News and Events

In May 1945 the war in Europe came to an end. Millions of people up and down the country greeted the news with singing and dancing in the streets.

Despite the ongoing COVID-19 situation, we still want to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of VE Day and this pack will help you put together your own celebrations.

COVID-19 may have meant many community activities have been cancelled however why not consider a socially distanced celebration at home!

#StayHomeSaveLives
Please ensure your celebration respects all the social distancing guidelines in place relating to COVID-19. Why not celebrate at home with a garden tea party and games or a sing-a-long with members of your household. For the latest social distancing guidelines visit gov.uk/coronavirus

However you choose to celebrate at home please make sure you have fun responsibly at this time.
Show us how you’re celebrating! Share your party photos with @WiltsCouncil

on Twitter and @WiltshireCouncil on Facebook using #VEDayWilts.

Don’t forget to also share your second world war stories, family histories and messages of remembrance on social media using #VEDay75 to join the conversation now.

This pack includes:

• A postcard to show your support for VE Day
• Fun VE Day themed activities
• Sing-a-long lyrics to popular 1940’s songs
• Tasty 1940’s inspired food and drink recipes to serve on the day
• VE Day poster to display in celebration
• Links to national toolkits to help you celebrate
• Template designs to get you started

Click here to download the VE Day Pack 2020 [PDF]

We’ve made you a video that mixes Miss Tilson’s motivational PE session with some of our thoughts for you all who are at home at this extraordinary time.

Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy 2019-20 – Addendum Covid 19 (May 20) [PDF]

Behaviour Policy – Covid Related Addendum [PDF]

Letters

Returning to Vaccinate [PDF]

Supporting Learning at Home [PDF]

Video Conferencing Letter [PDF]

Duke of Edinburgh Award Covid-19 Update [PDF]

Letter for Parents Who are Key Workers [PDF]

Letter to Parents First Day of Homeworking [PDF]

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-stay-at-home-guidance

Free Access to DownDog Yoga and Wellness Apps

Following the announcement of the school closure, we have secured completely free access to all of the DownDog Yoga Apps until July 1st for all students and teachers so that they can have access to wellness at home until the end of the term.

Anyone who signs up using Hayesfield’s school email domain will have unlimited access to the apps until July 1st!
All you need to do is download the app or go to www.downdogapp.com, and then create an account using your school email address. Once you confirm your email address, the free membership is automatically applied!

downdogapp.com – Down Dog | Great Yoga Anywhere
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Regards,

Mr Deane

There are three rounds:

Round 1: Tutor Time Heats, W/C 16 March
Top three spellers will be put through to the semi-finals!

Round 2: Semi-Finals, Friday 1st April P6
Battle it out to be one of the best 18 spellers in Years 7 and 8!

Round 3: The Hayesfield House Finals, Friday 1st May
Prizes for the top three finalists who also go on to compete in an Inter-school competition against other Bath schools! (Date TBC)

Hayesfield is Celebrating its Centenary Year in 2022

To celebrate this special occasion we are running a competition for a new school logo. This is your opportunity to get involved and have your name go down in Hayesfield History!

You can either download the PowerPoint here and create your entry digitally or draw it free hand on the design sheet available from Reception at Brougham Hayes or Upper Oldfield Park (or just print out the PowerPoint slide and use it).

• You must use the Hayesfield colours: Purple, Black and White
• The logo should reflect our heritage and connection with the city of Bath
• The logo should either fit into a rectangular or round border so set your design in either a rectangle or circle
• Date for submission – Thursday 2nd April

 
You can email it to headteacher@hayesfield.com or hand in to Reception at either Brougham Hayes or Upper Oldfield Park.

Ms Cording
Assistant Headteacher (Character Development)

All students will be running a mile in their PE lessons during the week of Sports Relief.

In addition, Friday 13th March will be a sports-themed mufti day, the theme is ‘Get your kit on’. All staff and students must pay £1 to wear sports-themed mufti.

Perhaps you play for a local football or hockey team, do horse riding, fencing, karate, street dance or just want to wear your Hayesfield Sports kit to school that day – this is your opportunity to wear your kit with pride.

Please note that the dress code is no jeans, no crop tops and remember that you’ll want to keep warm during the day. You have to look like you are going to be doing some form of sporting activity, if not, you’ll be asked to change in to school PE kit.

Ms Cording
Assistant Headteacher (Character Development)

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)