Industrial Cadets

As part of our on going commitment to engineering careers, we have teamed up with GSK in Ware to offer a select number of students the opportunity to gain a Bronze certificate as an industrial engineer! Students will take part in a 12-week project with a teacher and industry mentor. They will then produce a final written report, model and presentation. At the end of the project, pupils will take part in an online virtual assessment with a panel of STEM assessors. Pupils will be invited to a Celebration Event at Cambridge University, where they will be awarded their Bronze Industrial Cadet certificates and badges.

This programme is a great opportunity for STEM enthused students to get a real taste of project management, working as a team and gaining a unique insight into how a STEM company works. If you are in Year 8 or 9 and are interested in participating in the project, beginning in February, please let Mr Higham know via email at sch@johnwarner.herts.sch.uk. Students will then be contacted regarding the selection criteria.

MBDA Robot Rumble

Another exciting opportunity is launching in November. Each year MBDA Stevenage host the Robot Rumble Scheme to local and surrounding schools. The aim of this scheme is to allow a team to design, build and code your own robot to compete in the VEX V5 Robotics event! VEX Robotics is an international robotics competition for students of all ages. MBDA will be supporting the team by providing a V5 system, designed for students aged 14+. It will include everything they need to design, build, and test a robot that can compete in multiple competitions throughout the school year.

MBDA will provide a mentoring team formed of MBDA staff who are ready to support you and your team on this scheme. They will pay for your teams registration fee to join VEX Robotics for this season in order to compete at as many events as you would like. The scheme will run from September/October 2024 to March 2025. The VEX national qualifier event for the MBDA teams will be held around Jan/Feb. The team has a chance to go to Nationals in march at the Telford international centre!

○ School Years Y9 - Y11

○ We advise for team sizes to be between 5 - 8 students

The Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translator

Students are invited to take part in "The Queen's College Translation Exchange." 

This is a competition in translation run by Queen's College Oxford University and the award is called " The Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators."

If you are interested in taking part, translating from French, Spanish, German, Italian or Russian, please see Miss Kelly in room 719 for the resources or email on rsk@johnwarner.herts.sch.uk

This competition is open to Years 9, 10, 11 and 13. 

If you take part you will be awarded with a Certificate of Participation from the University of Oxford!

It would be great to see some language learners take part, so do come along and collect resources or get in touch if you would like to know more!

Elevate Education

On Thursday 24 October, Elevate came in to John Warner to meet with all Year 10 and year 11 students to discuss all things revision. The sessions were a great success with positive feedback from students and staff. The students discussed methods to revise and how best to prepare for their upcoming mock examinations. That evening, Year 11 parents were also invited in to the school for a parent workshop delivered by Charlie from Elevate, the evening talked about the points raised in the sessions earlier that day and gave ideas about how best they can support their children at home in preparation for their GCSE examinations in the summer term.

If you are interested in attending any parent webinars, free of charge, please see the programme attached of all sessions run by Elevate.

https://go.elevateeducation.com/ukschoolwebinar

Year 11 After School Revision Sessions