St Alban's RC High School

Pictured here right to left captain Jack McSweeney, Jordan Parsons, Lewis Pheasent and Elinor Jones all of year 12 after proudly receiving the award for Torfaen Young Consumers on January 25th at County Hall The Welsh heat will take place March 12/13th.

Congratulations to the St Albans Young Consumer Team of 2012 for once again winning the Torfaen round of the competition on 25 January at County Hall. The team; Jack McSweeney, Jordan Parsons, Elinor Jones and Lewis Pheasant were up against Fairwater High School, Abersychan School and West Mon. The competition consisted of 10 rounds of questions related to consumers issues such as Government, European Union, The Environment and Consumer Law. The team will now represent Torfaen in the Welsh Round at Llandrindnod Wells on March 12/13th.

The December meeting of the friends of St Alban's for Tuesday 13th December has been cancelled due to a clash with the annual Carol Service. Normal meetings will resume in January. Have a happy and holy Christmas.

This year's astronomy event takes place an Tuesday, 29th November starting at 5p.m. and continuing until 8p.m. As well as the usual planetarium display there will be several other activities including displays and workshops, model making and telescopes trained on Jupiter and the moon. This is a free event and everybody is welcome.

In their Design & Technology after school club, A group of 5 year 10 boys have spent the year on a STEM project. James Lane, Sam Cochrane, Adam Smith, James Griffiths-Hawkins and Joel Gallagher designed a device based upon Ultra-Capacitors which would collect waste energy from a motor car to be used in the home. The project centred on the carbon footprint issues of today’s society and was taken to be exhibited and judged at The Big Bang Science and Engineering fair in Swansea’s Waterfront Museum this July. Here it picked up a CREST award for the boys.

Congratulations to our Miss O'Keefe and her team of gardeners who almost swept the board in this year's schools in bloom competition by winning four out of the five categories. They won the Schools in Bloom title as wel winning the best garden, best vegetable plot and best use of recycled materials. They were runners-up in the poster competition.
The use of recycled materials section was won with the help of Mr Tucker and his wonderful pop-bottle greenhouse which still needs more empty 2 litre soft drink bottles to aid its completion.