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Our year 12 students and some of our teachers, with the collaboration of NatWest Bank Gibraltar whose workers volunteered to help us, packed 4 bags for 350 families. It was remarkably rewarding to be able to give back to the community in this way and one of the many highlights of this festive week. A thanks to Bassadone Motors who lends us the space and to Monteverde & Sons who lend us a vehicle. Community effort!
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Our yearly Christmas Door competition saw some lovely creations once again. We asked for the classes to remember to 'reuse' rather than use new resources and points were awarded for the more sustainable creations. The results were as follows:
                        A big THANK YOU to the SEN Department for their wonderful Christmas Fayre which showcased our students' work and our team's dedication. Massive shout-out to our wonderful SNLSAs who truly wanted to make it work and volunteered their time so generously! It was also wonderful to have the Darts Association set up two boards and contribute to our charity drive. Our very own Shane Martinez played all afternoon against all the challengers and was supported by his teammates from the Gibraltar Team. A big shout-out to the Gibraltar Darts Association!
In November Bayside School participated in UK Parliament Week and in the Make Your Mark Ballot. Our year 12 and 13 students wrote some interesting questions and a group of them posed these questions to Mr Speaker as part of a wider discussion.  This year, they asked schools to take part in a brand-new initiative called the ‘Make Your Mark Vote’. This is a consultation for 11 to 18 year olds within the British Overseas Territories to decide the topic their Youth Representatives will raise during the UK Youth Parliament sitting, at a special segment dedicated to the Overseas Territories. These are the results from our school:   Bayside was very lucky to have Sir Lindsay Hoyle himself present the certificates to our students. He was able to spend some time with us and answer our students' questions. We absolutely loved having him visit us and hope he can do so again in the future.  Well done to all the students who competed in this competition and especially the finalists. Well done to the winners!  Great work done by Mr Parral and Mr Mauro to promote better 'men's health' and the Movember movement! Well done to them and thank you to all our students for their support.  Saturday 28th September saw the 20th Clean-Up the World held here in Gibraltar. The teams from Bayside and Westside combined to clean-up the site at Catalan Bay car park. The area had less visible litter so we were able to look deeper beneath the vegetation and the rocks to avoid plastics and other materials from going into the sea. Our young people were great and worked very hard. Every year we give out a number of awards which mean a great deal to the school as we are celebrating people who made a difference to our school, whether as a student or as a teacher. Through these awards their legacy lives on. These awards are:
Max Santos was a Bayside student from September 2017 to June 2023. He studied drama and he loved volleyball. He was looking forward to going to university when he died tragically in a car accident in July 2023. His friends raised funds and bought a glass trophy and asked his teachers if they could arrange for a yearly award for the student who has given the greatest contribution to the creative arts. They also commissioned a portrait which could be hung outside the drama studio. His teachers organised a volleyball tournament and the proceeds were donated to the Gibraltar Volleyball Association. The Santos Shield was won by Max's friends and teammates. The first recipient of the Max Santos Award is Rhys McNeice Celecia from year 10. He is a lovely young man who embodies many of the same qualities which made Max a special young man. The Friends of Gibraltar visited Bayside once again this morning and presented the prizes for the YEar 7 History Project. This year the theme was the 60th anniversary of GBC. It was evident that our young people had truly enjoyed their research and then putting together their projects. We had models, posters, videos amongst other genre being entered by the students. The winning entries were as follows: 1st prize: Leah Duarte 2nd prize: Seth McFarlane, Jaxon Devine and Evan Chacon 3rd prize: Amal Al Labed, Matty Cawdery, Liara Harper, Samuel Caward-Madeira and Nathan King Highly Commended and in no particular order:
Staff and students 'dress up' for Dapper Day in aid of Cancer Relief #cancerreliefgibraltar and in collaboration with #dgrgibraltar. Katelyn Acolina was this year's best dressed student winner and Maria Palma was this year's best dressed member of staff! Great effort. It made a nice change from dressing down but it is not as comfortable!   |
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