THE KING JOHN SCHOOL

NEWSLETTER

NO:72 DECEMBER 2017

We started auditioning for this production back in July and were overwhelmed with the number of talented students wanting to take part, so much so that we have had to split roles and double the size of the ensemble! Every time I direct at King John I am amazed by how many artistically gifted students we have, whether it’s creating the posters and programmes, taking the publicity pictures, controlling the lighting and sound, assisting in the directing, designing costume or dancing, singing and acting, we are blessed. It is wonderful to see the year groups coming together as a school community to produce the show. The commitment and hard work that goes in to producing an hour and a half’s entertainment is astronomical, and I have been impressed with how profes-sional this year’s cast and crew have been about attending rehearsals, learning lines and helping with the organisation. This is the second time I have directed this particular musical, the first being 8 years ago. It makes me feel very old, especially as one of the students who performed in that version is now a member of staff at this school! She has been using her experience to support and guide the current crop of ‘Crystal’s, Ronnett’s and Chiffon’s’, and like many of the staff at King John has been giving up precious lunchtimes and after schools to help get this production on its feet. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the students’ families that have given support over the past 12 weeks with donations of some of the most bizarre props and costumes, as well as all the help with line learning and lifts to rehearsals. This truly is the most talented bunch of students I have worked with, and as such has made my life a whole lot easier. I am extremely proud of what they have achieved. David Saunders

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Little Shop of Horrors

“It has been the time of my life; from the sets, and

the plant, to the people who run it - Fabulous!”

Holly Stritten

“It was amazing being part of the Tech

Crew and I enjoyed it!” Jack Davies

“A wonderful learning experience to see the hard work behind the scenes of Little Shop and seeing the play finally

come together with both cast and crew putting in all their efforts”

Allegra Webb - Assistant Director

“We’ve really enjoyed the experience and also a big

thank you to Miss Brockes for choreographing

amazing dances like ours!”

Isaac & Ellie - Somewhere that’s Green Dancers

I have enjoyed this experience, it is great, I would

recommend it to other people!”

Levi Obisesan

MESSAGE

BOARD From Dr Margaret Wilson,

Headteacher

CONTENTS Little Shop of Horrors—school show Pg 1

Message board Pg 2 School News Pg 3 Year 7 Pg 3 –4 Design & Technology Pg 5 Drama & Music Pg 6-7 Sports News Pg 8-9 Modern Foreign Languages Pg9 Jack Petchey Winners Pg10-11 Careers Information pg11-12 For Your Information Pg12

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As we approach the festive period we have had a very busy half term. Most recently I enjoyed watching the school production of The Little Shop of Horrors. It was one of the best shows I have ever seen and everyone who took part, both on and off stage, did an amazing job. We have some very talented students here at The King John School. This year we have seen a huge increase in the number of Year 6 stu-dents requesting The King John School as their choice of secondary school for September 2018. This is a great achievement for the school as we continue on our “outstanding” journey. The school has had a number of successful trips this term, including a trip to Hollywood, Car-diff and Stubbers and trips to the theatre to see various productions including Othello, A Linha Curva, Jekyll & Hyde and the Shakespeare play whose name you should never say! We have had many sporting success in basketball, rugby, football and hockey and King John were crowned Senior District Hockey Champions. I would like to wish Miss Kaminska the very best of luck for her future as she is moving onto pastures new; she will be missed by all. With effect from 1 December 2017 The King John School formally be-came part of the Zenith Multi Academy Trust along with James Hornsby School in Basildon. I will be the CEO of the Trust and in my absence from school Mrs McGauley will be the Head of School. On a final note, I wish you and your families a very happy Christmas and best wishes for the New Year and I look forward to welcoming back the students on 2 January 2018.

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SCHOOL NEWS Year 8 students strive for charity success in aid of Havens Hospices Year 8 students at The King John School celebrated their fund-

raising achievements as they presented a cheque to their chosen

charity, Havens Hospices.

The students spent their first year at King John raising funds for

this great cause. Some of their events included a film night, dis-

co, Christmas bazaar, cake sales, raffles, a talent show, competi-

tions and lots more. In addition to this they managed to per-

suade the head of PE Mr Webb to run the London marathon

which he successfully completed in just less than 4 hours.

A fundraising representative from Havens visited the school and

was really impressed by their efforts. Recently, another Havens

representative collected a cheque for the end of year total which

amounted to £2,899!

One of the tutor group’s charity representatives Max Haynes said

“I have really enjoyed being a part of the charity events. I know

that Havens is a really good charity because my sister is disabled

and has visited Little Havens as some of her friends go there and

say it’s a really fun place to be. This is a lot of money and it will

really help people to have a happy life. People do such amazing

things just to help others plus Miss Coulman’s mum is a nurse at

Havens and she has told us all about it”.

Student Voice News October and November have been busy months in preparation for Par-liament Week. All year groups were involved in #UKPW17. The Student Voice Executive Committee organised the activities for the week. On Monday there was a Brexit Debate which was

organised by Sophie Bush in year 10. Students in year 9 and 10 were involved and ran the debate in front of an audi-ence of year 7s to 13s. The judges were Mrs Sheern, Mr Smith, Mr Spencer and Mr Gibbons. The winners were “Remain”. Students prepared well with great speeches and

arguments for and against the motion that Britain should leave the EU. Remain won the argument because of their research on NHS funding. On the Wednesday year 7 and 8 finalists for the Political poetry competition took part in the final, where they read or per-formed their poems on stage for their heads of year: Miss Murray, Mrs Goodwin, Mr Sel-by Knight and Miss Driscoll. The winners were first place: Emily Merrison, second place: Alvin Muzunze, third place: Maizat Mustapha. The Endeav-our Award went to Kurtis Mitchell and the top presenters were Ebun Jawo and Bolaji Oyetunde.

Friday’s Parliament week event was Ques-tion Time with our own Member of Parliament Rebecca Harris. This was a great event where year 11s, year 12s and year 13s presented their questions to Mrs Harris. It was evident that a

great deal was learned about politics and parliament. Students thoroughly enjoyed the week and the student voice com-mittee have already started preparing for next year’s events for parliament week 2018.

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Time Machines Well done to all the students from 7-01, 7-02 and 7-11 who presented their time machines. There were some outstanding models (some pictured below) and some amazing speeches to their classmates, even though many of them were quite nerv-ous. This project helped students to consider how they would pre-sent for a specific audience and purpose. They tried to be in-formative and persuasive.

YEAR 7

Stubbers day trip for year 7 On 21 October a select group of 25 year 7 students were invit-ed to complete a day of activities at Stubbers Adventurous Ac-tivity Centre in Upminster. The aim of the day was to encour-age students to work on their leadership, confidence and team work through a range of different activities. Below are two student’s view of the trip: Charlie Rayner - “While we were there we took part in 4 activities which were, lazer tag, high ropes, team challenges and terrain boarding. My personal favourite was the high ropes because it looked scary at first but then when I was on it, I found it ok. I would definite-ly recommend it to anyone because it was so much fun.” Anu Adetunji - “I really enjoyed my experience at Stubbers because I made a lot more friends. The staff were extremely nice to us and made sure we were safe in all the activities we did. We improved our teamwork and sportsmanship skills whilst having fun. Overall it was an excellent trip and I hope to go there again.” In June we do have a residential trip where students will spend a weekend at Stubbers Adventurous Activity Centre. Letters and more details for this trip will be given out after the Christmas Break.

Achievements House winners for half-term: well done to House S who all en-joyed some pizza and a cookies for gaining the most amounts of house points in the first half-term. ATL winners: the tutor group with the best attitude to learning as an overall tutor goes to 7-05. They will receive a prize for all their hard work and positive attitude towards learning. Well done to all tutor groups and students that have won attendance awards and achievement awards. All students and tutors have received certificates to keep in their records.

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YEAR 7

Book Competition Congratulations to Indiana Cobner of 7-06. Indiana won an inter-national picture book competition in June. Indiana’s book is called ‘The Monkey who learnt his lesson’. The book was award-ed winner of the Primary Award and also overall winner of the Reading Zone picture book competition 2017. Part of the prize was for Indiana to meet an author, who had seen her book. This is a great achievement and a huge well done from all of the Year 7 team.

Outstanding Achiever Congratulations to Thomas Davies 7-01 for winning the Jack Petchey Outstand-ing Achiever Award for November. Thomas was nominated by Mrs Ankin, his skills teacher. He was nominated

because he is always hard working, excellent in discussions and always puts his hand up to answer any questions. Thomas has won £250 for skills education. Well done Thomas this is a fantas-tic achievement!

Shoe Box Appeal The shoe box appeal raises money and gifts for a range of un-derprivileged children from all across the world. The charity looks to make sure that no child wakes up on Christmas day without a gift and The King John School has been supporting this charity in filling as many shoe boxes as possible. WELL DONE to ALL of year 7 who managed to provide 55 shoe boxes full of gifts for Christmas to those young children who are less fortunate. Tutor group 7-07 were year 7 top performers with 11 boxes!!!! Pictured below are a group of year 7 students who delivered the shoe boxes to the charity on Friday.

Year 7 Disco The year 7 Disco took place on 20 November. The disco looks

to encourage students to have fun, socialise and raise money

for their chosen charity. The Year 7s turned out in force with

200 students attending the disco and enjoying a range of music

and fun games.

Future events/trips for year 7: 11/01/2018- Film Night 08/03/2018– Bowling trip 08-10/06/2018- Stubber’s Residential trip

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Design & Technology

Design and technology – Textiles Our textiles student are working hard on their controlled as-sessment tasks and have produced a variety of creative fashion items that would enhance any catwalk. Students have shown flair, style, innovation, quality and creative design within their work. Well done to those students who make full use of the extra curricu-lar support offered by the depart-ment.

Engineering Education Scheme Launch at Procat A group of Y12 design and technology students attended the EES launch scheme at Procat in October and excelled by win-ning the team challenge on the day. The Engineering Develop-ment Trust (EDT) is an independent registered charity whose mission is to encourage young people to fulfil their potential through careers in science, technology, engineering and math-ematics (STEM). Established in 1984, the EDT is a leading na-tional provider of work related learning programmes which annually involves over 40,000 students. The Trust aims to inspire and moti-vate young people into choosing a STEM career by giving them the opportunity to ex-perience real life exposure to indus-try, business and higher education. The awareness gained empowers students to make informed choices at key stages of their education.

Articulated arms by Gemma Cox, George Sweeting-ham, Zohaib Na-waz, Stefan Gardi-ner and Kurushar-ran Kajendran, Ja-mie Evans

Alfie Fairs and Ciaran Mastrogiacomo work-ing on a mystery project.

STEM Club Below is some of the fantastic work created by our STEM club

CHEMISTRY A-Level Chemistry in Action Trip to London The London morning rush hour was fading away as outside the Home Office, groups of young people of all sizes, shapes, ethnicity and fash-ion (with a few grey haired individuals dotted amongst them) were gathering. Was it a protest, a demonstration? No. They were all A-Level Chemistry students waiting for the Chemistry in Action day to begin in the Emmanuel Centre opposite the Home Office. Twenty-one Y12 and Y13 students from The KJS and two staff, were amongst over 700 students that attended. Five lecturers of national and international standing spoke of their research and interest in different pertinent areas of chemistry. We learnt how Queen Eliza-beth’s pale complexion arose from the use of lead compounds while slowly poisoning her system resulting in a loss of teeth and hair. That elements at the nanoscale can be made into devices which can link to the brain. Will this place our amazing brain capacity into future micro-chips? Life as a chemist can take one to Antarctica to study the ice composition or to sample the ocean on one of the scientific ships. Who knows the opportunities that are ahead? Freezing molten choc-olate will make better tasting chocolate. This was trialled with volun-teers from the audience. The result –a definite yes! Chemists are ex-ploring ways to turn humans into walking batteries. Imagine being able to power your mobile from your own body heat! Was the day worthwhile? Students commented “definitely glad that I went”, “learnt so much”, “opened my eyes to what is out there”, “enjoyed making my own way up to London with friends rather than travelling with teachers!” Verdict – yes!

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DRAMA MUSIC

On Thursday 2 November, Mr

Richard Meyrick visited the

music department to give a

piano masterclass to six lucky

students. It involved the stu-

dents performing a piece of

music. He would then give

them tips on how to improve

their overall technique.

Richard Meyrick’s aim is to broaden the thinking of young musi-

cians by giving them per-

spectives, goals and tech-

niques to help them pre-

pare their pieces for per-

formance. Richard himself

played a couple of works

and it was obvious that

this immediately inspired

not only the six students

who were chosen to per-

form, but the selected audience members as well.

Rhea Slater, who was in the audience (year 9) describes the after-

noon as an “amazing oppor-

tunity, where students learned

how to enjoy music, rather

than being tested all the time.

It helped us realise how to

make music come alive.”

Laura Payne and Darcie Clay-

ton (year 10), who per-

formed, said the event was

very helpful, as it helped

them to improve in such a

short space of time. He

was also very inspiration-

al.

Bethany Johnson (year 8),

who also performed, said

“I really enjoyed it and it

was really good.”

The Pianoman Masterclass with Richard Meyrick Anti-Bullying Day: Thursday 16 November To support the nationwide initiative the drama department were proud to present 15 different year 9 GCSE performances to the whole of our year 7 for anti-bullying day. They communi-cated the different types of bullying from verbal and physical to cyber bullying, with a clear message on how to handle the situa-tion. The year 9 GCSE students were assessed for their compo-nent one module as they devised and performed their pieces of theatre from scratch. We would like to congratulate all the stu-dents involved, their talents and behaviour were of an excellent standard. Well done to both year 7 and year 9 drama GCSE!

SPORTS NEWS

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Lee Valley Indoor Athletics Competition On Wednesday 15 November a combination of year 8/9 girls and boys took part in an indoor athletics competition at Lee Valley sports centre. Both teams did extremely well qualifying for the next round, which will take place early next year. The students that participated were Sam Sanusi, Reuben Fadayiro, Toby Bishop, Jed Broom, Harry Jackson, Barry, Tamara Momah, Emily Cox, Olivia Minkey, Masee Sanusi (Yr8), Keira Bott and Immy Dorili. There were some great achievements - Kiera was second in the 800m; Harry won the 800m, Sam nearly beat the indoor Lee Valley record in the 60m hurdles and also won the High jump; Immy was 2nd in hurdles and 1st in high jump; Tamara came joint 1st in the 60m sprint. Jed came 2nd in the shot put and boys relay were 2nd overall.

Relay team at the indoor athletics event at Lee Valley

Team photo of girls at indoor athletics event Lee Valley

County Netball Rally On Sunday 19 November both under 14 and under 16 netball teams qualified for the Essex County Championship Rally in Colchester. Considering the artic temperatures and some hard competition from other schools, both teams played amazing finishing 4th in their pool, just missing out on a semi-final place. The Under 14 team were Charlotte Coldicott, Bronte O’Dea, Immy Dorli, Olivia Mainhood, Olivia Minkey, Erin Nevett, Emily Cox, Abi Cox, Annalise Bennett, Charlotte Thomas and Fran Goddard.

Under 14 netball team - through to the last 16 in the Essex Cup after winning against Burnt Mills 26-6 The Under 16 team were Selin Yildez, Charlotte Gatt, Hannah Shirley, Ella O’Connell, Charlotte Thompson (Player of the tour-nament), Matilda Lynch, Holly Emberson and Remi Braham (Captain). Promoting the new netball courts - Year 9 girls after their win in the Essex Cup against Appleton.

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SPORTS NEWS

Cross Country District Cross Country On Tuesday 21 November a huge number of year 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and sixth form students represented The King John School at the District Cross Country competition at the Basildon Sporting Vil-lage. As a school, we finished in 2nd place in the district with some excellent individual performances such as; Year 7 Girls: Ruby Wheeler – 7th, Boys: Emmanuel Omotosha – 6th and Fletcher Moore – 7th. Year 8/9 – AMAZING RESULTS! Girls: Keira Bott—1st, Freya Seymour – 2nd, Somiya Aitmari – 3rd, Isabelle Judd – 4th, Boys: Harry Jackson – 1st and Oliver Rose – 6th.

Year 8/9 girls team squad at district cross country Year 10/11 Girls: Sophie Wetheridge – 1st, Hollie Rex – 2nd, Boys: Callum Legg – 4th. Sixth Form Girls: Grace Goodall - 1st, Abby Rex - 2nd, Hannah Mickleburgh- 3rd, Boys: Gus Withers – 1st, Bryce Odea – 4th. ESAA Cross Country Cup The junior girls team represented King John School for the sec-ond round of the ESAA Cross Country Cup on Saturday 11 No-vember at Appleton School. The results were Freya Seymour 12th, Faye Bills 34th, Grace Watson 36th, Jessica Stoner 54th. All the girls did fantastically well and were unlucky to miss out on a place in the regional finals.

MODERN FOREIGN

LANGUAGES

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.

MFL TRIPS KS4 French Trip to Normandy A Y9 & 10 French trip to the Normandy area of France is taking place from Friday 13 July to Monday 16 July 2018. Students will participate in various language tasks with the aim of raising the students’ confidence as well as improving their command of french towards their GCSE exams. During this trip they will visit the towns of Bayeux (including the Bayeux Tap-estry), Honfluer, Trouville and Deauville. They will also have a day at Disneyland Paris. If your child is interested in attending and did not collect a trip letter, please contact Ms Fordyce to see if places are still avail-able. VOCAB EXPRESS

These are the Vocab Express Top Achievers. Keep up the excellent work!

October November

Year French Spanish French Spanish

7 Branden Holmes

Adrian Lam Django Green

Florence Tofield

8 Eliza Kemp Kiki Abere Zion

Akinwunmi Lexi Zapitis

9 Leon

Glessinger Iris Mitchell

Ellen Ran-dall

Kelsey Gaffney

10 Oliver Nunn Rheea Dumur

Rosie Kirwan

Oliver Crancher

11 Lotty

Wright Lawrence

Craft Grace Mings

Ethan Procter

12 Luke

Connell N/A

Taylor Jordan

N/A

13 Phoebe

Sellwood Ashleigh

Greenslade Patsy

Poullas Danny

Tuttlebee

Year 9 French Anya Isaacs Chelsea Selukwe Luke Thompson Somiya Aitmarri Adam Burns

Year 9 Spanish Faiz Rahim-Shah Bronte O’Dea Daniel Omiyale Megan Hudson Ella Pieniazek

Year 10 French Luke Arnold Melody Agyakwa Sarvesh Caleya Chetty Ramidu Jayasinghe Louis Ilett

Year 10 Spanish Emily-Jane Smith Harriet Dye Maddie Stenton Ella O’Connell Rheea Dumur

Year 11 French George Barnett Mya Frimpong Junior Adeleke Molly Bates Rebecca Moore

Year 11 Spanish Saffron Walters Laura Toogood Carter Clarke Grace McDonald Cailtin Woolf

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DATE NAME TUTOR REASON FOR NOMINATION MONEY SPENT

Sept 2016

Owen Treais

12-06

Owen shows great enthusiasm and in particular, for a specific lesson structure during a Geography field trip. He displayed excellent team work and was able to take the lead in many areas throughout the 3 days. Owen showed maturity and reliability when collecting results; he also had a hugely positive influence on the whole group despite torrential rain for 2 days, whilst ensuring morale was kept high. Owen was always prepared to help the tutor when asked and confi-dent to ask questions to challenge his own understanding. Owen would like to study Geography at University and we feel that he would be an asset to any course.

Geography resources such as; a visu-aliser and vari-ous field equipment

Oct 2016

Juliana Dawes

11-01

Juliana displays an outstanding attitude to learning and dedication to her subject. She is a kind and reliable student who is a positive role model to her peers.

Art materials such as; oil pastels, brush-es and paints

Nov 2016

Ilir Hoxha

9-12

Ilir is extremely hard working with a fantastic attitude. He always contributes to class discussions and answers questions. He also al-ways revises to hone understanding.

Science text books

Jan 2017

Christina Federmann

9-11

Christina consistently goes above and beyond. She has outstanding ATL and her homework is always completed to the highest standard.

English text books

Feb 2017

Elizabeth McGlynn

11-09

Elizabeth is an outstanding role model who works and trains hard in all her sporting areas as well as being a high achiever academically. Always working above and beyond in all sports, Hockey, Netball, and Athletics and has also reached National finals in Netball. She is someone who gives everything to all aspects of her school life and goes above and beyond.

PE training jackets

Mar 2017

Isobel Juniper

12-02

Isobel is a truly outstanding, dedicated and hard-working student. Isobel got A*s for both GCSE English Literature and GCSE Language (She got an astonishing 100% in her English Literature GCSE) She is also a fantastic role model and helps out in several Year 7 classes.

English trip travel to the British Library

Apr 2017

Nyah Kauders

10-05

Nyah is a fantastic student with outstanding attention to learning. Nyah always completes homework to a superb standard and is a great role-model to her peers

History refer-ence books for A-Level and GCSE

May 2017

Lucy Pitchford

11-02

Lucy has maintained a 100% attendance record from Yr7-Yr11. Lucy has always been committed to her education and this became even more apparent when she received a diagnosis of Hodgkins Lympho-ma in her final weeks of school and Lucy was still committed to attending school before and after her chemotherapy sessions.

Art equipment and resources

June 2017

Aimee McDon-ald

13-06

Aimee is an amazing student and an outstanding achiever. She re-cently raised £100s alone for charity this year in the 6th form.

Resources for Sixth form – in order to create a mental health/R&R area.

JACK PETCHEY WINNERS

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CAREERS EDUCATION INFORMATION ADVICE & GUIDANCE

Successful events: For Year 12

30 October 2017 Emma Radley an ex-student who left last year visited our year 13 finance class to talk about apprenticeships at Ernst & Young and how to apply. 24 November 2017 Employment and Skills Fair at the Excel Centre 47 year 13 students along with Mrs Jeffery and Mrs Cooper attended the largest Skills and Employment Fair in the UK. Students were able to talk to employees who were doing a higher or Degree ap-prenticeship. Apprenticeship support and guidance for year 13 students: Fiona Marriage, Skills Manager - Apprentice Promotion & Bro-kerage Hub and her colleague Louise Fry, along with Lisa Sun-monu from the National Apprenticeship Scheme took two workshops to support our year 13 students wishing to apply for a Higher or Degree apprenticeship. Medics Three of our year 12 students attended the Southend Medic

Seminar in November. Three year 12 students attended a work

placement at Southend Hospital. Two year 12 students attend-

ed a practical day at Southend Hospital which involved working

with junior doctors and a session on how to prepare for your

personal statement.

Advance Notice: 18 December 2017 – 8 year 13 students will visit Lloyd’s of Lon-don. Plan for the day is: Leave KJS Shipwrights Drive at 9.15 12.00-12.30 – arrival and introduction to the London Insurance Market 12.30 – 1.45 – lunch & tour of Lloyd’s 1.45 – 2.00 – guess the value game 2.00 -2.45 – scenario based play 2.45 – 3.00 – short break 3.00 - 3.30 - routes in to the market and ambassador presenta-tions 3.30 – 4.00 – networking / informal talk with ambassadors

DATE NAME TUTOR REASON FOR NOMINATION MONEY SPENT

Sept 2017

Brogan Wil-son

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, hardworking and resilient and attends lots of extra-curricular activities such as swim-ming, horse-riding, helping with the horses and the younger stu-dents that attend the riding school. She also trains at Runningwell in Chelmsford and does a great deal of charity work including help-ing Cancer Research, Macmillan and animal charities.

Online Maths Subscription - Maths Depart-ment

Oct 2017

Rachel Luff

11-08

Rachel is a fantastic student who gives her all in everything. 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 in-side and outside of school and is a huge inspiration to her peers.

Food equip-ment – Food Department

Nov 2017

Thomas Davies

7-01

Thomas is an extremely hard working individual. He always puts his hand up to answer questions and is excellent when partici-pating in discussions. He is a fantastic role model for his fellow students.

Various Equip-ment - Skills Department

JACK PETCHEY WINNERS

New Year 2018 On 16 January, the Billericay School will be hosting the Finance Apprenticeship talk during their Annual Careers Fair. The talk raises awareness of apprenticeship opportunities that require A-Level or BTEC level 3 qualifications. Last year was very suc-cessful and lots of students were successfully placed with in this industry after attending. The following employers will be talking: Ernst and Young, AON , RSM Accountancy, Investment 2020 & Lloyds Market Group.

Students and parents are asked to email apprentice-ships@essex.gov.uk with Finance Event and what school they attend as the subject to confirm their place. ECC will share the information with students who have signed up, but please feel free to pass on to friends and family.

18 January – Fiona Marriage and Louise Fry from Apprentice Promotion & Brokerage Hub will be attending our year 13 par-ents evening. Parents will be able to book an appointment via the Parents Evening booking system.

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FOR YOUR

INFORMATION

Marbella Netball Tour – STILL SPACES !! We are delighted to be able to offer the opportunity for your daughter to be part of a fantastic Netball Development Pro-gramme based in Marbella, Spain. The trip will be available to students across years 7, 8 and 9 students and is open to all abili-ties. We will also hold a reserve list for those students in case of cancellations/illness. The students will be working with top international coaches from the European Netball Association. This exciting initiative offers our enthusiastic netballers at The King John School the opportunity to train with the expert professional coaching staff from the leading teams and associations around the world, with access to top class facilities and accommodation. Students of all abilities are invited to participate in this unique development programme. Each student will not only benefit from the specialist professional coaching and playing opportuni-ties, but also the educational and cultural aspects that a trip to Spain has to offer. We are expecting a very high level of interest in this trip and have therefore invited a representative from the tour company to give a presentation so that questions can be asked. The dates of this trip will be from Saturday 25-29 May 2019. The cost of the trip will be around £830. This price is approxi-mate and subject to change depending on flight bookings. Included

Return flights &transfers in Marbella 4 nights in a luxury 4* accommodation Full board – buffet style with a broad selection 5 training sessions with elite coaches Sports pass for the use of the complex’s sporting facilities Presentations evening with medals and certificates Baggage allowance, insurance Evening entertainment

Not included Transfers to the airport-this will be the responsibility of the parent/carer Spending money

Please see Miss Hunt, Mrs Sheern or Miss Parrot for a letter.

King John School Uniform Standards and Expectations Mr Smith has very kindly reproduced our uniform posters as a reminder emphasizing how we expect our students to dress. We currently have a few who wish to challenge, parents have been in-formed and sanctions issued to repeat offenders. The main concerns at present are to do with footwear and jewellery. Trainer type footwear is not per-mitted unless there is written medical evidence and it has been agreed with their Head of Year.

Students have been reminded that they are only allowed to wear one stud in each earlobe. Students found wearing a stud anywhere else in the ear will be asked to remove it immediately and their expectations card signed.

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 and drop off 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, to pick up and drop off your child(ren). Please also do not park just outside the main school gate. Only those parents who require disabled access should enter the main car park. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.

FOR YOUR INFORMATION

Year 11 ONLY

1 February – Fiona Marriage and Louise Fry will also be attend-

ing our year 11 parents evening, parents can book via the par-

ents evening booking system.

Work Placements - Calling all Parent/Carers. Many of our sixth formers are keen to gain valuable experienc-es in the work place in order to support their university appli-cation 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 lindaj@thekjs.com

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 stu-dent data form from the school website.

Bad Weather As we come into the bad weather season, please see our bad weather guidance under useful information on our website.

CAREERS EDUCATION INFORMATION ADVICE &

GUIDANCE