18th March 2022
ACTING
HEADLINES By Mr Munro
Thank you to everyone for their understanding and flexibility over this past week. With staff absences due to Covid 19 reaching unprecedented highs for our workplace I was reluctantly left with no alternative than to ask a cohort to work from home remotely from Tuesday through to Friday this past week. This was a decision not taken lightly. It was of course not just Honywood affected in this way with Headteachers across the county in similar and in many cases more challenging circumstances with staff shortages due to illness than at our school. One local Headteacher had 24 teaching staff plus other non teaching colleagues out of school due to illness. Covid 19 is unfortunately well and truly still around. Can I remind parents/ carers to please keep your children off school if they are unwell and showing symptoms of the virus.
days away from sitting examinations and Cohort 11 learners 28 days away until their written GCSE examinations commence. Mental strength is key for these learners to navigate their way through these sets of assessment. There may be times when these assessments don’t go as well as a learner hoped for, and times when they will go better than expected. Managing oneself throughout is key to success not only during these periods but for life. Health can be described as mental, social and physical well-being and not merely the absence of disease. The Mental Health Foundation notes that a good diet is important for positive mental health. It also suggests that diet can play a role in the development, management and prevention of several specific conditions, including depression and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Clearly, diet cannot control these conditions, however, diet may play a role. You are more likely to be healthy if you consume a balanced diet, with the correct balance of fats, carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins, minerals, fibre and water by carefully considering what you are eating.
David Linden, Professor of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, suggested in an interview that the most helpful thing that anyone could do for their mind was to take 30 minutes of aerobic exercise every day. He explained that DEVELOPING YOUR MIND-DIET doing puzzles uses only a small part of your brain. Are there things that you should, or should not Aerobic exercise, by contrast, causes all the blood do, in order to keep your mind healthy and build vessels in the body, including in your brain, to your mental strength? Many scientists would say dilate. This changes the metabolic capacity of ‘yes’. Our Cohort 10 learners are now 5 school the brain. Exercise also makes the brain secrete