Mayoral Debate Team 2023

On Wednesday 29th November a group of four of our KS3 students, participated in the annual Mayoral Debate Competition at Broxbourne Council Chambers, delivering their speech on what they want the Borough of Broxbourne to be like in another fifty years time and how they should achieve this.

They competed against other local schools and presented their speech to a packed audience of parents & carers, the Mayor and Councillors. Whilst on this occasion, they were placed third, all of the students spoke extremely eloquently, passionately and with clear understanding of the topic and showed excellent leadership skills. We are all very proud of their achievement in working hard as a team on this project and producing what was a quality speech together. Very well done to Gabriella, Isaac, Megan and Mason.

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Year 7/8 Girls’ Football

Well done to the Year 7/8 girls’ football team who played their first match in a friendly against Goffs Academy.

With the majority of the team having never played in a competitive football match before, they showed great determination, excellent sportsmanship and were fantastic representatives for the school. Congratulations to all the team: Itohan, Kheira, Ruby, Michaela, Kayla, Filomena, Andra, Shumaila, Eva, Sofia, Frankie, Selin, Alexia, Rihanna and Yasmin.

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Modern Foreign Languages

Last week a group of Year 9 French and Spanish students participated in the National Language Competition organised by GCHQ, one of the UK’s intelligence agencies.

 

The competition aimed to inspire language learning in schools from around the UK. Over the course of five days, students worked in teams of four to score points by tackling a variety of fun, language-themed challenges hosted on an online platform. The event saw students decoding words and phrases involving lesser known languages and even some made up languages! The challenges really got the students thinking and were very tough but they enjoyed the experience. Team “Great kind barnacle” with Talliah, Jaden, Anusha and Umut scored the highest within St Mary’s …congratulations!!

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St Mary’s Chefs

Yr7s culminating their skills on dough making, by developing the basic scone to a Pizza Scone; the top baker for this activity was Katie.