by Mrs Barnby Friday 9 October was the annual Year 7 Bonding Day to Lea Green Outdoor Education Centre at Matlock. The weather was kind, resulting in a perfect autumn day which really helps when the majority of activities are outside. The Year 7s were mixed into new groups to

enable more new friendships to develop and with the emphasis on the students working together to achieve a common goal. All students worked well and faced different challenges as they took part in low level ropes courses, indoor climbing, leadership challenges and the ever popular ‘Predator Prey’ which combines learning about the hierarchy of animal life whilst trying to hide and/or capture the other groups. Some were more successful than others…

Personally, I would like to thank all of the staff and Y13 House Leaders who helped to make the day so successful. There were a lot of tired faces (and dirty ones) on the coach home so I hope that the students gave all their parents a peaceful Friday evening!

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We offer primary and secondary training opportunities across a range of subjects. For further information, please visit our website: http://www.nationalforestteachingschool.co.uk Register for our next information evening by visiting http://www.jths.eventbrite.co.uk Please email nfts@jths.co.uk with any enquiries.

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Y7 Bonding Day

1st : Ben Bradley, Year 8 M12

Konstanz, Germany Right: 3rd: Charlotte Clowes Year 8 K05

Left: 2nd : Sebastian Jobbins Year 7 S15

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By Mr Twynham

On Wednesday 8th July the school hosted a visit of the Oloip Maasai Dancers. This formed part of our ongoing work to forge links with different people and organisations beyond John Taylor. Our

vision is to introduce the pupils to new experiences and cultures whilst at the same time doing our bit to support those less fortunate than ourselves.

As part of their UK wide tour, the Maasai dancers came to JTHS for lunch and spent

the afternoon with our Year 7 pupils introducing them to Maasai culture through song, dance and story-telling. Pupils were encouraged to join in

with the famous Maasai jumping dance, a real joyful celebration of song and dance. This was a great way to end the year for the Y7s, having studied Kenya in their STRIPE curriculum earlier in the year. Later that evening, the dancers performed for members of the local

community in the school hall. Through contributions made via a non-uniform day and the small

entrance fee to the evening event, the school helped to raise £858 to support the building of a primary school in rural Kenya. This facility supports the education of young children in their local village, where otherwise, they would have to walk several kilometres through African b u s h l a n d t o t h e n e x t n e a r e s t p r i m a r y s c h o o l .

We look forward to continued links with the Maasai in the coming years.

Summer School 2015 by Mrs Burns

For the third year running we had a highly successful two week summer school for invited Year 6 going into Year 7 children. This was co-ordinated by Mrs Asrari with many staff from John Taylor leading or supporting activities. Everyone enjoyed the two weeks with lots of activities, lots of fun, lots of laughter and lots of friendships forged. The children took part in a wide range of activities which gave them the chance to continue learning during the summer holidays. Activities

included: Photography Sports challenges Team–building activities Rounders

Crown green bowling Cooking – making pizza, baking cakes and cookies, barbequing on Cannock Chase Paper Crafts Book reviews Screen printing and embroidery First Aid

Cycling Raft building and paddling Orienteering Shelter building Stop-frame animation Board games Drawing

Presenting a report for an audience Hospitality skills

The summer school was a great early start to some of our students and

we look forward to being able to offer a similar experience to some of our new pupils next year.

Dear Reader Welcome to the first edition of “JT News” of the academic year.

Alongside our newsletter, I would

like to promote to parents the value of joining our brilliant PTA, and also of connecting with us via Twitter (@johntaylorhigh) and Facebook (search for John Taylor High School Newsfeed). These give extra ways to stay in touch

with all of our events at the school.

When I was a child, I remember a sign in our local fish and chip shop which read: “If you like what we do – tell others. If you don’t –

tell us.” I would urge all our readers to do the same as the customers of the fish and chip shop. We acknowledge that we don’t always get it right, or that t he re may be exce l l e n t suggestions to move our school

forward. We would be delighted to hear from you with ideas for improvements. We’d also want to hear from you if you are concerned or dissatisfied with what we’re doing.

Conversely, if you’re pleased

with the school, it helps us enormously if you share this with others. Ofsted’s “Parent View” online questionnaire facility(https://arentview.ofsted.gov.uk/) is an ideal way of demonstrating

your support for the school. We recently received correspondence from Ofsted urging us to promote the site with parents. You can find a link on the front page of our website too. It only takes a moment to register, and a couple

of minutes to complete the survey questions.

We started 2015/16 on the back of some fantastic achievements from our students in their summer examinations – placing us once again firmly amongst the best

schools in the County. We’ve also begun our partnership working with Kingsmead School under the auspices of our Multi-Academy Trust, and have been undertaking a significant amount of building

and refurbishment work which, whilst requiring some patience on our part due to inevitable disruption, is exciting for us as we continue to develop our facilities. There is much, much more to look forward to!

Thank you for reading, and for your continued support.

M Donoghue

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Science Extension and Enrichment posters by Mr Heath Thank you to all students who handed their posters in to the Science Department. When you next go down the Science corridor, have a look to see if

they made it onto our display! Congratulations to the following three

students who were judged to have the winning posters from each key stage.

These are ...

Ellie Mae Wardale

Victoria Copeman

Anna Franklin

Each student will receive a £5 gift voucher from the Science Department.

Well done!

Fun and games with Henry VIII By Bradley Cable and Laurie Barratt

On 1st October we went to the history enrichment session with Miss Leech. It was very well put together and we learned a lot as well as having lots of fun! Before break we made a dice which described Henry VIII and then we scanned an A Level piece of text. After that we had a discussion about what we

had read in the text. We learned a lot from that. After break we were given a brief; we had to make a board game

about Henry VIII and that was the best bit of the lesson. Mainly the text was the most challenging bit but we would still do it again. The most interesting bit was when we had the big discussion.

Reminder to parents In case of an emergency with your child

If you change your address/telephone number (especially

mobile), please:

Advise school so that we can change details on our

computer system.

Make the changes in your child’s planner.

Congratulations to two John Taylor High School pupils who were awarded prizes in the Spirited Arts competition that we reported on in July’s JT News.

Well done—Ben Bradley and Annabelle Joesph, both now in Year 8.

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We would like to say a massive welcome to any new students who have joined Sherwood House, and also welcome to our new year 7s who started in September. We hope that you are settling well into your new forms.

This year, our charity and fund raising events will be to support St Giles which has been our

house charity before. St Giles has been chosen because it is a charity that means a lot to us. One of our main fundraising events is the Doughnut sales which we do all year round. These take place every Friday lunchtime in the lower link block at 1pm.

As a bit of house fun, we also do inter-form competitions. Our first competition is Dough-Hoops. The winner of

this challenge wins a Doughnut Breakfast for their entire tutor group. A tally of all winning forms will be embroidered on the Pillow of Magnificence. During the colder months, we do quizzes and Pictionary.

We are really looking forward to our first house assembly where we will be able to share further ideas with all of Sherwood including the Theme Tune!!

We have had our first House Council meeting, and representatives from each form have been chosen. These students should attend every House Council meeting which takes place once every half term in the LRC. Keep a

look out for House Council Meeting dates in the pupil bulletin. Out of these students, we have chosen a student for School Council, one from KS3 and one from KS4. For KS3 we have Jacob Catterall (SO3) and for KS4 we have Megan Parker (S09). KS5 will be represented by Kelsey Grigg and Zoë Peach who are the senior and deputy house leaders for Sherwood.

If there is anything you would like us to put into the Sherwood Central, either tell your

house council form rep or email Kelsey at 9072grigg@jths.co.uk

This could include achievements (in/out of school, sport, music or personal), issues

discussed at house council or anything else you can think of.

Welcome back, Needwood.

On behalf of Needwood, we hope that the first few weeks have been successful and that your year has got off to a good start. This year gets off to a quick start as the first set of house matches start very soon and we have a reputation to keep up following our winning streak over the past few years. We are sure you have all been in training!

We would like to announce we have decided to support the

Muscular Dystrophy UK charity for our house charity. This charity is very close to Needwood's heart, as recently fellow student, Jake Lear, sadly passed away with this condition.

We feel that as a house it would be fitting to support the charity and support his legacy. Events to raise money for

this cause are soon to follow. In other house news, we would like to prepare forms for the hula-hoop inter-form competition starting soon, as

well as a House Quiz soon to be going around forms. We look forward to seeing the results of all these events.

We hope to see the success continue on from last year, making yet again this year, Needwood's year.

THE NEEDWOOD NATTER

SHERWOOD CENTRAL

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Welcome back Marchington! We hope you have all had an amazing summer holiday and we are really

looking forward to the next few months together along with our fantastic head of house Mr Brackstone! We’re glad to see our new year sevens settling in forms well too!

A massive congratulations to Mrs Walker from M06 and our previous head of house Miss Crutchley on their new

arrivals, and we look forward to welcoming them back into school soon!

You will all hopefully have heard about what is coming up over the next few months.

We need to get going with fundraising straight away; we have two amazing charities to raise money for this year. We are

also introducing an incentive; the form which raises the most amount of money for Marchington will get to present a cheque to one of charities!

Perhaps for the adventurous ones amongst you, how about doing a challenger run!

Elsewhere, we will be nominating forms to start our Archy Marchy house competition every two weeks, so make sure your form can keep him for the longest!

And finally, get following us on twitter to get all the latest charity progress, Marchington news and pictures! @MarchingtonJT

We have a very busy, but enjoyable few months ahead of us, so let’s all make this year amazing and one to remember!!

Welcome back Kingstoners! We hope you had a wonderful holiday and are back refreshed and ready for another year. Congratulations to Year 12 and

Year 13 students who received great results during the summer holidays.

Welcome to the new Year 7s who are now members of Kingstone. Everyone seems to be settling in well, and thank you everyone who helped the new students’ transition into John Taylor. Last year on 14th July, was a fateful day for Kingstone. For the first time in our house’s history, we won Sports Day! With both competitors and supporters giving it their all and trying their best, we won race after race and event after event. The hard work the people put in before the day paid off, so thanks to those people who trained for their event or made banners and flags to support our team.

In other sporting success, on Sunday 13th September Y10 student Owen Heath completed the Boston Peaks 100K cycling event. Owen was the youngest rider in the event by 10 years and he completed the race in a very respectable four hours and thirteen minutes. Commenting on the event Owen said he found the course difficult to start with, but once he got into it he found it easier. Owen is a member of Mercia

Cycling Club and he will be taking part in other cycling events in the near future.

Last year we also managed to raise a huge £1,700 for our house charity, Birmingham Children’s Hospital. Every form in the house contributed to this, so a massive thank you to form tutors and pupils who helped with the fundraising effort. This year we should be able to raise even more, as some forms have already started planning their next fundraising efforts. K13 recently took part in the Macmillan Coffee Morning on the 25th September, in which they sold cakes to raise

money for Macmillan Cancer Support and they raised exactly £100. A special mention to Lizzie, Paige, Megan and Charlotte who organised this. Do you know of an event or someone that deserves to be in the Kingstone Korner? Speak to one of the House Leaders or email kingstone@jths.co.uk

Marchington Marches On!

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Assistant House Learning Managers We are the Assistant House Learning Managers (left to right, Mrs Gilmore,

Mr Gibson and Mrs Knighton) and we work in the Student Support Hub. Our role is to support the House Learning Managers and the students including on our ‘Bonding Day’ where our new year 7s get to ‘bond’ at an outdoor activity centre. We offer emotional/academic support to all

the students along with dealing with lots of

other matters eg. bus passes and uniform. Our job is very varied and every day is different and very busy. We each adopt different roles each day from gate/bus duty, uniform, Careplans, reception. We also run our isolation room and after

school detentions. Mrs Gilmore and Mrs Knighton are also first aiders. The student support hub is a hive of activity where students/teachers come every day for assistance.

The John Taylor High School PTA's 50/50 Club is starting again for this academic year. The 50/50 Club is a PTA fundraising initiative open to anyone within the school community that helps raise money for additional extras that the pupils would otherwise not have access to, and at the same time give its members an opportunity to win prize money. For just £1 a

month members are allocated a lucky number which is entered into a prize draw each month from September to August. Last year the 50/50 Club raised £1,544 and was able to donate £772 to the School's PTA funds. The remaining £772 was given out in monthly prize cheques for first, second and third and there were 26 individual winners across the year with one lucky member winning 5 times with a total prize pot of £108.50. An application form and further information about joining can be downloaded from the PTA section on the school website www.jths.co.uk. Prize draws will begin at the next meeting of the PTA.

Chair’s report from the PTA AGM in September The main aim of the PTA is to buy things for the school they would not normally be able to, which provide learning as well as enjoyment to students. These are usually departmental requests and we also fund quite a lot for the SEN department and Resource Centre. Items we have purchased this year include chef’s whites, the Book Bench, three Ipad Airs for the Drama department and the Reader Recovery Programme. If you are new to high

school, PTA meetings are not like junior school where the main aim is to organise fundraising and if you attend you usually end up doing something. Ours are much more about informing parents about school matters and you will only get involved in fundraisers if you volunteer.

In the last two or three years we have just organised our two tried and trusted annual fundraisers. The SUMMER BALL is a lovely event and next year is SATURDAY 2ND JULY. You can get a table of friends together or just come on your own. The QUIZ NIGHT in January is always really popular and will be on 22ND JANUARY this time. Again, we’d be really pleased if you’d support this with a team of 4, especially if you like a challenge! New ideas are always welcome. Please say if you’d like to see any new events or would like to help organise a fundraiser.

If you have regularly attend PTA meetings this year you will have been the first to see the new builds in the school this year – the 6 classroom block, the new training centre and just now the other classrooms and new toilets and changing facilities. You will have learnt of the new innovations that the school have been introducing such as the Reading Recovery Programme and you will have been updated on the School Improvement Plan and changes to the curriculum. You will also have been asked for your input into changes the school make such as

the new website. The Head and Leadership Team are extremely supportive of the PTA, they are always appreciative of what we do and value our opinion as parents.

If you can’t attend meetings you can stay updated by looking at the PTA page on the website which will always have the date of the next meetings and minutes of past meetings as well as details of forthcoming events, and we have a Facebook page for general chat and information- John Taylor High School Parents to Parents.

John Taylor Charitable Trust This is another way of raising funds for the school for things they may not be able to fund. An example is the

Bookbuzz project, which provides every Year 7 with a book of their choice to encourage reading. It has also funded the school minibuses and continues to maintain them, as well as other quite major items of expenditure such as laptop trolleys. It’s a way of parents being able to donate who don’t want to get involved with fundraising events, they can simply give an annual donation.

WANTED! We have a Trust committee but many have stepped down and we really need a couple of parents to join and

give new ideas on how we can take the Charitable Trust forward and get the most out of it.

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School Uniform by Mrs Barnby The uniform that our students wear promotes a sense of pride in the school, engenders a feeling of community

and belonging and is practical and smart. Visitors to the school frequently comment on how smart our pupils are which is achieved by having clear guidelines and high standards. All pupils know that if they wear their uniform inappropriately they will receive an ‘orange’ reminder; 5 reminders result in a one hour detention after school. Students also know that if they wear inappropriate uniform they will be asked to change into our spare items.

Whilst many of our students wear the uniform correctly, some are trying to stretch the boundaries regarding what is acceptable. Please note that for students in Years 8-11:

skirts must not be tight and must not be any shorter than 10cm above the knee, when kneeling on

the floor;

trousers should be plain, and trousers that become narrower towards the ankle are not permitted;

the only piercing that is allowed is one, in the lower ear lobe and a plain, metal stud should be

worn;

hair should be neat and tidy. Extreme styles, unnatural colors, tram lines or shaved shapes in the

hair or eyebrows are not permitted;

footwear should be black and plain. We do not permit trainers, trainer style shoes, canvas shoes,

backless or suede shoes. Boots can be worn if they are black and plain and worn with trousers.

Skirts: This year, all Year 7 girls who choose to wear skirts are required to wear one of six styles that have a logo.

These should be knee length (i.e. on the knee) at the start of the year. Please be reminded that from September 2016 all girls who choose to wear a skirt will need to adhere to the above.

Sixth Form: There has been a significant improvement in the Sixth Form dress this year and we would like to thank parents for their support on this. It is important that this continues and those students who are still not perfect, adhere to our expectations i.e. business suit with formal style matching dress, skirt or trousers. Skirts must be of a suitable length – short, tight, lycra based skirts or dresses are not permitted.

The full uniform/dress codes can be found on our website: www.jths.co.uk

Malteser Cake

Contributed by Carole Kitching

Ingredients 4oz margarine

9oz good quality milk or plain chocolate 3 tablespoons of golden syrup

8oz crushed digestive biscuits 8oz Maltesers

Topping

1 large block of white chocolate

Line a 7½” x 11” tin Put the Maltesers in the freezer for a while until

you need them. Method

Melt the milk or plain chocolate with the syrup and margarine (do not overheat). Stir in the crushed biscuits and Maltesers. Put the mixture into the lined tin. Leave to set

in the fridge. Cover with the melted white chocolate. When set, bring to room temperature and cut into small squares.

Our visitors to the community teas

contributed their favourite recipes which we plan to feature in every edition. Why

not collect them and try the delicious

recipes yourself?

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Last year’s Year 7 (our new year 8) were

given a summer challenge to maintain their high levels of creativity. They were asked to

be imaginative in upcycling an old toilet roll. The outcomes were diverse, demonstrating an

amazing array of personal responses

Congratulations to John Taylor students

who were winners at the recent Alrewas Show:

A piece of 2D work: 1st: Megan Bagnall

2nd: Alice Robb 3rd: Jack Sullivan

A piece of 3D work: 1st : Ellie Knight

2nd: Philippa Wright 3rd: Isabelle Ogden

Jack Sullivan

Megan Bagnall

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MODERN

LANGUAGES

SPELLING BEE

Pupils: Do you want to be

involved in this competition?

We are looking for

Year 7 and 8 representatives

from KINGSTONE,

MARCHINGTON, SHERWOOD

and NEEDWOOD who can use

the alphabet in an exciting

way

Pop along to the J Block and

speak to Miss Jones or Miss

Tyler for more information.

Year 9 summer challenge in producing architectural travel

journals welded great efforts by

many and learners visited exciting places during their

break. This work is being

developed into a show stopping multi-disciplinary exhibition .

Savage Beauty Exhibition July 2015 by Georgia Cornell and Lucy Henry

On 8th July all the Y9 students intending to study Art and Design at GCSE travelled down to the Victoria and Albert Museum to see Alexander McQueen's breath-taking exhibition. His work was fantastic and thematic with so

many different styles spectacularly displayed. We were totally submerged in the whole experience and this gave us so many different ideas on how we could be creative with our summer work. It was a truly memorable experience.

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A taste of Oxford

by Dan Ruttley, Y13 At the end of the last summer term, a group of sixth formers went, along with Mr Sears and Mr Twynham, to

Oxford University to see what it would be like to study there. The day started early, setting off in the minibus

from school. When we arrived at Oxford, we drove into the city centre, and got off the bus at Hertford College, the college to which Mr Sears belonged when he attended Oxford.

When we arrived, we were treated to a tour of the college by a member of academic staff. The highlight was definitely the corridor leading to the college bar, where we saw the collection of group pictures of the freshers of the college, including the year that Mr Sears joined the college! The bridge that connects the two halves of the college together over the road was also quite spectacular, and we probably featured in quite a lot of tourist

photos that were being taken. After the tour, we took part in a tutorial - a small group session that students at Oxford are taught in. The

tutorial contained a detailed analysis of a 20th century poem. The session definitely pushed the group out of their comfort zone, and made us realise what it would be like to learn in the environment that Oxford has.

After we had finished the tutorial, we had a great lunch at the college: steak, potatoes and vegetables, with crumble for desert. If the food is always that good, no wonder Oxford is so popular! We then had some free time to explore Oxford.

Opposite the college was Blackwell’s, a famous Oxford book store. Although the store from the outside looked like a normal shop, underneath there was a huge basement with over three miles of shelving, and books such as original copies of Shakespeare’s works for sale.

Mr Sears took some of us to the Physics department, where we met one of his fellow students. She is now completing a doctorate, and showed us some of the experiments that she and her research team were running to try and detect dark matter in the universe. They were very technical, and it was hard to understand what was actually happening, but fascinating nonetheless.

Other members of the group went to look around some of the other Oxford colleges, as they all have a different feel. After the group met up again, we had the chance to see a Lego model of the college, with some interesting additions such as Spider-man and a Batcave! Unfortunately, there was not a minifigure of Mr Sears. Time was then up, and we had to leave Oxford, although a lot of us hope to be going back next year as students!

Great

outdoors

club Starting after October half term-

on Thursday lunchtimes based in

L11 Great Outdoors Club. Come

and learn about your

surroundings. What exciting

things are in our back gardens

and fields? We will learn and look

at everything from creepy crawlies

to cute and fluffy or perfectly

poisonous to yummy scrummy!

Could you be the next

green fingered great?

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SCOUT BONFIRE 2015

BARTON UNDER NEED WOOD

on Friday 6th November 2015 Gates open 6.00pm

Bonfire 6.30 pm

Fireworks 7.15 pm This year’s Bonfire is on Friday 6th November and we have made some changes to ensure that we can ease the congestion at the entrance. You will need to purchase and wear a wristband at the event. You can purchase a wrist band at the event or we will be selling wrist bands on the day in various village

shops and the Post Office from 9.00am till 3.00pm. We will also be at John Taylor High School selling the wrist bands from 1pm to 2 pm on the day to students from the school. They are priced at £5 each

with children aged 4 years and under admitted free. Those who have purchased a wrist band before 3.00pm will go into a fast lane and all they need to do is show their wrist band and they will avoid the queues and spend more time in the event. There are only 4000 wrist bands this year so get yours early to avoid disappointment. The firework display will again be performed by Pyrotex and this year’s theme is The Rugby World Cup…..even though England is already out!! The music has been chosen and we are sure the display will be as exciting to watch as every other year has been.

Food will be available on the night in the food tent. This will include burgers and hotdogs along with drinks,

but these are non-alcoholic, so teas coffees and soft drinks only There will be other tents for sparklers, novelty items and sweets, so please come along and support the Scouts

and have a great night at the Scout Bonfire in Barton.

We are looking for about 20 volunteers to help on Thursday 5th and Friday 6th November to put the tents up, erect the fencing and generally help with preparation for the big night. If you can spare a few hours on either of these days please call on either 07787341958 or 07731 962770 and let us know. You and your time would be an enormous help towards making this year’s event a great success.

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Thur 22 Oct School closes at 1pm—buses come early Thur 22 Oct Open Evening 6.30-9.00pm Fri 23 Oct INSET DAY—no school for pupils Mon 26 Oct Half term holiday Mon 2 Nov School reopens Thur 5 Nov Meet your Child’s Tutor, Y7, Y10 & Y12, 4.30-7.00pm Mon 9 Nov Y7 reports issued Tue 10 Nov GCSE certificate presentations, 7.00pm Mon 16 Nov Y8 reports issued Wed 18 Nov PTA meeting, 7pm, Training Centre Thur 19 Nov Y13 Parents Evening, 4.30-7.30pm Mon 23 Nov Y9 reports issued Wed 25 Nov School production of Annie—Wed to Sat inc. 7pm Mon 30 Nov Y9 Options Evening, 7pm Mon 30 Nov Y10 reports issued Mon 7 Dec Y12 reports issued Mon 7 Dec Y11 trial exams start Thur 17 Dec Christmas Concert, 7pm hall Fri 18 Dec School closes at 1pm for Christmas.

Dates for your diary

Please check the school calendar on our website www.jths.co.uk

Vacancy We currently have a

vacancy for a

Catering Assistant

Variable hours

Contact Shirley Cawser for more details

Tel. 01283 239339

Trinity Warriors by Mrs J Berry

Members of the Trinity Warriors dance group have visited school this term to take a number of dance workshops with KS3 and KS4 pupils.

The Trinity Warriors are one of

the leading breakdance crews

s p e c i a l i s i ng i n f r e e s t y l e breakdance, clever choreography and explosive acrobatics.

Three members performed and then asked for volunteers to take part in a short breakdance routine. The response from the

pupils was excellent, especially from the boys!

Trinity Warriors are setting up sessions in the Brewhouse, Burton in the next few weeks and will be teaching a number of dance styles to the latest tracks. All the classes

will help pupils to gain confidence, fitness and flexibility and the classes are taught in a relaxed and fun environment.

If any one is interested call the

Brewhouse on 01283 508100.

No experience is necessary.

Better Barton Live Event – Calling all Villagers

Better Barton Live – Calling all Villagers: We are trying to make Barton a

more vibrant place for residents and visitors and have scheduled an

information event for 14th November at the great new John Taylor High

School venue, the Training Centre. Better Barton Live is for all ages and if

you are interested in making Barton a more vibrant and interesting place

to live in, it is aimed at you.

If you run or have an idea for a club or organisation that you would like

people to join then we would like to invite you to take a ‘stand’ at the

event and introduce yourselves to villagers. We’ve already had a lot of

interest.

If you would like a clear idea of the opportunities the village has for you

and your family then come along and find out what’s on in the village.

Is there an event you have seen run successfully elsewhere that you think

could enhance Barton or you think we could be utilising village amenities

more effectively and are prepared to help us get things going, then come

along, we’ll be collecting ideas on the day.

So if you want to get involved, please contact us at

betterbarton@gmail.com or via the Parish Clerk

(bartonpc@btinternet.com or 716059), Facebook, @BartonPC on Twitter

or www.bartonparishcouncil.org.uk. If you are a villager who would just

like to come along to find out what your village can do for you, watch this

space for further information.