value-added indicators have consistently put the school in the top 10%-15% of maintained schools.The College works very closely with Northbrook School, Christ the King Sixth Form College and Lewisham College. More recently (Sept 2008) it began working with students from Addey & Stanhope and Prendergast schools, who attend the College 1 day per week to take part in the new IT Diploma course - the first school in Lewisham to offer one of the Government's new Diploma courses (though many others are planned to follow over the next two years).
Student events
Students participate in a wide variety of extra curricular activities including the BBC's Student News Day, Drama, Dance and Music clubs and a wide range of after-school sports activities.Dress code controversy
The College has a dress code that prohibits most forms of jewellery, except for small studs and a watch for girls and boys It has been mis-reported that a student created a controversy by wearing a crucifixCrucifix
A crucifix is an independent image of Jesus on the cross with a representation of Jesus' body, referred to in English as the corpus , as distinct from a cross with no body....
. Careful reading of the article referred to shows that this was in fact a story reported on by one of the school's students in the BBC News Day project, about an incident that took place in another school.
Hoodies, gloves, trousers and black socks for girls remain unacceptable.
College management
Previously Before July 2003 Headteacher: Mr M.A. Cullinane, M.A., Dip. Ed.September 2003 - December 2007 Principal: Patricia Slonecki B.Ed.(Hons), NPQH
January 2008 Principal: Ruth Holden, BA (Hons), MA, NPQH
Vice Principals: Mrs M. O'Donohue, Mrs L. Bridgland
Assistant Principals/Directors: Mr P. Kissoon, Mr G. Heatley, Mr J. Basi, Ms M De Jonge
Head of ICT Development: Ms A Augier
GCSE results
Bonus Pastor Catholic College intends to build upon success, year after year.2003- 55%,
2004- 59%,
2005- 59%,
2006- 59%
2007- 68%
2008- 69%
2009- 72.1%
http://www.lewisham.gov.uk/NewsAndEvents/News/GCSEresults2009.htm
Table: Lewisham’s 2009 GCSE results – percentage of students achieving five or more good GCSEs at grades A*-C. All 2009 figures are provisional.
http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/cgi-bin/performancetables/group_07.pl?Mode=Z&Type=LA&No=209&Base=c&Phase=1&F=1&L=50&Year=07
Table: Lewisham's 2007 Year on Year Comparison
Review the November 2011 Controversy
In November 2011 there was an incident in the school which resulted in the police being called and a letter being sent to all parents in relation to a website (link removed as the website could compromise email accounts)The letter sent to parents was as follows:
4th November 2011
Dear Parents and Carers,
You may have heard from your child, that yesterday at the end of the school day, some leaflets saying derogatory things about the school and the RE Department were being distributed to students as they went home. Please be assured that the matter has been dealt with by the police.
You may have also heard that a website has been set up about the College and in particular, resources used in RE lessons.
For security reasons we advise you not to access the website as we believe that it could compromise your email account.
Yours faithfully
Mrs Ruth Holden - Principal Mrs Pat Barber - Chair of Governors