Athletics Success

Stephanie Deane, Jessica Jones, Isobel Ivy and Hannah Goodridge have all been selected to represent Bromley West Kent at the Kent Schools Athletics Championships on 13^th June. Their selection is a result of fantastic performances in the recent Bromley West Kent Competition at Norman Park. Congratulations and good luck in your events!

Drama Department goes to Milan!

Two weeks ago, Miss Devaux and I were fortunate enough to be given the opportunity to go to Italy to share teaching ideas with studentsat the prestigious Collegio San Carlo School, in the centre of Milan. Staff and students who have been at Hayes for more than five yearswill remember that Mrs Haralambous, an English teacher, used to work at Hayes School. She returned to Milan after her teacher trainingin England, and now works at the school, which has among its alumni Sylvio Berlusconi’s grandson and footballer Paolo Maldini’s son.Opposite the front door is a small chapel where Leonardo Da Vinci’s ‘Last Supper’ is painted. The school is over 1,000 years old and steepedin history.The purpose of our visit was to share the teaching experience and ideas we have in Drama with the staff and students at the school, inorder that they might be able to apply them not only English, but all other subjects as well. We began by giving a seminar to the staffand students on the cultural faculty, who have classes taught in Italian and English. We showed pictures and DVD’s of our school that hadbeen compiled by Mrs Harney. Then Miss Devaux and I taught three one-hour classes each to the equivalent of Year 7, 8 and 9. We ledthem through a number of drama skills that everyone at Hayes would be familiar with such as Still Images and Thought-tracking, thenrelated them to literacy and learning, specifically Romeo & Juliet (Year 9), ‘Daffodils’ by William Wordsworth (Year 8) and ‘Nettles’ by VernonScanlon (Year 7). We were amazed at how quickly the students responded to the stimuli and skills we taught them. The highlight waswhen two students were hot-seated as Romeo then Juliet just after their first meeting at the Ball. All questions and improvised responseswere done in English!!The feedback we got after the classes from the teachers was very positive indeed. They thought that the students were far more engagedthan normal, and want to develop their plan to make all subjects accessible through drama techniques, from now on.We only stayed one full day, but had a wonderful time - apart from the weather, which was atrocious! The school wants to further linkswith Hayes, and will be visiting London next summer, so we hope that they will be able to come and visit and work with us.Thank you to Miss Devaux for her expertise on poetry and literacy, to Mrs Harney for all her hard work in the Media department, to Mr Osborne for permitting the visit and to Mrs Haralambous for organising all parts of our stay so efficiently.

Mr Eden, Teacher of Drama

Creative & Media Fashion Show

On May 1st after an intensive period of planning our Creative and Media Diploma students held a Fashion Show. The students were given the task of planning and producing an event as part of their assessment and produced an outstanding show. The audience was two Year 8 English classes who wrote a review of the event and interviewed the models and organisers.

Congratulations to Sian Marks, Lucy Hutchins and Lucy Reeves for organising the event and thanks to all the staff involved in helping them to make the event a roaring success. Special thanks also go to all of the brave models from the Sixth Form without who the event would not have been possible.

C4 Detentions

C4 detentions will now run on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday each week. Students should bring some work to the detention or they will be given worksheets to complete. The extra detention on Wednesday is to avoid a back log of detentions. The detention will run from 3pm-4pm in CGC.

In addition to students placed in detention for behaviour incidents it will now include students who have failed to attend an 8.00am detention. For example, a student that is late to school without reason or incurs two yellow slips for uniform issues during Monday is given an 8.00am detention for Tuesday. Should the student fail to attend this detention they will be given a C4 (one hour) detention for the Wednesday.

Plans for M block

Fantastic interest was shown by our students in our plans to build a new teaching block. After an invitation to view our plans for a new ‘M’ block on Friday afternoon, about 50 students arrived to scrutinise our plans to extend our facilities at Hayes. Much enthusiasm was shown with questions about sustainability, design, impact on subjects and the long term ambition of the school – a really positive atmosphere created by a really interested and positive group of students.

We hope to arrange for a display of the proposed building in the near future and will publish our plans on the web site. We look forward to more students, staff and parents taking an interest in the development of Hayes as a centre of excellence in education. All we need now is for Mr Osborne to find even more money!!

Mr T W Scott, Deputy Head

Ski Trip 2009

As we, a group of Year 8, 9 and 10 students, saw the breathtaking white desert of snow that lay before us,we knew that the best ski trip ever to be experienced by Hayes School students was about to commence. We were finally here, in thebeautiful resort of La Plagne.From the beginners to the more experienced skiers, every day would involve new challenges for us all. Whether we were skiing down themountain, or rolling down it (teachers included), everyone was enjoying themselves throughout the six days of excitement on the slopes.And that wasn’t all; whether laughing at the teachers embarrassing themselves at karaoke, or winding-down to watch a humorous film, theevenings were always entertaining too!Although we were exhausted by the end, we were very sorry that another exhilarating wonderful ski trip had come to a close. Thank you tothe teachers who organised and ran the trip for us.

By Georges Vacharopoulos 10AS

Hayes PTA Prize Fund

Congratulations to Mrs Beverley Banerji this term's winner of the Hayes PTA Prize Fund of £200.00