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Theme of the Week - Overcoming Adversity

THE GUARDIAN WEEKEND MAGAZINE

Upcoming Events

Friday 19th July - Last Day of Term @ 1.30pm

Monday 2nd September - INSET Day - School Closed

Tuesday 3rd September - Term Starts Year 7 Only

Wednesday 4th September - Term Starts Whole School

From Friday 28th June 2019 until Tuesday 3rd September 2019 JFK will not

be sending off Chromebooks for insurance repair.

If your child has a problem with their Chromebook in this time please follow

normal procedures, however Edde the payment company will ensure that

Chromebooks are collected from your home and returned to your home

during this time.

YEAR 7 CHROME BOOK INSURANCE

Tuesday 9th July

Year 12 Spanish Language Trip

Brilliant Club Graduation

Sports Presentation Evening

@ 7.00pm Hall

Wednesday 10th July

Year 12 Spanish Language Trip

Year 7 and 8 Rounders

Tournament @ Ashlyns 3.30pm

Thursday 11th July

Summer Concert @ 7.00pm

Friday 12th July

Year 12 Biology Field Trip

Year 12 Spanish Language

Trip

Hertfordshire Gaelic Finals

Last Saturday, JFK made it into the national press thanks to some fantastic

questions generated by the Year 9 students who attended the Guardian trip in

May. Olivia Liddell, Elizabeth Kelly, Daisy Furmston and Chloe Nolan all had

their questions published in the Guardian's 'Weekend' magazine, alongside

answers by climate change experts from around the world. It's a fantastic

achievement for all four of the girls and a very exciting development for the

school. Well done girls!

Tuesday 16th July Music Scholarship Performances @ 5.00pm

Friday 19th July

Last Day of Term @ 1.30pm

Lourdes Pilgrimage

Saturday 20th July -

Friday 26th July

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LIBRARY

MUSIC

JFK Summer Concert Thursday 11th July at 7 - 9pm

The summer concert will feature: School Band playing the best of Queen, Orchestra playing music by Mendels-

sohn, String Ensemble with Waltz, Windmills, and Ragtime, Guitar ensemble will be 'chasing cars', Hidden

Voices and Liturgy group will be singing music from pops to classics and there will also be some outstanding

soloists. Watch out for the email to reserve your tickets.

Music Scholarship evening Tuesday 16th July 5 - 6.30pm

An email went out to all with the invitation letter. Instrumental/vocal teachers, Mrs Bailey and Mr Ridout will

recommend students who have shown outstanding potential during their music lessons, commitment, effort and

achievement during the year. All wishing to take part should fill in the reply slip and email details of their

repertoire at their earliest convenience.

STEM NEWS

SPORTS PRESENTATION EVENING TICKETS

Sports Presentation Evening tickets are now ready to collect from Student Services

SPORT NEWS

Congratulations to Zack Bobrowski who has been selected to become an Everyone Active Sports Champion. Zack was recently involved in the inaugural sports day in Hemel Hempstead alongside fellow Olympic badminton player Marcus Ellis. Zack continues to play tournaments across the UK and Europe most weekends, returning this week from a tournament in Ibiza. This has resulted in him becoming the number 7th boy in the country for doubles and 13th for singles.

A reminder that all library books need to be returned by Monday 8th July. Thank you

LOST PROPERTY

A reminder that ALL property needs to be labelled as Student Services now currently have twelve unnamed

coats, eight unnamed PE kits, two green blazers, one rugby shirt, a variety of personal tops from hoodies to

T-shirts and a large quantity of footwear.

ALL PROPERTY NOT COLLECTED AT THE END OF TERM WILL BE DISPOSED OF

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JFK SCHOOL ASSOCIATION QUIZ NIGHT – FRIDAY 12TH JULY

For their first stand-alone fundraising event, the newly-resurrected JFK School Association is hosting a quiz night on Friday 12th July.

This event is open to everyone and anyone - after all, who doesn’t love a quiz night?

Get a group together to make up a team (maximum 8 people per team)

Tickets cost £8.00 per person and are available online via Eventbrite (search for JFKSA on www.eventbrite.co.uk). You can buy individual tickets, you don’t need to purchase for your whole team at once.

This is a BYO event - bring your own food and drink with you for the evening (we’re not quite ready to start cooking and serving yet!) but do remember to bring plenty of £s for buying Raffle tickets and joining in with Heads or Tails. That’s all you need to do for now; you don’t need to submit team names / details in advance, we will do all that admin stuff on the night.

LITERACY

July’s Book of the Month - The Book of Dust Volume 1 –

La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman Miss Bullen recommends this book to all students from Year 7 upwards be-cause: Pullman’s trilogy ‘His Dark Materials’ was immensely successful when it was first published in the 1990s, and this new trilogy set in the same world has been equally as well received. It’s a world where people’s souls are personified as animals, and which might seem like ours, but is governed by magic rather than science. Pullman has promised that Volume 2: The Secret Commonwealth, will be published this year, even though he’s busy collaborating on the forthcoming TV adaptation of the original trilogy. It’s a chunky book, which makes it the per-fect summer read.

July’s Poem of the Month - Checking Out Me History by John Agard

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EASY FUNDRAISING FOR OUR SCHOOL

PAYMENTS TO THE SCHOOL

PAYMENTS

School dinner money payments

With effect from 1st July 2019 the cash loaders in Student Services and the school hall will only be able to

accept notes. Coins will no longer be accepted into these machines. Please do not send your child into school

with coins to pay for school dinners in the cash loaders. School dinners can be paid for through Wisepay, either

accessed through the Wisepay website or the Wisepay app.

Help us raise money for our school when you shop online. There are many many popular retailers that take part in Easyfundraising such as Amazon, Ebay, M&S, Argos, Debenhams and Sainsbury's. We have raised £747.43 in just over a year and have 68 supporters.

Please take a minute check out this video which explains exactly how Easyfundraising works https://youtu.be/Sn2dsQGAe_w

Follow the simple instructions to join and then just shop via the easy fundraising website.

It's as easy as 1, 2, 3...

1. Head to https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/johnfkennedycatholicschool/ and join for free.

2. Every time you shop online, go to easyfundraising first to find the site you want and start shopping.

3. After you’ve checked out, that retailer will make a donation to your good cause for no extra cost whatsoever!

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We now have a central JFK twitter account which we would love you to follow so we can share information,achievements and events happening throughout the school year. The account is @JFK_Hemel. This will not be used as our main source of communication but will give us the oppor-tunity to share snap shots of information, opportuni-ties, learning and news each day.

If your son/daughter is going to be absent due to illness please telephone the school absence line by 9.00am on each day of absence.

Year 7 01442 229105 Year 8 01442 229124 Year 9 01442 229131 Year 10 01442 229132 Year 11 01442 229136 Sixth Form 01442 229137

Students should bring a

letter explaining their absence

on their return to school.

ABSENCE

Autumn Term 2019

INSET Day Monday 2nd September

Term Starts – Year 7 only Tuesday 3rd September

Term Starts – Whole School Wednesday 4th September

Early Close – Open Evening Tuesday 1st October @ 1.30pm

INSET Day Wednesday 2nd October

Half Term Monday 28th October - Friday 1st November

Occasional Day Friday 29th November

Term Ends Friday 20th December

Spring Term 2020

Term Starts Monday 6th January

INSET Day Tuesday 21st January

Term Ends Friday 14th February

HALF TERM Monday 17th - Friday 21st February

INSET Day Monday 24th February

Term Starts Tuesday 25th February

Term Ends Friday 3rd April

Easter Holiday Monday 6th –Friday 17th April

TERM DATES

Summer Term 2020

Term Starts Monday 20th April

May Day Friday 8th May

Half Term Monday 25th - Friday 29th May

INSET Day Friday 10th July

Term Ends Tuesday 21st July

*Please note that the half term dates may differ from

Central Bedfordshire and Luton.