Parents/Carers Update

Reminder: Virtual Y7 parents evening

4-7pm Tuesday 27 April 2021

As you are aware our Y7 parents’ consultation evening is scheduled for Tuesday 27 April and will be held virtually using the SchoolCloud platform through Weduc.

Thank you to the parents/carers who have already made appointments via the Weduc app, if you have not yet done so the appointment system is open until Monday 26 April at 4pm. All appointment slots are for five minutes with each teacher.

Please ensure you have downloaded the Weduc app to access parents’ evening appointments. Full details on how to make appointments have been issued to parents/carers on email via Miss Tabbenor, year manager for Y7, and can also be found under the support and resources section of our newsletter (page 25).

Y11 and Y13 update

Following consultation between senior leaders and with other schools we have decided that Y11 and 13 students should finish their compulsory schooling on Thursday 27 May. This is because on this date they will have completed all relevant assessments required to inform teacher assessed grades and therefore will have reached the end of their studies for their key stage.

Year 11 students will have their final assembly on 27 May and year 13 students will be advised about the date of their final assembly.

Year 11 students planning to join sixth form will have induction sessions for their sixth form subjects from Monday 28 June to Thursday 1 July. Further details of this will be given in due course.

The A level and GCSE summer exams results days have been set for:  Tuesday 10 August - Year 13 results (A Levels)  Thursday 12 August - Year 11 results (GCSEs)

We are Highfields Fund

Now that the lockdown restrictions are easing the ‘We Are Highfields’ fund is coming to an end we wanted to thank everyone who has donated to support this fund.

We have paid out a total of £6,775 to families who have struggled due to the financial effects of Covid-19 (the large majority of this was raised from ParentPay, through a donation from the PTFA and a donation from school).

Thank you all to your generosity during these challenging times.

Earth Day fieldwork for our A level Geographers

Thursday 22 April was our first opportunity to undertake fieldwork since returning to school in March and what a day to have chosen! We were thrilled to realise that this was Earth Day as it felt appropriate for our students to be out and about demonstrating the link between academic geography (in the classroom) and the real world.

The students were investigating coastal processes and environments along the Holderness Coast, collecting data for the non-examined assessment (coursework) component of their A level Geography studies.

A conversation with Tim Marshall

As if the day couldn’t get any better, our A level geographers (together with some of our year 11 students) attended a ‘virtual’ lecture by Tim Marshall author of Prisoners of Geography, hosted by the Royal Geographical Society.

It was an illuminating talk explaining how a country’s geography needs to be understood in order to grasp the complexities of historical events and 21st Century geo-politics…. thus further demonstrating the need for more geographers in this world… maybe then we wouldn’t need an ‘Earth Day’ – because in the geography department, every day is Earth Day!

Copyright Tim Marshall et al, 2019.

Performing Arts Clubs

We are now running the performing arts clubs during lunchtime and after school from 3.30-4.30pm as we are working towards a summer performance – we need you!

Lunch After school

Monday

Year 8 Musical Theatre Tuesday Year 12/13 Musical Theatre - Wednesday Year 10 Musical Theatre Year 11 Musical Theatre Thursday - Year 7 Musical Theatre Friday Year 9 Drama - Lower site club will be in the performing arts mobile Upper site club will be in P1 All lunchtime clubs require students to bring lunch or have canteen food at break to allow time in the shortened lunch break.

Gardening donations