Sir John Talbot's School Parent Bulletin 04.10.19

WEEKLY BULLETIN

Friday

4th

Issue 44 October 2019

Dear Parents and Carers, Geography fieldwork Year 9 chose the best day of the week to visit the seaside town of Llandudno to complete their Geography fieldwork. The sun shone as students worked hard to collect information, which will form the basis of their studies on their current unit of work Tourism.

House Competition Tutor groups have just 6 days left in which to prepare items for their craft and cookery display table. The table top arrangements will be exhibited at the Year 7 Parents’ Evening on Thursday 10 October. Students will be creating a poem, a picture, a cake, flower arrangement and other items under the theme of ‘Harvest’. I look forward to seeing a magnificent array of cakes and vegetables in the shape of an animal!

Assemblies The theme of this week’s assembly was eSafety. Students were made aware of the misuse of social media and in particular the dangers of posting photographs and information on platforms such as Snapchat, Instagram and many others. The assembly also highlighted the consequences of cyberbullying and the devastating effect this has on young people. Students were reminded of the school policy on mobile phones and the duty of care schools have to protect young people. Policies can be found in the student planner and on the school website. Students were advised to be SMART online.

Safe – Keep your personal information such as passwords safe. You would not give them out to a stranger in the street.

Meeting – Do not meet up with anyone you speak to online through things such as gaming and social media. Always know who you are talking to.

Accept – Think before you accept a friend request or a file from someone you do not know.

Reliable – Make sure you know who you are talking to as not everyone online is trustworthy. People lie about their age.

Tell – Tell a parent, teacher or a friend if someone or something makes you feel uncomfortable online.

Cyber Safety Guidance for Parents It has been brought to our attention that the game ’Roblox’ may pose risks to your child’s safety online. Roblox is a game creation system platform that has links to other platforms some of which may be inappropriate for young students. We therefore strongly recommend that any usage of Roblox is supervised by parents as any account restrictions do not prevent contact with strangers.

Mobile Phone Safety With rapidly changing technology and easier access to a wide variety of information, some of which may be unsuitable for young people, it is important that you monitor what your child is looking at on their mobile phone.

Mrs Apperley, Assistant Headteacher

Upcoming Dates  Silver DofE Snowdon Challenge – 5 October 2019  Year 10 Geography Liverpool – 10 October 2019  Year 7 End of Transition Meeting – 10 October 2019  Year 11 Futures Day – 17 October 2019  Sixth Form Open Evening – 17 October 2019, from

6:00pm – 8:00pm. To register please click here.

Theatre Trip On Tuesday, 91 Year 10 students attended an incredible performance of ‘An Inspector Calls’ at Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury. The staging of the performance was impressive and students were engaged by the original and energetic performances. There was even more excitement when we found out that one of the actors had starred in Harry Potter! It was a fantastic event that will prepare Year 10 students for their GCSE English Literature exam this summer.

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Hadrian’s Wall Trip

Rugby U13 Team

Twenty-four Latin students departed SJT at the end of last week and headed for the outpost of the Roman Empire, Hadrian’s Wall. Friday morning was spent at the Roman Army Museum based at the site of Carvoran Roman Fort, and the afternoon at Vindolanda site. At Vindolanda students were given a talk by a volunteer guide and then had the opportunity to explore the ruined fort before going to the excellent museum. Vindolanda is famed for the ‘tablets’, ancient letters written by soldiers on small pieces of very fine wood which were discovered in the excavations of the fort. The latest find to be exhibited was a pair of Roman boxing gloves.

As mentioned in last week’s bulletin our Year 8 team played Thomas Adams School in a tremendously hard fought game. The score remained fairly even throughout the match with SJT taking the initiative just at the end to win 28-25. 4 tries were scored by Cian English 1, Liam Wright 1 and Henry Appleby 2 with Henry also scoring all 4 conversions! Well done to all who took part!

On Saturday, the group took the AD122 bus to Housesteads and after half an hour looking over that fort began walking the section of Hadrian’s Wall back to the Sill Youth Hostel where they had stayed for the duration of the trip. The weather was forecast to be terrible but the rain held off for most of the walk and they were able to picnic in ‘Sycamore Gap’.

Dodgeball Last week saw mixed success for our Dodgeball teams.

Commiserations to our boys team who despite their best efforts unfortunately failed to qualify, coming 4th overall.

A huge well done to our girls team however, who managed to qualify for the School's Games final!

Football U14 Girls Recently our U14 girls Football team faced a tough Meole Brace School and Science College squad. Despite their promising play, the girls were outscored 2:1, resulting in them being knocked out of the County Cup.

Friend of Sir John Talbot’s The next Friends of SJT meeting will take place on Monday 7 October 2019 at 7:30pm in the Social Dining area. We will be starting to plan Halloween and Christmas. If you would like to help but are unable to attend this meeting or would like further information please contact Jen Chesworth: jenchesworth7@gmail.com.

Sir John Talbot’s School Prees Road, Whitchurch, Shropshire, SY13 2BY T: 01948 660600 | E: sjtadmin@mmat.co.uk | W: www. sirjohntalbots.co.uk