FAQ's

Monday

·           Morning registration starts at 10.10am

Tuesday – Friday

·           Morning registration is at 8.40am

·           Break is at 10.55-11.20am

·           Lunch 13.05-14.00pm

·           You may leave school after your last taught lesson, or 12.45pm earliest if no PM lessons.

  (you have permission to leave site to get lunch at lunch time if you have PM lessons)

We expect you to be smartly dressed in a suit as though working in a traditional office, meaning no jeans or denim.  We will send students home who we perceive are not suitably dressed.  Remember, Sixth Formers act as role models to all other students. Please see below the link to the Judd Sixth Form Dress Code for more specific details.

www.judd.online/parents/uniform 

You can use the Sixth Form Study Centre or library; both are supervised quiet rooms with computers or Chromebooks.

We are keen to encourage and support our students in the widest possible range of musical activities, both within and beyond the usual curricular music lessons. Many pupils are involved in musical activities on a weekly basis.  

These include 4 Choirs, 2 Orchestras, String Orchestra, Wind Band, Brass group, Big Band, and Rockistry (an after-hours rock school). Regular concerts are given throughout the year.  There are occasional small-scale concerts and a house music competition at which pupils of all ages are invited to play.  Membership of all choirs, ensembles and orchestras is open to all pupils of the school, whether or not they have music lessons in school. This coming year we are going on a music tour in October, and will be staging a musical in the spring term. The music practice rooms and the recording facilities can be used with permission by both rock groups and classical ensembles.

There are many groups which may be particularly suited to sixth formers:

Judd Winds – Monday 1.10pm

Chamber Choir – Tuesday 3.50pm

Big Band – Tuesday 1.10pm

String Orchestra – Thursday 1.10pm

Symphony Orchestra – Thursday 3.50pm

School Choir – Friday 1.10pm

It is hoped to involve as many pupils as possible in music making at Judd and it would be helpful for the Head of Music to know, in advance, of those with musical experience (instrumental, choirs, etc.). Please contact Mrs Reilly at rreilly@judd.kent.sch.uk 

The Judd School can provide tuition in the following instruments:

VIOLIN, VIOLA, CELLO, DOUBLE BASS, FLUTE, OBOE, CLARINET, BASSOON, SAXOPHONE,  

TRUMPET, HORN, TROMBONE, EUPHONIUM, TENOR HORN, TUBA, PIANO, ORGAN, PERCUSSION, DRUM KIT, 

CLASSICAL GUITAR, ELECTRIC GUITAR, BASS GUITAR, HARP, CLASSICAL OR ROCK SINGING

Fees are £195.00 for ten half-hour lessons (Half a term’s notice is required, in writing, to terminate lessons) payable to the individual peripatetic teacher. Some instruments are available for hire from the school, and advice can be given on purchasing an instrument by the peripatetic teacher.

Lessons take place during the school day, though sixth formers lessons are usually scheduled during their free periods. To apply for peripatetic music lessons please complete the online form.

Oxbridge - Oxford and Cambridge are aspirational targets for many and we support these aspirations. In recent years, around 20 year 13s have taken up places at Oxford or Cambridge. The most significant factors in gaining an offer are: 

•  Year 12 grades – applicants who achieve at least three A* grades in the year 12 UCAS examinations have a good chance. Applicants who need teachers to enhance their predicted grades simply to match the minimum entry requirements will almost certainly not be offered a place. 

•   GCSE grades – at least six 8/9 grades

•  A level subject choice: Oxbridge admissions staff  are familiar with the school and so expect to see Judd applicants taking four A levels with a bias towards traditional subjects. Particularly on the science side, they may simply discount subjects they see as less relevant or challenging. Double Maths is now a requirement for Maths at Cambridge and an expectation for many physical science courses at Oxford and Cambridge. Check the subject requirements, which may surprise you: Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford only lists Maths (desirable) and History (helpful).  

• Admissions tests before decisions are made about interviews for many subjects. Other subjects run tests alongside interviews (or do both). 

•  Interview – for most subjects, this is both a verbal examination of current learning - including anything outside the taught syllabus mentioned in the application - and a sample tutorial/supervision. Plenty of very able students would not enjoy or cope with one-to-one or small group teaching, which is the Oxbridge way. 

In the Autumn Term of Year 12 we encourage students to become ‘Form Mentors’, this means that one day a week you and a small group from your Y12 form will visit the lower school forms to do activities with them. In the Spring Term you can also apply to be Head Boy or Head Girl, and there are other House and Subject Prefect roles.

Students are allowed to work part time outside of school hours. We recommend not working more than 12 hours maximum per week.

You can book lessons after 12:45pm in the afternoon if you have a free period. Please remember to sign in and out on the iPad in student reception.