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CALENDAR - SUMMER 2008

APR

 
Mon 14 Lourdes Sponsored Walk for Mount Students
Tues

15

Staff INSET and boarders return

Wed

16

Term starts

Thu

17

GCSE Art Exam (all day)

Boarders’ Outing: WWE Smackdown (Sheffield Arena)

7.00 pm

Fri

18

A level Spanish Orals

GCSE Art Exam (all day)

10+ GB Athletes training weekend (18-20th)

Start of Term Mass (3.30 pm)

Sat

19

Rounders v Read (Y08 8NL): U15, U14, U13, U12 (A),

depart 12.05 pm

Senior Girls’ Tennis Training (H) 12.15-2.30 pm

Cricket v Lincoln Minster: 1st XI (H) at 11.00 am

Cricket House matches: Y7 Claver v Southwell,

Campion v Claver at 2.00 pm

Cricket House matches: Middle School

Campion v Southwell at 12.15 pm

2DASH Mini-league U11-U15 at Derby

Sun

20

                                 5th Sunday of Easter

Boarders’ Outing: Meadowhall (1.00 pm)

Mon

21

                                                           St Anselm

Charities Group Meeting (1.00 pm) (Chaplain’s office)

Tue

22

Rhetoric Line Mass       Deanery Clergy meeting (am)

Schools Army Liaison Officer: Lt Col R Christopherson

(10.00 am)

Parents’ Association Meeting (7.30 pm)

Wed

23

Figures Line Mass                    St George of England

Athletics v Ampleforth and Worksop College:

Senior/Inter Girls and Boys (H) at 2.35 pm

Boarders’ St George’s Day Feast (6.00 pm)

Thu

24

Poetry Line Mass

Air Experience Flying at RAF Church Fenton

(9.00 am – 4.00 pm)

Boarding Community Assembly (6.45 pm)

Fri

25

                                                St Mark, evangelist

Duke of Edinburgh Expedition (25th/26th/27th)                

6.30 pm AS Drama Practical Exam, rehearsals throughout the day (Theatre)

Sat

26

Intermediate Girls Athletics Training (H) 12.15-2.30 pm

Rounders v St Anselms: U14B, U13, U12A&B (H)

at 2.00 pm

Tennis v Worksop (S80 3AP): 1st VI, 2nd VI (A)

at 2.15 pm, depart 1.00 pm

Cricket v Ratcliffe: 1st, U15, U13 (H) at 2.00 pm

Cricket v Ratcliffe (LE7 4SG): 2nd, U14, U12 (A)

at 2.00 pm

Jazz Night in Theatre (7.30 pm)

Sun

27

                                            6th Sunday of Easter

Boarding Community Outing – National Media Museum & Leeds City Centre (10.30 am)

Lourdes Preparation Day in Theatre

(12.00 noon – 5.30 pm)

Mon

28

A level French Orals 

Boarders’ Food Committee (1.30 pm)

Tue

29

Rudiments Line Mass             St Catherine of Siena

A2/AS Art Exam

Wed

30

Elements Line Mass

A2 Art Exam

Cricket v Birkdale: 1st XI (H) at 2.35 pm

Bellarmine Society (7.00 pm)

MAY

 

 

Thu

1

Grammar Line Mass                St Joseph the worker

A2 Art Exam

PE GCSE Moderation at MSM

Junior Mathematical Challenge (Y7/8)

Heads of Department Meeting (4.30 pm)

Fri

2

Syntax Line Mass                   St Athanasius

Confirmation Retreat (all day)         First Friday, Casuals

Boarders’ Outing: Half a Sixpence (Sheffield Lyceum) (6.30 pm)

Sat

3

                              SS Philip & James , Apostles

Tennis v St Peter’s: 1st VI, 2nd VI (H) at 2.00 pm

Rounders v St Peter’s: U15, U14, U13, U12 (H) at 2.00 pm

Cricket v Birkdale: U12, U13 (H) at 11.00 am

Senior House Cricket (50 overs) at 11.00 am

Boarders’ Outing: Cinema (6.30 pm)

Sports Persons Dinner for New Zealand and Fiji

(Refectory 7.30 pm)

Sun

4

Parish Day                      Ascension of The Lord

Mon

5

Rudiments Line Mass

GCSE French Orals                 Food Committee (1.30 pm)

Tue

6

Figures Line Mass                

GCSE French Orals           KS3 Mental Maths & Maths 1 & 2

Sports Teams Summer Photographs (12.00 noon)  

NE Derbyshire Athletics Trials at Tupton (S42 6LG)

depart 3.00 pm

Wed

7

GCSE French Orals        KS3 English (Writing)

HMC Athletics, Senr 12+13, Inter 10+11, Jnr (8 only)

(boys and girls) at Gateshead (NE10 0EF),

depart 7.30 am

Thu

8

GCSE Spanish Orals

 KS3 English (Reading) + Shakespeare

Air Experience Flying, RAF Church Fenton

(9.00 am – 4.00 pm)

Salsa Night for Lourdes (7.30-10.30 pm)

Fri

9

Elements Line Mass

GCSE Spanish Orals                 KS3 Science 1&2

Poetry Introduction to Mentoring (Theatre) (3.20 pm)

Middle School Ball, 6.45 for 7.15 pm, pickup at

Pineapple Tower 10.30 pm

Sat

10

Senior Girls Tennis /Athletics Training, Inter Girls & Junior Girls Rounders/Athletics Training (12.30-3.00pm)

Cricket v Welbeck: 1st XI, 2nd XI (H) at 2.00 pm

Cricket v Foremarke Hall (DE65 6EJ): U12, U13 (A)

at 2.00 pm, depart 12.30 pm

Boarders’ Pirate Party (Theatre) (7.00 pm)

Sun

11

    

Mon

12

                                                 St Pancras

English Schools Cup Week Yrs 7+8/Yrs 9+10

Figures Geography Fieldwork, Holderness Coast

Confirmation Mass (7.00 pm), Bishop John Rawsthorne

– Best Dress

Tue

13

                                         Our Lady of Fatima

Study leave starts for Syntax (4.30 pm)         

Girls Tennis v Hymers: U13 VI, U12 VI (H) at 3.15 pm

Open Evening 7.00 pm, buses as normal

Wed

14

                                                        St Matthias, Apostle

CCF Equipment Inspection (9.00 am – 12.00 noon)

Senior Pre-Sports Day Events

Regional 20:20 Cricket (H): MSM v Worksop (12.00 noon),

MSM v Birkdale (3.00 pm), Birkdale v Worksop (6.00 pm)

Study leave starts for Poetry (4.30 pm)

Thu

15

Inter and Junior Pre-Sports Day Events

Fri

16

Training weekend at RAF Syerston (16th-18th)

Bassetlaw District Athletics Championships

Zambia Awareness Day and Mwabuka Fun Night in

Theatre (7.00 pm)

Sat

17

Cricket v Denstone (ST14 5HN): 1st XI (A) at 11.30 am,

depart 9.00 am

Cricket v Denstone: 2nd XI, U15 (H) at 2.00 pm     

Cricket v Denstone (ST14 5HN): U14, U13, U12 (A)

at 2.00 pm, depart 12.05 pm

Junior and Intermediate – ISA Huntington Stadium (YO32 9JS) (A) Girls Athletics (12.00 noon), depart 9.00 am

Girls Tennis v Silcoates: 1st VI, 2nd VI (H) at 2.00 pm

Rounders v Silcoates: U14, U12 (H) at 2.00 pm

Sun

18

 

                                                         Most Holy Trinity

2DASH Young Athletes League Match 1

U13-U17 (venue tbc)

Boarders’ Outing – Rugby League, Huddersfield Giants v

Hull K.R. (1.00 pm)

Mon

19

Rounders v Barlborough: U12B (H) at 4.30 pm

Tue

20

                                            St Bernadine of Siena

Grammar Parents’ Evening (6.00 pm), no activities,

early buses 4.35 pm

Wed

21

Cricket v MCC (H) at 11.30 am

Cricket v Worksop: 2nd XI (H) at 2.35 pm

Thu

22

Air Experience Flying at RAF Church Fenton

(9.00 am – 4.00 pm)   

Field Day, Grammar & Poetry (9.00 am – 4.30 pm)

Academy Play Rehearsal

Fri 23

Study leave starts for Rhetoric at 4.30 pm

Early buses 4.35 pm

Academy Concert in Memorial Chapel (7.30 pm)

Sat

24

Grand Academy.

Academy Mass 10.00 am – Rt Rev John Arnold

Prize Giving 11.15 am

Drama Production 1.00 pm

Sports Day 2.15 pm

The half term holiday begins at 4.30 pm, after Sports Afternoon

Academy Ball 8.00 pm

Sun

25

Boarders Depart                                    Corpus Christi

Mon

26

 

Tue

27

 

Wed

28

 

Thu

29

 

Fri

30

Sheffield Music School           Most Sacred Heart of Jesus

Sat

31

                                  Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

JUNE

 

 

Sun

1

Boarders return                           9th Sunday of the year

2DASH Young Athletes League Match 2

U13-U17 (venue tbc )

Mon

2

School restarts

Internal Exams Upper Elements to Grammar (2nd-6th)     

Tue

3

                                            St Charles Lwaga

Governors’ Strategic & Development Committee Meeting

 in Jesuit Library (3.00 pm)

Wed

4

 

Thu

5

                                                                   St Boniface

Governors Education Committee Meeting (4.30 pm)

Poetry return from study leave

Parents’ Association Meeting (7.30 pm)

Fri

6

First Friday, Casuals                                      St Norbert

Valley School Track Booking (12.30-3.30 pm)

Sat

7

Girls Tennis v Ratcliffe: U15VI, U14 VI (A) at 1.30 pm

Rounders v Ratcliffe (LE7 4SG): U13, U12 at 1.30 pm (A)

Cricket v Newcastle under Lyme: U14, U12 (H)

at 1.00 pm, depart 10.30 am

Cricket v Newcastle under Lyme (ST5 1DB):

1st XI, U15, U13 (A) at 1.00 pm

Sun

8

                                        10th Sunday of the year

Boarders’ Outing: Laser Quasar (1.00 pm)    

Mon

9

Internal Exams Feedback Week

Boarders’ Food Committee (1.30 pm)

New Zealand & Fiji Sports Tour Meeting in

Theatre (6.30 pm)

Tue

10

                                                  St Barnabas, Apostle

Charities Group Meeting (1.00 pm) Chaplain’s Office

House Cricket U13 Claver v Southwell at 2.35 pm

Governors F&GP Meeting (4.30 pm)

Wed

11

Girls Tennis v Worksop: U15 VI, U14 VI (H) at 4.30 pm

Thu

12

Boarding Community Assembly (6.45 pm)

Fri 13

                                                   St Anthony of Padua

Valley School Track Booking (12.30 - 2.30 pm)

Lower School Ball (7.00 for 7.30 pm) pickup at Pineapple Tower 10.00 pm

Sat

14

Catholic Men’s Society Retreat (14/15th)

Duke of Edinburgh Expedition (14th/15th)

Tennis v Pocklington (YO42 2NJ): 1st VI, 2nd VI (A)

at 2.30 pm, depart 12.15 pm

Rounders v Pocklington (YO42 2NJ): U15, U14, U13, U12 (A) at 2.30 pm, depart 12.15 pm

Cricket v Stonyhurst (BB7 9PZ): 1st XI, 2nd XI, U15 (A)

at 12.30 pm, depart 9.30 am

Cricket v Lincoln Minster: U14, U13, U12 (H) at 12.30 pm

Sun

15

                                                   11th Sunday of the year

Boarders’ Outing – BBC Good Food Show (10.30 am)

Mon

16

                                                       Figures Line Mass

LAMDA Exams (Drama Studio)     

Geography Fieldwork (7MBM, 7MM)

Tue 17

Grammar Line Mass

NED Rounders at Eckington (S21 4GN):

U13, U12 (A) at 4.15 pm

Wed

18

Geography Fieldwork (7MK)

Cricket v Netherthorpe (S43 3PU): 1st XI (A)

at 2.30 pm, depart 2.00 pm

Chesterfield Secondary Schools Athletics

(11.30 am – 4.00 pm)

Figures Parents’ Evening (6.00 pm), no activities,

buses leave 4.35 pm

Thu

19

Spanish Exchange Arrives

Mentor Training (all day)               Rudiments Line Mass

Girls Tennis v Trent: U15 VI, U14 VI (H) at 2.35 pm

Rounders v Trent: U15/U14  (H) at 2.35 pm

Boys Athletics v Silcoates & QEGS Yrs 7, 8, 9 +10 (H)

4.30 pm

Higher Education Evening (Theatre) (7.00 pm)

Fri

20

Elements Line Mass                       St Alban         

Valley School Track Booking (12.30 – 2.30 pm)

Governors Meeting (4.30 pm)

Activity weekend RAF Syerston Gliding (TBC) depart in evening

Leavers’ Dinner (7.30 for 8.00 pm)

Sat

21

                                       St Aloysius Gonzaga SJ

Barlborough Hall Speech Day and Ball    

Tennis v Ampleforth: 1st VI, 2nd VI (H) at 2.00 pm     

Rounders v Ampleforth: U15, U14 (H) at 2.00 pm

Cricket v Read Drax (YO8 8NL): 1st XI, U15, U14 (H)

at 12.05 pm U12 (H) at 9.30 am,

U13 (A) at 12.05 pm, depart 10.30 am

Boarders’ Outing - Cinema

Sun

22

Parish Day                            12th Sunday of the year

2DASH Young Athletes Match 3 U13-U17 (venue tbc)

Mon

23

Rudiments Camp (23rd/24th)

New Intake Induction Day (9.00 am – 3.30 pm)

Tue

24

Captains’ Training (all day)  Nativity of St John the Baptist

Athletics: Boys and Girls Y7+8 v Ranby (H) at 3.30 pm

Girls Tennis v Bradford G.S: U15 VI (H) at 4.30 pm 

U13 (6 pairs) at 2.45 pm

Wed

25

Air Experience Flying, RAF Church Fenton

(9.00 am – 4.00 pm)

Cricket v Netherthorpe: 1st XI (H) at 2.35 pm

Thu 26

Poetry Higher Education Day

Opro visit (10.45 am)

Boys & Girls Athletics v Worksop College

Yrs 9 +10 (H) 4.30 pm

Fri 27

Poetry University visit - Nottingham University

Dronfield and Eckington Primary Schools Athletics

Cricket Leavers XI v Headmaster's XI

Junior Concert in Theatre (7.30 pm) - all day rehearsals

Spanish Exchange departs

Sat

28

              Opening of the Jubilee Year of the Apostle Paul

Adventure Training Camp, Windermere (28th June – 5th July)

Interhouse Rounders Fixtures: U15, U14, U13, U12 at 1.00 pm

Sun

29

 SS Peter & Paul (Anniversary of the election of

Pope Benedict XVI)

Boarders’ Outing – Rufford Abbey Country Park (1.00 pm)

Parents’ Association – Parents and Students Wimbledon Day

Mon

30

Heads of Department Meeting (4.30 pm)

JULY

 

 

Tue

1

 

Wed

2

Year 5 BHS Taster day at MSM

Reception for parents at 3.30 pm

Thu

3

                                               St Thomas, Apostle

End of year School Mass (3.30 pm)  

Fri

4

Casuals Day               Lourdes Pilgrimage (4th – 11th July)

Sat

5

RAF Summer Camp (5th – 12th July) RAF Halton

 CCF Camp (Army) Wathgill, N Yorks (5th-12th)

Cricket v St Anselm’s (DE45 1DP): U13, U13-12B (A)

at 2.00 pm, depart 12.30 pm

Cricket v St Anslem’s: U12 at 2.00 pm (H)

2 DASH Mini-league U11-U15 at Derby

Sun

6

                                    14th Sunday of the year

Boarders’ Outing: Meadowhall (1.00 pm)   

Mon

7

House Treat (periods 9 & 10)

Tue

8

End of School year

Wed

9

Staff INSET.  Boarders depart

Thu

10

 

Fri

11

Lourdes Pilgrimage return

Valley School Track Booking (1.00-3.00 pm)

2DASH Young Athletes League match 4 U13-U17 venue tbc

– Sunday 20th July

Sports Tour to New Zealand & Fiji: Wednesday

23rd July – Tuesday 12th August

Tour Training: Thursday 17th July & Friday 18th July

(9.00 am – 1.00 pm) both days


Autumn term 2008

Monday 1st September : Staff INSET

Tuesday 2nd September : Preparation Day.  All boarders return

Wednesday 3rd September : Term begins

Friday 17th October :         Half term

Saturday 18th October : Boarders depart

Monday 27th October : Staff INSET and boarders return

Tuesday 28th October        : School restarts

Friday 12th December       : Term ends

Saturday 13th December : Boarders depart

 

 

Spring term 2009

Monday 5th January : Staff INSET and boarders return

Tuesday 6th January :  Term starts

Friday 13th February :       Half term

Saturday 14th February : Boarders depart

Sunday 22nd February : Boarders return

Monday 23rd February : School restarts

Friday 27th  March : Term ends

Saturday 28th March :       Boarders depart

Sunday 12th April : Easter