News and Events

Hi!

We wanted to tell you about a fab event happening on Friday 19th March, organised and led by us, your Sixth Form Leadership Team.

The event will provide a forum for over 100 students, representing more than 12 schools, the opportunity to meet, discuss, and engage with a wide variety of climate change and sustainability experts. We’ve got workshops and speakers discussing topics from fast fashion to sustainable eating and food wastage, alongside an opening address by Bath MP Bath Wera Hobhouse who is a big supporter of the event.

The Summit will mark the end of a week-long set of activities by students across the schools, culminating with the declaration of a climate emergency, providing the momentum for change to occur in schools and the wider community.

Organising the conference has been extremely fulfilling and exciting, and we are hoping that it will be super successful and make a difference to young people and their families across BANES and beyond.

If you have any questions about the conference, you can email climate@hayesfield.com

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram, both with the handle @BYCS2021

We hope you will get involved in the tutor activities and make some changes that will impact our planet.

Thanks,

Katrin, Noor, Elise, and Elsa (6SLT)

Monday 15th – Energy, Turn it off day	Tuesday 16th – Agriculture, Sustainable food and drink
Turn off lights Turn the heating down Switch off computers and projectors Use your phone less	Eat locally sourced food Eat food that is in season Drink locally supplied water Have meat free meals for the day
Wednesday 17th – Waste, Reduce, Reuse Recycle	Thursday 18th – Transportation, Get Walking
No single use plastic (including pack-lunches) No unnecessary printing Promote recycling across the school Be creative and ‘upcycle’ something	Park ‘n’ Stride – get dropped off further away from school and walk in with your friends Hayesfield Staff to walk between sites
Friday 19th – Youth Climate Summit, Climate Emergency

Dear Parents and Carers

I am writing to update you with our plans to welcome all students back to school from Monday 8th March 2021.

We have updated our ‘Exceptional Arrangements for the Academic Year 2020-21’ booklet, which was first issued in September so that you are fully aware of the changes that we have in place from March 8th onwards. I would be very grateful if you could read through this booklet with your child, so they know what to expect over the coming weeks.

Academic Year 2020-21 – Exceptional Arrangements Updated March 2021 [PDF]

Changes that are new include:

• Students will return to the classroom following a series of negative Asymptomatic Tests for Coronavirus:
• Students will receive three Asymptomatic Tests for Coronavirus on the school site, each one within 3-5 days of the previous test
• Students will then be given Home Testing kits, which they are to take twice weekly and the results reported to NHS Track and Trace and to the school
• Face coverings will be worn by students and staff in all situations where social distancing cannot be maintained until Easter 2021; this now includes classrooms as well as busy corridors and large gatherings (e.g., refectories (if not eating) and commutes)
• Each Year Group has a designated entrance point to the school buildings
• Our afterschool LEAP sessions and pre-school Breakfast Club will recommence form Monday 15th March 2021

 
We will write separately inviting your child to their first test. For the majority of students, their first day back in the classroom will start after their first negative test result. The exception is for students in Year 11 to Year 13, who are asked to attend their test on Friday 5th March and then to come to school as normal on Monday 8th March. All students will continue to learn remotely until their first Covid-19 test session is completed as below:

I know some students are feeling apprehensive about taking the test, so Isabella in Year 10 and I made a short video to explain the procedure.

 
Any students who are not undergoing testing will need to come to school at the same starting date as their Year Group and follow their timetable.

In many ways, this return to school is very similar to our ‘Back to School’ that we had in September with a real focus on routines and expectations. For many of our students it has been a while since they came to school and some of the rules and routines may have been
forgotten! We want our first interaction with every one of our students to be positive. Please help your child have a positive start by making sure that they come to school complying with our School Uniform and expectations, as detailed in the Booklet.

If you have any questions or queries about the return to school, please contact your son or daughter’s Director of Achievement. I am hoping that students will now remain in our care at school for the remainder of the Academic Year as there are many excellent events scheduled for the Summer Term that serve to remind us that school is so much more than just a place of learning.

I hope you are all keeping well.

Yours sincerely

Emma Yates

Curriculum Handbook 2021 – 2023 [PDF]
Uploading Your Option Choices to SIMS- A Users Guide 2021 Final [PDF]

Options Event Main Presentation

Art

Business and Enterprise

Child Development

Computer Science

Dance

Drama

Further Maths

Geography

Health and Fitness

History

Hospitality and Catering

Languages (French and Spanish)

Languages (Latin)

Religion and Philosophy

Music

Photography

Physical Education

Product Design

Rock School

Sociology

Statistics

Textiles

Parents Evening- Tuesday 9th February 2021

Following the virtual Options Information Event, we will hold our Year 9 Parents’ Evening on Tuesday 9th February 2021. The Parents’ Evening will be run as a series of one-to-one video link meetings with subject teachers.

As part our the Options Process, this will be a very valuable opportunity to talk about current progress and the benefit of taking courses through to GCSE.

Again, details of how to attend these meetings via video link will be sent out to all Year 9 parents.

Thursday 28th January

All videos will be streamed from 5pm via our Hayesfield YouTube Channel.

While our students are developing their resilience and resourcefulness, we understand that studying remotely can add its own pressures and problems. For parents, it is not always clear when and how you should help them!

Experienced staff at Hayesfield, Beechen Cliff and St Marks would like to help parents navigate their way around remote learning, so we have collaborated to create a series of videos that should support families to make the most of remote learning.

These videos will be launched via our Hayesfield YouTube channel at 5pm on Thursday 28th January, 2021. You can watch the Headteachers’ welcome now though by clicking below:

The playlist of videos available for you to watch is shown below, we have split the playlist into two categories – those videos that should be helpful to parents in all three schools and those that are specific to Hayesfield. We hope parents enjoy watching them as much as we enjoyed making them.

Making the Most of Remote Learning Playlist for All Schools

The portfolio includes a selection of photographs of the girls with pieces of work that have been completed over the last 11 weeks, performances and Tutor Group photos. These hard copies will be available for you to purchase via Scopay for £5 from Monday 23rd November.
All orders will need to be paid for by the 7th December at the latest to allow time for printing.

As a final flourish, your daughter will have received her certificate of achievement. This is to award her for how well she has adapted to secondary school life, with a personal comment from her tutor. I think you will agree that all the girls have now shed their Year 6 skins and blossomed in to being real Hayesfield Girls!

Please click here to download the booklet [PDF]

There is a lot of excitement in Year 7, as we will soon be going on this trip!
This year, more than ever, the opportunity for your daughter to have quality time together with her tutor group will define her sense of belonging and enable her to manage the rigours of starting secondary school, with a little help from her friends. We do expect every Year 7 student to come on this trip, as it does have such a positive impact to the transition process.
You should have received information about this trip, including details about the day itself and what your daughter will need. If you have not received this, please the letters below.

Information Letter [PDF]
Mill on the Brue Invitation Letter [PDF]

Please click on the link below to watch our Piano Recital, given by our amazing pianists from Year 7 to 13, Grade 1 to 8!

We were delighted to see our Year 10 students in school today, to collect their GCSE Literature results. 96% of this talented cohort secured a Grade 4 or above and over half of the cohort were awarded the top grades of 7-9, of which nearly 20% achieved a Grade 9. Congratulations go to our twenty top performers, who all secured a Grade 9: Gracie Allen, Charlotte Anderson, Caitlin Bellworthy, Lily Burgess, Amie Clark, Sarah Clark, Kashvi Cox, Lily Cole-Crozier, Jessica Davies, Jocelyn Hubbard, Tabitha James, Maisie King, Esme McCusker, Bella Norris, Rebecca Ostrey, Lucy Phillips, Holly Powell, Ella Sinden, Polly Spedding and Nadja Zurian. What a day!

Having secured the title of ‘best school in B&NES’ by the Real Schools Guide for the second year running, we had equally high expectations for our GCSE class of 2020! It has been a tumultuous five months for our Year 11 cohort, but today they were rewarded with the results that they have worked so hard to achieve. Over one quarter of students achieved a staggering 8 or more GCSES at the top grades of 7-9 (that’s A and A* in old money). 88% of all students secured a Grade 4 or above in the Basics (English and Maths), 70% secured a strong pass and a whopping 52 students secured Grades 7-9 in both of these key subjects. In total, 94% of students gained 5 or more standard passes at GCSE with 69% of all students gaining 5 or more strong passes, including in English and Maths at Grades 5 and above.