Opportunity for St Bede’s pupils to become Digital Explorers with the Engineering Development Trust – KS3 only. Digital Explorers is an online event to inform, inspire and motivate young people to take an interest in STEM careers and the digital tech industry. The programme will run as a series of Read more…
The brilliant Dan Freedman is the National Literacy Trust’s Author of the Week for the seven days ahead. Watch the video of him doing a reading of The Kick Off, from the Jamie Johnson series. https://t.co/fDeDZG6OER
SMVSC Challenge – Monday 1st June 2020 Can you create a masterpiece which shows your identity as an individual? What makes you different from everybody else? What is it that makes you yourself? This masterpiece could be in the form of; a poem, rap, song, drawn picture, a collage; collection Read more…
9am – New 10 Minute Challenge with Piers Torday on the Authorfy website 9.30am – Cressida Cowell will be on live radio show Radioblogging 10am – Listen to Chapter Eight: ‘The Potions Master’ from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, read by Alia Bhatt and Alec Baldwin on the Wizarding World website. 10.30am – Litfilm Fest daily writing videos on Youtube Read more…
Thrive activities for parents of children up to age 16 – week ten
The Hay Festival Schools Programme is running all this week on their website. Today’s events – available from 8am – includes sessions with Liz Pichon (Tom Gates), Bali Rai (Now or Never), Laura Bates (The Burning) and Michelle Paver (Viper’s Daughter) 9am – 10 Minute Challenge with Philip Caveney on the Authorfy website + New #DrawingWithSarah (McIntyre) Read more…
The Hay Festival Schools Programme is running all this week on their website. Today’s events – available from 8am – includes sessions with Christopher Edge (The Longest Night of Charlie Noon), Eloise Williams (Wilde), Laura Coryton (Speak Up) and Dean Atta (The Black Flamingo) 9am – 10 Minute Challenge with Matt Goodfellow (Be the Change) on the Read more…
Dear All, I hope you are all safe and well especially at this particularly busy time for you all. Please do keep visiting the two new webpages as they are being updated regularly. Many thanks to those who are contributing to them. The sharing of ideas and resources is inspiring Read more…
Planning for Return to School – Worcestershire County Council 20 05 2020
Today is Thank a Teacher Day. Please follow the link and send an ecard to any staff that you would like to say thanks to. Thank a Teacher Form
Dear Parents and Carers, I do hope you are all well. It’s so strange to think that it was two months ago since we were at school properly. As I have said before, we all really miss the children and we do look forward to the time when normality will Read more…
The Hay Festival Schools Programme is running all this week on their website. Today’s events – available from 8am – include sessions with Chae Strathie (So You Think You’ve Got it Bad? Ancient Rome), Pamela Butchart (Icarus Was Ridiculous), Lucy Worsley (The Austen Girls) and Jon Chase (A Science Rapper’s Guide to the Read more…
The Hay Festival Schools Programme is running all this week on their website. Today’s events – available from 8am – include sessions with Konnie Huq (Cookie and the Most Annoying Boy in the World), Emma Carroll (The Somerset Tsunami), Sue Cheung (Chinglish) and Karl Nova (Rhythm and Poetry) 9am – Authorfy 10 Minute Challenge Read more…
This week, 18th – 24th May 2020, is Mental Health Awareness Week and the focus is Kindness Matters. More than ever, during these unprecedented times, kindness to ourselves and others is so important in helping everyone to remain positive. To help encourage kindness and support Mental Health Awareness Week, we Read more…
9am – New 10 Minute Challenge with Matt Robertson (Do You Love Bugs?) on the Authorfy website 9.30am – Pie Corbett will be with Robert Macfarlane on live radio show Radioblogging running literacy games and activities. 10am – Stephen Fry is reading chapter four of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone on the Wizarding World Website 10.30am – Litfilm Fest daily writing videos Read more…
Covid 19 Suggested Timetable w/c 18th May 2020 Covid 19 Suggested Timetable wc 18th May
Reading 15/05/2020 9am – 10 Minute Challenge with Joanna Nadin on the Authorfy website + New #DrawingWithSarah (McIntyre) video on Youtube 9.30am – Pie Corbett will be hosting David Almond on live radio show Radioblogging 10am – Ed Vere is releasing a how-to-draw video on his website + Eve Coy is reading her picturebook, The Huffalots, on the Seven Stories Facebook page + Football School Friday Read more…
Computing Challenge – Friday Those of you in KS3, or who are interested to try in KS2, use your school email account to sign up for this challenge https://amazon.firetechcamp.com/python/ Everyone (KS2 & KS3) can also use https://studio.code.org/s/express-2019 This link lets you complete an express course from the UK hour of code resources. Let Read more…
At the end of a storm by Evie West – Yr 8 At the end of a storm, there’s a golden sky. Until we spread our wings, and fly. No longer rocking on the waves of melancholy, the sad, empty feeling, controlling, taking over, the hollow space where your heart Read more…
Reading 14 05 2020 9am – 10 Minute Challenge with Wizards of Once author, Cressida Cowell, on the Authorfy website 9.30am – Pie Corbett will be on live radio show Radioblogging running literacy games and activities 10am – Rob Biddulph will be releasing a new #DrawWithRob video on Twitter 10.30am – Litfilm Fest daily writing videos on Youtube 11am – Emily Gravett will be running Read more…
This Week’s History Challenge Re-enact a momentous moment from history. Most authentic and powerful historical re-enactment wins! Entries must be sent to Miss Brighton by 3pm on Friday. Good luck!
Reading 12th May 2020 9am – Authorfy 10 Minute Challenge with Smriti Halls on the Authorfy website 9.30am – Pie Corbett will be on live radio show Radioblogging running literacy games and activities 10am – Rob Biddulph #DrawWithRob video on Twitter 10.30am – Litfilm Fest daily writing videos on Youtube 11am – Emily Gravett will be reading one of her books, on Insta + David Walliams is reading chapters Read more…
Dear all, Ms Moriani from St Thomas More First School has asked us to take part in an exciting new venture which I’d like to share with you and ask for your help with. During the month of May, as a way of coming together in prayer as a community, Read more…
Dear Parents and Carers, Hope you are all well and had a restful bank holiday. I’m sure that all of you watched Boris’ announcement last night with anticipation as to what the next stage of the Coronavirus response would mean for schools. However, there was very little information about what Read more…
ParentPay Thank you all for your patience with regards the refunding of money. All trips and activities, with the exception of residential trips, have now been refunded to parents. All refunds will go directly into your Parent Account within ParentPay. You can choose to leave that money there and then Read more…
Geography Challenge Monday May 11th Food Investigation Your Challenge is: Get the recipe of your favorite family food and find out what herbs and spices it contains. On a map, find the countries that produce those herbs and spices. Do some investigating to find out more about these countries. What kind of climates do these places have? Read more…
PE Challenge w/c 11th May Congratulations to last weeks winners Chloe B 5AGA and Izzy C 8SEV. Have a go at completing the Bingo card over this coming week! Some are easy to complete and other activities are trickier! https://www.youthsporttrust.org/sites/default/files/Bingo%20Physical%20Activity%20.pdf Have fun and send any results to Mr Stenning, Mrs Read more…
Monday 11th May 2020 9am – New 10 Minute Challenge with Sue Hendra & Paul Linnet on the Authorfy website 9.30am – Lisa Thompson will be talking about how to plan a story on Instagram Live + Pie Corbett will be on live radio show Radioblogging running literacy games and activities 10am – If you missed it, Noma Dumezweni is Read more…
Help St Bede’s win £5,000 of National Book Tokens for the school library – and get £100 for yourself! Just enter the competition online, it only takes a minute:https://www.nationalbooktokens.com/schools Take part in the Create a National Book Token Design competition and your child could win a £10 National Book Token Read more…
Suggested Timetable w/c 11th May (Covid-19) Covid 19 Suggested Timetable wc 11th May
THURSDAY 7TH MAY 9am – 10 Minute Challenge with Gargantis author, Thomas Taylor, on the Authorfy website 9.30am – Pie Corbett will be on live radio show Radioblogging running literacy games and activities 10am – Rob Biddulph will be releasing a new #DrawWithRob video on Twitter 10.30am – Litfilm Fest daily writing videos on Youtube 11am – Emily Gravett will be running a draw-a-long on Insta + Read more…
It has been really fantastic to see the wonderful work all our pupils have been doing and we love hearing from you. As we move further into the summer term we are going to ask you to start messaging your Form Teacher once a week. It doesn’t matter what day Read more…
WEDNESDAY 6TH MAY 9.30am – Pie Corbett will be on live radio show Radioblogging running literacy games and activities 10am – Ed Vere is posting easy how-to-draw videos on his website – AF Harrold is reading one of his poems in a podcast on his website 11am – David Walliams is reading chapters from his book Fing, on his website + Emily Gravett is doing a draw-along on Read more…
On Friday 8th May, the nation will celebrate 75 years since VE Day, which signaled the end of war in Europe. We are asking you to join in the celebrations by creating some bunting to hang out of your windows and to decorate your houses with! Some pupils have already Read more…
I couldn’t be prouder – a fantasic reading achievement by all our pupils, especially, 12 more pupils have joined the Word Millionaire Club! and 3 pupils join the Mulit-word Millionaire Club, Pupils will all receive a Certificate by email, and Epraise points. Reading Data 05 05 2020
Getting through COVID-19 – additional needs or communication difficulties
Tudor Grange Academy Redditch / Redditch Schools #VEDay75 Collaboration Video – ‘’We’ll Meet Again’’ (A Thank you to the WW2 Generation. VE Day is celebrated in memory of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany and Axis forces in the Second World War. It commemorates the armed forces and navy personnel Read more…
Worcestershire has the highest number of inland waterways and we have recorded a number of significant water based deaths or near misses in recent times. This upcoming Bank Holiday weekend is due to be nice and the temptation for young people to enter the water for a swim may be Read more…