December 2012 King John School

KING JOHN NEWSLETTER窶年o 48 December 2012 THE KINGTHE JOHN SCHOOL

NEWSLETTER No: 48 - December 2012 Duke of Edinburgh Award

Sound of Music Winners of the poster competition

Amberlie Coleman 9-04 Hannah Dumenil and Natalie Buckley , two ex King John students, went to St. James Palace on 14th November And received their Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award from Prince Philip.

Year 7 & 8 Science Museum and Ice-Skating trip

Write up page 7

Castlepoint & Rochford Sports Award Rebecca Griffin 9-09 Kiera Tippett 9-06 Article page 15

Colette Roberts 9-07

Hannah Watson 9-01

THE KING JOHN NEWSLETTER窶年o 48 December 2012

The KJS Prom Fashion Show 2012 To raise funds for the Year 11 Prom, students and staff organised a Prom Fashion Evening on Thursday 29 November 2012. This was a huge success and raised the total sum of ﾂ｣715.62. A great night was had by all and many thanks goes out to all the models and staff who helped with this event.

We would like to thank the following companies for their support and supplying everything from balloons to dresses for the evening.

The Dress Company Brazen Hussy Bou-Chic Boutique Tickled Pink Balloons at From Me to You

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Message Board From Dr Margaret Wilson, Headteacher It has been a very busy and successful half term. The school has been awarded the Level 1 Rights Respecting School Award and I would like to thank all our stakeholders for their work which led to this success. As always, the school show was a fitting showcase for our students’ talents and I would like to thank them and all the staff involved for the wonderful entertainment they provided. Who needs the West End? We anticipate a rise in the number of 6th Form applications once the raising participation age takes effect in 2014. However, in order to accommodate additional students in Key Stage 5 the school needs to extend its current facilities and planning permission is being sought from Castle Point Council with our application due to be heard on 8 January 2013. This development is critical to the school and crucial for the future education of our students. I would ask parents to support the school’s plans by contacting their local councillor or emailing the planning department on planning@castlepoint.gov.uk.

I hope you will enjoy reading about the many events that have taken place including our first ever prom show and the launch of our radio station, which broadcasts from 10am to 1pm every Tuesday on 97.8 Gateway.

Finally, I wish you all a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year.

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THE KING JOHN NEWSLETTER—No 48 December 2012

Family Learning Week 2012 Family Learning week provides the opportunity for families to learn together. The King John School hosted a wide variety of activities for families to take part in. National Family Learning Week is an annual awareness campaign promoting family learning events across the country.

The week was a great success and there were over 30 events on offer and 393 people attended .

We had very positive feedback from parents and students. They not only enjoyed the activities but liked coming into school and learning as a family. The week also allowed parents to have more contact with teachers and the school learning environment. The week is an annual event so we look forward to seeing you all next year!

Feedback from students ‘My name is Charlie Merritt and I went to the Family fun with food. I went with my mum and we had a great time. We learnt how to make home made healthy pizzas in the new catering room which was really cool as it was like being a chef. We then sat down as family and ate our food and talked about what we learnt. I made the pizzas at home for my family and they loved them’.

‘My name is Alyssa Cooper. I am in year 7 and I went to the family fun with beauty,it was really great. I went with my mum and we learnt how to give a manicure. It was really interesting and I loved being in the salon’.

HOLIDAY DATES 2012/13 TERMS (Inclusive dates)

BANK HOLIDAYS

Autumn 2012 Tuesday 4th September - Friday 21st December Spring 2013 Monday 7th January— Thursday 28th March Summer 2013 Tuesday 16th April—Friday 19th July

Tuesday 1st January 2013 Friday 29th March 2013

GENERAL HOLIDAYS (Inclusive dates)

Monday 1st April 2013 Monday 6th May 2013 Monday 27th May 2013 Monday 26th August 2013

Christmas 2012/13 Monday 24th December—Friday 4th January Spring 2013 Tuesday 2nd April—Friday 12th April Summer 2013 Monday 22nd July—Friday 30th August

HALF-TERM HOLIDAYS (Inclusive dates) NON-STUDENT DAYS Spring 2013 Monday 18th—Friday 22nd February Summer 2013 Tuesday 28th May—Friday 31st May

Monday 15th April 2013 Monday 22nd & Tuesday 23rd July 2013

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Review Days 26th & 27th March 2013

THE KING JOHN NEWSLETTER—No 48 December 2012

Uniform Shop Opening Times Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday For Parents: 9.30am - 11.00am For Students: 2.00pm - 2.20pm Term time only

Reminder to all parents When your child is absent from school we appreciate you calling Student Services to report their absence, but would like to remind you we still require you to send in a letter of explanation for the absence with your child on their return.

Without this in writing, the absence will be recorded as unauthorised and may result in the involvement of the Education Welfare Officer.

MRS J COPELAND STUDENT SERVICES CO-ORDINATOR

Lost Property LOST YOUR PE KIT, COAT, KING JOHN HOODIE, SHOES OR BAGS? Lost property for students to view will be on display at morning break by the main staircase on Thursday 20th December 2012 Please be aware that any property unclaimed will be donated to a local charity PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU NAME TAG ALL YOUR BELONGINGS IN FUTURE

Borrowing Money Student Services lend small amounts of money to students in emergencies only i.e. forgotten lunch and/or bus money to get home. A phone call will be made to parents to confirm this is allowed. We would like to remind parents that if your child has borrowed money from Student Services it should be repaid the next day as we only have a small float to lend to students.

Letters Home All letters sent home are available to view on the

VLE site together with the Parent Newsletters, Extra Curricular Activities booklets and the Key Stage 3 Newsletters See below for login and password

Student Safety The School is very concerned about the safety of the students on our site. With this in mind we would ask that cars DO NOT DRIVE ONTO THE SCHOOL SITE to drop students off or pick them up. This includes the car park at the Benfleet Road entrance. In future the gate to the Benfleet Road car park will be shut between 3.00pm and 3.45pm.

This car park is intended for staff and visitor parking only. A large number of students have to cross this area to get into school and the presence of cars driving through the car park greatly increases the risk to students. Please take notice of the signs on the gateway and drop your children off outside the school site. A small walk up the road can only be good for them!!!

Katrina Bentley, Bursar

Parents VLE login now available We now have a parent login to our VLE. This provides you with access to the students’ area, which will enable you to see work being uploaded and used by your son/daughter. It also gives you access to the parents’ area which contains useful information, school letters, extra curriculum booklets and Newsletters. Please feel free to have a look.

Username: kjsparent Password: parent

ADVERTISING IN OUR PARENTS’ NEWSLETTER

NB. This facility will be withdrawn from a student who has money outstanding.

Should you wish to advertise in our next Parents’ Newsletter, please contact the Reprographics department to discuss your requirements.

Articles from Students If any student is interested in placing an article of interest in the Parents’ Newsletter please see Gina Ebner in Reprographics.

So don’t be shy we want to hear from you.

Gina Ebner E-mail: ginae@thekjs.demon.co.uk Tel: 01702 426723

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THE KING JOHN NEWSLETTER—No 48 December 2012

Year 11 Christmas Update This term has gone incredibly quickly, some students have been busy studying new AS subjects, giving them a greater insight into the level of study necessary in post-16 education. Other students have picked up new GCSEs that they will study over the course of the year. All the Year 11 students are continuing to work towards their core subjects (English, Maths and Science) and are preparing for exams in these subjects.

However, there is more going on around the year group. There is a considerable ‘buzz’ building about the leaver’s day celebrations and the Prom. We have committees in the year group working hard to ensure this year’s celebrations are the very best they can be. The recent ‘Prom Fashion Show’, organised by the Prom committee (with a lot of help from Mrs Copeland and Mrs Merry) was a grand success, raising almost £800 towards the Prom fund.

Additionally, the Yearbook team are busy behind the scenes. They are pulling together some great photos and information for the 2013 Yearbook and beginning to design some of the pages. They do desperately need more photos for the collages. So, Year 11, remember to send your images to kingjohnyearbook2013@gmail.com. They can be pictures from inside or outside of school, school trips, plays, and any other memorable moments!

The ‘Passport to the Prom’ rewards system has been a great success within the year group this year. Students collect points from their teachers to reward hard work, enthusiasm and success. Students across the year group with the highest number of points have an opportunity to win their Prom ticket. Keep an eye out for the new Prom posters around the school, starring Prom cover girl and Deputy Head Girl, Charlotte Crudgington.

Finally, I’d like to take this opportunity Christmas and Happy New Year!

to wish you all a Merry

Mrs Mechem 6

THE KING JOHN NEWSLETTER—No 48 December 2012

YEAR 7

Science

Nicole Cooksley 7-05 will be dancing at Sadlers Wells theatre with her dance school

Key Stage 4 Science

Examination dates: 9th January, new specification re sit, Year 10 Owen Francis 7-05 will be competing in a Trampolin28th, 29th & 30th January, old specification re-sits ing competition for the school 25th January, Physics 2, new specification 14th, 17th & 24th January, new specification re-sit Matthew Pointer 7-05 runs 5km each month for charity Year 11 – his best time is 21.57 mins. His website is Revision sessions: www.justgiving.co.uk/matthewpointers5km 10th to 20th December Year 10 9th January re-sit Year 10 Abbie Burns 7-05 and Jess Brand 7-05 will be com8th January Year 11 peting in a dance competition to qualify to perform in London Revision Advice for Examinations: Download the specification from the VLE Hannah Weissand 7-05 won gold in a national Judo or from the following website: competition http://www.sciencelab.org.uk/gcses Generate a revision timetable from the following website:http://getrevising.co.uk/

Amy Bateman 7-05 will be dancing in the West End next year.

Ciara Dockrell 7-04 competed in the National Baton Twirling championships and won 2 National titles!! She has now been selected for the England team and will be competing in the European Championships in Amsterdam.

Year 7 Christmas Bazaar

Practice using the online homework web site:http://aqascience.gcsehomework.com/ Use the online books available from our VLE Use BBC Bitesize: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize science/aqa/

Use an online test to check your progress; The Year 7 Christmas Bazaar took place on Friday 7th it’s easy – just sign up!

December with great success. Year 7 had been very http://web.aqa.org.uk/support/opt.php busy organising a bazaar to raise money for their nominated charity "Make a Wish". Tutors with their groups had prepared lots of fun stalls ranging from raffles, to Year 7 & 8 Science Museum and cakes to "Guess the name of the teddy bear"!! All stuIce Skating Trip dents had a great time raising lots of money for their charity. Thank you to Miss Houghton who organised the On Saturday 1 December 41 pupils from Years 7 & 8 event. ventured into London with Miss Connell, Miss Phelan and Mrs McHugh to spend the day at the Science MuseYear 7 & 8 School Disco um.

From discovering the origins of medicine and space travel to investigating science with our own hands in the launchpad – we also discovered what we would look like if we had been born the opposite sex, how our genes make us who we are and explored flight through the ages!

"Year 7 and 8 had a wonderful time at the disco and lots of money was raised for charity. Thank you to everyone who made this possible"

Afterwards we visited the outdoor ice rink at the Natural History Museum – we had slips and falls and we saw some very interesting and creative moves on the ice.

Sadly, no future Winter Olympians were discovered but fun was had by all.

Thank you to all the staff and students who came along for the day. You were a credit to The King John School from start to finish.

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It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas….

Come & join us in Learning Support (GD13) and join in the Christmas Activities every lunch time in December!

Tree decorations Festive films Christmas music Card making Games Window displays And much more…

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Improving Literacy at The King John School The King John School is committed to raising the standard of literacy for all students. To this end, we will now be dedicating some time in morning tutor sessions to literacy; to support this work we are asking that all students bring a reading book with them every day. These books should be suitable for your child’s age and ability. If you would like guidance on how best to support your child to select the appropriate reading materials, please visit the Learning Resource Centre (The LRC is open each morning, break time, lunch time and after school for students to borrow books.)

Students can read fictional books but we would encourage GCSE English students to read non-fiction texts such as: biographies, autobiographies, travel writing, diaries or broadsheet newspapers such as The Times, The Independent, The Guardian or The Telegraph. Magazines, tabloid newspapers and comics are not suitable for tutor time. Kindles (or similar devices) will not be allowed as a substitute for a reading book as many models now have internet access and games.

Thank you in advance for your support with these activities.

Mrs Goodwin

Whole-school Literacy Coordinator

How else can students improve their Literacy Skills?

The Literacy Area on the VLE has links to websites that students can use to develop their literacy skills.

Exams in most subjects now include marks for spelling, punctuation and grammar and students must ensure they are developing these skills across the curriculum.

Learning Resource Centre

As always, Mrs Davis and Mrs Sones are happy to help in the mornings.

We have nearly 14,000 books for students to use in the LRC, as well as a network of computer work stations. During term time we have newspapers delivered daily for students to read along with several magazines. The LRC is a quiet place for students to complete homework or just as a nice place to read. It is open from 8am until 5pm as well as at break and lunchtime. Our dedicated staff are always happy to assist students in locating a book for research or just to talk about which book to read next.

As well as the guide for selecting reading materials, the LRC Area on the VLE also includes further information about the facilities offered and this online area will be developed to include book reviews by students.

Literacy Leaders

Miss Babb is our new Learning Zone Coordinator and she is available from 1pm every day.

We now have over 100 Literacy Leaders in the school. These students from Years 9-13 are helping to develop literacy resources and deliver sessions to younger year groups. Thank you to all those students who are dedicating their time to improving literacy across the school.

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Creative & Performing Arts Jack Petchy Subsidised trip to Paintballing with 11-01

On Saturday 29th September I went paintballing with my tutor group 11-01 a great time was had by all. We had a very exhausting but interesting day! We enjoyed shooting each other with the paintballs? …. and competed with each other to win the various different games. It was a truly brilliant day and we all had lots of bruises to show for it. This was a great way to celebrate the last five years we have spent together and we would all like to thank Daniel Abiona for donating the money and suggesting the visit.

Thank you to you all.

Ms Grennan

Congratulations to Nancy Vasey Reed who came 3rd in her class at the Southend Music Festival!

Well done Nancy!

It has been an extremely busy term for the Music Department!

Firstly, we have had two BTEC Music Shows, the first was the Year 12 show where they put on a fantastic performance to family & friends, it was their first opportunity to perform together and they did a great job.

The Year 13 BTEC and Performing Arts show took place at The Hollywood Restaurant.

They had the task of organising the whole show from venue hire to technical equipment used and they put on a wonderful show, the night’s theming was very glamourous where guests pulled up to a red carpet and were then treated to a music event worthy of a bigger stage! On top of this several of the BTEC Music and Performing Arts students were invited to perform at an awards ceremony at The County Court in Chelmsford where guests gave many compliments.

Performing Arts students put on a lunchtime recital to perform current musical and popular hits which they were being graded on. They did really well and it was great practice for their performance to a Junior school next year!

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Year 9 & 10 Hannah wins place at top ballet school Congratulations to Hannah O’Brien 9-11 who has been awarded a rare place at one of Britain’s most prestigious ballet schools.

Hannah impressed the judges to secure a year long placement at the Central School of Ballet in London where she is given five hours of intensive ballet training every Saturday.

Hannah said, “It’s hard work, but I really enjoy it and it’s definitely worth it. Ballet has always been my favourite style of dance and is definitely the one I’m strongest at. I just love dancing and it’s all I want to do.”

Rebecca Griffin of 9-09 was awarded the ‘Junior Sports Personality of the Year’ and received a trophy from Chelmsford City Council. She has been scouted by an England coach for archery. and holds two national records for her scores so far. Rebecca was placed 6th in the country in the last outdoor season across all junior archers in her discipline (Junior is under 21). Rebecca travelled to Coventry on December 1st to compete in the Junior Indoor National finals. She came 3rd in the country in her age group.

Well done Rebecca!

RAF Cosford By Charlie King

I’ve been a member of the Air Cadets at Southend Airport for a year and a half. The week before the summer holidays I was given the chance to stay at a working RAF base, RAF Cosford in Shropshire.

This RAF base doesn’t have any squadrons, but it is an active training base for the RAF regiment, The Royal Radio School and various others including teaching engineers. Teaching If Hannah continues to perform well, her one year placement ground crew and also the Royal Marines are sometimes there at the ballet school could be extended. for training. At the base there is also the HQ for the north east air training corps (air cadet) wing.

Hannah has also won the Jack Petchy award and will donate The day we arrived we went on a FAM ex this is where you go £200 to a department of her choice within the school. She was round and familiarise yourself with the base, then we went to nominated by her Head of Year, Mrs Sheern, who acknowldinner in the junior ranks’ mess and there were Royal Marines edged her commitment to both her school life and her extra sitting next to us. The next day we went out of the base for hiking and then later on we did a section visit to the radio curricular dance. school. Over the course of the next few days I completed 8 Literacy Leaders Nominations hours of dry weapon training, went to an electronic shooting 22 students from Year 9 have been nominated by their English range in the RAF regiment building and also visited to the teachers to become Literacy Leaders. As part of their role places where they practice fitting and making aircraft ejection these students will assist once a week in a Year 7 tutor group seats for the Typhoon and Tornado jets. helping them with reading and literacy activities. Thank you to I was able to shoot the standard British military rifle for a day all these students who are dedicating their time to improving with about 80 rounds. I flew the Grob tutor which is the trainliteracy in the school. ing plane for the RAF in which I flew loops, barrel rolls and experienced negative g force. In between all these activities Sophie Almklev Lysa-Marie Asiedu-Yeboa there was drill practice, swimming, sports and off base visits Katie Bazela Darcy Bullock round the local area. The best off base visit was to the north Sean Crudgington Jack Duffield east police force riot training hangar where I got to throw petReece King Eleanor May rol bombs and rubber bullets at our commanding officer!

Connor O'Halloran Christopher Shaw I can honestly say that this stay at RAF Cosford was the best Jodi Walker Hannah Watson experience I’ve had in a while; I made some great new friends India Covey Kiera Tippett and hope to have many more experiences like this during my Alex Mears Mia Bloomfield time as an air cadet.

Megan Nunn Erin Soundy

By Charlie King 10-09 Phoebe Newton Christina Taylor Matt Tomlin Josh Groenenberg Georgia Duddell 9-08 was welcomed into the St John Ambulance team on 7th July 2010. Since joining Georgia has achieved a variety of different awards, including Accident Prevention, young First Aider, Crime Prevention, Cookery and Food Hygiene, Cadet Membership, Ambulance Awareness, Craft Skills, Caring for Others, Casualty Communication and Listening Skills, Fundraising, Further Nutrition and finally Event Cover.

Georgia has now been recognised for her efforts and awarded the Bronze Award (by St Johns Ambulance) as part of the Grand Prior Award Scheme.

Well done Georgia. With all your achievements we hope that you continue to work hard with St John Ambulance services.

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THE KING JOHN NEWSLETTER—No 48 December 2012

Essex County Council Visit—Year 10 On Thursday 18th October Mr Patton, leader of Student Voice, along with 11 members of Student Voice went to Chelmsford to meet with the Chairman of Essex County Council, Kay Twitchen and various councillors from Essex County Council. We also had a chance to meet representatives of the Young Essex Assembly and to find out what their position in the Young Essex Assembly means.

The day included a signing in, a welcome from Essex County Council and the Young Essex Assembly, a democracy activity, a networking lunch, question time and an evaluation of the entire day.

The day began when we entered the Council Chamber and sat in the places where the Councillors of Essex County Council and the Young Essex Assembly would sit during session. The Chamber was decorated with amazing and carefully detailed artwork of English history. It was fantastic. Chairman Kay Twitchen introduced us to the Council Chamber and gave us a brief understanding of what her role as Chairman entails. She told us how the Council Chamber works and told us how politics on a local scale operates. After that, the Young Essex Assembly told us how democracy is achieved and how the Young Essex Assembly is conducted. The Young Essex Assembly gives the younger generation a voice in Essex County Council and gives us the chance to voice a stronger opinion on the problems teenagers and young adults face and to discuss ways to resolve or reduce them. There was a short quiz on democracy before we moved on to the activity.

The activity was based on the idea of living in Livestock Improvement Corporation’s where there is not a fair democracy to resolve certain drastic issues. The objective of the game was, acting in school teams which consisted of other schools in Essex such as FitzWimarc, Mark Hall and several other schools’; to act as a family in a LIC working to make designer trainers to survive. It was a hard game. Although it was quick and everything that happened was accelerated, the concept was the same as it would be in life. In the end our team was in debt and several family members died of starvation. The point of the exercise was to understand that where there are no fair democracies the standard of living is compromised and survival for the weak and vulnerable is that much harder.

After that there was a short debate on the concept of the game and what we gained from it. There was then a networking lunch where we had the opportunity to speak to the County Council members and to talk about how we could improve the social community. We also had a chance to hold the Olympic torch which was carried through Hadleigh in the torch relay.

We returned to the Council Chamber and had a question time, where we could ask questions of County Council members on the panel. We met councillors such as Ray Gooding, Children Services; John Jowers, Communities and Planning; and Colin Riley one of our local Councillors from Castle Point. They told us their plans for education in 2013, which is to put money into helping special needs education and they also told us how as a school community we can help with the development of education.

Finally we said our farewells to the panel. We had a final evaluation with the Young Essex Assembly about what we had gained from the experience. I am glad to have taken part in such an interesting and entertaining day and would be happy to participate in such endeavours in the future.

By Ross Whitaker 10-09

Congratulations to Christian Gray 10-06 who won the Castle Point and Rochford Cross Country race, 22nd November. Christian is a fantastic cross country runner. This is something that didn't come naturally to him in year 7 and he has worked exceptionally hard for this success. Christian attends extra curricular practices every Tuesday and Thursday morning before school. He has attended EVERY practice so far this year (on a Tuesday coming straight from Runnymede swimming pool where he trains for swimming from 6am!!).

He ran an excellent tactical race keeping his opponents in sight for most of the race before making his move in the last quarter and winning the race by a considerable margin.

The picture shows Christian winning the senior race with Ross Johnson 11-06 in second place.

The Senior Boys were the second team home in a very competitive race.

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THE KING JOHN NEWSLETTER—No 48 December 2012

The Curriculum Plus Centre “Isolating the Behaviour not the Learning” The King John School CPC was set up in September 2010 to facilitate Isolation & Internal Exclusions.

The CPC is recognised as an integral part of the King John School delivering and maintaining a supportive environment with student intervention programmes, through a referral process, to tackle behavioural difficulties and promote a positive culture to learning that will motivate and enhance respect and achievement.

In the past two years the CPC has accommodated many visitors from other schools sharing our vision and techniques to improve the behaviour and learning outcomes of our students.

CPC Manager: Mrs. Darbey Monday to Friday

CPC Intervention Assistant: Miss McCullum

8.30am to 4.30pm Tel; 01702 558284 Ext; 766

Mission Statement

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To identify and reduce students at risk of exclusion and becoming NEET (Not in Employment, Education or Training)

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Provide a positive inclusion area Provide training and support for teachers in behaviour & classroom management Provide visual data evidence of student progression

Features of the Curriculum Plus Centre

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Whole staff support Social skills groups 1-2-1 mentoring Students work to timetable whilst in the CPC (as in lessons) to ensure that curriculum outcomes are met.

ICT facilities available including MAC Mobile phones & IPods are handed over on entry and returned on exit Random electronic scanning in operation Behaviour is continually challenged & monitored

Student Intervention

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After School Programme

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Restorative mediation

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other’s points of view within a non-judgmental environment with successful outcomes.

The ASP is an additional feature of the CPC. This provision offers behaviorally challenged students a personalized timetable with the opportunity to access the Curriculum with 1 -2 -1 Teacher support.

The CPC provide students with effective mediation sessions to give students the opportunity to take time to listen to each

Class based student support CPC staff deliver outreach support to identified lessons to support students learning and behaviour per half term.

Student monitoring

All students that access the CPC through our referral process are carefully monitored by CPC staff and this is communicated to subject teachers and Heads of Year to ensure that work set is completed to a good standard with support given.

The CPC staff would like to thank parents for their support this year and look forward to working with you in 2013.

We wish you all have a very happy and peaceful Christmas and a prosperous New Year.

Mrs Darbey

Curriculum Plus Centre Manger

Miss Mc Cullum

Curriculum Plus Centre Intervention Assistant.

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THE KING JOHN NEWSLETTER—No 48 December 2012

Charities Update...

The charity teams are having a really busy time trying to beat last year’s £13,000 total and are making excellent progress. There are all sorts of events happening from cake sales to a Santa Run to extreme beard shaving – we’ve got the lot!

Children In Need is our big event so far this term and I am delighted to report that this year we broke the £2000 barrier! Raising this in just one day is a brilliant achievement, so congratulations and thank you to everyone who contributed in any way.

Mrs Arrowsmith Charities Coordinator

THANK YOU to all staff and students for their contributions to the Poppy Appeal this year.

We raised a grand total of £482.75.

Our best total ever!!

Year 8 girls who did a sponsored walk in their pyjamas, for Children in Need

The King John School Children in Need Scroll of Honour 2012 Lily Lewis 7-09 sponsored walk £37 Gracie Braun 7-09 sponsored walk £26 Joe Phillips 8-08 sponsored ‘Bob’ £5 Bradley Hart 8-03 sponsored stand £12 7-04 Pudsey en Francais £5 Whitney Stearn 9-08 sponsored silence Ashleigh Connelly 8-08, Lauren Conly 8-08, Ella-Rose Renouf 8-11, Eva Swain 8-11, 10 mile sponsored pyjama walk £70.41

Since January 2012 The King John Academy of Arts has been offering classes in several Arts disciplines.

We would like to offer you the opportunity to join

Foundation Digital Photography Learn how to edit your own photos using Adobe Photoshop, using basic manipulation techniques you can airbrush, add effects and create quality images, good enough to frame!

Open to all ages Classes start January 2013.

Cost per term is £65 for 10 classes Additional cost for resources may be incurred

Other classes on offer are: Year 7 & 9 Street Dance, Painting Techniques and LAMDA Drama Please contact us to register your interest now!

The King John Academy of Arts 01702 426745 or 07528 484003

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THE KING JOHN NEWSLETTER—No 48 December 2012

Trenches history trip On the 13th October we, along with lots of other Year 8 students, went to Belgium on an educational trip to see the cemeteries that people from the war were buried in, and the trenches that they would have fought in.

We got to school around 5:15 am and left around 5:30am We had a long journey getting there but it was fine as we had our friends with us. We eventually got there and the first place we went to was amazing. It was called the Menin Gate. It had around 50,000 names of soldiers who had died in the war, but whose bodies were never found.

We were all walking round to see if we could find our own surnames.

Next, we were allowed to have a look round town, where there was a lovely Belgian chocolate shop, who had very kindly put a sign saying ‘Welcome The King John School’ and had also put special deals on just for us!

Once we had finished looking around we got back on our coach and went to a museum where we saw different uniforms the soldiers wore, different resources they had and we also got to have a look at what it would have been like in the places they slept. Once we finished walking around, and got what we wanted from the gift shop, we met our tour guide who would be with us for the next few hours. He took us to a few cemeteries, sharing a few stories of some of the soldiers; we also laid a wreath and read war poems in memory of them.

The final place we went was our favourite place, the trenches. It was amazing to see what they spent a long time living in to save their people back home. Our tour guide was telling us about the cramped conditions they survived in, and how they stayed alive. And we got to see for ourselves the size of it.

Overall it was a great day!

By Lauren Conley and Ashleigh Connelly 8-08

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THE KING JOHN NEWSLETTER—No 48 December 2012

PAUSE – 2013 Progress *Attitude to Learning *Uniform *Safe & sensible behaviour * Expectations & Exam success

Dear Parents/Carers, I am delighted to introduce our brand new PAUSE posters for January 2013. Since its launch in 2010 the PAUSE scheme has been at the centre of our school ethos and underpins the core values that as a school we strive to instill in all of our pupils.

Our aim is to not only give students the opportunity to fulfill their academic potential but to also leave King John as well rounded individuals who are able to make a positive contribution to society. Each week there is a ‘focus’ on one particular aspect of PAUSE. This is delivered and reinforced through tutor time activities and our ‘Thoughts for the Week’ programme; in assemblies; during lessons and in the corridors and playgrounds at break and lunchtimes.

By focusing on the basics and reinforcing our core values on a regular basis we are confident that with your support we can ensure that our youngsters will have the right personal qualities so that together we can indeed ‘Turn good students into amazing people’.

Mr. S. Watts

Examinations Office The King John School Examination Office now puts all important examination information on the school website. Look in the Main Entrance section and you will see the new examinations tab on the right-hand side.

We will be regularly updating the site with deadlines, times, venues, booklets and guidelines etc.

Please keep checking the site for the latest information about the current and forthcoming examination sessions.

Please contact the Exams Officer, Ms. Newton, with any enquiries.

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Hair Price List

Facials Basic with Paraffin Wax with Prepared Masks with Peel-off Mask Dermalogica Facial

Styling (including styling products) Cut and Blow Dry/Set £6.00 Shampoo and Set £4.00 Blow Dry £4.00 Braids/Platting £4.00 Wet Cut £4.00 Intensive Conditioning Treatments (short) £5.00 Intensive Conditioning Treatments (shoulder length) £7.00 Intensive Conditioning Treatments (below shoulder) £8.00 PERMING (*without cut and finish) Perm— long hair by quotation £10.00* COLOURING (*without cut and finish) Semi-Permanent or Temporary £10.00* Permanent £15.00 / £20.00 Highlights/Wovens £20.00 / £30.00

Beauty Price List Make-up Day Evening Special Occasion Waxing Half leg Three quarter leg Full leg Bikini line Forearm (half) Full arm Underarm Abdomen Lip & chin Electrical Facials Microcurrent Vacuum Suction Facial Faradic Facial Galvanic Facial High Frequency

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PE Department Congratulations to David Abiona of V14 has finished the athletics season ranked 8th in the country for Triple Jump. A fantastic achievement for David who has only taken up athletics seriously this season.

The King John Girls have again won the district cross country championships.

They had a fantastic time.

The Year 7 girls won their race; The Year 8 and 9 combined girls won their race; and, The senior girls came second in their race.

The boys enjoyed an excellent morning coming second in all three of their races.

This was definitely the best cross country team the school have put out in the last few years and overall we came second behind FitzWimarc.

Special mention to Christian Gray, 10-06 who won the senior race running against older boys!! (Ross Johnson was a close second).

Congratulations to the Under 19, 16 and 14 netball teams, they are through to the next round of the Essex Cup. We wish them good luck in the next round.

Castlepoint & Rochford Sports Award

Cross Country Training A big well done to all the girls that came in during half term for extra cross country training! Especially Amy and Claudia who came in on their birthday!

Poppy Douglas, Katie Bazela, Emily Warren, Abbie Walters, Rebecca Findlay, Sarah Carter, Emily George, Abbey Rex, Georgia Ward, Yasmin Robinson, Hannah Mickleburgh-Gardham, Charlotte George, Lauren Paul, Genevieve Pate, Katie Rawlings, Amy Rawlings, Claudia Carroll, Antonia Tidy-Jones Mrs Cann.

Rebecca Griffin 9-09 and Kiera Tippett 9-06 were shortlisted for the Castlepoint & Rochford Sports Award back in October. Rebecca won the ‘Castlepoint Disability Sports Personality of the Year’ She received a beautiful glass trophy, a perpetual trophy, a framed certificate and £100 (as well as tickets each to see a Southend United game!)

Rebecca competes for Rayleigh Town Archery club, training twice a week and competing every weekend. Since September she has won the County Championships and the Southern Counties. Rebecca has also represented Essex in an Inter Counties match where she came 1st.

Kiera won the ‘Castlepoint Young Sports Personality of the Year’.

She was also presented with a beautiful glass trophy, a perpetual trophy, a framed certificate and £100 (as well as tickets each to see a Southend United game!)

Kiera impressed the committee so much that she was put into the ‘Sports Personality of the Year’ category and was awarded the ‘Distinction Award’ and awarded a certificate for this too.

Kiera is a multi talented young sportsperson! She travelled to Dubai at the beginning of November to compete in the World Biathle Championship (run, swim, run) , she came 7th in the world. She was also selected to represent the Eastern Region in the Mountain Bike and Cycle Cross International Regional championship, having the opportunity to ride on the Olympic course.

National Schools Cross Country – Regional Final

Both girls work really hard and are a credit to the school Over 500 schools nationally enter this competition so to have 3 teams through to the Regional Final is a huge achievement. The North Thames area (London, Hertfordshire, Middlesex and Essex) is one of the strongest around. The junior girls team Years 7 & 8) finished 9th overall but with 5 out of the 7 in the team from Year 7 this is a fantastic achievement and puts them in strong contention for next year. The Junior boys all had the race of their lives to finish 5 th overall beating local rivals Fitzwimarc (by 50 points) Greensward and King Edmund. Lukas Volk was the top finisher with a brilliant 10th position. The Inter girls (Years 9 &10) missed out on the National final by just 10 points!! They finished in an agonising 4th place but again the team was predominantly from Year 9 so should be successful next year. All of the runners have trained so hard, coming in for early morning sessions and giving up their time during the holidays and Saturday mornings and this has culminated in our most successful schools cup EVER!!!!

Junior girls – Niamh Smith, Poppy Douglas, Charlotte George, Sarah Carter, Lauren Paul, Abbey Rex, Katy Fenner Junior boys – Lukas Volk, Rhys Connors, Bryce O’dea, Azar Aitmarri, Bailey Millen, Isaac Clifton, Danny Warrens Inter Girls – Kiera Tippett, Antonia Tidy jones, Emily Warren, Abbi May Walters, Briony Findlay, Katie Bazela

U13 Girls Football - quarter finals of Essex Cup! Well done to the U13 girls who beat Leytonstone School 5-2. They played very well on a very foggy, muddy pitch. Goals from Lily Lewis, Lavinia Tidy Jones (2), Rhianna Castle and an own goal. The girls play Moulsham school after Christmas in the quarter finals.

Squad - Shanice O'Connor, Helena Milne, Sasha Souto, Gracie Braun, Nancy George, Lavinia Tidy Jones, Rhianna Castle, Rumer Jones, Sarah Carter, Lily Lewis, Claudia Carroll, Niamh Smith, Rebecca Fundlay, Grace Okutubu, Maisie Hession Harris, Maddy Hatton, Niamh Smith.

Player of the match - Gracie Braun

Follow the PE department on twitter. You will find information regarding fixtures, results and general sporting news for Years 7 to 13. So go ahead and twitter twitter@kjssport

Mrs Cann & Mr Webb

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MFL The Languages Department has continued to grow this term with students in year 12 being able to study Latin or Italian GCSE from scratch using their French and Spanish knowledge to help them speed through a brand new GCSE.

As part of the British Film Institute’s promotion, A level Spanish students at the KJS were given a free viewing of Habla Con Ella, a Spanish film by the renowned director Almodavar. As year 13 student Kelly Wilson says: “It was a tragic film which depicted events that occur in reality.. I feel that the intention was not to shock but to emphasise that one cannot hide from realism, it must be acknowledged and understood.

Viewing this film benefitted me as the language used and high level issues discussed gave me more vocabulary and enhanced my understanding of Spanish grammar.”

Mandarin has also started and is currently offered to Year 12 students as part of their enrichment program and Mrs Carter is running a Mandarin Club for keen linguists on Thursday lunchtime.

Student successes!

Congratulations to the following students for being nominated by their peers or teachers as the student of the month in their class and year.

Need extra help with your French or Spanish homework?

Want to practice some speaking?

Just want to check something quickly?

Lorena and Nicolas our Spanish and French assistants are available to help you each Tuesday in UC8.

Drop in if you need any support with homework, coursework or just to find out about something French or Spanish!

Dates to remember: February 2013 – KS4 trip to Andalucia March 2013 KS4 Trip to Paris. Over 30 students will be undertaking language and cultural tasks around the beautiful city of Paris.

April 2013 – Year 7 and 8 trip to Barcelona and surrounding regions. Students will be enjoying the culture and language opportunities provided in this beautiful part of Spain May 2013 Year 7 and 8 trip to St Omer, France for a trip combining science , history, cookery and French!

Details for all trips, including photos and videos of past trips and letters can be found on the VLE, French/Spanish Trips

Year 7

French Charlie Nash

8

Indi Williams

Spanish Georgina McCarthy Katie Jackson

9

Jordan Castle

Jasmine Armfield

10

Laura Peacock

Akira White

11

Mark Howe

Lloyd Burton

12

Kirstie Reid

Joshua Lipscombe

13

Elizabeth Wisbey Gemma Ford Kirstie Reid

Jessica Johnson

Italian Latin

Chinese club

Joyeux Noel! Feliz navidad! From the Languages Faculty!

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Level 3 Electrical Treatments Body Electrical Treatments: Galvanic Electro muscle stimulator Micro-Current Lymphatic Drainage

Facial Electrical Treatments: Direct High Frequency Galvanic Micro-Current Lymphatic Drainage All facials are good for deep cleansing of the skin, they also help to reduce the appearance of lines and wrinkles giving skin youth and radiance. Visible results can be seen after a course of treatments. Cost per treatment £10

Visible results can be seen after a course of treatments. Cost of treatment £8.

Come and get trim at the KJS gym

Looking to hire facilities Well look no further If interested please contact Laurence Thorn on 01702 426703 Or E-mail : laurencet@thekjs.com The School can offer: Astroturf Sports Hall Gymnasium Classrooms Theatre Dance Studio

Small, private gym Technogym Wellness equipment; Personal Trainers; Fitness Instructor; T.V screens Only £25 per month - 20% discount if you have a relative at the King John School

All available to hire in the evening or on a Saturday (Regrettably we cannot hire premises for social gatherings and parties)

Open Monday to Friday 6.30—9.30pm No fixed membership period - you can cancel at any time

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