We are very proud of our extra-curricular opportunities and want to continue providing enriching activities for you, even when our School is closed to the majority of students. In this section you can see our wide range of engaging activities to do beyond your school work.
Staff and students have provided a wide variety of activities as listed below. We aim to update these regularly and if you have any ideas of activities we should share across our Hayesfield community then please let us know through LEAP@hayesfield.com
We would also love to hear how your own extra-curricular activities are going during the closure. Please send any photos and captions you have to LEAP@hayesfield.com and we can share the fun in our School Bulletin.
Work Experience
There might not be traditional Work Experience but we are still looking forward to your professional horizons.
- Whatever your personal situation with WEX, take 20 minutes to get some virtual work experience.
You will need to sign up to Barclay’s Life Skills and start practising with this session: https://barclayslifeskills.com/i-want-virtual-work-experience/school/virtual-work-experience
It will take about 15-20 minutes. Be honest with yourself, if you need more information, follow the links! - Today, employers use a range of methods to decide who they want to work with them but the traditional interview still plays an important role.
Try your hand at a virtual job interview at https://barclayslifeskills.com/i-want-to-prepare-for-an-interview/sixth-form/virtual-interview
You can choose from five different kinds of interview, rehearse your answers and get top interview tips next to some model answers. You can even record and playback parts of your interview if you want to
Barclays Life Skills has an amazing range of resources and quizzes so take some time to browse the rest of their site while you’re there.
Art Club
British Museum – Albrecht Dürer Inspiration
We were excited to discover that the British Museum are looking for art work inspired by Albrecht Dürer – an artist many Year 9 students researched in detail earlier this year. If you look up #museumfromhome on Instagram you will find the link to send any drawings, poems, prints or models you may like to create over Easter. Or just look it up to explore the British Museum and responses people have made to the many masterpieces it holds. A few of the characterful drawings completed by our very own Hayesfield girls inspired by this fabulous rhino are shown here.
Stay at Home Art Challenge
A fun way to combine your art and photography skills with some creative ingenuity. Explore Art Galleries online to find a painting you like, then you can recreate this with objects and people from around your home!
If you look up @tussenkunstenquarantine (meaning between art and quarantine) on Instagram you can find the artist behind this fab idea. Hours of creative fun right there!!
Choose your favourite painting
Find 3 things lying around your house
Recreate the painting with these attributes
Email v.osborne@hayesfield.com with your own artist recreation and we will post a selection of your work on the bulletin each week.
Creativity 4 Wellbeing at the Holburne
The Holburne are offering some fun wellbeing creative activities every Wednesday afternoon. Details below…
Mrs Osbourn
Teacher of Art
Free Online Dance Classes
The Jasmin Vardimon are providing free online dance classes for 12-18 year olds and adults! If you are interested please follow the link http://jasminvardimon.com/education/pop-up-space/?fbclid=IwAR0wXYUgX2nPJQkytt2GSdOOqDaI4_ewH3dCWSbf2KSTqXrWap9SGSdJYkA
Happy Dancing!
Miss Fitzgerald
Teacher of Dance
Be an Excellent Geographer with Mr Notton
Are you wanting to broaden your geographical horizons? Take a look at the worksheet on the Q drive for some ideas on how to improve your geographical knowledge and understanding. There will be a new sheet each week saved to the Q Drive. Q:/Geography/Coronavirus closure student work/Geography/LEAP
A Whole School Kahoot!
Who fancies a mass game of Kahoot!? Join Mr Notton, every Wednesday (after Easter) at 11am for a game.
The topics each week will be Geographical themed and we are starting on Wednesday 22nd April with Capital Cities of the World! Check your inboxes at 11am for the sign up code and link and we will start playing at 11:15. Open to all students.
Covid-19 Time Capsule
You are living through History right now. Take a look at the worksheets attached that are for you to fill in for your future self to look back on.
2020 Covid-19 Time Capsule Sheets [PDF]
Mr Notton
Teacher of Geography
Mr Gould’s virtual LEAP: Hayesfield Gardens!
It’s great to see so many of you getting outside in the garden or on the allotment. Remember, if you are doing any gardening, growing, weeding or sowing, we want to hear about it so please email Mr Gould and ask to be added to the mailing list. m.gould@hayesfield.com
Social Sciences Research Project
For anyone interested in Social Sciences, particularly if you are looking to study a Social Science subject at A Level or beyond. Geography and History are joining forces to investigate a significant element of UK History – The rise and fall of the Welsh coal mining industry.
This LEAP@Home will give you the opportunity to investigate the social, cultural, economic, environmental and political aspects. The project can be taken on by individuals or by groups (working remotely, obviously) and can be interpreted with complete freedom. This will act as an opportunity to investigate a very complex topic whilst developing research and project management skills (skills needed at A Level, University and in most careers). Weeks 1 – 3 will give an introduction to the topic including an analysis of a Public Service Broadcasting album released in 2017 that could form the spine of your project. Any interested students, please email Mr Gould. m.gould@hayesfield.com
Mr Gould
Teacher of Geography
Hayesfield’s Virtual Choir with Mrs Adams
Welcome to Hayesfield’s Virtual Choir! An opportunity for you to continue singing at home and then to create a virtual choir which will be shared online! Our first song will be ‘Sing’ by Gary Barlow. I’ve kept this one quite simple so that we can learn it quickly and I can collate the virtual choir more easily to try and get a recording out quickly after Easter. This is open to all students and staff so pass the message on!
What you need to do:
- Learn the song – I have put the lyrics and audio onto Hayesfield Panda/School Closure Work/Leap or in the T drive/Music/Extra-Curricular/Hayesfield’s Virtual Choir so you can practise at home. If you are an experienced singer (Harmony, HUSH and HOST!) you could learn one of the harmony parts
- Whilst listening to the track with HEADPHONES on record yourself singing it. To help me collate it together please CLAP for the three beats before you start singing, just as I have done on the track
- Save your recorded voice (I don’t want to hear any backing tracks) onto the T drive/Music/Extra-Curricular/Hayesfield’s Virtual Choir/Pupil Recordings.
- Please save the file as your full name and tutor group eg Jane Doe 7AR
- Deadline to save to the T Drive will be Monday 20th April (I’ve extended the deadline now we are more used to working and learning from home!)
- I have also put on a new song ‘You Will Be Found’ on which you can also practise over the Easter holidays and the deadline for recordings for this one will be Monday April 27th. The main part is labelled ‘main vocal part’ and then there are 3 optional harmonies to sing as well
I can’t wait to hear your singing!!
Mrs Adams
Teacher of Music
Welcome to Cyber School!
A free to attend online Cyber School for all children in the UK
- Live, online, instructor-led classes (2 hours per day)
- Computer Science & Cyber Security Education
- ‘Cyber Projects’ (also known as homework, but shhh)
- Lots of free resources and room to explore
- Access to hands-on cyber labs (Ethical hacking, social engineering, Linux, etc)
- Access to Cyber Mentors
- Access to the Cyber School community
Crack Computer Coding
Get cracking with Code.Org are providing free code courses, working with coders and special guest stars it has options for beginners to experienced programmers
https://code.org/break
Mr Cottle
Head of Computing
Create an Easter Octopus!
An octopus as we know is a soft-bodied, eight-limbed mollusc. Like other cephalopods, the octopus is bilaterally symmetric with two eyes and a mouth. So, create your own out of an old t-shirt. David Attenborough would be proud of your anatomically correct octopus friend! All you need is an old T-shirt, a pair of scissors and a felt tip pen AND this youtube video by Mrs Gasson.
DJ Saban’s Weekly Playlist
For this week’s playlist, I would like to introduce you to ‘La French Touch’.
It is a style of house music produced by French artists in the 1990s and 2000s and it is characterised by a heavy reliance on filter and phaser effects both on and alongside samples from 1970s /1980s American or European disco tracks.
As a result, most artists are singing in English but I guarantee that they all are 100% French born and bred.
Listening to this playlist whilst doing your daily exercise will give you a big boost of energy I hope!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDkwP2ygxDWbq70Ph8tF2_S9sm7Fso9cV
We would really love to see all of your octopus friends, please email a photograph to c.gasson@hayesfield.com so that we can make an Octopus Gallery on our Instagram page Hayesfield_dt. Happy making! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu3CEK4QZJg&t=4s
Mrs Gasson
#Fieldworklive – your chance to do get involved in Geography and Science related fieldwork whilst you are at home
#Fieldworklive encompasses ten live lessons broadcast for different age groups, giving all students the valuable opportunity to take part in real fieldwork around the UK this spring, taking place from Monday 20th April to Friday 1st May 2020.
Mrs Lisney’s Fashion Fix
Fashion styles before, during and after WW2
Look at the fashion designs for Womenswear in 1930, 1940 and 1950 above.
Can you see how the availability of resources such as fabric and components and skilled labour have influenced them? Skirt lengths, skirt shapes, style details, decorative details, amount and number of fabrics needed and accessories to enhance?
Design challenge:
Clothes rationing ended in 1949, so imagine you are a teenager 70 years ago in 1950 rather than 2020. There maybe people in your family who can share photos of clothes they were wearing in that era?
Hopefully VE Day – 75 celebrations will still go ahead in some form or another and will be something for us all to look forward to, so…
Design an outfit that incorporates the styling details of the 1950’s, for a VE celebration or for an occasion of your own choice.
You can download fashion poses to trace over using plain paper against a window. Alternatively, you can trace off a pose from a fashion magazine using greaseproof paper. Place this behind a piece of plain paper and design your outfit on top.
I would love to see your creations, remember no limits on colour, fabric and components! Send them to me j.lisney@hayesfield.com
Mrs Lisney
Subject Lead Textiles
HASA Stargazing
How about learning about the stars and the constellations you can see on a clear night? (The tips below are adapted from https://www.cpre.org.uk/discover/five-ways-to-make-your-star-count-sparkle/ ) Here’s what you could do…
- Talk to an adult at home about where you might be able to be to look at the stars on an evening when the sky is clear. This might be a garden (if so, wrap up warm) or up through a ‘skylight’ window
- To make the most it, use a star chart. There are some great ones online, like this star chart on Astronomy Now – https://astronomynow.com/uk-sky-chart/ – (just follow the simple instructions on the webpage) – and plenty of stargazing phone apps
- Once your eyes have adjusted to the dark, find Orion the hunter. Look south (the way satellite dishes point!) and find the three bright stars in a row that form his belt. Find the bright orange star on the top left of Orion, and the blue/white one on the bottom right, then the other two that form a rectangle around the constellation
- Explore the universe! If you’re treated to a good view of the night sky, make the most of it. What other constellations can you spot in the cosmos? Close to Orion you should be able to find Sirius, the brightest star in the sky to the left of Orion as you look south. Higher and to the right of Orion is Greek hero Perseus, with the head of Medusa, a monster who had snakes for hair. One of her eyes, a star called Algol, is nicknamed the Demon Star! Almost directly above you is a giant W shaped constellation, Cassiopeia, named after a mythical Ethiopian queen. She’s normally pictured sitting on her throne. Beside her is Camelopardalis, which is actually a giraffe, named at a time when the word for the animal was a combination of ‘camel’ and ‘leopard’
Mr Little
Teacher of Science
DJ Saban’s ‘Happy Mix’ en Français
Miss Saban has been busy producing a fabulously French playlist for you to listen to. Great for developing your French language skills! This week’s theme is ‘songs to keep you happy’. Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDkwP2ygxDWb-Imor1xtDbmD9ePubkB-L
Miss Saban
Teacher of French
DJ Cordero – Vamos a Bailar/Let’s Dance!
So, maybe you listened to some of the French song list last week. Now it’s time for some music in Spanish, from Spain and Latin America! Here is the first song list for you to enjoy over Easter. All the tracks are dance tracks, so you can dance along to them, do your keep fit, or just listen.
Why not look up the artists and find out which country they are from, what style/rhythm of music it is, learn some of the dance steps to it?
One track in particular has some easy lyrics to have a go at – check out Marc Anthony – Vivir la vida.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQeErcX_32CiqAjxtdtbDwlfWicwrrxbR
Disfruta! Enjoy!
Sra Cordero
Rosetta Stone
Are you a parent with children at home? Looking for help with learning resources?
In response to school closures affecting more than 800 million children worldwide, Rosetta Stone is giving three months of free language learning to all school children who want to keep learning at home.
All children (18 and under) can benefit from this free resource. There are no payment details required and there is no obligation to purchase at the end of the three month period.
Duke of Edinburgh @Home
Bronze Quizzes
First aid and emergency procedures
An awareness of risk and health and safety issues
Preparatory map skills
Practical map skills
Compass skills
Campcraft, equipment and hygiene
Food and cooking
Countryside code
Observing, recording and presenting
Silver Quizzes
First Aid and emergency procedures
An awareness of risk and health and safety issues
Preparatory map skills
Practical map skills
Compass skills
Campcraft, equipment and hygiene
Food and cooking
Countryside code
Observing, recording and presenting
Gold Quizzes
First aid and emergency procedures
An awareness of risk and health and safety issues
Preparatory map skills
Practical map skills
Compass skills
Campcraft, equipment and hygiene
Food and cooking
Countryside code
Observing, recording and presenting
Mr Carroll and Mrs Lesslie
DoE Team
https://www.youngwriters.co.uk/competitions/KS3-4/sos-missing
Miss Whitehead has found a creative writing competition that will keep you busy. The challenge is to write a 100 word mysterious mini saga. You can submit them direct to the competition or organisers or email your creations to Miss Whitehead who’ll work with you to submit them. Closing date Thursday 30th April. Prizes to be won.
Miss Whitehead
Teacher of English
Corona Captured
Dear Secondary Schools,
We would like to invite your staff and pupils to take part in our project to record personal experiences of the extraordinary times we live in.
We would like people to write journals of their daily lives at this time. It doesn’t have to be written, it can be drawn, videoed or even sung. We would especially like to invite contributions from the younger members of society as we feel that they have a unique perspective on events going on around us – that may not occur to adults.
It can also be a cathartic experience for everyone – it gives them a chance to express thoughts and feelings that they may not be able to say out loud.
We have a set up a website with information and guidelines for use in compiling your journals. This includes some guidance questions that may be suitable for younger children – although they are welcome to contribute whatever they feel. Please visit https://www.batharchives.co.uk/corona-captured for more information, or email archives@bathnes.gov.uk directly.
We do hope you and your pupils will be able to contribute.
Best wishes, and stay safe,
Anne Buchanan
Local Studies Librarian
