Cleeve Park School

Our latest edition of Cleeve Life has been sent home to parents and carers today.

We hope you enjoy reading about what our amazing students and staff have been up to during the Spring Term.

An online version with links can be viewed here - https://rebrand.ly/040425

As a school we would like to celebrate the recent running achievement of Daniel Espinola in Year 8. Daniel is a footballer by choice, but under the encouragement of Head of PE Mr Eydmann (and mum) he entered the 5km Bexley Park Run on 22nd March and achieved a time of 22:52. He was given the overall position of 37th out of 392 entrants.

But in the ‘11-14 Years’ age category he came an impressive 10th. Many of the children he was running against are members of local running clubs and up to 2 years older than him.

We are so proud of Daniel taking up this new challenge (and have our fingers crossed that with his time he might qualify for the London Mini Marathon this year or next) and Mr Edymann will be ensuring he joins our Junior Athletics’ Team!

🔵🔵We need your help! 🔵🔵

VOTE FOR CLEEVE PARK BREAKFAST CLUB

We are delighted to let you know that our application to Tesco Stronger Starts has been successful and our project will be put forward to a customer vote in Tesco stores. Voting will commence in store from the first week in April 2025 until the end of June 2025.

The project is to try and secure extra funding to offer a wider variety of food for our students who attend our free breakfast club and to encourage other students who may be struggling with the cost of living crisis to attend every morning.

HOW YOU CAN HELP

To vote, you will need to make a purchase within one of the named Tesco stores of any value. You will receive one token 🔵 per transaction and it's not necessary to purchase a carrier bag in order to receive a token.

Stores which will vote on your project

Please see below a list of stores taking part in the voting on our project. Feel free to share this list of stores among your friends and family and within our community.

2402 Swingate Lane Express Express SE18 2BZ
3180 Sidcup Superstore DA14 5BN
3256 Longlands Express DA15 7DB
6079 Erith Express DA8 3PZ
6196 Welling Superstore DA16 1TH
6434 Welling Bellegrove Express Express DA16 3QR
6675 Bexley Blackfen Road Express Express DA15 9LU
6699 Northumberland Heath 204-210 Bexley Road Express DA8 3HD
6779 Welling Upper Wickham Express Express DA16 3DX

To check the location of any of the above stores, please go to the Tesco website here: http://www.tesco.com/store-locator/uk🔵🔵

🎸A Generous Donation to Our Music Department! 🎸

We are beyond grateful for an incredible donation of 3 guitars, 2 keyboards, 1 guitar amp, 1 guitar stand, and all the necessary cables! This generous gift will go a long way in supporting the amazing work happening in the Cleeve Park music department.

A huge and heartfelt thank you to the wonderful family who donated these instruments—we truly appreciate your kindness and support!

If you have any instruments at home that need a new place to be loved and played, please don’t hesitate to contact Mr. Oloyédè at [email protected].

Thank you for helping us keep the music alive!

Mr. Idrees Oloyédè
Head of Music

Year 9 7-A-Side Tournament

Thank you to Mr Toney, PE teacher, who took the Year 9 football team away to Bexleyheath Academy for a 7-a-side tournament.

The students preformed really well and progressed all the way to the final, narrowly losing out on the cup in a penalty shootout.

Mr Eydmann, Head of PE

Charlton Under 15 Tournament

See photos of a recent Charlton FA tournament to improve girls engagement with football.

The Metropolitan Police were in attendance with equipment and riot gear and set up challenges for the girls to take part in.

Lily S won the Kick Up Challenge for the day. Overall the girls finished in second place.

Mr Eydmann, Head of PE

Just4Fun

Well done to all of the participants from Cleeve Park who took part in Bexley School's Just4fun event.

This incentive gives students who have not yet represented their school a chance to compete with other schools and do Cleeve proud!

Mr Eydmann, Head of PE

Cleeve Park & CACT Football Academy Open Evening

Attention Year 11 footballers! The CACT Football & Education Academy is still recruiting for its 2025-26 cohort for both Male and Female applicants..

A Post-16 open evening at The Valley is taking place on Thursday 27th March, while an open day is also scheduled in April.

If you are interested in combining your A Level studies with your dreams of becoming of a professional footballer pop along to The Valley and see what is on offer.

Male Session - 5 to 6pm - https://cact.gives/courses/1210/post-16-open-evening-for-year-11-students-male-only-5-6-pm

Female Session - 7 to 8pm https://cact.gives/courses/1218/post-16-open-evening-for-year-11-students-female-only

ACE News

What an amazing gift! Cleeve Park would like to thank professional boxer Louis Greene for his donation of a guitar to one of our students who really found a connection with Louis when he visited the school and spoke to the students about his boxing journey.

We will be watching with interest as Louis's boxing career progresses and look forward to having him come back to Cleeve Park soon to speak about his experiences and achievements.



Louis Greene

Basketball News 🏀

This week we hosted St Columbus School across two basketball fixtures. Our year 7 and 8 teams played against a tough opposition and continue to develop in the local leagues.

Our KS3 Basketball Club meets at 3pm on a Wednesday - speak to Mr Eydmann, Head of PE, if you are interested in joining in.

Flipping Fantastic Pancake Day

On March 4th 2025 (Pancake Day) our canteen will be selling some sweet and savoury delights.

From traditional 'Lemon and Sugar' to 'Chicken Tikka' - all tastes will be catered for.

Congratulations to our Silver Medal winning Boccia Team

On Wednesday our Boccia Team were trying to recreate last years Gold medal winning form at the London Youth Games. The games during the day were played at a very high level and were very challenging - with a very close final game - our students came away with the Silver medal - a fantastic achievement nonetheless!

To see how close the game was take a look at the picture - we were playing 'red'.

Well done to our students

Ms Beaven - TA and Assistant Medical Support Lead






London Youth Games

When we return to school on Monday 24th Feb there will be some changes and additions to our Extra-Curricular Clubs offer to reflect the (hopefully) improving weather - see below.

Lots of exciting activities to take part in - if you have any questions please contact the lead member of staff.

Tate Britain Product Design Visit

On February 11th the year 11 GCSE Product Design class visited the Tate Britain near Westminster as part of their research for their GCSE sketch books.

Students took photographs on their journey from school, traveling by train to Waterloo then walking through Parliament Square. They took photographs inside the gallery that they will then use to support designing for their coursework.

Although it was a very cold day, the sun was shining as you can see from the photograph

Ms Collins
Design and Technology Teacher

The Food of Love.....

Our canteen staff have been 'struck' by Cupid's 💘 arrow and have prepared a Valentines themed lunch a day early on Thursday 13th Feb (not even love can get in the way of Fish & Chip Friday!)

So, share the love on Thursday 🌹

Promoting Healthy Masculinity Workshops

We are looking forward to the 'Voicebox' workshops running today and tomorrow for Year 9 & 10 students as part of their PSHE studies.

‘Voicebox’ is an organisation that has engaged over 20,000 students and collaborated with 105 organisations across the UK to deliver workshops that empower and educate secondary school students.

Their workshops will engage our students in key areas of the PSHE curriculum including understanding gender roles and exploring personal identity and will help them to develop skills in communication and oracy alongside their own views on what masculinity means to them.

This important part of the PSHE curriculum will encourage all of our students to express their own views on issues that arise within social media and the world. They will collaborate, through dialogue, to deepen their knowledge and understanding of the world around them.

Mr O'Halloran
Head of RE & PSHE

Voicebox

Today we welcomed Ravens Wood School to Cleeve Park in a highly participated fixture featuring the Year 7 A-D teams.

Over 100 boys, across both schools, competed in a fantastic display of skill and sportsmanship.

Mr Eydmann, Head of PE




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