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Arrangements for First School Days in September

July 16, 2019

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We look forward to welcoming back all our students in September ready for an exciting and productive year ahead.

Please read the details below carefully so that students know which campus they are to start on each day.

Can we remind you that only students in Years 7, 10 and 12 will be starting on Wednesday 4th September with all other years starting on Thursday 5th September.

Morning activities on both days will be in Tutor Groups where we will be preparing for the year ahead. This will include, on Wednesday, students in Years 7, 10 and 12 having their photograph taken for the School records.

In the afternoon of both days, students will be taught their timetabled lessons so should bring all necessary equipment.

Campus Starts for First Two Days:

Wednesday 4th September

Year 7

Start (am) – Brougham Hayes (BH)
End (pm) – Brougham Hayes (BH)

Year 10 and 12

Start (am) – Upper Oldfield Park (UOP), Tutor Rooms
End (pm) – Upper Oldfield Park (UOP)

Thursday 5th September

Year 7

Start (am) – Upper Oldfield Park (UOP), Roper Theatre
End (pm) – Left Side, BH
Right Side, UOP

Year 8

Start (am) – Brougham Hayes (BH), Hall
End (pm) – Left Side, BH
Right Side, UOP

Year 9

Start (am) – Upper Oldfield Park, Tutor Rooms
End (pm) – Upper Oldfield Park

Year 10

Start (am) – Brougham Hayes, Tutor Rooms
End (pm) – Brougham Hayes

Year 11

Start (am) – Brougham Hayes, Tutor Rooms
End (pm) – Upper Oldfield Park

Year 12 and 13

Start (am) – Upper Oldfield Park, Tutor Rooms
End (pm) – As lesson timetable for afternoon

Hayesfield Alumni

July 10, 2019

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Calling all former students

If you’re a former student of Hayesfield Girls’ School and Mixed Sixth Form, we want to hear from you!
Your experiences since leaving could help to motivate and inspire our current students to feel more confident in making decisions about their future. We’d love you to join our alumni network and stay connected with the school.
We’ve partnered with the national education charity Future First, who specialise in helping schools like ours to stay connected with their former students.

You can choose how and when you help – perhaps you can act as a career and education role model, provide work experience, become a mentor in person or online, or help with donations, fundraising or even apply to become a governor.
It doesn’t matter when you left us, whether you’re in further education or employment, whether you still live nearby or have moved further away, there are still ways you can help.

In order to sign up, just follow this link and fill in the online form – we promise it will only take a couple of minutes.
https://networks.futurefirst.org.uk/former-student/hayesfield

Summer Homework

July 02, 2019

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We think it is important for our students to have some academic work complete over the long summer holiday to keep their brains active. As it is a holiday, we are not setting too much work! Staff will set Summer Holiday work in in English and Maths only for Year 7 and Year 8 students (each subject should take no more than 3 hours over the holiday period). In Year 9 staff will set homework in English, Maths and Science. If your daughter is in Year 10, she will be set preparatory work for Year 11 by all her subject teachers.

Homework will be marked and returned within 3 weeks of the start of the new school year.

Mr White
Deputy Headteacher (Achievement)

Year 10 going into Year 11

Year 11 going into Year 12

Year 12 going into Year 13

Year 6 Welcome Evening

June 30, 2019

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Please click here to download the Year 6 Welcome Evening Presentation 2019 [PDF]

Now that we have the results of the allocation of places to Hayesfield, managed by the Local Authority, I am writing to welcome you and your daughter to our School. It is a very exciting time for all involved and we are looking forward to meeting and working with you and your daughter. We are dedicated to securing a positive transition process from primary school to secondary school for all our students and feel that your involvement and commitment is crucial.

The first date for your diary is our Welcome Evening for Year 6 Parents, which is being held on Thursday 20th June 2019. This will take place at the Upper Oldfield Park Campus from 5.45pm – 7.30pm. Please be aware that, unfortunately, there is no on-site parking available and so you will need to allocate time to find some parking. Although this evening is for you, the parents, your daughter is very welcome to attend, too.

The programme for the Welcome Evening is attached.
It is important that you bring your programme with you to this event as we have groups of parents scheduled for talks in the Roper Theatre at different times.

Talk 1 – Welcome and Info programme 2019 [PDF]
Talk 2 – Welcome and Info programme 2019 [PDF]

By the time we see you in June, Mrs Venables the Year 7 Transition and Pastoral Manager, will have visited the majority of our prospective students in their Primary Schools to meet them prior to their Induction Day on the 4th July. During these visits, she will answer many questions with the help of our Year 7 Student Buddies.

We appreciate you may also have lots of questions regarding your daughter starting at Hayesfield in September and our Welcome Evening is a hugely valuable opportunity to have these questions answered and find out more information that will be useful to you. During this event you will have the opportunity to mingle with new parents and meet members of our staff who will be working with your daughter.

As part of the transition process, your daughter has the opportunity to nominate three friends that she works well with and would like to be in a tutor group with. We will endeavour to place her in a tutor group with at least one of these friends. Please discuss this choice with your daughter so that you are all happy with her nominations before the Welcome Evening. At this event you will then be asked to complete a Friendship Request slip with her choices and these will be collected at the end of the evening.

We are currently in the process of preparing the Parents’ Handbook 2019 which will be available for you to collect on the evening and will be published on our website nearer that time. The Handbook is full of very useful information about joining our Hayesfield community and contains a Reply Booklet for you to complete.

Following on from the Welcome Evening we are looking forward to your daughter spending the day with us on her Induction Day on Thursday 4th July when she will have the opportunity to meet the rest of the year group and enjoy a complimentary school lunch. By the end of this day we are certain your daughter will feel less nervous, more confident and very excited about coming to Hayesfield in September.

Once again, welcome to our school and I look forward to meeting you on the Thursday 20th June.

Yours sincerely

Emma Yates
Headteacher

Hayesfield Pride Day – 28th June 2019

June 25, 2019

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50 years since the Stonewall riots, a turning point in the history of the fight for LGBT rights.
We are celebrating this with our very own Hayesfield Pride day.

All staff and students welcome to join us on the Brougham Hayes field at Lunchtime for a Pride Picnic Party!

Inter School Spelling Bee

June 25, 2019

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28th June at 4:15pm in the Roper Theatre, Upper Oldfield Park Campus
Sponsored by Mr B’s Book Emporium

We are delighted to hold the second annual Hayesfield Inter-School Spelling Bee on the 28th June at 4:15pm in the Roper Theatre at Hayesfield Girls’ School. This exciting competition will see 21 students from across seven schools in Bath including: Beechen Cliff, King Edward’s, Oldfield, Ralph Allen, St Gregory’s, St Mark’s and of course, Hayesfield battle it out to be crowned Bath Inter-Schools’ Spelling Bee Champion.

The Spelling Bee will be the same format as the Hayesfield House Spelling Bee, consisting of three rounds of spellings increasing in difficulty in each round. The tension was palpable in the finals of the House competition in April, where Nia Mulhern finally took the crown as the overall high scorer, with Emily and Beth Hemborough as runners up.

The competition will be tense and we would appreciate it if you could come and support our girls as they compete against students from other schools. Please arrive at the Roper Theatre for 4:15pm and enjoy the show!

Campaign to raise awareness of Climate Change

May 23, 2019

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Dear Parent/Carer

Campaign to raise awareness of Climate Change

I am writing to update you and your son/daughter with our plans of how we will support our students to have their concerns heard about Climate Change on Friday.

Firstly, we will support Mia Rumble’s (8PL) request to remove all drinks in plastic bottles from sale on Friday. Students will be able to access fresh water from our fountains and will still be able to purchase juice in cartons. Mia’s idea encourages us to reduce our impact on plastic waste and help the planet. Please make sure your son or daughter leaves home with their water bottle!

Secondly, the School Eco-Council has worked with staff to put the following arrangements in place:

Every tutor group tomorrow morning will discuss the issues of climate change, to share their individual views on the extent of which this is impacting on our earth and the extinction of species over the last 20 years
All students will have the opportunity to create their own environmental pledge. We will display these as a whole school presentation on our Hayesfield Display of Pledges
At lunchtime, we will be showing a film called Earth Underwater in the Brougham Hayes Gym and the UOP Hall. We recommend that students bring a packed lunch (no cling film) to be able to watch the whole movie
Finally, we will host a peaceful demonstration at lunchtime for students who wish to express their concerns about climate change, by holding a ‘Lie Down’at 1.00pm. This will be part of our ‘Hayesfield makes a Statement!’ campaign. Students who wish to make a statement about the earth and species dying are invited to attend. These ‘Lie Downs’ will be held on the
Upper Oldfield Park astro and the Brougham Hayes field

I am really proud to share our students’ ideas with you – they never fail to impress me with their passion and creativity. I look forward to showing you the photographs and student comments in the Bulletin on Friday afternoon.

Yours sincerely

Emma Yates
Headteacher

Parent Survey on the School’s Reporting Process

May 02, 2019

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Dear Parent/Career

RE: Parent Survey on the School’s Reporting Process

We are currently reviewing our reporting procedures to make sure that we are providing the most useful data to parents and at the most relevant times in the school year.

As part of this review, we are asking parents to offer their own thoughts and feedback on what information in the School reports they find the most useful in helping understanding their child’s progress and the necessary areas to improve upon.
Can we please ask that parents take a few minutes to read the information on the next page which explains what we currently provide in each Year Group then complete the online survey. This information will be used to help inform our reporting model for 2019-20. This survey will be available until Monday 13th May.
There are three surveys- one for each key stage. Please complete the survey(s) relevant to your child or children. These are hyperlinked below and should only take a few minutes.

Lower School Reporting Parent Survey (Years 7 to 9)

Upper School Reporting Parent Survey (Years 10 and 11)

Sixth Form Reporting Parent Survey (Years 12 and 13)

As a follow up to this survey, we will be hosting an additional Headteacher’s Open House on Thursday 16th May where parents will be able to talk directly with the Senior Leadership Team about the reporting process and any changes they may wish to suggest. All are welcome from 5.00 – 6.00pm at the Upper Oldfield Park Campus.

If you have any question regarding this survey, please feel free to contact me directly via email d.powell@hayesfield.com.

Yours sincerely

Duncan Powell
Deputy Headteacher (Curriculum)

Our Current Reporting Model 2018-19

What is in the reports?

At Hayesfield we provide 3 different reports at different stages in a student’s school career. These contain the following information:

Progress Checks:

A student’s set Flightpath or Target Grade
The Current Predicted grade or Flightpath from the teacher
A Commitment to Learning grade
A Quality of Homework grade
A Teacher comment where there is a significant cause for concern
Internal exam grades as applicable
Report on a student’s attendance & punctuality
The number of Housepoints received by that point in the year (Years 7-9 only)

Progress Reports
As above but also:

Two comments on areas of strength in each subject
One (two in Years 10 and 11) area(s) to develop in each subject

End of Year Reviews (Years 7 and 9 only):

A pastoral comment from each student’s tutor
A comment from the Director of Achievement / Pastoral Manager
The End of Year Flightpath
Report on a student’s attendance & punctuality
Number of Housepoints received in the year

When do students receive these reports?

The model for 2018/19 currently sends out reports to this timetable:

Key: PC = Progress Check PR = Progress Report EOY = End of Year Report

Year Group	Term 1	Term 2	Term 3	Term 4	Term 5	Term 6
Year 7		PC		PR		EOY
Year 8			PC			PR
Year 9		PC			PR & EOY
Year 10		PC		PR		PC
Year 11	PC			PC
Year 12		PC		PC		PC
Year 13		PC		PC

‘Waste Of Space’ project for Bath’s Forest of Imagination 2019

April 29, 2019

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Help raise awareness of Western consumption and be a part of the ‘Waste Of Space’ project for Bath’s Forest of Imagination 2019

Fielden Clegg Bradley Architects are visiting Hayesfield Design and Technology Department (BT6) from 3:30pm to 4:30pm on Thursday 2nd May to talk through a project involving ‘Ecobricks’.

All Eco Reps and students who are keen on getting involved are invited to attend and find out more.
See the link for further details.

http://www.forestofimagination.org.uk/tag/feilden-clegg-bradley-studios/

Mrs Johnston
Head Of Product Design
STEM Employability Co-ordinator

Designers of the Future Exhibition

April 27, 2019

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To celebrate the creative prototypes designed and made by our talented GCSE and A level students, we are holding our annual Product Design Exhibition on Thursday 2nd May 2019.

This is your chance to view the students’ prototype solutions to an interesting range of design problems and celebrate their hard work and effort.

You are invited to join us from 17:45 to 18:30 in the Design and Technology workshop at our Brougham Hayes Campus for what will be a fantastic opportunity to see the work of our ‘Designers of the Future’. Light refreshments will be available.

The exhibition would be particularly useful for any lower school students who are considering the possibility of taking Product Design at GCSE and would like to know more about what the subject involves.

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