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Dear Parent/Carer

Beechen Cliff School and Hayesfield School Year 7 Disco Thursday 16th May 2019
Following the successful joint school disco in October, we are now planning a reciprocal event. We have a professional DJ booked and refreshments will be available on the night. Payment is to be made at the door and students can bring money for snacks. Drinks (squash and water) will be free.

Date: Thursday 16th May 2019
Event: Year 7 Disco with Beechen Cliff School
Venue: Brougham Hayes Campus, Main Hall
Time: 6:00pm – 7.30pm
Cost: £2.00

Students will not be allowed to make their own way home after the disco and must be collected by an adult.
The PTSA would also like to invite all parents to join them at Brougham Hayes whilst the disco takes place, to meet other parents from both schools. Refreshments will be available.

Please complete the reply slip and return to Ms Bell-West via either the reception by Friday 3rd May 2019. If you have any additional questions please do not hesitate to contact me either by email at information@hayesfield.com and mark it for my attention or telephone 01225 426151.

Yours sincerely
Ms Bell-West
Assistant Headteacher (Character Development)

Wednesday 24th – Friday 26th April 2019

Year 9 will have formal Exams in Science, Maths, English Literature, Languages (for those students taking a language in Y10), Child Development and either History or Geography (Depending on which subject they are taking in Year 10). All other subjects will complete Assessments where relevant in line with their Assessment policies. This could be before or after the formal Exam session.

Key Exam rules:

• All bags left in lockers / cloakroom
• No Mobile Phones in the Exam Room
• Drinks should be in a clear bottle (no wrappers or labels) – Water only
• All equipment should be in a clear pencil case / plastic bag – remember to bring a calculator and all relevant equipment

 
You must ensure you know where you are going. It is important that you arrive to the location 10 minutes before the start time.

Students with Extra Time and Access Arrangements will need to confirm the room they are in with Miss Chappell.

On Thursday 25th April and Friday 26th April, students should be in the Refectory for 8.30am where they will be registered before starting the Exam.

Year 9 Exam Week Student Support Booklet [PDF]

Your chance to be crowned Spelling Bee champ of Hayesfield and win housepoints for your house!

There are three rounds:

Round 1: Tutor time heats, W/c 18 March
Top three spellers will be put through to the semi-finals!

Round 2: Semi-finals, 4th April P6
Battle it out to be one of the best 18 spellers in Years 7 and 8!

Round 3: The Hayesfield House Finals, 26th April
Prizes for the top three finalists who also go on to compete in an Inter-school competition against other Bath schools! (Date TBC)

Monday 11th March

SPECTROSCOPY 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.

THE UNIVERSE AND BEYOND
All year groups
3.15pm in 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.

A MEDSOC SPECIAL EVENT – RAT DISSECTION
All year groups
3.15pm in ND

Dr Avramenko will be dissecting a rat.

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Tuesday 12th March

MEDICAL MAVERICKS
Year 9 during lessons

A 45 minute careers event for Year 9 students during lesson time.

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Wednesday 13th March

BATH BOMB MAKING
Years 7 – 9

Come and make Bath Bombs at lunchtime in the Nucleus with Miss Jarvis

THE CIRCUS OF SCIENCE
The event of the week!
Open to all
The Edge Arts Centre at Bath University

For one night only, watch Frankenstein’s monster and Einstein battle in the ultimate science competition. Who will be the winner, our fictional beast or the scientific heavy weight?
Brought to you by the Boondocks Circus of Science in conjunction with Hayesfield School’s Science Teachers and 6th Form

Tickets are free and but need to be booked http://bathtapsintoscience.com/events/eventsforfamilies/345-circus-of-science-fact-or-fiction

YEAR 9 POSTER COMPETITION
Students will produce a poster on the theme of journeys.
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

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Friday 16th March

SCIENCE FAIR
1.00pm – 4.30pm

The National science week area this year is: Journeys

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 students contributions, the science staff will be putting on some unusual experiments with the highlights being Mr Attwood’s demonstration with liquid nitrogen, Mr Fuller’s dissection and the ubiquitous dry ice ice cream
Parents are invited to join us after school from 3.15pm.

Parents of Year 7, 8, and 9 students are warmly invited to attend our Safety and Wellbeing Evening that is being held in the Brougham Hayes Hall on Wednesday 13th February. This event starts at 5.45pm and finishes at 7.30pm. The programme is detailed below.

The evening is designed to help all parents and carers with the questions that they may have regarding all aspects of their children’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.

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Programme:

17.30
Doors Open and refreshment

17.45
Welcome and introduction to the evening
Accessing our new Pastoral Website Pages
Our Welfare Offer.

18.00
Internet Safety:
Presentation from our E-Safety Gurus & Anti-Bullying Ambassadors
Presentation from Parent online expert

18.40
Alcohol and drugs: Pre-empting issues and early intervention
Presentation from Project 28

19.10
Mental Health: Early intervention resources and strategies
Presentation from Kooth

19.30
Evening finishes
Informal questions

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

Wednesday 13th February 2019

Overview: The Ignite cross-curricular days provide Hayesfield students a unique opportunity to expand their learning, develop key skills and to explore the relevance of a wide range of topics. Themes and activities are designed to support our students’ Spiritual, Social Moral and Cultural development (SMSC) and provide effective opportunities to develop study skills and positive attitudes to their learning.

The aim of our third Ignite Day is to help develop our students’ understanding and appreciation of our British Values as well as provide further opportunities to work and engage with students outside of their House.

All the Ignite Day activities are delivered on a rolling programme across each year group giving all students a range of new ideas, challenges and experiences over their time at Hayesfield. Most activities are staff-led and reflect the wider skills, experiences and knowledge, which they bring to the programme. In some years, specialists outside speakers are used to offer expert opinions and advice or to share their relevant experience. In Year 11 and 13, students will undertake a range of activities designed to develop their study and revision skills in preparation for their upcoming summer exams.

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Year 13: Exam Warriors – Prepare to Perform!

British Value: Individual Liberty

Overview: Having progressed from Exam Ninja to Exam Warrior, Year 13 will experience a carousel of activities that will get them fully prepared to perform this May and June. The day will provide practical support and resources as well as the opportunity to put some of those strategies to the test and create some of their own resources to get them going. We’ve also thought about the mental preparation and stamina as well, and will be offering sessions to support physical and mental well-being during the exam period.

• Session 1: Get Ready… A session focused on getting motivated and organised
• Session 2: Get Steady… A session focused on using the best revision resources for different subjects
• Session 3: Go…and keep going! A session focused on keeping healthy and happy over the next 4 months

 
Learning Objectives:

• Build your inner exam warrior in this half-day session
• To provide a range of revision and study skills activities to support students in preparing for their upcoming GCSE exams
• To provide additional opportunity and expert support for students to improve or complete necessary coursework elements of their GCSEs

 
Location: All workshops are run in the Upper Oldfield Park Campus. Details of which room to register will be displayed at the entrance to UOP on the day. The for Year 13 day will end at 12.15.

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Year 12: Preparing for the World of Work

Overview: As our previous Ignite Day for Year 12 did not focus on the core theme of employability, we are taking this opportunity to engage with this vital part of their wider education. During the morning the student will be attending a workshop on how to budget when living on their own and what the deal with flat sharing is. They will also attend sessions on the use of Careerpilot to help map out their post-18 journey. A lively session on debate will also accompany the mornings activity as communication is a vital skill for employability. In the afternoon they will be asked to pick from a selection of careers talks covering such diverse areas of employment from medicine to fashion editing to song writing to law

Learning Objectives:

• To help students better understand the complexities and challenges of employment
• To prepare students for the life after Sixth form with budgeting and flat sharing information
• To promote understanding of the range of employment opportunities available
• To reflect on their personal employable skills and experience as well as consider next-steps on their education
• To provide further opportunities to develop leadership, team building skills and work and engage with students outside of their House

 
Location: All workshops are run in the Upper Oldfield Park Campus. Details of which room to register will be displayed at the entrance to UOP on the day.

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Year 11: Study Skills Day

British Value: Individual Liberty

Overview of morning: All students will start in a joint assembly looking at how they will start preparing for ‘The race of their lives’. This is our starting gun for their intensive revision timetable from now until the exam and will focus their attitudes and motivation to the job ahead. The day will provide practical revision support and resources as well as the opportunity to put some of those strategies to the test and create some of their own resources to get them going. We’ve also thought about the mental preparation and stamina as well, and will be offering a carousel of relaxation techniques with Yoga.

Overview of Afternoon: Morning sessions will continue into the afternoon but during Period 5, all students will come together to share their experience of the day and reflect on what they have learnt. Alongside this, they will be reviewing and creating individual revision timetables and considering how we need to organise their time, space, and ourselves on the run up to the exams.

In addition, some students will be selected for the Wthdrawal Sessions and given a personalised timetable in advance.

Learning Objective:

• To provide a range of revision and study skills activities to support students in preparing for their upcoming GCSE exams
• To provide additional opportunity and expert support for students to improve or complete necessary coursework elements of their GCSEs

 
Location: All activities take place in the Brougham Hayes Campus with all students starting the day in the BH Hall before breaking into their separate groups.

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Year 10: Model Nations

British Values: Democracy, The Rule of Law, Individual Liberty

Overview: Morning Activities: Students will develop their understanding of the political and cultural make-up of different countries with weaker democratic procedures in four group-workshop activities. As part of these activities, students are asked to reflect on their own opinions and beliefs and sensitively question and challenge those of others. Highlights include going on the CIA website and a Geo-political quiz to see how well informed our girls are of the world in which they live and some of the issues currently facing our global community.

Afternoon Activities: In the afternoon our English teachers will be supporting Year 10 with some focused revision ready for their very first GCSE in May. Year 10 will need to bring their Literature folder and the texts they study.

Learning Objectives:

• To develop students’ understanding of the concepts of: Democracy, The Rule of Law, Individual Liberty and how these concepts differ across a range of Governments and systems of law around the globe
• To develop an understanding of the Declaration of Human Rights and its relevance to a globalised world
• To further develop research and presentation skills; team building skills and group work
• To support all Year 10 students in preparing for their summer English Literature exam

 
Location: All workshops are run in the Upper Oldfield Park Campus. Details of which room to register will be displayed at the entrance to UOP on the day.

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Year 9: Valuing Science

British Values: Democracy, The Rule of Law, Individual Liberty, Mutual Respect

Overview: With ethical issues in science so frequently in the news, this day provides a valuable opportunity to link to science the word in which we live and raise and engage with some of the moral, ethical and legal questions involved .This day is full of exciting and hands-on activities exploring our core British Values through real-world examples of the issues. We are very lucky to be visited by some external guests who will be running activities on the Cardio System as well as explaining genetic mapping and extracting DNA. There’s also jelly babies!

Learning Objectives:

• To help develop students’ understanding of the concepts of: Democracy, Tolerance The Rule of Law, Individual Liberty, Mutual Respect and reflect on how these values impact on our everyday lives
• To promote STEM subjects and their significance to the modern world
• To provide further opportunities to develop team building skills and work and engage with students outside of their House

 
Location: All workshops are run in the Nucleus Block at the Brougham Hayes Campus. Details of which room to register will be displayed at the entrance to the Nucleus Block on the day.

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Year 8: Bristol Religious Buildings

British Values: Tolerance of Others, Mutual Respect

Overview: Moral courage is a core Hayesfield value and as a school we continually look for ways in which we can engage with and champion the diversity of our international community. During the morning, Year 8 will be visiting two different religious buildings in Bristol. Half of the year group will be visiting a Hindu Temple and a Sikh Gurdwara. The other half of the year group will get to visit a Hindu Temple and a Islamic Mosque. At each religious building students will be given a talk and a tour by a religious representative. In the afternoon students will take part in two different sessions where they will have the opportunity to explore what it means to live in a multi faith community and the importance of religious tolerance. This is a very popular and inspiring part of our wider curriculum.

Learning Objectives:

• To develop student’s understanding of the concepts of: Tolerance for people of other faiths, Mutual respect, Individual Liberty and understanding the importance of religion in the everyday life of a believer

 
Location: This is an external activity which will leave from Upper Oldfield Park Campus and register at 8.25 in the Refectory. In the afternoon, students will return to and be dismissed from the Brougham Hayes Campus.

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Year 7: Refugee Day

British Values: Tolerance of Others, Mutual Respect

Overview: A really exciting and participatory range of Performance and Arts focused activities across the day which reflect on the experience of refugees around the world. Students are told that they have just arrived as refugees in an imaginary country. They need to spend the day learning how to become citizens of this country and reflecting on their experiences. The day culminates in a showcase of everything they have learnt and created and celebrates the diversity of our international community.

Learning Objective:

• To develop student’s understanding of the concepts of: Tolerance for others, Mutual Respect, Individual Liberty
• To allow students to understand and appreciate the issues and impact of immigration from countries across the world
• To provide further opportunities to develop team building skills and work and engage with students outside of their tutor group

 
Location: All workshops are run in the Upper Oldfield Park Campus. Details of which room to register will be displayed at the entrance to UOP on the day.

We have taken the decision in line with advice from BANES to postpone tonight’s Year 9 Options Evening. There is a consistent forecast for snow and BANES have released an Amber warning for potential disruption to travel throughout this evening.

I am delighted to confirm that we are able to run the Evening this Tuesday 5th February – 5.45pm and I am very grateful for all the staff who have been able to change plans so quickly as we recognise the importance of this evening. I appreciate some parents and students may not be able to attend on Tuesday and we shall put in place extra support for those parents unable to attend.

I am sorry if this causes problems but I hope you understand that I do not want to put anyone at risk if the forecast is correct!

Kind Regards
Philip White
Acting Headteacher

In the event of severe weather I will make a decision, based on the Health & Safety of students and staff, as to whether it is necessary to close the School.

We will publish our position on the front page of the School’s website and on the Bath & North East Somerset website http://www.bathnes.gov.uk/school-closures
 
Mr P White
Acting Headteacher

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until you climb in his skin and walk around in it.”
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

We are delighted to announce the theme for this year’s World Book Day- taking place on Thursday 7th of March (Week A) is HGS Read for Empathy.
Increasingly, studies are proving an all important link between reading and developing empathy skills. Put simply, empathy is being able to understand another person’s feelings through trying to see the world just a little through their perspective- putting yourself in their shoes and ‘walking around in them.’
Put even more simply still: empathy defines not only what makes us human, but also our humanity- and reading stories and experiences plays an integral role in this.

Costume:

So for World Book Day this year, Hayesfield staff and students can come to school in costume as a character:

• They have felt a connection to (shared hobby/ambition/passion- perhaps the character made you see things in a different light, or gave you a renewed enthusiasm in something you do)
• Has introduced them to a new way of looking at something familiar
• They have found they have shared a similar experience with

 
Whilst costume is not compulsory, last year’s World Book Day was made all the more special and memorable by the range of wonderful costumes donned by students and staff who really entered into the spirit of the day!

Book and quotation from book (compulsory):

On the day, all students and staff should come with a book which, when you were reading it, gave you no choice but to share in the character(s)’ emotions as you saw the world through their eyes. Perhaps the book is something you had thought about, but it was only through reading the character’s story, that you imagined what it might feel like to be in that position. These tend to be the books which move us most and we remember for years to come.

Years 7-9:

You will be attending your timetabled lessons for that day, but your lesson will have an exciting little bookish twist, based upon the subject and topic you are studying. You do still need to bring with you normal kit and equipment.
Weekly #HGSReadforEmpathy stories will be shared in the Bulletin, along with further guidance for day- so keep checking the Student Bulletin for inspiration!

Riverford Cooking class at Hayesfield Thursday 28th February, Tuesday 12th March and Tuesday 26th March:
We’ve recently joined Riverford’s “Veg Fund” scheme: a fundraising and healthy eating partnership for schools.

Riverford’s local team, Vicki and Alan Mowat, will also be running a series of veg cookery evenings for parents. They’re fun and relaxed cookery workshops (including supper!) which give you chance to meet other parents while being inspired to make the most of seasonal organic vegetables and learning a few veg cookery tips. It’s just £10 for a 2-hour class, supper and a glass of wine – and all proceeds will go to the PTSA. You’ll also have the chance to take a look at Riverford’s vegboxes and it’s an ideal event if you’re thinking about getting a box and would like to find out more.

The workshops will take place in the Hayesfield Brougham Hayes Hall on Thursday 28th February, Tuesday 12th March and Tuesday 26th March from 7-9pm. Buy a ticket for the date of your choice via Scopay. There are only 10 tickets available for each date, so book quickly!

Riverford – the organic vegbox delivery company – will make donations to Hayesfield PTSA for new and existing customers linked to the school. If you start a regular order, Alan and Vicki will donate £25 to the PTSA once you’ve had three deliveries! Just go to www.riverford.co.uk and choose the box you’d like. Quote our school code SCH_BAT_HAYESFIELD when you check out, to make sure that the PTSA receive the donation once you’ve had three deliveries! If you’re already a customer, just contact Alan and Vicki directly at alanandvicki@riverfordhomedelivery.co.uk to tell them that you’re linked to Hayesfield.