Highfields School
Issue 36: 26 June 2020
Newsletter Learning at home Thank you to all the parents/carers for all you are doing to support your child's learning at home. We really appreciate how new and different this is and how much you are juggling.
Student timetables for working from home Students should expect to complete the same amount of work / study for the same number of hours as they would in a normal week. Keeping a routine similar to a school day and homework is a good idea. All work is being set on Show My Homework. It is set on a weekly timetable for each year group as shown below.
Years 7-10 school timetable Year 7: Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
English, Geography and Art Maths, History and DT English, PRS and Music Maths, Drama and Computing Science, Dance and Language
Year 9: Revised timetable from 15.6.20 English, Option A, PRS Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Maths, Option B, PE Chemistry, Biology Maths, Option C English, Physics, Option D
Year 8: Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Maths, History and DT English, Geography and Art Maths, Drama and Computing Science, Dance and Language English, PRS and Music
Year 10 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Option A (Friday period 1), English and Biology Option B (Wednesday period 4) and Maths Option C (Monday period 5), Physics and PRS Option D (Tuesday period 4) and English Maths and Chemistry
Y9 students’ work will be set as per their school timetabled option block periods for September 2020 as defined above. Option blocks are listed below and students have already received their option choice subjects and blocks. Option A: Art, Business, Geography, History, Creative iMedia, Music, PE, Sport, Support Food or Triple Science Option C: DT, Engineering, Film, Food, Geography, History, PE, Photography or Travel & Tourism
Option B: Computing, Film, French, Geography, German, History, Photography or Triple Science Option D: Art, Biology, Dance, Drama, Engineering, Food, French, German or Triple Science
Year 11 work to help you into year 12 Mr Flett has issued several ideas to get students started on work that will make a difference to performance at A Level. Many of these are curiosity based tasks, but all year 11 parents/carers and
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