John Hanson Community School

John Hanson Weekly Contact 16th December 2016

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Welcome to the weekly Newsletter for parents and carers of students attending John Hanson Community School.

Inspire - Care - Succeed

This is our 2016 Christmas Card which was designed by Aiden Blight as part of his GCSE Art examination.

Used by kind permission of the artist.

Year 8 Christmas Cheer

The final assembly of the year got all Year 8 into the Christmas mood. As well as listening to the goodwill message of the Nativity, it was the judging of the inter-tutor Christmas Tree competition! Each tutor had the task to decorate their own Christmas Tree and they all rose to the challenge! The level of creativity and industry over the last few weeks has been marvellous: from the John Hanson School back-drop painting by Elysia Marshall and the co-ordinated Gold and Black colour decoration of Mrs Tunstall’s tutor group to the row of personalised stockings designed by every member of Mr Taylor’s tutor group.

The judging panel of Mr Coombs, Mrs Bush, Mrs Reed and Mrs Page, who have seen many competitions through the years, were really impressed and struggled to make a final decision. However, in the end the impressive 8JTl entry was crowned champion ‘tree’.

Matt Allott
Head of Year 8

Seen in and around school this week

Stuck for stocking ideas? Christmas is a perfect time to ensure your child has all of the correct uniform items! As term has gone on some items that are not on our uniform list have snuck back in – white socks, skinny trousers, straight skirts, non uniform shoes.

Please support us in providing your child with the correct uniform for school and making sure that they wear it. The full uniform list is on the website, but do contact your child’s Head of Year if you require clarification. Please note that some items sold in uniform sections of stores are not acceptable as John Hanson uniform so please do check.

We really do appreciate your support in ensuring our student body look smart and united.

Kim Hide
Assistant Headteacher

Tuesday 3 January 2017
School re-opens after the Christmas break
8:30am

Friday 6 January 2017
PSHE Day 3 for all years
See details below

Thursday12 January 2017
Parents' Evening 2
With priority for Year 10 Parents
4:00pm - 6:45pm

Reporting

Staff have been busy completing assessments and making judgements on students progress over the last few weeks in order to complete the first reports of the year. Reports will be given to students on Wednesday 4^th January to bring home. There will be an associated message on Parent Mail which will ask you to confirm receipt and also include a guidance sheet to explain the report. If there are any questions please use the staff email addresses on the report and/or speak to staff at Parents Evening (Year 10 focus) on Thursday 12^th January.

Mr Rob Earle
Assistant Headteacher

Warning - Police Patrols

We, along with Balksbury Federation Schools and St. John the Baptist Primary School, have been asked by Hampshire Constabulary to again inform parents of the rules regarding the roads around Floral Way.

For parents driving to John Hanson you should only come into Floral Way from the roundabout close to the Hexagon housing (not the roundabout by the A303 bridge). When leaving the site, drivers must turn left out of the school car park.

Please note there is no through route along Floral Way from either end and drivers are causing a traffic offence if they ignore the ‘Buses and Bicycles only’ signs by the school entrance. These regulations applies 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The police have told us that after attempting to educate drivers they have now been left with no option but to start issuing fixed penalty notices of £60 via random checks. Thank you for your support with this.

Pre-Public Exams 16-20 January 2017

Year 11 have a week of PPEs after the Christmas break. Below is the timetable for the exams.

New for 2017

Andover's very own Muddy Runners will be running a weekly running club after school on Tuesdays afternoons after school in the new year. No experience necessary though the Muddy Runners will work with experienced runners as well. As you can see from the information below those who take part have the opportunity to take part in a very muddy run.

Inter Tutor Competition

This week the PE faculty ran the KS3 inter tutor dodgeball competition with over 150 students taking part in 3 nights of competition. Well done to all of the students who took part and congratulations to the winning tutor groups (Year 7 LGR, Year 8 JBA and Year 9 PHO). The next inter tutor competition will take place in term 4 and will be badminton and table tennis.

	Year 7	Year 8	Year 9
1^st	LGR	JBA	PHO
2^nd	VNO	LNU	NSO
3^rd	DAS	CWI	JPI
4^th	BHO	ALE	HVA
5^th	ASM	NTU	SCN
6^th	PBR	JTL	JDA

Sports Results

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