Are you ready to read over Easter?
Here are the details of your Easter Reading Challenge KS3 and Easter Reading Challenge KS4
Year 11 Prom has been provisionally booked for Thursday the 8th of July at the Limes Earlswood, the theme is ‘Hollywood Glamour’
Please note that our plans are based on current projected government guidelines and subject to change. Students may need to consider this before organising outfits and transport. We will provide more information as soon as we can.
Year 9 Geography students have been studying the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) over recent weeks and had opportunity to submit questions to bestselling author and journalist Tim Butcher which he answered in a zoom interview with Mr Blazak.
Tim is author of 3 books, including the bestseller “Blood River” which he wrote about his travels in the DRC during the height of the brutal civil war, as he followed in the footsteps of victorian explorer Henry Morton-Stanley.
Tim also spent more than 20 years as a journalist with the Daily Telegraph including a period where he was the Chief Africa Correspondent, and was the 2013 recipient of the Mungo Park Medal from the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in recognition of his achievements as an explorer and educator.
This was a unique opportunity for Year 9 to pose questions to Tim about the DRC, his travels there and about development within Africa more generally and draw upon his experience and expertise. The quality of questions submitted was outstanding and impressed both the Geography department and Tim himself! Massive thank you to Tim for giving up some time in his busy schedule to give us his insights, and well done to Year 9 geographers who engaged brilliantly with the topic!
We present to you, the talent of our pupils. From Y7 to Y11, pupils in Art, Photography, DT & Food have been working hard remotely. Here is a selection of some their incredible work:
Yesterday was marked by some very sad news of the passing of Captain Sir Tom Moore. We are all very saddened of the passing of such an iconic figure that gave us all hope in the fight against coronavirus.
As you are well aware the late hero made his fame by celebrating his 100th birthday by completing 100 laps of his garden. This act helped raise over £33 million for the NHS.
n order to commemorate the life of Captain Sir Tom Moore, this weekend we want to encourage all students, staff and extended Studley High School community to do “100 your way”. By this we mean deciding upon an action and repeating it 100 times. Please see below for examples;
Complete 100 minutes of exercise
Bake 100 cakes/biscuits to share with loved ones
Paint 100 rainbow cards and post them to neighbours
Perform 100 push ups
Climb 100 flights of stairs<
Perform 100 keepy uppies with a football
Perform 100 catches with a tennis ball.
If students/staff/parents do take part in this commemoration the PE department would like you to take a 5 second video of you performing your action and send it into [email protected]
We would also like to take this opportunity to raise money for a special charity close to our hearts at the school. Therefore an optional payment item has been created on Parentpay for donations to the Birmingham Children’s Hospital.
We hope that you will take the opportunity to get involved with this community event and will enjoy the challenge that an outstanding human being has set.
Many thanks
Mr K M Dovey
CAL for PE
One of the focuses we have looked at this year, as part of wellbeing is ‘GIVING BACK’, the idea of doing good makes you feel good. This links on to a previous initiative of our wellbeing week last year. Staff and students have had the opportunity to GIVE BACK over the past few weeks:
Foodbank Collection
Staff collected for the Arden Foodbank as it is an organisation that lies close to the heart of our school. Many bags of food were collected this week and staff were very generous.
Miss Hughes teamed up with Mr Blazak as part of the house competitions system to add a competitive element for pupils as part of the giving back project.
Each house collected for the Worcester homeless appeal. Students had the opportunity to design a Christmas card for residents at FourAcres which is a local care home we visited during the wellbeing week last year.
The results of the card design competition are here:
So many fantastic Christmas card entries. Here's the final 12. Winner to be revealed tomorrow. #12CardsOfChristmas pic.twitter.com/3XO4wa2SGT
— Studley High House Competitions (@SHSHouseComps) December 17, 2020
Mr Blazak reported that 350 items have been donated by our generous students and their families.
Let’s Celebrate
‘The Let’s Celebrate’ initiative was designed to motivate and support our staff and their wellbeing. Miss Hughes collected positive comments from each member of staff, about someone else they wanted to recognise at school. This was a chance to celebrate and thank staff for the things they do on a daily basis that make a big difference. She then created a wall of positive comments and anecdotes in the staff room.
This year’s Year 8 Shine Book Club commenced with a lively discussion of Jenny McLachlan’s 2017 novel ‘Stargazing for Beginners.’ The novel focuses on the challenges faced by Meg (a Science geek) who struggles to fit in both at school and at home.
As the novel progresses the main character learns about her own strengths and weaknesses.
The novel was rated highly by all the students in the book club, who found the author’s narrative style engaging and characterisation to be genuinely charming. The novel included clear messages for the contemporary teenager attempting to navigate their way through the modern world.
We are looking forward to our next book club discussion on Wednesday 10 February when we will be evaluating Chris Priestley’s novel ‘Mister Creecher’.
If you are interested in joining the book club please see Mrs Dyde in E3 to borrow a new copy of the novel.
The results are IN!
Your challenge was to take a photograph at home or around your local area containing some maths.
The maths could be quite easy to see or a bit hidden. You also had to provide a short explanation of the maths in your photograph.
Well done to everybody who took part, you will all receive two House Spirit House Points towards the House Cup!
A lot of thought went into these photographs and mathematical explanations! The Maths team had a really tough decision picking the winners.
11 winners have been chosen and they will all receive a creative postcard worth 10 House Points!
The English Department were delighted to receive so many reviews from books students had read during half-term. We have awarded 100s of house points and written an amazing number of postcards.
We decided, as so many students had entered, to award an extra prize for best review written.
The winner of this was Lola A. Lola read and wrote a review on an adaptation of Northanger Abbey.
All entries were then put into a hat and Mr Rushton pulled out Kayleigh G’s entry.
Both girls received a £10 book voucher.
Also, a special mention to the students of C5, as this form had six entries.
The next competition will be over the Christmas break. Details will follow in the week leading up to Christmas.
Well done again and keep on reading!
Mrs Evans
If you want to take part in this half term’s reading challenge, fill out this form and return to Mrs Evans or your English Teacher by 7th November!
