St Bonaventure's

This month, we celebrated CAFOD's Family Fast Day. We encouraged students to donate the cost of a school lunch and have a simple bowl of soup instead. This for us was to stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters around the world, whilst living out the virtue of charity.

We are very proud of the students that gave up their lunch break to serve others

We had the opportunity to not only take a group of students to Flame, the biggest Catholic Youth Conference in the UK. We also watched some of our students perform on stage at Wembley, in front of 8,000 people.

Flame 2023 led young people in prayerful reflection with great depth, grace and poignancy.

A huge thanks to Miss Baidoo who provided unlimited support and guidance to the St Bon's and St Angela's 6th Form students, which prepared them for the powerful and poignant drama they delivered as part of the opening Liturgy.

On Friday 3rd March, we had a great selection of musical performances at lunchtime in the Cardinal Manning Hall with the drum kit, singing, ukulele and piano.

Well done to all those that performed so beautifully. All performers had a great time together with a lovely audience.

We’re looking forward to the next musical lunchtime!

Our Year 10 TELCO team collaborated with several other institutions to campaign for the Mayor of London's 'London Living Campaign'. We asked several businesses at the Docklands to be accredited London Living Wage employers. We are passionate about this campaign, particularly during this difficult financial time.

We took 60 students to see the Lion King. It was the first time seeing a live theatre performance for many of our students and they thoroughly enjoyed it!

They especially loved how realistic the costumes were as well as the amazing sets and scenery.

Members of our School Council and Form Reps recently took part in a focus group session with Emma and Lindsay from the Association for Young People's Health .

St Bon’s was selected as one of two Newham schools to participate in the pupil engagement session to talk about food insecurity and the scope for intervention. Our students were fully engaged and impressed our visitors with their invaluable insights.

Our Year 7 and 8 students have been working on their ceramic pinch pots in Art Club. They were able to paint their dried pots.

Earlier in March, a group of Year 7 and 8 students attended the Sinfonietta concert in the Royal Festival Hall. Schools from across London were involved in composing music from ideas set by established musicians.

Many schools attended this concert where they heard professionals performing their compositions. They also had the opportunity of hearing school bands sing and play with audience participation. It was a fantastic afternoon!

Instead of exchanging Christmas cards, staff members raised £150 to buy a locally sourced Marvellous Moo Cow from CAFOD along with training on how to care for it.