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March 2013
Headteacher’s Introduction
March
Introduction
As we come to the end of this term, it is time to say a sad farewell
to Mrs Osborne who is taking (very) early retirement at the end of
the term. Mrs Osborne has insisted on the use of the word early, so
you will all understand I am going to do exactly as requested.
Locally, Mrs Osborne has taught at Sir John Hunt (now Sutherland),
Idsall and of course most recently, for the last 11 years, at Burton
Borough. She has taught Religious Studies, and led the development
of our Pastoral Team. Recently Mrs Osborne led the planning,
introduction and development of our highly successful House system.
Her most recent piece of work has been leading our debate on new
timings of the school day. I am sure that when students finish
school each day at 3.15pm (from September) they will say a silent
thank you to Mrs Osborne.
Overall, Mrs Osborne has dedicated 35 years of service to the
education of young people. During her time at Burton Borough, the
school has improved considerably culminating in our recent OFSTED
report. Mrs Osborne has played a major part, and we thank her for
her contribution both here and to education throughout her career.
I hope everyone has a good break this Easter, and will be able to
come back refreshed for the challenges ahead.
Dave Hill
Headteacher
2013
In This Issue:
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Head’s introduction
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OFSTED
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Space available
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Rugby success
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Newport Town Cinema
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Cyber bullying
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Maths Challenge Club
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Science AppEELing
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Twenty Thirteen Dance
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Attenborough House
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Moore House
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Lennon House
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Tolkien House
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Budding Entrepreneurs
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Student successes
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KS2 Master Class
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Attendance
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Easter intervention
classes
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Wheelchair basketball
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Uniform request
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Contact details
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Car Park Issues
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Changes in the timings
for school day
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National Careers Week
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Immobilise
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Holiday activities
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Dates for your diary
As you will be aware, our recent OFSTED inspection led to an upgrade in our
category to ‘Good’. This was a very pleasing outcome, and the result of many
years of hard work. It is well known that the OFSTED framework became
much harder from September 2013, so to receive an upgrade is even more
pleasing.
There is a real momentum at Burton Borough, and we can now look forward to
an exciting future. Plans are being developed for our major refurbishment
through BSF, exciting plans exist to (at last) bring Post 16 education to the
students at Burton Borough and we are now able to consider, on our own terms,
the advantages and disadvantages of Academy Status.
Our full OFSTED report can be read by clicking our link on the school website
or going to www.ofsted.gov.uk/reports
Over 100 parents completed the Parent Survey (Thank you), with results also
being available at the above website.
Space available in all year groups
Due to the reduced number of local students, we
currently have spaces in all our year groups. If you
know anyone who would like to join us for the next
stage of our journey to outstanding, please let them
know.
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Burton Borough School are Midlands Rugby League Champions Schools at 3 age groups.
The Midlands Regional Finals of the RFL Champion Schools competition took place on Thursday 14 th February at
Old Leamingtonians RFC in Warwickshire.
The day, which featured the teams who had battled through from the East Midlands, West Midlands and South
West regional competitions, saw a number of excellent games, culminating in a stunning Year 11 finale. All finals,
with the exception of Year 7, were played as a tri-series, giving all three teams the opportunity to experience the
magic of finals day.
The winning teams will now go into the hat for the national draws and join the leading schools from around the
country on the road to Wembley Weekend.
The year 8 rugby team are Shropshire Rugby
Union Champions, they played against Church
Stretton in the final and won with a very
Full results were as follows
Year 7 – Champions: Burton Borough
Burton Borough (Telford) 20 - Dronfield Henry Fanshaw
(Derbyshire) 6
impressive score 34 v 0. A huge thank you goes
to Mr Mainwaring for his fantastic
management skills !!
Year 8 – Champions: Burton Borough
Burton Borough (Telford) 16 – Churchdown (Gloucester) 0
Mr Bell
Churchdown (Gloucester) 26 – Wilsthorpe (Derbyshire) 4
Wilsthorpe (Derbyshire) 4 – Burton Borough (Telford) 18
Year 11 – Champions: Burton Borough
St Peters High (Gloucester) 14 – Burton Borough (Telford) 16
Frederick Gent (Derbyshire) 6 – St Peters High (Gloucester) 4
Frederick Gent (Derbyshire) 0 – Burton
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Our next films will be:
Monday 15th April - "Song for Marion" - starring Terence Stamp, Gemma Arterton,
Christopher Eccleston and Vanessa Redgrave Arthur (Stamp) is the grumpy husband of Marion (Redgrave), who is terminally ill yet continues to participate with enthusiasm at her local seniors' choir. Arthur is unimpressed
when the choir, led by mistress Elizabeth (Arterton) serenades the couple at their home.
As Marion’s health deteriorates, Arthur is keen to please his dying wife and even agrees to
take her place in the choir. The transition for Arthur proves to be more trying for Arthur
thanks to the unconventional songbook that includes racier songs such as "Let’s Talk About
Sex". Arthur's experience in this new social environment will take him on a journey of selfdiscovery and thaw his bitterness, qualities that he will need in his imminent transition to
life without Marion.
CYBER BULLYING
A NEW PROGRAMME ask.fm IS PERHAPS THE MOST DANGEROUS SITE FOR YOUR CHILD
SO FAR LAUNCHED. It allows anonymous messages to be sent to anyone and offers no protection against abuse. These are some facts about ASK.FM :
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It is based in Latvia, which means that Police cannot trace or deal with those who misuse
it. The owners say that the misuse is a result of British children being more cruel than
those from other countries.
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There is no way to alter privacy settings or to report offensive comments.
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There is no way to trace on line bullies.
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This site allows ANYONE to see personal details and photos of any of those young people
who use it.
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It is being used as a vehicle for sending insults and sexual advances to children.
ASK.FM has been associated with some of the worst cyber bullying and teen suicides seen in
recent years, all because there is no way to trace and stop the bullies. It has been quoted in
the press as a stalker’s paradise.
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Maths Challenge Club
On Tuesday 19th March four members of the Maths Challenge club took
part in the regional final of the UK Maths Trust (UKMT) Team Challenge.
The competition took place at Keele University where they were up
against 35 other schools. There were four rounds in total. The team
round consisted of 10 questions that had to be answered in 45 minutes.
The next round was a crossnumber puzzle where the teams had to work in
pairs, one pair with the across clues and the other with the down clues.
The pairs were only allowed to give a message to the other pair via the
teacher in charge. Many of the clues could not be done immediately as
they involved using the answers from other questions. The rounds in the
afternoon were two types of relay. The last of these was great fun, with
students running to collect questions, returning answers and dodging
others on the way.
The Maths challenge club has been running since the Autumn term in
preparation for this event and the boys have turned up regularly to
practice for the different rounds. Here’s an example of a typical
question. See if you can solve it.
There are 100 students in a school year group. On one day 99% of
the students are present. Only 98% of the students with brown hair
are present.
How many of the 100 students have brown hair?
Here are the team from Burton Borough standing outside Keele Hall at
the end of the competition with their certificates. Well done to Jake,
Dan, Jonathan and Jake.
Kate Anderson TLC Maths
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Science App-EEL-ing to Students
It was 9:15am, in Science, on an EEL day; the Y8 students were mesmerised by a mysterious cloud of fog
that was billowing and creeping towards them from the box in the S2 classroom. Mr Szwajkun, equipped
with thick protective gloves reached into the new box and through the mist pulled out what looked like a
few small chippings of ice. Carefully, he put a few of the mysterious misty pellets into a small plastic tube
and sealed the top, and then he waited. The students became transfixed with what might happen and the
silent room cast their excited eyes on the tube…
At the same time, just next door, in S1, a class entered a room that was sure to excite their senses. It
was filled with jars of exotic liquids and spices, in season fruit and flowers and an empty pestle and
mortar. As the students took their places, Mrs Alecock challenged them to create their own perfume
fragrance using any of the substances provided. As all of the fruits and spices were being ground
together the students had another challenge which was to identify five mystery fragrances in darkened
test tubes. By the end of the lesson every student had exercised their analytical skills, practised some
essential laboratory techniques and hopefully came out smelling better.
Meanwhile back in S2, just as one or two had begun to doubt that anything was going to happen in the
tube – BANG! It shot ten feet into the air only to be stopped by the classrooms ceiling. The children
began to suggest that the solid pellets could not have been normal ice and that they must have expanded
inside the container. Their predictions were confirmed. The solid was “Dry Ice” which is Carbon Dioxide
so cold- it is frozen solid. The mysterious fog was in fact CO2 turning from a solid directly into a gas; the
students discovered that this process is called sublimation. During the course of the lesson they saw the
effects of these interesting properties as they: made daffodils so solid they could be shattered, added
washing up liquid to inflate giant bubbles, created giant smoke rings with an AirZooka and transformed
the room into a Ribena scented haze.
It was one of Science’s busiest EEL Days to date with the exploration of dry ice, creating perfumes,
undergoing exercise investigations and building artificial mucus all happening alongside some of our GCSE
students Individual Skills Assessments, the students were outstanding and Science now have the
challenge of making our next EEL day even more exciting!
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BBD @ Stoke 2013 Dance Festival
The Regent Theatre, Stoke Tuesday 05 Feb
& Telford Dance Showcase 2013
The Place, Oakengates, Wednesday 06 Feb
The BBS Dance Group performed at Regent Theatre, Stoke on Trent as part of Twenty Thirteen Dance – Music
from the Movies. We were one of 10 acts to perform on the evening. Our routine started with the full group,
dressed as air hostesses performing to a Catch me if you can. Smaller groups then performed modern routines to
Superman and Hook. Two fantastic individual performance were danced by Jodie Teeling doing a street routine
to Indiana Jones, followed by Shannon Evans dancing a contemporary routine to Princess Leah’s Starwars
tune. Phoebe Shaw, Beth King, Hollie Morris and Aiden Maddox dressed as two storm troopers and two Darth
Vaders performed the only tap routine of the evening to storm troopers theme from Star wars. Our performance
received a good reaction from the audience who seemed to enjoy the routines as much as we did performing them.
I would like to say a big thank you to Miss Goswell for choreographing our amazeballs routines.
Aiden Maddox Year 7
“We
got changed ready to go on stage, then we put on our make-up and started to
walk to the stage. The lights turned off and we walked on. We got into position
and waited. The lights and music came on and we started to perform. It was so
dark on the stage, I could barely see! At the end we went to get changed and
went home. I felt so proud to have been part of the experience.”
Charlie Williams Year 7
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ATTENBOROUGH
In assembly on the 7th March the key stage
3 Attenborough Gifted and Talented pupils
gave a presentation about Cancer. There
are loads of different types of cancer but
the 3 that they focused on were Bowel
Cancer, Skin Cancer and also Lung Cancer.
They explained in detail about all the different types of cancer. They split in to 3
groups and focused on just one type of cancer. At the end they showed a movie on the
3 different types of cancer, they risk of
getting Bowel Cancer, Lung Cancer and also
Skin Cancer. The video was really good and
well presented .Their video is going to be
on Cancer Research UK website.
This year Attenborough’s charity is
CANCER RESEARCH UK. We have been
doing loads of events such as: cake stalls,
hand printing, raffles, a big hamper and
lots more. All of the Attenborough forms
have pitched in and helped our charity.
On Thursday 7th March 2013 a lady
from Cancer Research UK came in and
received a check of £1430. She was so
happy after seeing how much we had
raised and how much effort we put into
this.
At the moment we are going around
forms with a hundred square grids for
the London Marathon which Mr Evans
is participating in it. Each square has a
time on it like 3 hrs and 40 mins. You
choose a square and then write your
name saying that you have brought the
square. After Mr Evans has done the
marathon ,whoever bought the right
time will have £20 and whoever is just
1 min away will have £10. The rest of
the money goes to Cancer Research UK.
To have a go is £1.
Well done to all the pupils who took part.
By, Amrita Virk Year 8 NPR and Mrs Tomlinson Head of
House.
On Tuesday 19th March Attenborough House held a ‘Shoesday’ where
students could wear their own shoes to school for the day, donating
50p to Attenborough’s charity: Cancer Research, House Captains also
sold cakes in the gallery. In total £125 was raised adding to
their fundraising total this year of £1430.
Further events are planned throughout the summer term and of
course the creation of the Attenborough Cook Book is well underway!
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This term has seen the successful launch of Moore house charity week to raise
funds for Marie Curie Cancer Care. This coincided with the national great daffodil
appeal which is an annual event for the charity. Each form has been set the
challenge to raise as much money as they can for this worthy cause, which they
have taken on very enthusiastically. To mention just a few of the activities they
have been doing: SAL raised £20 on World Book Day by holding a book sale (please
see the picture below ) SHA have raised £151 with their sales of crisps and
chocolate and JWY also held a similar event raising well over £50. KAN launched
the charity event to the house in an assembly, which really brought home to many
students where the money they raised was going and how it would help. They have
also been running an Easter Egg raffle visiting tutor groups around school during
CLL.
A large number of our younger students have also volunteered their lunch times to
sell the Marie Curie Daffodils in local supermarkets, which was organised by Mrs
Pickering. This was very positively received by the public and they managed to
raise a massive £421.68. Many thanks to Waitrose and the Cooperative stores.
Thanks to everyone involved for all their handwork and commitment.
Shannon Evans, one of our Privilege Year 11 students, was recently nominated for a
High Sherriff of Shropshire Citizenship award. Shannon was successful with this
nomination and will be presented with her award next week. This is for her hard
work and commitment to other young people both in school and in her community.
Congratulations to her.
Moore Mouse, our House mascot, travelled to the USA at Christmas with Mrs Pickering to attend her son’s wedding and managed to fit in some exciting sightseeing!
If anyone would like to take Moore Mouse on their family travels, please see Mr
Mainwaring.
After Easter, we have the Moore House Awards Evening as recognition of the
fantastic students’ in Moore House. This is on the 29 th April and letters will be
coming out to you shortly regarding this event. During the Summer term we are
also hoping to arrange a ‘Great big blooming tea party’ in conjunction with Marie
Curie. Anybody interested in helping with that please contact Mrs Pickering.
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RECOGNISING ACHIEVEMENT
After coming fourth in the House Points finals in 2013, Lennon House has become a force to be reckoned with this year.
House Points are incredibly important as they are an acknowledgement of having created or done something good ,
great … or excellent. These achievements in school (and outside of school) need to be recognised and as a House, we
decided that we wanted to raise the profile of House Points as a way of tapping into our competitive spirit.
Therefore, Junior House Captains Isabella Dawes and Sarah Dungey have been visiting tutor groups every week to
award top-scoring students with pens and sweets. Our ‘secret weapon’ Nick Fisher (Senior House Captain) has been
presenting on a weekly basis in our assemblies so that students can see how their own tutor group is achieving compared to others. It certainly has had the desired effect and Lennon went 15 weeks as the top House for collecting House
Points. We have rarely missed the top spot since. An amazing achievement.
CHARITY
Charity has also been a focus – particularly during the Autumn term. By December, we had raised over £1000 for our
House charity ‘Alder Hey Children’s Charity’ – half way towards our target of £2000. At present, Year 11 students are
approaching local businesses for donations towards our Summer Term raffle. Lauren Fidler, Events Captain, has done
an amazing job of writing to celebrities and we have a few items to auction at Lennon House’s Celebrations Evening in
April.
LENNON CHALLENGE
Another new initiative the Sports Captains launched in the Autumn term was the ‘Lennon Challenge’. In an assembly
the Sports Captains challenged the teachers to a basket ball hoop goal challenge. Unsurprisingly, the students won.
Since then, every tutor group has taken part in the Challenge which happens on Thursdays during CLL. Bench ball, penalty shoot-outs, hand ball and extreme dodge ball are just some of the challenges. GRU have proved to be almost unbeatable having won for six weeks in a row. Someone must be able to knock them from their throne before the end of
the year!
EXTREME READING
The final competition for this term is Extreme Reading photos. All students have been encouraged to take a picture of
themselves reading in a strange or unusual place for which there is a prize. Also, there is a prize for the best tutor group
effort. I, as their Head of House, am leading by example and produced my own extreme reading picture (reading
‘Catcher in the Rye’’ grasped by the hand of King Kong!). I am hoping for some excellent entries!
The Summer Term for Lennon House is all about continuing our amazing success in the House Points league, to hit or
exceed our £2000 target for charity, to get someone into every event in Sports Day … and to welcome our new Year 6
students.
We look forward to our Celebrations Evening on 30th April where many of our amazing students will be recognised for
many different things. We are planning to make this evening the most entertaining and most successful yet. We look
forward to many of you joining us.
Christine Owen
Head of Lennon House
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Our House
TOLKIEN
Year 7 our year so far by
Victoria
It has been a roller coaster this
year, at first you are nervous then
you are excited. At the start you
get a year 11 to take your round.
Most people are scared of getting
lost, but after you have been to
your lessons twice you know where
they are. The dinners are really
good as you can get what you most
of the time, including Pizza, chips
and wraps.
Break and lunch were a bit scary as
we thought we were going to get
bullied but this doesn’t happen.
There are a wide variety of opportunities to do clubs, from drama to
football. Every house has a charity
week where each tutor group
comes up with an idea and sets up a
fund raising idea at break or
Lunch.
Tolkien house have been working
hard over the past few months to
ensure students are getting the
most out of their CLL lessons. Mr
Bell has generated a number of
slides with fun and exciting activities/competitions for the students
to do.
Tolkien Charity Week
11th Feb—15th Feb:
This was Tolkien’s first and very
successful Charity week. Money is
still coming in but we are up to
over £300 already. Congratulations goes to MPF who raised the
most money in the house.
On Thursday 25th April is Tolkien
Charity evening.
We have a
number of outstanding acts on the
evening. Please look out for ticket
information within the
School notices
Advice I would give to
a Year 6 pupil:
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Always ask a teacher if you’re
not sure of anything
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Be Organised
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Always have your homework in
on time
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Don’t be scared
Tolkien Celebration Evening
This Celebration evening is on 1st May. Over
60 students from Tolkien are being invited,
with awards ranging form Most Progress to
The Head Teachers Award.
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Budding Entrepreneurs
A group of our Year 10 students are taking part in the Young Enterprise Company Program, a national competition to encourage young people to experience setting up and closing down a business. This is all carried out in their own time over
one trading year.
As part of the Young Enterprise criteria the students need to market and sell their products or service at a local trade
fair. They are judged by four individual industry panellists who question them thoroughly about their business. The trade
fair took place on Saturday 9th March at Telford Town centre and they were visited by the Deputy Mayor of Telford who
was very impressed with their business and enthusiasm. There were more than twenty schools taking place with a vast
array of business ideas. Our students are buying and producing a range of products aimed specifically at seasonal events,
on this occasion the timing was perfect for Mother’s day which was the following day, and the event produced a healthy
profit.
The group comprises of Suzie Banks, Amy Lellow, James White, Ellis Snookes, Emma Archer and Chloe Harrison.
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Key Stage 2 Master Class.
This term’s master class was titled ‘Getting to grips with division’. Year 4, 5 and 6 pupils from St Lawrence, Tibberton. Moorfield,
Lilleshall, SS Peter and Pauls and Newport Juniors attended. They received 1 to 1 tuition, expertly delivered by a number of our year
7 and 8 students
It was a fantastic session, our students worked extremely hard and ensured that all those attending felt welcome and were able to
access some quite challenging mathematics. In total we had around 50 key stage 2 students who all thoroughly enjoyed the visit and
made excellent progress. I would like to say a personal thank you to all those that took part as it was certainly our best session so
far this year and really set the standard for the next class.
La prochaine leçon de maths sera sur le sujet des quadrilatères, en français bien sûr!
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If your child is ill you must contact the school as soon as possible, giving us the following information:
Your child’s name, year and form group;
Reason for absence and nature of illness;
Length of absence if known.
You can inform us by one of the following methods:
By contacting the Attendance Office on 01952 386554 (answer phone in operation so please
leave a message),
E-mail:
[email protected]
Phone Reception 01952 386500.
Please do not be alarmed if we call to check on your absent child’s progress for our records.
If you need to inform us of future medical or other appointments you can do so by:
using the same contact details,
sending in a letter,
writing a note in their PSD,
E-mailing your child’s tutor (their address can be found on the school web site).
The school operates a first day absence calling procedure – First day response is a safeguarding strategy in
the event of your child being sent to school but not arriving because of an incident on the way to school.
If we do not hear from you and are unable to contact you, your child will be marked as unauthorised absence
on their attendance record until we are informed the reason.
Further information can be obtained by accessing the Attendance Policy on the school website.
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Year 11
Easter Intervention Classes ~ April 2013
Week 1
Date
Subject
Friday 29th March
Monday 1st April
Tuesday 2nd April Drama
Wednesday 3rd
April
Thursday 4th
April
Friday 5th April
DT Graphics ‘Tops and
Tails’
History
History
Room
Time
Staff
GOOD FRIDAY
EASTER MONDAY
Music Block and
11-5
Create
T3
9.30-3
LBU HBI
H3
9.30-12.30
HHO
H3
9.30-12.30
HHO
NBE
Week 2
Date
Subject
Room
Time
Staff
Monday 8 April
Tuesday 9th April
Fashion
Drama
ICT (Mrs Williams group)
9-3
11-5
9-1
RBR
LBU HBI
SWI
Wednesday 10th
April
Music
Additional Science ISA
(invitation only)
Spanish (Mrs Morgan’s
group)
Spanish (Miss Profitt’s
group)
DT Food
Child Development
Drama
A2
Music Block and
Create
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MU1
S1
1-4
9-2
ARU
SRI
OM1
10-1
JMO
ML1
T6
10-1
1.30-3.30
NPR
KGO
PE1
Music Block and
Create
10-1
11-5
SPR
LBU HBI
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Thursday 11th
April
Friday 12th April
Sunday 14th April
Students must return reply slips and sign in and out at Reception.
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Burton Borough Wheelchair Basketball
Our Wheelchair Basketball Team took part in the West Midlands IZB Regional School Competition on 14 th
March, at the University of Worcester, St.Johns Campus.
12 schools competed to be the West Midlands champions. Burton Borough’s newly formed team were as competitive as ever and came up against their toughest matches to date.
Although the team were unable to take the title, they were able to enjoy the day and compete with other
teams that had far more experience.
Well done to all the students who are part of our team; we are so very proud of the achievements they have
made this year.
By Jaime Edwards.
On 13th February, a group of 6 year 9 students went to RAF Shawbury and took part in a cross-country
competition. The 6 girls were; Fran Garrott, Jaime Edwards, Keeley Thorpe, Pippa Mansell, Abbie Berridge and
Emily Pratt. Keeley took 3rd place, out of all of the girls in that age group that were there, and Pippa was not
that far behind. We all had a fantastic day, including the year 8 boys and girls athletics team, and the year
7/8/9 wheelchair basketball team ,who were also there too. We will hope to be entering again next year!
Overall well done to all of the Burton Borough school students who took part in the competition!
On the 13th February 2013, 8 of us
were chosen to represent the
school in the Telford and Wrekin
Shropshire Winter Games. It was a
fun day out, as well as competitive!
We played 4 games of wheelchair
basketball against other schools.
We came 3rd out of the 5 schools involved but people are claiming that
we came second as there was a tie
for the first place! The Teaching Assistant’s who came along were very
supportive and helped to encourage
us to play better.
Elizabeth Tanner
I went to RAF Shawbury with my School by mini bus. I stayed
in the sports hall as it was snowing outside. I had a go at the
demonstrated activities, I particularly enjoyed the golf. In the
afternoon I took part in my activities which included; one lap
obstacle, relay, long jump, vertical jump and a two lap race. This
was in the Athletics Jubilee sports hall. BBS boys won the
Athletics indoor competition. I received a Certificate from Alison
Williamson, six times Olympian and STW School Games
Ambassador. I really enjoyed taking part and being part of this
day.
Alister Carrington
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Do you have any old uniforms that
you no longer need ??
We are in need of :
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Spare black trousers for both boys and girls
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Blue skirts
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Blazers
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Shoes
All sizes would be appreciated.
CONTACT DETAILS
Please remember to let us know if any of your contact details
change. It is vital that we are able to contact parents in the event
of an emergency. This includes any changes to mobile phone
numbers and/or email addresses.
Car Park issues
MAXIMUM SPEED THROUGH OUR CAR PARK IS 5MPH
Due to health and safety concerns, can I remind all parents that it is not
appropriate to use the school car park or sports hall car park to drop off,
or collect your child from school. Please ensure that your child is dropped off close
to school with enough time for them to walk in and not be late.
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Following widespread consultations during the year, the Governors considered the timings of our
school day at their meeting on Monday 18th March.
It was agreed to shorten the lunchtime to 40 minutes (In our survey, 73% of parents who responded
either agreed with this change (65%) or didn’t mind (8%)).We will keep the same starting time,
slightly extend break and finish earlier at 3.15pm. School buses will be reorganised to fit with this
finishing time.
This new day is much closer to the majority of other schools in Telford and Wrekin and we are very
confident that it will work just as well for us.
Further details will follow during the summer term.
National Careers Week 4th-8th March 2013
During this week there were several events held to give students ideas about different careers available to them. All of Year 10 had prepared Job Profiles which were displayed in
the gallery for all Years to see. These ranged from information on Police and Solicitor’s
jobs to Water Slide Testers and Shopping Centre Santas! Joe Coleman was a competition
winner as he produced 3 great job profiles that were all on display. There was also an interview competition held where the pupils were asked to interview family members or friends
about their jobs and careers. Isabella Dawes in Year 8 won with 3
amazing video entries where she had filmed interviews with her Mum,
Dad and Grandad! We also had Lynda Pascoe from Telford and Wrekin
Apprenticeships and Fran from Future Focus in for a lunchtime drop in
session. Year’s 7-9 were also invited to come and try out the Fast Tomato Careers Software to see what types of careers would suit their
skills and personalities.
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Summer Term 2012
Monday 15th April - Friday 19th July
Friday 12th April
Monday 15th April
Wednesday 17th April
Monday 29th April
Tuesday 30th April
PD Day
Start of School term
EEL Day
Moore House Celebration Evening
Lennon House Celebration Evening
Wednesday 1st May
Thursday 2nd May
Monday 6th May
Friday 10th May
Wednesday 22nd May
Tolkien House Celebration Evening
Attenborough House Celebration Evening
Bank Holiday
Mufti Day
Parent Voice Meeting (6-7pm)
***PLEASE NOTE THAT YEAR 8 PARENTS EVENING HAS NOW
BEEN MOVED FROM 9TH MAY TO THURSDAY 20TH JUNE. SORRY
FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE THIS MAY CAUSE***
Half Term: Monday 27th May– Friday 31st May
Friday 7th June
Friday 14th June
Wednesday 19th June
Thursday 20th June
Wednesday 26th June
Thursday 27th June
Friday 28th June
Friday 5th July
Monday 8th-Thursday 18th July
Tuesday 9th July
Friday 19th July
Year 8 Annual reports home
Year 10 Progress reports home
Sports Day
Parent Voice Meeting (6-7pm)
Year 8 Parents’ Evening (Change of date)
End of Summer exam series
Year 6 Induction Day
Year 6 Induction Day
Year 9 Progress Reports home
Year 7 Progress Report home
Year 10 Work Experience
Sponsored Walk
End of Summer Term (12.30 finish)
Please remember that holidays taken during term
times will almost certainly NOT be authorised
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