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HEADTEACHER’S NEWS

School Canteen There have been some significant changes in the menu choices in the school canteen over the past few months. These changes have been implemented in the majority of secondary schools within the borough. The aim is to increase the range of healthy options available to all young people in the borough’s schools. I would appreciate your feedback on how your son or daughter has found these changes and any suggestions you may have for any further improvements.

On a second note, if you have any questions about free school meals and your eligibility to access this service, please do not hesitate to contact the School Office where you will be able to get the support and guidance you may need.

Mr Smith Headteacher

GENERAL NEWS

Student Performance Review Day Appointments Your son/daughter should have brought home a letter detailing their SPRD appointment for Tuesday 10th November. Please bring with you their last report, and their student planner. All students should attend in full school uniform with at least one parent/carer. Please arrive five minutes before your appointment time. If a member of staff is unexpectedly absent on SPRD day; this information will be published on our website to save wasted journeys.

Mrs Whitehead Systems & Data Manager

Year 11 All Year 11s have an appointment with a member of SLT during SPRD. This is to help students to apply for the Sixth Form or to explore other options for Year 12. The Sixth Form application form can be found directly at www.southernconsortium.org.uk or via the JRCS website. We are looking forward to seeing you.

Mrs Wren Director of Sixth Form Child Protection We would like to inform parents of staff responsible for child protection at JRCS: Ms G Kaur, Mr S Christie, Mrs L O’Keefe and Mrs S Staggs. Please don’t hesitate to contact any of the team if you have any concerns.

Thank you.

Ms Kaur Inclusion Manager

Literacy Leaders Competition

Key Stage 3 students were recently given the opportunity to enter the ‘Literacy Leaders Competition’. The task was to use a number

Issue 482 Friday 6th November 2015 issued every Friday Next week is week 2

of key words correctly in a sentence, which is no easy feat. These winning students will work with the staff literacy team to help maintain a culture of literacy in the school through events, Right to Write, Literacy Boards and Tutor Time Activities.”

Mr Cocksworth Teacher of English

Lexia Success

This week we celebrated the success of students who had made a massive amount of progress so far on improving their literacy skills on the Lexia Computer Programme. Congratulations to Alexander Grain (7C), Mehnaz Musthafa (7E) and Faith Johnson (7G) on completing Lexia fully, and to Daniel Jurkin (7C), Wajeeh Waqar (7C) Abibat Popoola (7B) and Lucy Burgum (7H) on making the most amount of progress. They have all been awarded the special Lexia success badge.

Well done!

Miss Hunnisett Lexia Co-ordinator

Design Technology ACHIEVE Days Every year, Year 9 students take part in DT, Food and Geography tasks. The DT task this year was to develop the strongest and most innovative structure using paper tubes, tape and split dowels. Students understood the importance of using triangulation when building structures.

Congratulations to all the winners in each session. The reward trip will be in the Summer term:

Ellie-Mae Marshall 9B, Ciara Jacobson 9A Sheikh Ahmed 9B, Chloe Power 9A Lily Jones 9C, Daisie Gaish 9D Morgan Harrison 9C, Joseph Xavier 9B Gerson Viera 9B, Jason Popov 9B Antonia Ivanova 9B, Casey Margerison 9D Deanna Finn 9C, Rhian Martin 9C Goda Baublyte 9A, Clawton Wetshi 9D Zaine Duffus 9D, Brandon Batchelor 9D

Kiarah Fanning 9C, Laila Ali 9D Joseph McKay 9C, Max Brown 9C Ameer Hamza 9E, Jessica Donnelly 9F Darlene Offei-Kumi 9E, Reece Miller 9F Angel Foster 9H, Glory Nzengo 9G Megan Ivey 9G, Kenan Clarke 9H Bonita Umar 9F, Yanique Peterkin 9E Maheen Niazi 9E, Kacey Tahiri 9F Tasnia Haque 9G, Jennifer Dicko 9G Jay Connolly 9G, Sean Mwangi 9H Nasim Ahmed 9E, Syed Rayhan 9F Flavian Yamvwa 9H and Michael Dziubinski 9H

Miss Banjo Head of DT

Visit to the partner school

As you know, the Smarties Science Club is working in partnership with a school in Poland: Gimnazjum no 4 in Stargard Szczeciński.

Over the half term I visited the Volcano Science Club and ran a workshop with the students. Visit the blog of our Science Club to read more about my trip and see all the photos from the session: http://smartiesjrcs.blogspot.co.uk/

Miss Ochwat Science Department

London Culture/ Volunteering Day 2015

London Culture What do you get if you give 95 Year 12 students a travel card, a tube map, some road maps and a sheet of iconic London Sights? The Year 12 ACHIEVE London Culture Day!!

Setting off from Becontree on the Wednesday morning, most found it a little unusual not to be in a family group with a member of staff. However, this sense of trust and “freedom” proved to be the start of a great day of adventure and fun. Unfortunately, the weather was determined to put a dampener on the day, but the students did a great job!

Students were given the task of navigating the group to a set of iconic London venues/ sights including London Eye, St Paul’s Cathedral, The Golden Hind, Black Taxi Cab, Red Telephone Box and Big Ben.

Groups had to make sure they got pictorial evidence of having been to the various places.

The whole venture is designed to show our students just how close they are to London for trips of fun and looking to the future as a place of employment.

A few of the photos they collected are shared in the newsletter.

Volunteering Next Tuesday sees the second ACHIEVE day for the Sixth Form. It sees a change of focus as four outside charities are coming in to discuss the importance of volunteering and the effect it has on the volunteer and also those volunteered for.

Free The Children will kick off the day with an introduction and also a separate presentation talking about WE Day and an amazing travel opportunity for those who are volunteering.

Little Havens Children Hospice will once again be there and bring home to our students the effect that their time can have on others. Being based in Essex, it brought home how volunteering in the community is so important and enables so many. We are due to follow this up with a visit to their Open Day later in November with the Year 12 Health & Social Care BTEC group.

Daneford Trust offer the chance of volunteering in a gap year type opportunity. This does not need to be a full year it could be a few weeks. The students would get the chance to work in a community in another country and see amazing effects on themselves as well as others.

New Speakers this year will be from the Mark Evison Foundation, offering real funding to our students who wish to design and carry out a project. This will be an interesting story to follow as the projects develop over the year.

Our current Year 12 have an amazing number of students who already do a lot of volunteering both in and out of school. Hopefully this will highlight to them that their time is so well spent and to those who are thinking about volunteering, it will give them a thousand reasons why they should.

Miss Campbell Deputy Director of Sixth Form

JRCS and Monteagle Science Partnership On Tuesday 3rd November 2015, a group of 30 Year 6 students from Monteagle Primary School visited our Science Department to take part in an educational masterclass. The young scientists explored the world of Physics and magnetism and made magnetic slime.

Mr Glover and Miss Ochwat Science Department Attention Year 11s - GCSE Revision For all those who need help structuring and planning revision or for tips and ideas on how to revise, don’t stress! Just come to GCSE Revision Skills Club with me every Friday. Students should meet in the KS4 Pastoral Office at 3:20pm

Look forward to seeing you!

Mrs Eades Pastoral Support Assistant (KS4)

Remember, remember… Return your library books on time. Check your school email every Tuesday to see if you need to return a library book. Failure to do so will result in you receiving a library fine. The library is open all day from 8:00am, including break times.

Happy reading

Ms Osland School Librarian Netball news Congratulations to the Year 7 Netball team who beat Robert Clack 12-2 in their Essex Cup fixture on Wednesday. The girls played brilliantly; keep up the hard work! Next match: Monday 9th November against Chingford, away.

Miss Wright PE Teacher

OFFICE ASSISTANTS

The Office Assistants for the week beginning Monday 9th November: Monday Benjamin Page 8B Tuesday SPRD Wednesday Jasmin Green 8B Thursday Joshua Allen 8B Friday Mia Barrett 8B

Sixth Form

Student Spotlight

This week’s featured student

Jack Fawsitt 12D

Jack achieved an APS of 49.3 and is

currently studying:

A Level - Business Studies

A Level - History

A Level - Economics (Sydney Russell)

IFS (Financial qualification)

English Language B

English Literature B

Maths A

Science (Core) A

Science (additional) A

Geography A*

History A*

Citizenship A

Spanish D

GCSEs achieved in 2015

From the GCSE grades shown above, Jack was a very academically talented JRCS Year 11 student. In September he decided to continue his studies here at JRCS and the Southern Consortium. It was tough for Jack to choose exactly what he wanted to study at first, as “the consortium offered so much variety” but with the advice of teachers and subject tasters experienced in Year 11, he made his final choices. Initially unsure about travelling to a different school, Jack soon settled in and become familiar with his surroundings and new teachers. He believed “if you are really passionate about your subject and it is offered in the consortium, then it is worth travelling for.” Jack’s toptip to all aspiring Year 11 and current Sixth Form students is to ensure you manage your workload and time effectively, to prevent deadlines from being missed and for work to be of the highest quality. This proved to work for Jack during the first VIMA (assessment) week, where the results he achieved were above what he expected.

Jack believes “if you are really passionate about your subject and it is offered in the consortium, then it is worth travelling for.”

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