Headteacher Commendations: Spring Term 1, 2024
From Ms Adams, Subject Lead for Geography
Ollie McKenna and Archie Hearne for always helping a further student with understanding the tasks and working together to complete them.
Luca Ferraro and George Collins for always making me laugh and smile with their extremely positive attitude towards their Geography lessons, competing against each other with their home-learning and completion of work, and being very creative in making biomes out of items they find around the school site!
From Ms Ramanah-Smith, Mathematics
Mark Djemal for academic endeavour and displaying good character consistently.
Luke Evans for displaying good character and always showing kindness and being ready to help.
Sydney Harvey for displaying good character and working very hard in every lesson.
Narin Yolcu for academic endeavour, including scoring a Grade 4 in the most recent assessment cycle.
From Mr Starling, Subject Lead for Music
Daisy Wilson for progress in and commitment to her singing lessons.
From Mrs Price, Assistant Headteacher, SEND and Inclusion
Kaysie Hart for a work ethic and determination that is inspiring. She consistently works hard in all aspects of school life and is thriving in both her academic work and enrichment activities. She is positive, polite and a pleasure to have in this school. Well done and keep going!
William Hart for his enthusiasm, engagement and as a sustained asset to classroom discussions. A very positive and valued member of our school community, proving to be an excellent role model to other students. Well done and keep up the excellent work.
From Ms Kelly, Teacher of MfL
Lydia Higgs for outstanding contribution to athletics and netball.
Zach Bacon for sustained motivation for the team in Years 7 and 8, and with specific reference to football.
From Mrs Davenport, Reading Lead and Teacher of English
Rio White for consistent improvement with regard to respect, effort and behaviour and significant academic grade improvement.
Andreas Zamba for consistent and significant improvement in academic progress, having made a huge effort to improve. Always helpful and respectful even correcting the behaviour of others to support his teachers.
Katie Jack, Julia Wodzynska & Ellie Dwyer for consistently good attendance and completion of class and home learning to an excellent standard.
Emily Attridge, Matthew Kendall, Ellison Cooper & Alex Lack for always being respectful, polite, helpful, mature and incredibly hard-working, conscientious students.
Isla Garrett, Caitlyn Cranstone & Thomas Hurley for being consistently hard-working, conscientious and focused students.
Harley Szkutnik & Nathanie Agbaje for working hard to improve in a focused and diligent manner.
Shelomi Mulani, Brooke Allen, Mikey Djemal, David Lamprell, Ashley Tadgell, Robyn Thorpe & Daisy Wilson for being consistently diligent, conscientious students who strive to improve their academic responses every lesson.
Willow Hanna for displaying consistency with her efforts, academic performance and diligence.
From Ms Wood-Thompson, Head of Year 13 and Teacher of PE
Aisha Njie and Keira Boudett-Coutts - both of these young ladies were exceptional at the Danes Educational Trust Law Day, asking questions, really engaging with the speakers and putting themselves forward to take on roles during the mock trial. They perfectly embodied our school values and represented the John Warner school excellently. (You can read more about the Law Day, hosted by University of Hertfordshire in the main newsletter)
From Ms Petrou, Head of English
Evie Coss for exemplary performance: diligent, hardworking, respectful, persevering, kind and making me smile every lesson.
Angelica Elton for being extremely hard working, excelling in English, kind and very humorous. An all round role model.
Josue Torso for always being willing, high levels of effort, hard working and a real source of knowledge.
Daisy Burdett Coutts and Lily Rose Crawford for being endearing, hardworking, kind, genuine, excelling in English and an all round role model.
Rianna Randazzo, Aaron James, Jesse Heard and Darcey Walton for being hardworking, kind, genuine, persevering and consistently achieving and excelling. An absolute pleasure to teach.
Eren Gundez, Aisha Njie and Luc Kromberg for being hardworking, kind, genuine, persevering and consistently achieving and excelling. Eren has a breadth of astounding knowledge and is an absolute pleasure to teach. Always so kind.
Chenail Miller for being a ray of sunshine, kind, persevering in adverse times, so genuine and her smile lights up the room!
Favour Ogah for working hard, persevering, being kind and genuine and never leaving me with a dull moment!
Elena D'urso for being hardworking, excelling, persevering when aspects are difficult and always humouring me!
Noah Bentely for being hard-working, persevering, genuine, excelling in English and an all round role model. Such a 'cool cat'!
From Mrs Halley, Subject Lead for History
Russell Milton for his consistently outstanding attitude to and aptitude for his learning in History.
Eseosa Uwujaren for her remarkable and unfaltering attitude to learning in History.
Luciana Di Popolo for the exceptional diligence she has applied in History from the start of the academic year.
Sydnee Dodd for setting and maintaining personal aspirations that have allowed her to achieve excellence in her History GCSE.
Mason Blankley for his steadfast commitment to helping the staff and student body based in the Humanities and MFL building.
From Mr Jones, Subject Lead for Drama
Ellie Kielkowski for her integrity, helpfulness and willingness to take responsibility consistently.
From Mr Caranese, Assistant Headteacher: Careers and Lead for Professional Studies
Misty Rowley for showing resilience, a positive attitude to learning in the face of adversity and such kindness and respect for her education. She has asked for extra learning whilst she is off school with a serious condition. Misty is an avid reader too, and although I do not teach her, she keeps in contact about her progress and wants to study Business and English at A Level and beyond.
From Ms Haddock, Assistant Headteacher: Director of Sport
Isla Garrett, Hayden Garrett and Joshua Hearn for representing the school with pride and doing extremely at the county cross country championships.
Mia Taruvinga, Isla Garrett (again) and Paris Blackman for competing at the district indoor championships in January and winning their events, making them District Indoor Champions 2024.
From Mrs Wootton, Lead for Vocational Qualifications and Ms Battelley, HLTA
Tina Skinner for persistence and engagement. When I joined the school in 2021, Tina spent most of her school day in The Hub. I was timetabled to go and work with her, and she very rarely spoke to me except to acknowledge instructions. Now, Tina says hello to me whenever I see her; she attends lessons and still uses The Hub at lunchtime. Tina's commitment towards her food and nutrition exam has been excellent. We have worked together to meet deadlines and the food she produced for her NEA1 was fantastic. In Maths she asks for my help if she is unsure. Tina and I are able to share a joke as well.
From Mr Freeman, Teacher
Oli Rowell for fantastic effort, focus and quality of work in History lessons, particularly his recent homework project and a transcript he produced of The Hundred Year War. He is a superstar.
From Ms Njenda, Teacher of English
Ana-Rose Ranasinghe for improved behaviour, politeness, great attitude and constantly working hard in English lessons.
Luciana Di Popolo for displaying a great attitude towards her learning, always following instructions and always presenting neat work.
Oliver Camp for greatly improving his attitude towards his learning and behaviour and working hard.
Scarlett Wilson for displaying an excellent attitude towards her learning and always giving her best. She always volunteers to help me with collecting and handing out books and doing any other little jobs.
Luca Ferraro for always being respectful and following instructions. His work is always of a high standard.
Shannon Tadgell for displaying a great attitude towards her learning and always being polite. She is consistent in showing exemplary behaviour.
From Mrs Gordon, Teacher of Mathematics
Kaysie Hart, Nicholas Montalbano, Alexa Davis, Jessica Furse, Alfie Mason, Keira Smith, Lydia Reeves and Ella Sparkes - each student named is outstanding, working exceptionally hard in and out of Maths lessons (i.e. home learning). They are also quite willing to help others in sharing their methods and have modelled exceptional behaviour from the start of the year.