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THE KING JOHN SCHOOL
NEWSLETTER
NO:71 OCTOBER 2017
Student Voice at The King John School
Student voice has had an early start this year with tutor representatives being elected in the second week of school and applications for the executive committee coming in the first few weeks of September. The student voice committee and students at The King John School have had a successful few years with achievements between 2014 and 2016: Student voice elections (each year) Anti-bullying poetry competition during Anti-Bullying
Week Young People of the Year (YOPEY) Awards Jack Petchey Awards for students Gospel choir performed at the Royal Opera House Sixth form debate club Sixth form magazine Our world assembly
So far this year student voice has elected the executive committee, voted for Jack Petchey winners, elected tutor repre-sentatives, organised voting and suggestions, raised the profile of student voice, discussed and voted for youth council, voted for the core values project in year 7, taken surveys for wellbeing in the school and coordinated roles for Parliament Week taking place in November. The student council are excited to host Parliament Week in November. During the week year 9’s and 10’s will be taking part in a political debate (Brexit), year 7’s and 8’s will be taking part in a political creative writing competition with the best entries being read out. Then on Friday 19 November we have the MP for Benfleet Rebecca Harris joining us for question time where our year 11’s, 12’s and 13’s will be asking political questions. Staff and students have been proactive in providing all the students at The King John School a voice.
Student voice surveys Hopefield Animal Sanctuary trip Charity shoe box appeal (16 boxes made by stu-
dent voice) Jack Petchey Speak Out Challenge Jack Petchey regional final hosted by KJS Catering: student voice executive members in-
volved in taster sessions
MESSAGE
BOARD From Dr Margaret Wilson,
Headteacher
CONTENTS Student Voice Pg 1
Message Board Pg 2
School News Pg 3 Year 7 Pg 3 Modern Foreign Languages Pg 4 Careers Information Advice & Guidance Pg 5 KJS Notices Pg 6-7 School production Pg 8
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Welcome to the first newsletter of the 2017/18 academic year. The purpose of the newsletter is to celebrate the suc-cesses of the school and individual students and to share news on what is happening in the school. It has been a very busy half term. We held a very success-ful open day and a sixth form open evening, both of which were very well attended. I am delighted with the increas-ing popularity of our sixth form which is going from strength to strength. In addition we held a number of tours for parents for 2018 entry and our entrance exam attracted nearly 600 applicants! It was wonderful that so many stu-dents gave up their time to help at these events. They real-ly are amazing ambassadors for the school and I always feel so proud of all the positive feedback I receive. To ensure the safety of all our students I would once again ask parents not to park on the yellow or zigzag lines outside the school or obstruct the pavement when dropping off or collecting their child. Your assistance in this would be greatly appreciated. Finally, a reminder that details of all upcoming events are available to view on the calendar tab of the school website.
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SCHOOL NEWS The Jack Petchey Foundation 'If you think you can, you can' The Jack Petchey awards evening will take place on Wednesday 13 December 2017 at The Paddocks on Canvey Island. All students who have won a JP award from January to November 2017 are invited to attend the celebration evening with their fami-ly. Mrs Thomson will be sending out a letter to all our winners after half term. September winner: Brogan Wilson 9-09 Brogan is a warm and kind hearted person who always helps those in need. She has huge amounts of courage and always faces her fears and doubts head on. She is always happy, hard-working and resilient and attends lots of extra-curricular activi-ties such as swimming, horse-riding, helping with the horses and the younger students that attend the riding school. She also trains at Running Well in Chelmsford and does a great deal of charity work including helping Cancer Research, Macmillan and animal charities. Brogan decided to buy an online maths sub-scription with the JP money. October winner: Rachel Luff 11-08 Rachel is a fantastic student who always gives her all in every-thing. She has gained many awards throughout her schooling some of which include; 100% attendance, year 7 french award, year 8 food award, year 10 food preparation and nutrition award. She is a literacy leader, English ambassador, was a year 10 charity rep and is now a prefect. Rachel has gained many other achievements inside and outside of school and is a huge inspiration to her peers. Rachel has decided to buy equipment for the food department. Any parents, carers, students or staff wishing to put forward a student for a JP award must complete an application form and hand into Mrs Thomson. This will then go to student voice who will decide who is put forward. Application forms are at student services, both LRC’s and the staff room.
YEAR 7
The school has four ICT resources useful to parents. The main website www.thekjs.essex.sch.uk This contains general information about the school and other information useful to parents containing links to some of the other resources listed below. The King John School VLE www.kingjohnvle.co.uk students and parents can access this resource to support students’ learning including homework, study programmes and revision materials. Parents can access the VLE using a generic password as provided below: Username: kjsparent Password: parent SIMS SLG/ SIMS Parent App. These resources allow you to view student reports, timetables, check attendance and view behav-iour and rewards points. You will need a username and password to access the SLG and will use your existing social media account (Google, Microsoft, Facebook or Twitter) to log in to the SIMS Parent App. If you don’t know how to access these resources please email [email protected] Parents Evening Booking System https://parents-booking.co.uk/thekjs This allows you to book appointments for parents eve-nings at the school. You will not need a login for this as the sys-tem uses your details to authenticate you.
ICT SYSTEMS
Over this last week year 7 and 8 have come together to contrib-ute to the Harvest Appeal for the Southend based homeless char-ity, HARP. All the items that were collected have been given to HARP, which will help with the provision of hot meals for those visiting their centres. Last year's appeal generated enough items to fill two storage containers and following the generous contri-butions from our students this year, it is likely that this will again be repeated.
Year 7 & 8 students presenting food donations to Prakash from HARP.
“I have enjoyed being a part of this because all the food is going to a good cause, giving the homeless food to help them survive.” Ellie Quinn 8-06.
“I enjoyed donating food to Harp because it all goes to charity” Lewis Wyatt 7-01.
“I think this is a great thing to do because you have things which the less fortunate do not have” Jack Wood 8-06.
“I liked being involved in Harp because I know that I would go to homeless people at Christmas and make them happy” Kacey Mottershead 8-06.
“I think this a good thing to do because it can help people who are poor and need help.” Lily Parsons 7-01.
CHARITY FOCUS
YEAR 7 SUCCESS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
Well done to Leah Estava, Maddy Collins, Ruby Amestoy, Lily Parsons and Bella Casson, for all auditioning successfully and getting into Dance Troupe. More auditions are taking place if any students are interested.
Well done to Isabella Butcher for representing Essex in Skiing.
Dennis Marks in 7.12 attended a British Judo competition on this month at High Wycombe Judo Centre and won a gold medal.
Maddie Collins came 1st in a talent show for singing.
Lily Parsons entered a street dance competition and came 2nd for her duo performance and 1st place for her team perfor-mance.
Fern Salter was successful in auditioning for this year’s FA Cup advert.
This half term winners for the tutor group quiz was 707.
S house have accumulated the most points out of K,J&S with an impressive 400pts.
Year 7 so far have raised nearly £300 for our chosen charity,
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STUDENT SUCCESSES!
Congratulations to the following students for being nominated by
their peers or teachers as student of the month for their year in
modern foreign languages.
Congratulations to the following students who sat an additional language GCSE: Year 9 Selin Yildiz and Niyazi Sahan both got a grade A* in their Turkish GCSE this summer. Gabriela Pinto-Pereira also got an A* in Portuguese. Victoria Walsh-Herranz an A* in Spanish.
Year 10 Alina Gupta got a grade A* in Russian.
QUALIFICATION IN ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE If a student is interested in taking a qualification in their home language, please see Ms Fordyce in UC3. Even though they may speak this language at home, they will have to revise, sit exams with an unknown examiner along with the year 11 students and prepare.
MFL TRIPS KS3 French & History Trip to St Omer This trip will take place from 4-7 May and letters have been given to year 7 and 8 students. Students will be staying at Chateau d’Ebblingham, a renovated manor house set in rural surroundings just outside the town of St Omer. They will visit numerous historic landmarks as well as being set various language tasks with the aim of raising the pupil’s confi-dence and improving their command of French. If your child is interested in attending and did not collect a trip letter, please contact Ms Fordyce to see if places are still available.
VOCAB EXPRESS
Vocab Express is a great learning re-source that allows all students to re-vise every week exam vocabulary us-ing their personalised log in. These are the vocab express top achievers. Keep up the excel-lent work!
MODERN FOREIGN
LANGUAGES
September
Year French Spanish
7 Sam Lodge Amalie Brown
8 Juanita Agbi Matthew Langley
9 Josh Zola Sam Hamlyn
10 Megan Adams Charles Weekes
11 Oladeji Fayefunmi Grace Comber
12 Yasmin Senankya N/A
13 Abigail Abiona Amelia Farmer
Year 9 French Jessica Coward
Chelsea Selukwe
Anya Isaacs
Luke Thompson
Somiya Aitmarri
Connor Polyblank
William Clay
Pia Legg
Isobel Arnold
Year 9 Spanish Hanna Babrakar
Kiera Bott
Shyla Morgan
Annalise Bennett
Tamsen Comber
Beau Hockley
Ella Pieniazek
Kaia Garlick
Megan Hudson
Faiz Rahim-Shah
Rhea Slater
Samuel Davies
Year 10 French Luke Arnold
Melody Agyakwa
Christina Federmann
Savesh Caleya Chetty
Tomini Alaran
Katie Askew
Thomas Watts
Megan Adams
Poppy Cannon
Sophie Painter
Natasha Hart
Michael Cook
Year 10 Spanish Abby Gutteridge
Oliver Crancher
Isabel Lee
Emily-Jayne Smith
Libby Absolom
Emmanuel Adekoya
Thomas Stubbington
Joe Blackabey
Remi Braham
Maddie Stenton
Nancy Bridges
Leah Byrne
Rheea Dumur
Alexander Mcaspurn
Chloe Safo-Frimpong
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CAREERS EDUCATION INFORMATION
ADVICE & GUIDANCE
Advance Notice
Apprenticeship support and guidance for year 13 students:
Fiona Marriage and Louise Fry from the Apprentice Promotion & Brokerage Hub, along with Lisa Sunmonu from the National Apprenticeship Scheme will be taking 2 sessions with year 13 students not wishing to go to University. The sessions will give advice of how to register and find an apprenticeship. The ses-sions are on the 6 and 13 December from 1.30pm to 3.15pm in UA10 and the Sixth Form LRC.
November – An evening with BT at Colchester FC conference facilities:
BT are offering a huge number of apprenticeships including 5 degree apprenticeships.
ECC are organising this event at Colchester FC in November (time and date to be confirmed). Parents and students from KJS are invited to attend.
Below are the degree apprenticeships that are being offered:
Research & Innovation Degree - entry requirements ABB
TV & Media Degree - entry requirements BCC
Network Engineering - entry requirements BCC
Software Engineering - entry requirements TBC
Cybersecurity - entry requirements TBC
Contact: [email protected] for more information.
January 16 – Billericay School are holding a Finance Seminar from 6pm. More details to follow.
January 18 – Fiona Marriage and Louise Fry from the Apprentice Promotion & Brokerage Club will be attend-ing our year 13 parents evening and parents will be able to book an appointment via the school IT booking sys-tem.
Year 11 ONLY
February 1 – Fiona Marriage and Louise Fry from the Apprentice Promotion & Brokerage Club will be attend-ing our year 11 parents evening. Parents can book as above.
Schroders
Schroders re inviting Sixth Former's (Year 12/13) to come along to the Tech Careers Event on Wednesday 25 October from 11.15am to 2.15pm at Schroders, 31 Gresham Street, London, EC2V 7QA (closing date Friday 20 October)
Ernst & Young LLP: Their apprenticeships are open and are on a first come first served basis.
Lloyd’s of London: Apprenticeships opens 1 November 2017. However, please check their website regularly.
London Transport: Offer a huge number of apprenticeships – See Mrs Jeffery for more details.
Useful website providers for apprenticeships KS4 & KS5:
www.glassdoor.co.uk www.indeed.co.uk www.milkround.com www.stepforward.uk.com www.careermap.co.uk www.londonapprenticeship.co.uk www.gov.uk www.apprenticeshipconnect.co.uk Employment and Skills Fair at the Excel Centre - 24 & 25 No-vember 2017
47 Year 13 students will be travelling to the Excel Centre on Fri-day 24 November. They will have the opportunity to attend the largest Employment and Apprenticeship Fair in the country. There will be over 35,000 vacancies. Students will be able to talk to young people who are employed in many different sectors, which will support their careers pathway.
Future events: Year 12 only
Southend Medic seminar on Tuesday 7 November 2017.
Southend Hospital also offer a 2/3 days’ work placement, you will need to apply on line.
South Hospital Practical day on Saturday 2 December 2017. This involves working in a practical environment with junior doctors and a session on how to prepare for your personal statement. See Mrs Jeffery for paperwork.
Imperial College: Considering a career in medicine
Medical day £99.00 contact www.premed.or.uk Age range 14-18 2 December 2017 Pilots Career Live:
London Heathrow on Saturday, 4 November. Register your inter-est asap.
www.pilotcareernews.com/live/
Work Placements - Calling all parent/carers.
Many of our sixth formers are keen to gain valuable experiences in the work place in order to support their University application and/or Apprenticeship/Employment pathway.
The government has made it much easier for employers to take on sixth formers and with minimum paper work involved.
If you or your employer is able to support us in offering a week’s placement for a year 12 or 13 student please contact Mrs Jeffery on [email protected]
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KJS NOTICES
So, 95% attendance might sound good but it impacts significantly on your child’s chances of achieving well. Every day counts!
What is the most important thing you can do? Ensure your child/ward attends school regularly. Every student at the King John School is expected to maintain an attendance level of 98% and above. It is the responsibility of everyone in our school community – parents, students, staff and governors to ensure they achieve this. Therefore, we monitor and review the attendance of all students constantly and have introduced a new reward system for students this year; PLATINUM – 98% and above Well done, you are maintaining an excellent overall level of attendance. Keep it up, and always aim for 100% GOLD – Between 96%-97.9% You are maintaining a satisfactory level of attendance. Being in most/all of your classes will help you to achieve as you won’t need to catch up. Keep it up, and aim for 100%. SILVER – Between 90%-95.9% It is a cause for concern if you are missing this much school because you are missing important in-formation in your lessons. Push yourself to make it in every day wherever possible – Go for GOLD
BRONZE -Below 90%. If you are below 90%, then this is a serious cause for concern. You may need some further support from the school or EWO to raise your attendance, as missing this much school will mean you have a lot to catch up on.
It is clearly understood that there are exceptional circumstances when levels of attendance may fall below expectations for rea-sons beyond the students and parents control. We would ask you to please keep the school informed of all absences. Leave of absence during term time Taking a child out of school in term time will affect their schooling as much as any other absence and we expect parents to help us by not taking children out in school time. Leave in term time will not be agreed by the school at any time unless circumstances surrounding the request can be evidenced, by parents/carers, to
be exceptional. Any child taken out of school without permission will have the absences recorded in the register as unauthorised. Please also note the following changes from the Missing Educa-tion and Child Employment Service that will come into effect from 1 October 2017; A penalty notice may be issued if 10 unauthorised absences have occurred during a 10 week period (instead of the current 6 week period) A penalty notice may be issued if there are 6 or more unauthor-ised sessions due to a holiday taken during the first two weeks of September Punctuality The school day consists of two sessions, morning and afternoon. Students are expected to be on the school premises no later than 8.35 am. When lateness is more frequent or persistent the stu-dent concerned will miss valuable teaching time, lateness also causes disruption to the class. A late mark after registration has closed counts as an unauthorised absence and therefore will affect attendance.
Student Behaviour Dear Parents/Carers, I am very disappointed to report that despite my previous letter in May we have yet again received further complaints from local residents and members of the community regarding the conduct and behaviour of a small group of students when leaving school at the end of the day and whilst travelling on public transport to and from school. When in school uniform we expect our students to behave in an acceptable manner and to not do anything that would tarnish our reputation in the wider community. This message was reinforced in assemblies at the end of the last academic year and again in the welcome back assemblies in Sep-tember. As a temporary strategy we have increased staff pres-ence before and after school in the local community and on the buses and trains. Any student caught in breach of this will be issued with the ap-propriate school sanction. We may also insist that students fail-ing to follow this advice must be collected by parents/carers or where this is not possible would need to remain in school and take a later bus/train home. I appreciate that this may not affect your son/daughter but would encourage you to discuss the contents of this letter with them so that if they see such behaviour they report it to the school so that it can be dealt with efficiently. The King John School has always enjoyed a positive reputation within the local area and it is a shame that a small minority ap-pear to be damaging this for the majority. I hope that with your continued support we are able to eliminate this recent spate of unacceptable behaviour.
% Attendance
% of cohort on this attendance attaining 5+ grade A* - C nationally
Number of days missed
97% 84 6
95% 68 9.5
93% 57 13
90% 28 19
88% Not available 23
Attendance at The King John School Regular school attendance is essential for all of our students to make good progress, achieve their academic potential and con-sequently have better chances in life. There is a strong connec-tion between attendance and achievement at school. Absence is proven to have a significant negative impact upon a student’s educational attainment, as per the table below;
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KJS NOTICES
Office Duty Along with the academic work Year 8 students complete this year, a number of opportunities are available for students to widen their school experiences and develop as a person. One of these responsibilities is office duty, which students are asked to complete twice throughout the year for a period of 2/3 hours. Our office duty students are a vital part of our school communi-cation throughout the day, allowing us to pass along vital mes-sages, and remind students about key events. Teachers are made aware of students completing office duty and will communicate directly with students about any work missed.
Up-to-date Contact Information Please make sure that school has up-to-date contact details. You can update these details online through the SIMS APP or SIMS Learning gateway. Or download and complete the student data form from the school website. M G Beston Assistant Headteacher.
Concussion Awareness As part of concussion awareness the RFU have asked that all play-ers, coaches, teachers and parents educate themselves with the potential dangers of concussion. I have copied the directive from the RFU below and ask that any parent whose son/daughter plays rugby completes the online course. It only takes a few minutes and could be very important if your son/daughter plays rugby. Kind regards, Mr Webb Concussion Education Code of Practice The RFU, our national constituent bodies and partners are deter-mined to ensure that we lead the way in keeping the welfare of our players at the forefront of all we do. Therefore, as part of your involvement in the 2017-18 NatWest Schools Cup, we along-side the ERFSU, would like you to commit to a four-step Concus-sion Education Code as follows in your school:
All staff coaching or refereeing contact rugby to have success-fully completed the 30-minute Headcase Concussion Aware-ness Course for teachers and parents available here
All players in extra-curricular contact rugby in Year 10 and above to have successfully completed the 20-minute Head-case Concussion Awareness Course for players available here
All players in curricular rugby in Year 7 and above to have watched the 7-minute ERTV Concussion video available here
Rugby parents in the school to have been signposted to the Headcase Concussion Awareness programme here
Successful completion is proved by downloading the certificate at the end of the online course. We believe your application to en-ter the National Schools Cup is your commitment to deliver this code. We will be sending out a reminder when the draw is pub-lished and again in September to ensure your staff and players have completed their course before your first round match. Should you require any other information or help at this point please do not hesitate to get in contact.
School Library I would like to thank some parents for their generosity in do-nating much needed books to the LRC last term. You will appre-ciate that with the price of books today; schools have to keep a very careful stock of all books. We would therefore, be most grateful if you could ensure that you check that all school library books are renewed or returned by your child before the end of term. The school library is very popular with our students and certain series of fiction books are borrowed so many times that they become unusable. If you have any unwanted books we would be happy to offer them a home. In particular we are looking for books in good condition by the following authors:- Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games Trilogy Cassandra Clare: City of Glass, City of Lost Souls, Clockwork An-gel, City of Fallen Angels, City of Ashes, Clockwork Prince, Clock-work Princess, Lady Midnight, City of Heavenly Fire Christopher Paolini: Eragon, Inheritance or The Vault of Souls, Eldest, Bringer or The Seven priorities or Eragon Shadeslayer John Green: The fault in our stars, Paper Towns, Looking for Alaska James Dashner: The Maze Runner, The Scorch Trials, The Death Cure Jeff Kinney: The Long Haul, The Third Wheel, Old School, Cabin Fever, Hard Luck Charlie Higson: The Enemy, The End, The Dead David Walliams: The Boy in The Dress, Grandpas Great Escape, Ratburger, Awful Auntie, Demon Dentist, Mr Stink Liz Pichon: Everything’s Amazing, Absolutely fantastic, Extra Spe-cial Treats, A Tiny Bit Lucky, Excellent Excuses, The Brilliant World of Tom Gates, Tom Gates Genius Ideas Mostly Rick Riordan: Percy Jackson books, Kane Chronicles and The Heroes of Olympus Series Zoe Sugg: Girl Online, EGirl on Tour Sarah Maas: Queen of Shadows, Crown of Midnight, Throne of Glass You can send the books in with your son or daughter or leave them in Reception. If you have any queries or have other books that you think may benefit the library then please contact: [email protected] Yours sincerely Alison Sykes Learning Resources Manager
Parking in School As you are aware we request that parents do not enter the main car park or sixth form cark park on Shipwrights Drive to pick up and drop off students due to health and safety implications. It is apparent that some parents think this rule does not apply to them and continue to arrive extremely early to get a space in the car parks to pick up their child(ren). I ask you again to please respect our requests to not drive into the main car park or sixth form cark park. Only those parents who require disa-bled access should enter the main car park. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.
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THE KING JOHN SCHOOL
If you can help us out, please contact Mr Mutimer on [email protected] – or get your son/daughter to drop them off to his office. Please don’t send in anything valuable as although we will try and look after your items, accidents happen in the cut and thrust of a school production! The dates of the production are the 5 & 6 December. Tickets will be on sale for the show after half-term so please make sure you get in early as we anticipate sell out performances. I would just like to remind parents of students who are involved in the production of the dress and technical run on Saturday 2 De-cember. These will run from 9am – 2pm. Students will need to bring a light lunch and drink.
Book and Lyrics by ALAN MENKEN
Music by HOWARD ASHMAN
5 & 6 December
6.30pm
Little Shop of Horrors Prop and costume appeal Our school production this year is Little Shop of Horrors. We are asking for a few items to be donated to help us out. If you have any of the following lying around unused, we would be grateful if we could borrow for the duration of the production;
Plastic flowers – as many as possible
Vases – x 20
Old landline phones x 2
Leather motorcycle jacket
This is some of the amazing art work
done by our year 12
art students for the posters and pro-grammes for the
show.
Katie Gooding, Teah Mair, Emily Pearson,
Ade Ayegbusi, Jess Bell, Lois Costi-Mouyia, Emily Clay-
ton, Katie McDougall
Tickets £9
Concession £7
