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Issue 458 Friday 27th February 2015 issued every Friday
Enquiries: 020 8270 6222
Absence Line: 020 8724 1531
Website: www.jorichardson.org.uk
Email: headteacher@jorichardson.org.uk
Twitter: @JRCS_School
HEADTEACHER’S NEWS
New Fitness Suite at JRCS
From the middle of next week we will have a
brand new, state of the art Fitness Suite at
JRCS. The old library has been converted to
accommodate a wide range of the highest
quality fitness equipment. This new facility
will allow our students to access some of the
best fitness and weights equipment in the
Borough. The suite is also open to the
general public both at selected times during
the day as well as evenings and weekends. I
will make sure that I put more details about
this exciting development at JRCS in next
week’s Seagull.
Year 9 Options Evening
It was a pleasure to see so many of our Year
9 parents in school on Thursday night. This
is obviously an incredibly important time for
our Year 9 students as they are about to
make a decision about the courses that they
will study at Key Stage 4. I look forward to
seeing our Year 9 parents again on Thursday
12th March when a final decision will be taken
about the choices that their son/daughter has
made.
Next week is week 1
Name:
Form:
Well done Brandon!
Many congratulations to
Brandon Filbert 8H who
has been offered a part
in the production of
‘Oliver’ as part of
Fagin’s gang at the
Kenneth Moore
Theatre.
We wish him all the best of luck in this
exciting role.
Parent Governor Vacancy
Thank you to those parents who put
themselves forward for our Parent Governor
vacancy. Your son/daughter will have
brought home a ballot form to enable you to
vote for your preferred candidate. Completed
forms need to be returned by 12:00 noon on
Thursday 4th March. Appologies for the
short notice , but we need to make an
appointment in advance of our next
Governing Body meeting on Monday 9th
March.
Mr Smith
Headteacher
GENERAL NEWS
Reminder to parents
It is a parent’s responsibility to notify the
school on the first day of your child’s absence
as to why they are unable to attend school
that day. The absence line number is 0208
724 1531 which is open 24 hours a day. If
your child is marked absent with no reason,
you may receive a visit from our Student
Services Manager responsible for
attendance.
Red Nose day has
always been a brilliant
tradition at Jo Richardson
and this year is no
exception. Red noses
will be on sale next week
and Friday 13th Marchthe
day will be marked as a day of fancy dress.
The cost of non-uniform is a £1 donation to
the Red Nose appeal and ALL money raised
will be sent to this amazing organisation.
Please join us on this day to make it fun and
help us to change lives across the UK and
the globe.
advisor to the Foreign and Commonwealth
Office.
If you are interested, please see Ms Boller
ASAP as places are limited.
Ms Boller
Student Communication Manager
Fundraising Team
University of Cambridge Challenge Day
World Book Day - Thursday 5th March 2015
Book your time slot for your ‘fifteen minutes of
fame’ taking part in the annual all day JRCS
Reading Marathon. For those who are not
familiar with this event, a staged area is set
up in Main Street and different students take
turns reading for fifteen minutes each
throughout the day. (You will read to yourself
and can use your own book or choose one
available on the day.)
This runs from 8.30am – 3.00pm.
The theme this year is sport, energy to fuel
your mind while gaining a wealth of
knowledge from books.
To take part and book your time slot, see
Ms Osland in the library.
Ten Year 10 students were taken to
Cambridge in order to learn about studying at
that top university. In addition to a tour and
some lectures, our students participated in a
challenge against 10 other schools from
across the country and won!
Well done: Sinead Murphy, Abigail Hall,
Niranjana Unni, Banita Chander,
Sueda Oktay, Ruxandra Ilie, Jessica Idahosa,
Moyin Adetoye, Jordan Wauchope and
Jordan Lowe.
Ms Moody
Accelerated Learning Co-ordinator
Emma Wade OBE
We have been afforded the opportunity to
have one of Britain’s leading women in the
field of Human Rights from the Foreign and
Commonwealth Office deliver a lecture to our
students on Wednesday 18th March. Emma
Wade OBE received the award for leading
the evacuation of thousands of British
Nationals from Egypt and more than 700 from
Libya in the recent conflicts. Her work in
responding to natural disasters in New
Zealand and Japan and the recent unrest in
the Ivory Coast has been highly praised and
also earned her a high accolade as an
£1 Book Tokens
To encourage and help students on their
reading journey on World Book Day, students
will receive a £1 World Book Day book token
which can either be exchanged for one of ten
special £1 World Book Day books or used to
get £1 off any book costing £2.99 or more.
You can find out more about the books at:
worldbookday.com/books.
The token can be redeemed at most UK
bookshops, including W H Smith. Please
encourage your child to use it on or around
World Book Day by visiting your local
bookshop (if you need help finding one, visit
booksellers.org.uk/bookshopsearch).
Happy World Book Day.
Ms Osland
School Librarian
Year 11 Revision Club
In BS3, every Friday from 3:30pm – 4:30pm.
All welcome.
Mrs Hart
Pastoral Support Assistant Year 11
Year 10 Revision Club
In Library, every Friday from 3:30pm to
4:30pm starting 27th February.
Providing support in organisation for revision
and a quiet space to focus.
Mrs Eades
Pastoral Support Assistant Year 10
Sixth Form “Student Finance for
University” Talks
Tuesday 10th March 6:00pm – 7:00pm
Wednesday 11th March 11.30am – 12.30pm
With Year 13 students now receiving their
offers from universities, it is time to think
about the money! The Sixth Form Team are
putting on two sessions to explain what
“Student Finance” is all about, what you can
apply for and how to do it. It is expected that
students in Year 13, applying to university,
will attend one of the two sessions but
parents are also invited to attend whichever
session is most convenient.
There will be an opportunity to ask questions
and also pick up some useful tips and
guidance to make sure applications are as
easy as possible.
We look forward to seeing you at one of the
sessions.
Miss Campbell
Deputy Director of Sixth Form
Panathlon Success
On Thursday 12th February, Mr Kilminster
and I accompanied 11 students from Years
7 – 9 who got through the Panathlon trials to
represent the Borough at the Round 1
Panathlon Challenge taking place at Langdon
School in Newham, where they competed
against teams from Havering. It was a
brilliant day of competition, and all the JRCS
students tried very hard, leading to some
brilliant performances and lots of medals!
Enrique Del Rio and Khai Sesay both got
bronze medals for their performance on the
boccia team, Jake Pengelly, Charlotte Mew
and Harry Ely all won silver medals as part of
the table cricket team, Daniel Odejide and
David Olanrewaji achieved silver against stiff
competition in the javelin, Abigail Jacobs
worked very hard achieving a personal best
time and gaining a silver medal in the
wheelchair slalom. We also came away with
three gold medals, two of which were won by
Reon Lawrence–Wright with a huge jump in
the standing long jump, he was also part of
the victorious new age kurling team. Nathan
Batt also achieved gold with a very focussed
performance in the shot putt event.
We also had a pleasant surprise during the
day, when we found a familiar face coming to
visit us. Mr Armour now works at Langdon
School, and he spotted the school minibus in
the car park and came to find us. The
students were pleased to see him, and
enjoyed showing off their medals.
The Barking and Dagenham team overall
won the athletics field events
competition. Abigail Jacobs, Charlotte Mew,
Daniel Odejide, Harry Ely and David
Olanrewaju also participated in the athletics
races team which came in second place. It
was an extremely exciting finish with three
Boroughs within a few points of each other
right up until the final events. However,
Barking and Dagenham managed to win by
just two points. The school trophy cabinet
outside the School Office now contains the
winner’s trophy. This means that the team
are through to round 2 event which takes
place at University of East London Sports
Dock on Tuesday 17th March.
the hail stone weather the courts were a bit
slippery and the wind was rather chilly but the
teams were in high spirits. We have such a
good turnout at Year 7 netball we now have
an A and a B team for the first time in years.
The B team started their netball careers
unbeaten winning against Barking Abbey B
1-0 and drawing with the A team 1-1. The A
team had a bad start only winning 1-0 against
Barking Abbey A team but getting it together
for the second match and beating Barking
Abbey B 8-0.
We now have to wait and see if we have won
enough matches to qualify for the finals of the
Borough league in March.
Players of the match were Shantel Jjumba 7E
for the B team and Dannie Ihezuo-Nnadi 7F
and Gerren Ntiri 7G for the A team.
PE Fixtures
Monday 2nd March:
Girls Year 8 Netball vs Riverside (H)
Tuesday 3rd March:
Boys Year 9 Football vs Barking Abbey (H)
Thank you to all the students for their good
behaviour and contributing towards such a
fantastic result for the Borough team. Thanks
also to Mr Kilminster whose help with the
team on the day was invaluable.
Wednesday 4th March:
Boys Sixth Form Football vs Sydney Russell
(A)
Miss Wilkinson
PE Department
OFFICE ASSISTANTS
Good luck to the team on 17th March!
Ms Montague
School Games Co-ordinator
The Office Assistants for the week beginning
Monday 2nd March:
Netball News
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Katie Bryan 8F
Sonny Foster 8F
Billy Houlihan 8F
Jordan Kesler 8F
Sarlota Kolosova 8F
LIBRARY ASSISTANTS
The Library Assistants for the week beginning
Monday 2nd March:
Tuesday
Thursday
The Year 7s had their last league netball
match this Tuesday vs Barking Abbey. After
Cheyenne Calverley 8F
Harry Keating 8F
Year 10 and Year 11 Mock Exams
Below is a copy of Year 10 and 11 exam timetable which starts on Monday 9th February. These are
internal exams and students will be required to attend normal lessons. Please make sure students have a
good breakfast and they have the correct equipment with them for each exam, including a calculator (if
needed) and a black pen. If they wish to, they may bring water, but this needs to be in a clear plastic bottle
with the label removed. Please remind your child that under no circumstances should mobile phones be
taken into exam rooms. If your child is unable to attend any of their exams, please call the attendance line
as usual and we will require a letter from your doctor.
Year 10 Mock Exams
Day/Date
Monday 2nd March
Paper
Time
Location
Engineering
8:45am
DT5
nd
Music Listening
11:15am
Boothroyd Hall
nd
Citizenship
2:00pm
Boothroyd Hall & DA2
rd
Tuesday 3 March
Geography
8:45am
Boothroyd Hall
Tuesday 3rd March
DT Product Design & Food
11:15am
Boothroyd Hall
Monday 2 March
Monday 2 March
rd
Tuesday 3 March
Science B1
2:00pm
Boothroyd Hall
th
PE
11:15am
Boothroyd Hall
th
Wednesday 4 March
Science C1
2:00pm
Boothroyd Hall
Thursday 5th March
Wednesday 4 March
Business & Economics
8:45am
Boothroyd Hall
th
French Listening & Reading
11:15am
Boothroyd Hall
th
Construction & Dance
2:00pm
Boothroyd Hall
Friday 6 March
History
8:45am
Boothroyd Hall
Friday 6th March
Spanish Listening & Reading
11:15am
Boothroyd Hall
Science P1
2:00pm
Boothroyd Hall
Art Practical
All day
Art Corridor
DT Practical
All day
DT Corridor
Drama Practical
All day
Drama Corridor
Music Practical
All day
Music Corridor
Thursday 5 March
Thursday 5 March
th
th
Friday 6 March
th
Monday 9 March
th
Tuesday 10 March
Monday 22nd June
rd
th
Tues 23 & Weds 24 June
Year 11 Mock Exam Timetable 2015
Day/Date
Paper
Time
Location
th
iGCSE English
8:45am
Hall & Dance Studio
th
Media
8:45am
Hall
th
Tuesday 17 March
Geography
11:15am
Hall
Tuesday 17th March
Tuesday 10 March
Tuesday 17 March
Food
2:00pm
Hall
th
Business & Economics (Paper 1)
8:45am
Hall
th
Triple Science P3
10:00am
Hall
th
Wednesday 18 March
Spanish Listening & Reading
11:15am
Hall
Wednesday 18th March
Science B2
2:00pm
Hall & Dance Studio
Wednesday 18 March
Wednesday 18 March
th
th
Thurs 19 & Fri 20 March
Art Practical
All day (2 days)
Art Corridor
rd
Maths - Non Calculator
8:45am
Hall & Dance Studio
rd
Monday 23 March
French Listening & Reading
11:15am
Boothroyd Hall
Monday 23rd March
Monday 23 March
Science C2
2:00pm
Hall & Dance Studio
th
IT
8:45am
Boothroyd Hall
th
Tuesday 24 March
Business (Paper 3) & Economics (Paper 5)
11:30am
Boothroyd Hall
Tuesday 24th March
Science P2
2:00pm
Hall & Dance Studio
Thursday 26th March
Maths - Calculator
8:45am
Hall & Dance Studio
Tuesday 24 March
You will find all tasks in the tab
called “Experiments”
NEW LIBRARY WEBSITE
The library now has a fabulous new website for students called ‘Eclipse’.
Once students have logged into their school account they will be
automatically logged into Eclipse. (‘Eclipse’ can be found in ‘Department’ –
‘Library’ – ‘Eclipse’.)
The website has the appearance of a desktop and is interactive, and there
is plenty to check out on the site.
Attention all KS3 students!
Are you interested in doing some fun Science experiments,
collect credits and LOCs? If yes, take part in the Science
Spring challenge. Here’s what to do:
1. Each Friday on the Smarties Science Club website there
All the books in the library are logged on the Eclipse system allowing
students to easily view their library account of current books on loan,
overdue books, past loans and lots more to do like:
 Search/Reserve books ⨠ See New Arrivals and Book
Returned ⨠ Who Next’ book search
 Search Resources, follow Linked Items ⨠ Read and Create Book
Reviews
 Find/see levels of books on Accelerated Reader ⨠ Store your
favourite books
will be a post with a new experiment.
2. Conduct the experiment at home, take a few photos
showing your results – you could even film yourself doing
the experiment – and email it to Miss Ochwat.
3. For each experiment you are going to get 10 credits. If
you complete 7 out of 12 challenges, you will receive an
LOC.
4. See Miss Ochwat in SC3 if you have any questions.
The Smarties Science Club website:
www.smartiesjrcs.blogspot.com
Email: KOchwat@jorichardson.org.uk
Miss Ochwat
Take a look and get interactive with the new library website.
Ms Osland
School Librarian