Monday, 15 June 2009
Specialisms Health Check
On Wednesday we received a visit from an advisor from the specialist schools and academies trust. The purpose of the visit was to undergoa health check on our specialist areas of Media, The Arts, Maths and IT. We are very pleased that she recognised the high standards of achievement and quality of opportunity that we provide for our students and community partners.We are delighted by her observations that, ’you can feel justifiably proud of your achievements!’ as ‘it is clear that the specialism has a majorimpact in and beyond the school’.Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to or participated in our specialist work to make it so impressive. We look forward to anothersuccessful year.
Mathletics – Specialist Schools and Academies Trust Maths Challenge 15th June – 22nd June
Year 7-9 students from Specialist Schools and Academies in the United Kingdom will battle it out in a one off Mathematics challenge! Students will have the task of answering as many correct questions as they can to make their school the SSAT Champions!Students will compete using Mathletics, an online Maths programme and can compete in two ways:
• Live Mathletics – Students compete against other students in a 60 second mental arithmetic showdown.
• Mathletics National Curriculum Topics – Students tackle curriculum based questions.
Students gain 1 point for each correct answer in Live Mathletics and 10 points per correct answer in the Curriculum Topics. These points determine the rankings on the Hall of Fame. We set the students the challenge of gaining 1000 points and this will earn them a Participation Certificate for the week and exciting prizes. This competition is Internet based so the students will have to access www.mathletics.co.uk and will need a username and a password to complete.
This will be available from the students’ Maths teacher. Once the students have their details they will be able to practice using the programme before the challenge. The accounts are already active and the students can begin using Mathletics right away. The challengestarts at 10.00am on Monday 15th June and finishes at 3.00pm on Monday 22nd June.
The students can use Mathletics and their account 24/7 but only the points gained after 10.00am on Monday 15th June will count for the challenge.
• Live Mathletics – Students compete against other students in a 60 second mental arithmetic showdown.
• Mathletics National Curriculum Topics – Students tackle curriculum based questions.
Students gain 1 point for each correct answer in Live Mathletics and 10 points per correct answer in the Curriculum Topics. These points determine the rankings on the Hall of Fame. We set the students the challenge of gaining 1000 points and this will earn them a Participation Certificate for the week and exciting prizes. This competition is Internet based so the students will have to access www.mathletics.co.uk and will need a username and a password to complete.
This will be available from the students’ Maths teacher. Once the students have their details they will be able to practice using the programme before the challenge. The accounts are already active and the students can begin using Mathletics right away. The challengestarts at 10.00am on Monday 15th June and finishes at 3.00pm on Monday 22nd June.
The students can use Mathletics and their account 24/7 but only the points gained after 10.00am on Monday 15th June will count for the challenge.
Hayes School Motto
You may recall that in recent weeks we have been conducting a survey of views (staff, parents, students, and governors) on a new motto forHayes School. Thank you to all those who voted. After counting all votes we would like to announce that our new school motto is to be:
‘Excellence Through Endeavour’
We feel that this accurately expresses our view of what Hayes School encourages and values. We feel it is a motto that can be applied to all students and to all situations. It is about academic, personal and social challenge. It is also about ‘ipsative’ progress where the priority for students is improving on their previous best. We wanted a motto that could be used by everyone, for everyone and in all situations. We feel this motto provides this. It will also have the great asset of being immediately understandable! In the weeks ahead we will start publicising this more and more throughout our school. We will also be inviting students to come up with adesign for this new motto.Thank you again to all those who took part .
Mr L. Preston, Assistant Headteacher
‘Excellence Through Endeavour’
We feel that this accurately expresses our view of what Hayes School encourages and values. We feel it is a motto that can be applied to all students and to all situations. It is about academic, personal and social challenge. It is also about ‘ipsative’ progress where the priority for students is improving on their previous best. We wanted a motto that could be used by everyone, for everyone and in all situations. We feel this motto provides this. It will also have the great asset of being immediately understandable! In the weeks ahead we will start publicising this more and more throughout our school. We will also be inviting students to come up with adesign for this new motto.Thank you again to all those who took part .
Mr L. Preston, Assistant Headteacher
Dates for your Diary
19th-20th June – PTA Bag2School fundraising initiative
20th June - Wickham Common Primary School Summer Fair
28th June - Pickhurst Primary School Summer Fair
1st July - Olympic Torch Day – torch is visiting localschools
4th July - Hayes Primary School Summer Fair
10th July - PTA Stephaneez Dance Craze
20th June - Wickham Common Primary School Summer Fair
28th June - Pickhurst Primary School Summer Fair
1st July - Olympic Torch Day – torch is visiting localschools
4th July - Hayes Primary School Summer Fair
10th July - PTA Stephaneez Dance Craze
Spotify
This brilliant music streaming service has been on-line since October and haspassed the 1 million download mark. Essentially this software lets you listen toany track / album / artist / playlist from your computer desktop legally, for freewith adverts every 5 songs or so. They have signed up most of the major musiclabels. And tracks/albums can be purchased and downloaded. The service canbe found at http://www.spotify.com/en/ Enjoy.
Mr Veldtman, ICT Director
Mr Veldtman, ICT Director
New Head Boy and Head Girl teams for 2009/10
Fourteen Year 12 students were interviewed on Monday for the positions ofHead Boy and Head Girl of Hayes School. All gave eloquent speeches andanswered testing questions about their motivations for wanting the roles. Itwas an exceptionally hard decision to make, all of the candidates acquittedthemselves very well, but a decision had to be made.Our final decision was to appoint two teams of three deputies for each HeadBoy and Head Girl to ensure they have a good mix of skills to help them carryout their duties as figureheads for the whole school. The teams are as follows:
Head Boy: Henry Smith
Head Girl: Alice Jones
Deputy Head Boys: Kenneth Agyei-Kyeremateng, Stephen Fisher, Stefan Taylor
Deputy Head Girls: Amy Cornwell, Charlotte Marsh, Samantha Rothery
Please join me in congratulating them on their appointments.
Mr K J Osborne, Head Teacher
Head Boy: Henry Smith
Head Girl: Alice Jones
Deputy Head Boys: Kenneth Agyei-Kyeremateng, Stephen Fisher, Stefan Taylor
Deputy Head Girls: Amy Cornwell, Charlotte Marsh, Samantha Rothery
Please join me in congratulating them on their appointments.
Mr K J Osborne, Head Teacher
Tuesday, 9 June 2009
Remote Access to Hayes Servers
As part of our Maths and ICT Specialism we have invested in remote access to our servers for all Hayes School staff and students. This will allow all students to access their user areas (N drive) from home as well as the shared student user area (U drive).
To download the software please go to: http://www.hayes.bromley.sch.uk/downloads/
Click on the Download Ranger Outpost, and follow the instructions on screen to install the software. Once installed students simply logon using their school username and password. The student needs to then click on their user number and their files will appear. Drag
the file that you need to your desktop to download it. Work on the file. Save the file to your desktop and drag it back into the Outpost folder you want to save it in. Please remember that normal ICT school policy applies when uploading work to the server.
You will need to use the same software that you used at school to continue working on the files. To that end we have free Microsoft Office 2003 disks for students. Unfortunately other software houses do not allow us to give software away for free. Please collect a Microsoft User Agreement form from the library or the finance office, return it with 50p for the cost of the disk and install on your home PC. If you have any issues with the software please speak to your ICT teacher.
Mr Veldtman, Director of ICT
To download the software please go to: http://www.hayes.bromley.sch.uk/downloads/
Click on the Download Ranger Outpost, and follow the instructions on screen to install the software. Once installed students simply logon using their school username and password. The student needs to then click on their user number and their files will appear. Drag
the file that you need to your desktop to download it. Work on the file. Save the file to your desktop and drag it back into the Outpost folder you want to save it in. Please remember that normal ICT school policy applies when uploading work to the server.
You will need to use the same software that you used at school to continue working on the files. To that end we have free Microsoft Office 2003 disks for students. Unfortunately other software houses do not allow us to give software away for free. Please collect a Microsoft User Agreement form from the library or the finance office, return it with 50p for the cost of the disk and install on your home PC. If you have any issues with the software please speak to your ICT teacher.
Mr Veldtman, Director of ICT
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