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23 February 2021
BRADON @home
CHAMPIONING OUR HOME LEARNERS
WELCOME
Welcome to the Bradon@home newsletter produced fortnightly during lockdowns to
celebrate the academic, enrichment and community work that our students are
engaging in during this unique time. Congratulations to all students who have
featured in our newsletters since April and thank you to all students who have sent
work in. A special mention as well to our Head Teacher Award (HTA) winners.
ACADEMIC
ENGLISH
Bobby Phillips, Year 8, submitted this piece on Paradise. Mrs Bate commented: “A
thoughtful and beautiful description of a paradise, full of glorious vocabulary and
imagery. Excellent work, Bobby!”
ACADEMIC FRENCH Declan O’Neill, Year 11, submitted some great French work for Mrs Marsh: GEOGRAPHY Miss Cottier’s Year 10’s have been learning about Coastal Landforms. She challenged them to make their landforms out of things from around the house and was blown away by the creativity!
ACADEMIC
HISTORY
Mr Koniarski’s Year 7 class made a variety of castles during Live teams session
before half term:
Mr Koniarski – Blue Peter
style - trying to make a round
tower with crenelations on
Teams!
Heidi Ponting 7B2
Phoebe Barry 7B2
Joshua Joseph 7B2
Caitlin Eastman 7B2
Oliver Fry 7B2
Macy Pickett 7B2
Aaron Gratton 7R1
Lyla Chivers 7R1
Jake Harding 7R1
Keira Brown – 7R1 (A Cake Castle – complete
with drawbridge and round towers!
Ebony Pope 7R1
ACADEMIC HISTORY Maxx Hamilton in 7R2 spent last term making this model: “It was a lot of fun and I learnt a lot about Motte and Bailey castles.” His teacher Mrs Loxton was very impressed! Maddie Abbott in 8B3 took the challenge of Mrs Loxton's trenches lesson and made a cake to show the design and make up of the trench system in WW1. Alongside this amazing cake she also completed some detailed research. We hope the cake was as yummy as it looks - well done Maddie.
ACADEMIC
SCIENCE
7B2 have produced some really creative model cells at home. In Mrs Hall’s live lesson
they explained how they made them and what each part represented.
Ethan Adam
Jay Horgan
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EXTRA-CURRICULAR
Year 7 student Sienna Keenan has kept herself busy during
lockdown by taking up some new hobbies.The first image is
a 10k run she did with
her mum and the
second image is one of
the cards she has
made.
Phoebe Barry
Finlay Davies
Macy Pickett
Jack Sharps
KEY STAGE 3 CHAMPIONS!
The Key Stage 3 team have been very impressed by the high turnout of students who
have attended all their online lessons and submitted every piece of work set. Keep up
the good work! Not long to go now….
Year 10 student Ben Michalek has written this article independently to help
WELLBEING
fellow students during lockdown. He has been awarded a HTA from Miss
Hazel for his efforts! We hope you find it useful.
Top 5 ways to boost your lockdown learning!
These past few months have been hard, and if you are a student then it
has been even harder. We all have those days where we think “I really don’t
feel like going to school today”, but now more than ever before we see how
hard it is to stay home from school and still learn. Many students miss their
friends and classmates from school and struggle with tasks where they
cannot directly talk with the teacher and ask for help, so instead they let
their work pile up and then end up giving up. However, this article will help
you with tips to make life easier.
1) Make sure you know your teacher’s engage with their pupils then you can
contact information, for example their respond this way too by answering their
school email address. This will make it questions and speaking up when you
easier to communicate without talking don’t understand the lesson (this would
directly, where you can ask questions or also help other students as most likely
even talk about how they are setting they don’t understand it either).
tasks and how easy it is to understand.
4) Make sure you are eating and drinking
2) If you have your schoolbooks with you regularly. If you are not eating or drinking
when you are watching a video or on a during online learning, it can make it
virtual lesson, have it with you and make even harder to focus which will make
notes. Then when something is set on you inevitably miss out on things and
that topic later, you will have quick and struggle later on. The best way to make
easy access to it. sure this is happening is to have set
‘lunchtimes’ and ‘breaks’ in between
3) Engage in the lessons as much as lessons, as you do at school, but also
you can. Although you have joined the make sure you do actually eat in this
call, sometimes just listening to it is not time and not be busy doing other things,
enough, if your teacher tries to actively its important!
5) Lastly make sure you are looking after your mental health. A lot of people really
WELLBEING
struggle when they can’t see their friends and family for multiple reasons, and
when it is on a national scale a lot of people are going to struggle. There are many
websites that can help with this, but there are also other ways and people that
can help, for example your friends family and teachers all care about you and can
try and help you as best they can. I know that it is hard to talk to people you know
about your mental health as much as anyone, that is why there are sites set up so
you can talk anonymously and still get help.
With these 5 steps I hope that everyone can be helped in one way or another, no
matter how small the help is. The links below are mentioned in bullet point
number 5.
Kooth (Talk anonymously about your issues) - here
Mind.org (This link is lockdown specific) - here
Young Minds (Helps with a lot of situations) - here
How to Stay Calm in a
Global Pandemic
is a great book designed to
be read through as a family.
https://bradonforest.org.uk/
wp-content/uploads/
2021/02/19-how-to-stay-
calm-in-a-global-pandemic-
free-ebook-002.pdf
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