News and Events

Thursday 5th March

Neuroscience Talk

Year 10, 12 and 13
Dr Andrew Doherty
Dr Andrew Doherty from Bristol University will be visiting to give a talk on Neuroscience to the whole of Year 10 and any other 6th from students who would like to come along.

Friday 6th March

Science Fair, 1.00pm – 4.30pm

The National Science Week theme this year is: Our Diverse Planet

Year 7 & 8 have all entered Science Fair projects to the annual Science Fair. Winning projects will be displayed in the Superlab with all other projects being displayed in the surrounding rooms.
In addition to the student’s contributions, the science staff will be putting on some unusual experiments with the highlights being Mr Attwood’s demonstration with liquid nitrogen, Mr Keitch’s Flash, Bang Whallop demonstration, Mt Fuller’s Pluck Dissection and the ubiquitous dry ice ice cream

Parents are invited to join us after school from 3.15pm.

Monday 9th March 3.15pm

A MEDSOC Special Event – Rat Dissection

Year 7 -13 – ALL WELCOME BUT NOT FOR THE FAINT HEARTED

Dr Avramenko will be demonstrating how to dissect a rat before you get your chance to have a go if you wish. Please collect a letter giving parental permission to attend prior to the event
In ND

The Universe and Beyond

All year groups
NI
Dr Victoria Scowcroft from the Department of Physics at the University of Bath will give a talk about the use of variable stars to study the expansion rate of the Universe.

Wednesday 11th March

Fossil Making

Year 7
Come and make fossils at lunchtime in the Nucleus with Mr Robinson

Year 9 Poster Competition

Students will produce a poster on the theme of Our Diverse Planet.
The best 5 posters in the year will be entered into a national competition to win prizes from Guinness World Records.
The best posters from each class will be displayed around the Nucleus

Thursday 12th March

Jelly Earth

Year 7 & 8
Come and look at the structure of the earth and investigate some edible rocks with Mr Somerton

Spectostrosopy in a Suitcase

Year 12 & 13
The Nucleus
Bath University Ambassadors will be bringing the ‘Spectroscopy in a Suitcase’ into school so they can experience using cutting edge spectroscopic techniques.
The session will consolidate the learning the students have already completed in class so the students get an opportunity to use the £40,000 equipment.

I’m a Scientist Get Me Out of Here

Year 9
4 classes will be taking part in I’m a scientist get me out of here over the course of two week.

Achieving your ambitions through limitless aspirations

Next week Hayesfield will be joining tens of thousands of schools and colleges across the country in celebrating National Careers Week 2020. There will be activities for all year groups from Year 7 to 13. We are really looking forward to it.

Thank you to all the parents who contacted us with offers of help we have over 30 coming in to take part in assemblies, lessons, masterclasses and LEAP activities. In addition to this, students will be learning about careers in all their subjects and can participate in the Career Bingo activity where there are prizes to be won (they’ll find out more from their tutors)!

We hope our students enjoy celebrating Careers Week and learn lots about inspirational career pathways that enable them to achieve their ambitions, whatever they may be.

Ms Cording
Assistant Headteacher (Character Development)

World Book Day, Thursday 5th March (Week A), Share A Story

To break from our time-honoured tradition of dressing up as various characters from books, Hayesfield is opting for a mask-themed World Book Day 2020. Year 7 and 8 have already been looking at this during Art lessons:

World Book Day mask should:

• Bring to life a story which has had a significant impact on your life
• Represent the themes and concepts in the book- as opposed to an individual character
• Use a range of artistic techniques, words (quotations) to best represent your story

 
Need to garner some ideas on how to bring something more abstract to life?- Take a look at Millie Parr’s amazing War Horse collage-
this was for her World Book Day presentation, but would work well in the form of as mask with a collation of all the images which best represent the book.


Ultimately, you need to be able to share a story that is important to you- Share A Story is all about those stories (fictional) you have read which have, in some way, had a significant impact on your life. Whether it is because through reading that story, you have chosen to take up a new hobby, seen something in a completely different light or made you reflect on something differently, our World Book Day is all about sharing those influential, perspective-changing reads.

Dear Parent/Carer

GCSE & Post 16 Revision Fair – Hayesfield Exam Ninja Training Academy
Thursday 6th February, 2020 5.00pm – 7.00pm
West Wing, Upper Oldfield Park Campus

I am delighted to invite you to our GCSE and Post 16 Revision Fair for all students in Year 10, 11 and 13 and their parents or carers.
The aim of the evening is to offer a range of practical advice and resources to fully support you and your daughter as we embark on the exam season.

This event will be held at the Upper Oldfield Park Campus and will commence with a short presentation at 5.00pm.
For this event, instead of a series of presentations in one location, we will be providing a series of stalls alongside a choice of presentations to allow you to focus on areas that suit you and your son / daughter. We will have a number of staff present throughout the evening to act as “Experts” in revision – they will not be there to talk specifically about one subject but to offer support and guidance on how to manage revision
and deal with the pressure of exams. You can find the programme for the evening overleaf.

I hope that you are able to join us for the evening and I look forward to seeing you there. We would be grateful if you can confirm attendance by emailing events@hayesfield.com.

Yours sincerely

Mr Philip White
Deputy Headteacher (Achievement)

Below is the updated list of wonderful Silent Auction lots that you can bid on between now and midnight on Saturday December 7th 2019. Check out the Shawn Mendes Hoodie +signed poster (Lot 1014) and the £150 worth of Debenhams vouchers! (Lot1015)!!
To place a bid, simply click on the ‘Lot link’ for the item you are interested in. This will create an email within which you can enter your bid and then hit send! Please create a separate email for each lot you are bidding for and please DO NOT change the email subject/title.
You will be notified if you are the successful bidder on Monday 9th December 2019.
All money raised will be donated to our House Charities and PTSA, so Bid. Donate. Support. Thank you to all those parents and supporters who have donated the items below.

Lot Link	Description	Approx retail value
Lot 1001	£30 Sports Massage Voucher from Physioimpulse https://www.physioimpulse.co.uk/	£30
Lot 1002	£50 Framing Voucher at Artwork Creations. https://artworkcreations.co.uk/	£50
Lot 1003	£50 voucher for one of Bath’s prestigious restaurants Clayton’s Kitchen https://www.claytonskitchen.com	£50
Lot 1004	£50 voucher for Ruth Timms Yoga http://www.ruthtimmsyoga.com/yoga	£50
Lot 1005	£50 voucher for Trug & Lettuce Gardening Services https://www.trugandlettuce.co.uk/	£50
Lot 1006	Shawn Mendes signed T Shirt and poster	£40
Lot 1007	Cream Tea for 2 at 4* Beechfield House, Wiltshire	£50
Lot 1008	Family Ticket for Bath City game this season	£25
Lot 1009	Gym membership 1 month adult pass	£29.50
Lot 1010	Icarus Jewellery handmade silver earrings	£35
Lot 1011	Kindle Fire	£50
Lot 1012	Matt Fiddes- Martial Arts 1 Month Membership	£55
Lot 1013	Taste of Bath Food Hamper including fudge, chocolate, beer, chutney, tea and Bath Oliver biscuits	£30
Lot 1014	1 x Shawn Mendes signed poster and hoodie (Size M)	£60
Lot 1015	£150 worth of vouchers for Debenhams Southgate	£150

Please bring in your donations from Monday 18th November – Friday 6th December. There are no individual class dates, students can contribute at any times over this period, just place your items on your House tree.

Please find below a list of suggested items:

Rice pudding (tins)
Custard (tins or packet)
Jam (jars)
Meat (tins)
Fish (tins)
Soup (tins)
Instant mash
Fruit juice (longlife or cordial)
Hot chocolate
Shaving razors, soap, etc..
Tomatoes (Tins)
Any Christmas treats

Year 7 Transition Celebration Afternoon 2019 – Letter to Parents – Left Side [PDF]

Year 7 Transition Celebration Afternoon 2019 – Letter to Parents – Left Side [PDF]

Please click here to download the Open Evening Programme [PDF]

All parents and carers are warmly invited to attend our Safety and Wellbeing Evening that is being held in the Brougham Hayes Hall on Tuesday 19th November. This event starts at 5.45pm and finishes at 7.30pm.

Please click here to view the programme. [PDF]

The evening is designed to help all parents and carers with the questions that they may have regarding all aspects of their child’s safety and wellbeing, both inside and outside of school.

We are delighted to be joined by external speakers. We will also be making use of our own Pastoral Staff and Student Leaders. Our E-Safety Gurus have been trained by Avon & Somerset Police with regards to online safety, and our Anti-Bullying Ambassadors have been trained by the DIANA Award with regards to pre-empting and counteracting bullying.

Could you please e-mail confirmation of attendance to Mrs Sue Long at s.long@hayesfeld.com at your earliest opportunity.