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5 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
DT (COMPUTING)
Year 9 students Keeley
Matthews (left) and Lola
Scisci (right) produced
these brilliant mind
maps for DT computing
about what makes a
good website. In the
lesson they learnt firstly
how to create a good
mind map by using branches, sub-branches and colour codes and then they applied
this new knowledge to create their own mind maps.
Ryan Stoddart (left) and Kate Hulin
(right), both in Year 9, planned these
‘top down designs’ for the websites
they will be making in the DT
Computing carousel.
ACADEMIC
ENGLISH
Isabel Hone, Year 9, submitted this piece for the writing challenge: Write about a
character walking home in the dark:
Stepping out onto the streets, I was blinded by the lights coming from
cars, blinking rapidly to erase the light from my head the quiet sound of
rain could be heard dropping onto the arms of my coat. I turned onto the
paths behind the road, the faint sound of cars slowly disappearing the
further I walked. The streets held an eerie feeling, it could be something to
do with my imagination but there was a feeling deep inside of me, that I was
being watched. I stopped to check, but there was nothing. Although I was
apprehensive, my conscience told me to keep moving, so I did.
It was a cold night; the moon was out, and a couple of stars laid in the
sky. The coldness swept over me, leading a shiver to escape my body. I
trudged along the pathways of east London, attempting to avoid puddles. The
lampposts flickered on and off, soon enough stopping completely leaving me
in total darkness. The wind roars ferociously, although calming down enough
for me to hear the muffled sound of a twig breaking in the distance, I
quickened my pace, having enough of this sinister night. I wanted to get
home. I needed to get home.
GEOGRAPHY
Miss Cottier has submitted these
excellent examples of home learning
from two of her Year 8 students:
• Animal Adaptation by Maddison
Bird:
ACADEMIC
GEOGRAPHY
• Climates in Africa by Ruby
Ashford (left)
• Animal Adaptaion by
Yasheka Mahesh (right)
HISTORY
Harry Smith in Year 9 submitted
his work on: “How well did
London cope with the Blitz?” to
high praise from Mr Dipple.
HOLOCAUST
MEMORIAL DAY
Thank you to Mrs Loxton
for sharing a presentation
on the Holocaust to all
our tutor groups. Below
is a selection of ‘lighting
the darkness’ photos
submitted by staff and
students.
ACADEMIC
iMEDIA
Year 10 students
Thea Rayner (left)
and Robyn Wilkins
(right) created these
storyboards as a pre-
production
documents:
Evie Scott created this very detailed pre
production visualisation diagram.
THANK YOU
Thank you so much to the group of Year 8 parents
who dropped in a delicious donation of delectable
cupcakes for the staff. Your appreciation means a lot
during these challenging times. So thank you for your
thank you!
ACADEMIC
MODERN LANGUAGES
Mrs Lister wanted to share
some great examples from
the start of term. ‘Die
Schule’ is from Year 7
students who to write an
extended paragraph about
their subject likes and
dislikes. Mrs Lister is
especially proud of Harry Bethany Small Harry Davis Kacey Newvell
Davis who has been
engaging superbly this term.
Modestadt Berlin is a
project set to Year 8
students where they
were tasked with
producing a poster
talking about their
fashion likes and
dislikes.
Last, but by no means least, Mrs Lister set a KS3 German Challenge over Christmas
to attempt a recipe she provided to make your own Lebkuchen (gingerbread
biscuits). “The three students below did a great job but I never got the change to
commend their
efforts! Well done!”
Left to right: Emily
Marvell, Year 7,
Anthony Ho, Year 7
and Sienna Beales,
Year 8.
ACADEMIC
PE
Emily Marvel in Year 7 submitted
“I wanted to show you I am keeping active at home and that your teaching is helping
to keep me healthy. I hope to see you in March!”
HEADTEACHER AWARDS
• Vanessa Adaah, 7B2. For working hard and • Jack Carter, 10P2. For excellent
showing commitment to improving her commitment to online learning in Modern
English work Foreign Languages
• Ruby Alford, 8P1. For outstanding work in • Ben Compton, 8P2. For excellent
Geography commitment to online learning in Modern
• Charlotte Austin, 10P2. For excellent Foreign Languages
commitment to online learning in Modern • Charlotte Cox, 11P2
Foreign Languages • For working hard and showing commitment
• Seth Bailey, 11R2. For a positive attitude to improving her English work
towards remote learning • Caitlin Eastman, 7B2. For excellent
• Romi Beach, 8P1. For outstanding effort in commitment to online learning in Modern
Art Foreign Languages
• Kendra Blaxter, 8R2. For excellent • Kyle Firth, 7B2. For a dedicated attitude to
commitment to online learning in Modern improving work and progress in English
Foreign Languages
• Harvey Fox, 11R3. For a positive • Elisia Jarvis, 9B1. For outstanding
attitude towards remote learning work produced in Geography
• Alfie Fudge, 8P2. For excellent • Musa Jeng, 7B2. For working hard
commitment to online learning in and showing commitment to
Modern Foreign Languages improving his English work
• Temi Gbede, 9R1. For excellent • Charlie Jones, 10P2. For excellent
commitment to online learning in commitment to online learning in
Modern Foreign Languages Modern Foreign Languages
• James Gray, 7P1. For excellent • Joshua Keane, 11P1. For writing an
commitment to online learning in outstanding Geography essay
Modern Foreign Languages • Kaiden Kerrigan, 9R2. For outstanding
• Louis Gunning, 7R2. For excellent work in Religious Studies
commitment to online learning in • Harley King, 7R2. For excellent
Modern Foreign Languages commitment to online learning in
• Maxx Hamilton, 7R2. For excellent Modern Foreign Languages
commitment to online learning in • Miller Kuklinkski, 7P1. For excellent
Modern Foreign Languages commitment to online learning in
• Maxx Hamilton, 7R2. For excellent Modern Foreign Languages
remote learning work about Jesus in • Barney Lane, 7R2. For excellent
Religious Studies commitment to online learning in
• Jake Harris, 7P1. For brilliant effort, Modern Foreign Languages
enthusiasm and helpfulness to others • Dylan Lender-Swain, 8P2. For
in History excellent commitment to online
• Lois Hawkins, 9P3. For outstanding learning in Modern Foreign Languages
work in Religious Studies showing a • Evie Macnab, 10P2. For excellent
high level of understanding and work in History
maturity • Yashika Mahesh, 8P1. For outstanding
• Jennifer Haynes, 10B2. For excellent work in Geography
commitment to online learning in • Morgan Martin-Baker, 10R3. For
Modern Foreign Languages outstanding work in Geography
• Oscar Haynes, 8B1. For challenging • Emily Marvell, 7P1. For excellent
himself to reach a higher grade with commitment to online learning in
his trenches leaflet in History Modern Foreign Languages
• Summer Hobbs, 10P1. For excellent • Finlay Mashford, 10P1. For excellent
commitment to online learning in commitment to online learning in
Modern Foreign Languages Modern Foreign Languages
• Kate Hulin, 9B1. For excellent work in • Harrison Masters, 7P1. For excellent
Religious Studies showing a very commitment to online learning in
mature understanding Modern Foreign Languages
• Adnan Jaber, 7P2. For extremely hard • Drew McIntosh, 8R2. For brilliant work
work at learning English as a foreign in Geography
language
We produced this publication throughout the first national lockdown when schools
were closed to showcase excellent pieces of work and some of the exciting activities
students and their families have got up to at home. Please send any stories that you
would like to share to dipplep@bradonforest.wilts.sch.uk.
• Alice Nalder, 10P1. For excellent • Georgia Seymour, 8P2. For excellent
commitment to online learning in commitment to online learning in
Modern Foreign Languages Modern Foreign Languages
• Hannah Porter, 9P3. For outstanding • Hannah Silvester, 8R2. For an
work in Geography outstanding piece of Geography work
• Hannah Porter, 9P3. For outstanding • Harry Smith, 9P2. For outstanding
work in Religious Studies work in Religious Studies
• Leah Purkiss, 8R2. For excellent • Olivia Steinhardt, 11B2. For a
commitment to online learning in dedicated attitude to improving work
Modern Foreign Languages and progress in English
• Thea Rayner, 10R1. For excellent • William Togher, 7R2. For excellent
commitment to online learning in commitment to online learning in
Modern Foreign Languages Modern Foreign Languages
• Louise Russell, 8B3. For working hard • Matthew Uden, 7R2. For excellent
and showing commitment to commitment to online learning in
improving her English work Modern Foreign Languages
• Finlay Rypniewski, 9R1. For working • Albert Vowels, 7P1. For excellent
hard and showing commitment to commitment to online learning in
improving his English work Modern Foreign Languages
• Darcie Scott, 8R2. For excellent • Toby Yendell, 8B1. For his hard work
commitment to online learning in on his trenches leaflet in History
Modern Foreign Languages
Listen to the Kooth podcast for
some screen free time and look
after your wellbeing as well as
your eyes!
Who doesn’t want to make an
origami t-Rex?
Click here for the National History
Museum’s ‘Try at Home’ activity page.
It is important to enjoy non-screen time
throughout the day too! See our tips in
the Wellbeing section.
WELLBEING
WELLBEING
If you have the materials make A variant on making a model – We are living through historic Create a document from Design and make a historical board
a model of something if you have the ingredients times. In the 1660’s Samuel history. It could be an actual game and then play it with your family.
historical. It could be what you make an accurate historical Pepys kept a diary which has document you recreate or It could be Spanish Armada Snakes and
have studied in class or from a model out of food. Here is a become very famous. Try make up a letter, diary or Ladders or Henry VIII and his 6 Wives
period of history that interests chocolate cake WW1 trench. keeping your own diary poster in the style of a famous Cluedo, anything you want based on
you. It could be a place, recording life in your home, historical character. Get busy history. It could even be a different
building, artefact, person, item online school and the news. with a damp tea bag and age game, what about Kings and Queens
of clothing, anything! the page (before writing on it). skittles or a game of historical bingo?
When you go on your allotted
daily exercise with an adult look Recreate the tastes and smells
for the history around you and of the past by doing some
make a historical trail. Look for
Here are 14 historical historical cooking. Make sure
buildings and objects from you’ve checked with an adult
different historical periods such
activities that will help you cut first. Here are some links to
as churches, old telephone recipes on the web, the WW2
boxes or post boxes with GR on
down on your screen time. recipes use fewer ingredients, Take your cooking one step
the front (what does that ideal when we make less trips further, invite the rest of the
mean?). You can produce a
Get creative whilst learning. to the super market! house and have a themed
written guide, a map, poster or banquet or historical dinner
leaflet. Try to give some
These activities have been designed to get you away from your https://the1940sexperiment.co
m/100-wartime-recipes/ party! You could make food from
information about each feature. screens. Choose which ones you would like to do. Some may give you one period of history or travel
http://cookit.e2bn.org/historyc through time with different
a website for instructions, but when you get started you can put the ookbook/ (scroll down the courses. Why not dress the part
screen to one side. Make sure you share your creations with your page for the recipes and or persuade the guests in your
instructions) bubble to be dressed and behave
history teacher so that we can marvel at your talent!
like famous historical characters.
Follow this link for ideas:
Many people enjoy tracing their family
tree. Why not research your family tree There are few things as https://downloads.bbc.co.uk/his
BY TALKING to members of your family. absorbing as a good book. Why tory/handsonhistory/HOH_Feasti
Check with your parents and follow not write a story set in the ng_activities.pdf
This might sound a bit
social distancing. It is great to chat to past, a good piece of historical
gruesome, but whilst you are
out with an adult on your daily grandparents on the phone about your fiction. Not only can you blend
family tree. Record your findings, the literary creativity and historical
exercise pop into a graveyard.
picture below will show you how. knowledge, but we can submit
Take time to look at the
A really important way of finding out your stories into the Historical
information on the stones and
about the past is through oral history – Association’s Historical Fiction
set yourself a challenge; find a
that means talking to people and competition. There are
birth/death from every decade
interviewing them. Why not interview categories for each year group.
in a century, find the oldest
one of your parents or grandparents Spend the day as a character from
grave, do the grave stones https://www.history.org.uk/pri
about their life. Many of them will have history. Research the character,
change over time? Which is the mary/categories/530/news/345
fascinating stories to tell. Make sure you preferably by reading a book. Try to
most ornate? Are there any 1/write-your-own-historical-
stay social distanced and use the phone Historical Art - Historians find out
soldiers or war graves, maybe a dress, walk, talk and act like this fiction-competition-2021
to interview family members outside of so much about the past through
war memorial? Record what character for the day. Challenge your
your house. Write up your findings as a art. Why not create your own
you find. family to guess who you are. Or, write a
family history or a giant timeline of play, poetry or painting or drawing. You choose
(Remember: choose a positive person,
events in your family. Make sure you music with a your favourite medium, then the
somebody who was a good example and historical
share with a parent what you intend to topic from history you would like
who’s behaviour made other people feel theme.
do. portray.
good – No Hitlers!!)You can also read
