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Dunstall Road
Barton under Needwood Burton Upon Trent DE13 8AZ
Subscribe: https://jths.co.uk/subscribe

Email: [email protected]
Phone: 01283 247 800
Fax: 01283 247 799

John Taylor High School

Dunstall Road,
Barton under Needwood,
Burton Upon Trent, DE13 8AZ

Phone: 01283 247 800
General queries: [email protected]
Student Absence Line : 01283 376751

Headteacher: Mr J Blanchenot

Chair of Governors: Mr. D Martin
email: [email protected]
c/o school address

SENDCo: Mr A Smith
email:
[email protected]


John Taylor MAT
c/o Branston Locks Primary and Nursery School,
Shire Way,
Branston Locks,
Burton upon Trent,
Staffordshire,
DE13 9WU

(Google Maps, navigate to  DE13 9GA & Not DE13 9WU)

E: [email protected]
T: 01543 761062

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5 May
WEEK A

05 May 2025 - 09 May 2025

6 May
EXAMS: Y7, Y8 and Y9 End of Year Assessments (in lessons) completed and recorded this term

06 May 2025 - 09 May 2025

9 May
TRIP: D of E (Year 9)

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9 May
EXAM: Year 13  BTEC Art Unit 7 in U25

All day

9 May
EXAMS: Y12 Trial Exams

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10 May
TRIP: D of E (Year 9)

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11 May
TRIP: D of E (Year 9)

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12 May
TRIP: Y10 Kenilworth Castle

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12 May
WEEK B

12 May 2025 - 16 May 2025

12 May
EXAMS: Y7, Y8 and Y9 End of Year Assessments (in lessons) completed and recorded this term

12 May 2025 - 16 May 2025

12 May
EXAMS: A Level & GCSE

All day

12 May
PD: Personal Development Session

9:00 AM - 9:50 AM

12 May
EXAM: Year 12  BTEC Art Unit 2 in U25

9:00 AM - 12:30 PM

12 May
EXAM: Year 13 A-Level Art in L20

9:00 AM - 3:40 PM

13 May
EXAMS: A Level & GCSE

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13 May
ASSEMBLY: House Assembly - Sherwood

9:00 AM - 9:25 AM

14 May
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14 May
ASSEMBLY: House Assembly - Kingstone

9:00 AM - 9:25 AM

15 May
TRIP: Y10 Kenilworth Castle

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15 May
EXAMS: A Level & GCSE

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15 May
ASSEMBLY: House Assembly - Marchington

9:00 AM - 9:25 AM

16 May
EXAMS: A Level & GCSE

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16 May
REPORTS: Y9 Snapshot Download

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16 May
MEETING: House Leaders

9:00 AM - 9:25 AM

16 May
ASSEMBLY: House Assembly - Needwood

9:00 AM - 9:25 AM

19 May
EXAMS: MAT assessment window (Eng&Maths Y7,8,9/Sci Y7,8/Hist&Geog Y7)

19 May 2025 - 23 May 2025

19 May
INDUCTION: Primary School Visits

19 May 2025 - 23 May 2025

19 May
INDUCTION: SEN Walk Round Day

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19 May
WEEK A

19 May 2025 - 23 May 2025

19 May
EXAMS: A Level & GCSE

All day

19 May
EXAMS: Y7, Y8 and Y9 End of Year Assessments (in lessons) completed and recorded this term

19 May 2025 - 23 May 2025

19 May
PD: Personal Development Session

9:00 AM - 9:50 AM

20 May
EXAMS: A Level & GCSE

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21 May
INDUCTION: SEN Booklet Day

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21 May
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22 May
EXAMS: A Level & GCSE

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22 May
MEETING: House Leaders

9:00 AM - 9:25 AM

22 May
EVENT: Primary Y1-2 Multi Skills Festival on the Field

1:00 PM - 3:15 PM

23 May
EXAMS: A Level & GCSE

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26 May
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27 May
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28 May
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29 May
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30 May
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30 May
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31 May
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1 Jun
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2 Jun
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2 Jun
EXAMS: MAT assessment window (Eng&Maths Y7,8,9/Sci Y7,8/Hist&Geog Y7)

02 Jun 2025 - 06 Jun 2025

2 Jun
INDUCTION: Primary School Visits

02 Jun 2025 - 06 Jun 2025

2 Jun
WEEK B

02 Jun 2025 - 06 Jun 2025

2 Jun
EXAMS: A Level & GCSE

All day

2 Jun
PD: Personal Development Session

9:00 AM - 9:50 AM

3 Jun
EXAMS: A Level & GCSE

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3 Jun
MEETING: House Council

9:00 AM - 9:25 AM

4 Jun
INDUCTION: SEN Activity Day

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4 Jun
EXAMS: A Level & GCSE

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5 Jun
INDUCTION: Y6 Settling in Session LRC

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5 Jun
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5 Jun
MEETING: House Leaders

9:00 AM - 9:25 AM

5 Jun
EVENT: Primary Multi skills - Reserve Date

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

6 Jun
EXAMS: A Level & GCSE

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6 Jun
EVENT:Eid al-Adha

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7 Jun
EVENT:Eid al-Adha

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9 Jun
INDUCTION: Primary School Visits

09 Jun 2025 - 13 Jun 2025

9 Jun
REPORTS: Y12 Data incl Trail Exam results published

All day

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Weekly Information - Friday 8th March 2024

  • All - Hot Chocolate with the Head
  • Hot Chocolate with the Head 08/03/24
  • Local Primary School Mixed Football
  • World Book Day Success
  • Raspberry Pi Competition
  • National Careers Week 2024
  • Invite to Year 7 Disco
  • Red Nose Day 2024
  • Online Safety
  • All-Safeguarding
  • All - Attendance update

All - Hot Chocolate with the Head

The following students celebrated their achievements with Mrs Cochrane this week, congratulations to them all! 

Joe       10A
Fredide 10A
Zara     10A
Oliver    10A
Ethan    10A
Sadie     7Y

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Hot Chocolate with the Head 08/03/24

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Today’s Hot Chocolate with the Head was all about our awesome Year 10 students who have been put through their paces and raised money for charity.

Joe, Freddie, Zara, Oliver and Ethan have all been nominated by Mr Roberts, their Form Tutor, for completing a military fitness challenge to raise money for the Jerry Green Dog Rescue. Through sponsorship, the group of five managed to raise a total of £150 which will contribute to their running charity total within their form group which is now over £1000.

The military style course included 6 rounds of pull-ups, shuttle runs, tricep dips and sit-ups which was a real challenge for the pupils. Mr Roberts was extremely proud of how the team took on the exercises showing a lot of determination throughout. Mr Roberts and volunteers from his form have also completed a 5km run and plan to run a sweet shop to raise more funds for selected charities.

Mrs Cochrane was really impressed with the groups efforts and re-enforced how raising money for charity shows kindness, which is one of the school’s core values. It was also great to hear the group talk about what subjects they enjoy at school which included; DT, Health & Social, English, IT and Business, and how they are managing their revision and looking towards the future.

Well done to all the students for being nominated, you have gone above & beyond and should be really proud of yourself.

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Local Primary School Mixed Football

Local Primary School Mixed Football

On Wednesday 6th March, we welcomed a group of Year 5 & 6 pupils from Needwood, Rangemore & Walton to join us for an evening of Football fun!

The sessions, led by our Sports Leaders and Young Sporting Ambassadors, started with a warm up and some practice sessions which the primary pupils really enjoyed. It was great to see so much enthusiasm in the build up to the match.

During the games, the level of skill and team-spirit from the primary pupils was phenomenal. It was great to hear them talking about tactics and supporting each other from start to finish with lots of cheering and high-fives!

It was the responsibility of our Sports Leaders to lead the warm-ups, organise the heats, keep track of the scores, and award the winning team with a trophy and certificates. Our Sports Leaders really wanted to make the event a memorable experience for the primary pupils and inspire them to continue their passion for football.

Thank you and well done to all those involved!

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World Book Day Success

What an awesome day celebrating World Book Day! We had our Flash Fiction event, Book on a Door Competition, Book Trails, Dressing Up Competition, Short Story Writing, Bake a Book Competition, and the chance for our students to exchange their book tokens.

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Thank you to Mrs Collier, LRC Manager, and her team for making the day come alive and organising lots of events for our students to get involved in. Mrs Collier said ‘World Book Day is always an important event at JTHS.  It's a fantastic way to get the whole school involved and share a love of reading, through creative competitions and dressing up as book characters.  Students love seeing staff get dressed up and involved in sharing a love of books.

A special shoutout goes to our winners of the following competitions:

Year 7 Dressing Up Winner Rebekah Y7

Staff Dressing Up Winner Miss Sears

Bake a Book Competition Winner Delta and Louisa Y10

Book On A Door Winners:  Year 7 7H with War Horse, Year 8T with Bone Sparrow, Year 9 9O with The Midnight Library, Y10 10S with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Short Story Competition Winner Harry Y7

Staff Book Trail Competition Winner Fatimah Y7

Our final World Book Day event took place on Monday 11th March where we have the pleasure of welcoming Bali Rai, author of over 40 books for children, who will be doing creative writing workshops and leading assembly sessions.

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Thank you to all our staff and students for taking part and making the events a success. Take a look through our pictures below! 

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Raspberry Pi Competition

On Thursday 7th March, Mrs Bostock and her team of students tested their programming skills for the annual Raspberry Pi competition, an initiative by PA Consulting. 

The competition is a celebration of STEM education, 'giving school children the tools and opportunity to invent products that can benefit society. Using engineering and coding skills and a Raspberry Pi microcomputer; students put their ingenuity to the test to come up with inspiring solutions to global challenges.'

This years competition is all about Healthcare and inventing a product that will help improve health and well-being. The students wrote the code and programmed the computer to control and monitor the temperature of a thermometer when touched. The thermometer has lots of uses in healthcare and wellbeing and can be used in a variety of settings.

With Computer Science being such a male dominated industry, it was great to see our female students doing the testing, an very well timed as we celebrate International Women's Day today. Well done and thank you to Cara, Ilori and Emilia! 

The next phase of the project is now to enter it into the competition where the JTHS team will be up against other schools nationally. Good luck to all! 

To find out more about the Raspberry Pi competition click here: PA Raspberry Pi Competition | PA Consulting

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National Careers Week 2024

National Careers Week

This week our pupils have been taking part in a variety of sessions in lessons and form time as part of National Careers Week, led by Mrs Ball, Subject Leader CEIAG.

National Careers Week is a one-week celebration that aims to provide focus for careers options at an important stage in the academic calendar. The resources available to schools help to support young people develop awareness and excitement about their future pathways.

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Our pupils have had the opportunity to watch a number of real-life relatable videos showing a variety of different career choices. These include, Business Management, Engineering, Architecture, Product Design, Journalism, Town Planning, Teacher, Psychologist, Pharmacist and so much more. The aim of the videos was to show the pupils that there is a career that everyone can aspire and work towards.

There was also the opportunity to take part in quizzes, activity sheets and the chance to talk about what our students thought they’d like to do as a career. The sessions created some great discussions within the form groups and gave the pupils some food-for-thought when it came to what career path they’d like to follow.

As a school we are passionate about ensuring our pupils are equipped with the knowledge needed when it come to career path decision making. It’s been great to dedicate this week to Careers, however we are proud to have a year-round career focused curriculum. This includes regular sessions from external speakers within different industries, the chance to attend our careers fair and meet potential employers, our work experience scheme, and the chance to take part in mock interviews.

Mrs Ball Subject Leader CEIAG said ’My aim is to ensure that Careers is fully embedded across the curriculum and to create opportunities for students to develop life skills'. 

If you would like to keep up to date with everything ‘Careers’ at John Taylor, please follow our new twitter page @careersjths which will be an on-going feed full of advice, hints & tips for career opportunities. 

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#NCW2024

All videos & activities can be found here:

Jobs that use... - Careers - BBC Bitesize.

Careers in... - Careers - BBC Bitesize

Organisations 2023 - Green Careers Week

Quiz - Can you guess the job? - BBC Bitesize

Career We Go - BBC Bitesize

Survey reveal: What's the new number one in top 10 jobs teens want? - BBC Bitesize

Penguin Random House UK - YouTube

 

 

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Invite to Year 7 Disco

Year 11 Borneo students would like to invite Year 7 students to ‘get their funk on’ at their Borneo fundraising disco on Wednesday 13th March. The team has worked hard to organise this exciting night for year 7 students so it will brilliant to see as many students there as possible.

The disco will take place in the school hall from 6pm  -7.30pm. There will be a tuck shop and drinks available to buy on the night.

Tickets are £2.50 and can be purchased on Parent Pay. If you have any questions then please contact Miss Barker on [email protected]

Thank you to our Year 11 students for making the below poster with more information on.

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Red Nose Day 2024

Cake Sale 
We are excited to be holding our Red Nose Day Cake Sale! See details below.
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Wear something red for PE
We are asking all Year 8 and Year 9 pupils to wear something red (T-shirt or socks) during their PE lessons only.
Our Young Sporting Ambassadors will be volunteering their time to collect donations at lunch-time too!
Please see details below.
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Online Safety

For Parents - What is Palworld?


Palworld is a new game similar to Pokemon and Digimon with a PEGI rating of 12 for fantasy-character-style violence. Given its similarity to Pokemon there's every likelihood that younger children will be playing this game and so Internet Matters have compiled some advice and guidance for parents about the game: what it is, how it works, safety settings etc. 

You can find the article HERE.

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All-Safeguarding

We are regularly updating the Safeguarding section of our school website to help parents/carers access important information about services available in the local area, as well as fully understanding our approach to Safeguarding in school.

This half term we have worked on the Filtering and Monitoring section on the Safeguarding page. We advise parents to read this to understand how we keep students safe in school by using filters (restricting access to harmful material) and then monitoring the use of IT devices across the site. Please note that all school owned devices have the monitoring software installed and therefore school owned devices are also monitored when used away from the school site. 

This section also includes further information on how parents can set up monitoring on some mobile devices. We strongly advise parents to work with their home internet provider to ensure that suitable filtering is in place on home networks.

There are some useful links below from some of the main internet providers:

BT

BT Parental Controls - Keep Your Family Safe Online | BT Help

EE

Using Parental Controls on EE | Broadband Help | EE

Virgin

Parental Controls and Web Safety for Children | Virgin Media

Sky

Sky Broadband Shield | Sky Help | Sky.com

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All - Attendance update

You may have seen reports in the media around fines for parents choosing to take their children on term time holidays. This is actually linked to any unauthorised request for leave of absence. We felt it may be useful to clarify both this as well as the position of all schools in John Taylor MAT.

At John Taylor MAT, all schools are required to follow a common Pupil Attendance and Punctuality Policy in order to ensure fairness and consistency. With regards to legal intervention, all schools are expected to follow current local authority ‘Penalty Notice Codes of Conduct’ and thresholds for issuing penalty notice fines. For term time holidays, the Staffordshire County Council threshold for these fines is from 1 day or more. The full policy can be found in the policies and procedures section of the school website.

A new ‘national framework for penalty notices’ will be introduced from 19th August 2024 as detailed in the recent update to the DfE’s ‘Working together to improve attendance’ guidance. This has been reported in the media but will not become active until next academic year, 2024-25.

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