Highfields School
Issue 28: 24 April 2020
Newsletter School News Highfields provides PPE for key workers We want to say a huge thank you to Miss Morris in the DT department for coming into school to make visors for four of our local care homes who have been struggling to find PPE supplies. Miss Morris single headedly turned our design and technology department in to a mini production line to produce the PPE equipment in the image opposite. Mrs Morgan also donated safety goggles that students use in our science department to staff at Chesterfield PCT.
‘We Are Highfields Fund’ 2020
THANK YOU!
£4,000 £3,000 £2,000 £1,000
Thank you to everyone who has, and still is, contributing to the ‘We Are Highfields’ fund to support Highfields families during this outbreak – our total has reached £4,281! The fund has been set up to support Highfields families affected by the Covid-19 outbreak to get food and connectivity. Anyone wishing to donate to this fund during this crisis can do so through their ParentPay account in the same way that payments for school trips are made.
Y10 100 word story competition Mr Key A big thank you to all those who entered the competition. Writing a story in only 100 words is a real challenge, so well done to those who succeeded. The stories were judged by the English department and Mr Marsh, with everyone voting for their three favourites. It was very close. Congratulations to our winner Isobel in 10WS. There will be a prize when we return to school. Winner: Dead tree, stands alone in a cornfield. Bitter wind bites through the air under a plain grey sky, blank and unmarked like the dull emptiness of failed hopes and lost dreams. Dead tree, stands alone in a cornfield. Dry brittle branches creak, scraping over one another. Nails scraping over chalkboard, muffled by a silent, pressured silence. A crow shrieks. Cornfield, the old crop: abandoned years ago to run wild across the plain, uneven stalks wavering in the breeze, stretching to the distant grey horizon. The broad oak, hunching over the corn. Desolate, solitary. Dead tree, stands alone in the cornfield. By Isobel (10WS)
Be the best you can
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