News

International Week

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:24:06 +0000

On the 14th - 18th March the whole School enjoyed an ‘International Week’. Each class learned about France - studying the language, culture, food etc.
The week culminated in a performance of ‘Le Bistro’ by Dan Roro, whose show ‘exposes the audience to a little French language, presents some genuine and traditional French theatre and offers a genuine theatrical experience’. More information on Dan and the show can be found here

KS2 have made an ‘animoto’ of Dan’s show above.

KS2 Blog in The Guardian

Tue, 9 Nov 2010 15:01:30 +0000

The KS2 blog has ben featured in an article in the online Guardian newspaper. The article, by Judy Friedberg, details some of the tools the class have used to show their work to the world.

Since the article was published the blog has had visitors from across the world, including Nepal, Brazil, Russia and Japan!

The full article can be found here

The class blog can be found here

KS3/4 Perform King Lear

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:20:51 +0100

Students from Key Stages 3&4 are taking part in the National Schools Shakespeare Festival this term. They will be performing an adaptation of King Lear at Headington Theatre on Thursday 14th October at 7p.m. Last week we took part in a cast workshop at the theatre and have set up an after-school Drama Club to provide extra rehearsal time. We're all very excited about the project and we can't wait to put on a great show!

Blogging

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:47:13 +0100

The Upper KS2 class have started blogging! Their blog can be found at www.alexsclass.com and contains information about the topics the class have been studying, as well as examples of work and all the news from the class. Started at the end of the summer, their blog has already seen visits from America, Australia, Malta and New Zealand. There will be lots of additions to the blog during the coming year - please take a look and feel free to leave comments for the class!

School Awards 2010

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:40:30 +0100

Today saw the school present it’s first Annual Student Awards. All of the students of the school gathered at the secondary site and were joined by many parents. Star medals were given to each student for their progress through the year, and in each class 1 student received the class award for extra special progress. There were presentations to those students leaving the School, as well as an award donated by 1 of the leavers parents for the pupil who has shown most progress in communication. Certificates for ‘Transition Challenge’ were given to KS4 pupils and finally an integration award was presented to the pupil who has shown most progress integrating into one of our partnership schools. This award was dedicated to the memory of Val Targett, who was one of the teachers at Wheatley Primary School instrumental in establishing our integration programme in the early 1980’s. Val sadly passed away suddenly earlier this year. We finished by singing ‘3 lions’ - a song all the school had been learning as part of our World Cup 2010 projects.

Sports Day

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:23:32 +0100

Today the School had a World Cup 2010 Sports Day. All the students have been following World Cup topics this term and we finished off the projects with a sports day full of football related games and activities. The students from across the school met on the Primary site for football based activities such as shooting, throw-ins, face painting, shirt making, goal kicks, Wii games, parachute games, balancing games, best celebrations and many more. The students carried ‘passports’ with them which they marked with stickers once they had completed an activity. It was a great morning enjoyed by students and staff and a fitting end to our World Cup topics.

Using Twitter

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:48:48 +0100

A Keystage 2 class at John Watson School have started using Twitter. The class have started to ‘tweet’ about what they have been doing in class during the day and have used it to show some of the work they are pleased with. They have had received some nice ‘tweets’ from people across the world, including educators in New Zealand, Australia and America. They recently had a great Twitter conversation with pupils from Barcombe Primary School where they found out about life in Mr Cobb’s class and answered questions about their school life. If you would like to follow the class tweets in Twitter then follow @alexsclass - alternatively you can read their tweets on our Twitter Feed Page. If you don’t know what Twitter is, there is a short video explanation below!

JWS on iTunes

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:35:20 +0100

John Watson School Podcasts are now available direct from the iTunes store. Search for ‘John Watson School’ and you will find podcasts from the Primary Site and Secondary site, plus limited edition World Cup Podcasts! There is also a collection of the school’s best animations - also now on their own mini-site at www.johnwatsonschool.co.uk/animations . All podcasts are also on the School’s podcasting website at www.johnwatsonschool.co.uk/podcasts . We hope you enjoy listening to the podcasts as much as we enjoyed making them - please feel free to rate the podcasts and leave reviews!

KS3/KS4 take part in ‘imps’ programme

Wed, 26 May 2010 12:24:48 +0100

A group of 12 students from John Watson Secondary School have visited the JR to participate in the Injury Minimisation Programme for Schools (IMPS).

The students were taught what to do if they came across someone who was unconscious and how to keep themselves safe. They were taught how to put people in the recovery position, what to do if they got burnt or cut with glass and also how to contact the emergency services. They also had the chance to visit A&E where they had their fingers put in plaster (only if they wanted to!) and they also got to see how a heart monitor works!

IMPS relies on donations to provide this really important programme. It costs them £13.50 per pupil to do the training. We asked parents to contribute £4 for their child’s place and will be fundraising later in the year to support this very important charity.

Please check out www.impsweb.co.uk to find out more about the work that they do!

Woodland Trust Visit

Fri, 21 May 2010 09:09:51 +0100

On Thursday 21st May member of the KS2 class visited Stratfield Brake near Kidlington for a workshop with the Woodland Trust. The students were met by 2 members of the Woodland Trust who led them on an adventure around the woods - looking at different leaves and signs of animals and animal food. They then made some shelters for small animals using twigs, leaves and bark. All the students had a great time, many thanks to the Woodland Trust for organising the event.