BartholoNews 10 June 2020 www.stbarts.co.uk Issue No: 945

BLACK LIVES MATTER: RETURNING BOOKS RESOURCES As some restrictions Like us, many of you start to ease slightly, will have been we would like Year following the recent 11 and Year 13 events surrounding the students to make death of George Floyd arrangements for the return of all school in the United States and textbooks and library the resulting anger and books to us as soon as frustration, with great possible. Previously this would have been very concern and sadness. difficult to arrange, but we need to start making these books available to students who will be It is important as a school community that we relying on their return to start their GCSE and A take time to reflect and continue to educate level courses. Please refer to the letter sent to ourselves on historical and contemporary you last week to ensure you return the books in issues of race, and the injustice and inequality the safest manner. It can be read here on our that far too many Black, Asian and ethnic communications archive: https://bit.ly/3cP8mnB minority people experience in our society and beyond. It feels like a moment to pause and MFL ON INSTAGRAM take stock and most importantly listen to the The MFL experience of others. department have started an We are proud to MFL instagram support and account to promote diversity celebrate all the and inclusion in our good work school and will students are continue to work producing and hard to ensure this to make is the case. As such everyone feel we have put more connected together a list of resources you may find useful at the moment. in educating yourselves and/or your families around the topic of racism both within the UK Search for stbartsmfl to find the account. The and further afield. You will find this list on first main post is about what initially inspired pages 6 & 7. This is by no means an exhaustive MFL teachers at St Bart's to pursue languages. list but it is a start and we also aim to input more work around this in our PSHE programme once the students return to school.

The weekly newsletter of St Bartholomew’s School. ALL SCHOOL LEAVERS, NEW CPR GUIDELINES SUMMER 2020 We have been asked by the Lunch Card Accounts British Heart Foundation to share this updated guidance on Please can you check the balance on your performing CPR during child's lunch card (via your Parentpay Covid-19: account). https://bit.ly/3cRbBe4

Where lunch card accounts are in debit and NEW SCHOOL EMAIL ADDRESS therefore money is owing to the school, please By September we will pay using Parentpay, alternatively, a cheque have switched over to new can be posted. email software for contacting parents, carers Where lunch accounts are in credit, monies and students. You are can be refunded to students: unlikely to notice any 1. via Parentpay (if deposits were paid difference but the emails initially via Parentpay in the last 24 from the new system will come from a new months); by e-mailing email address: [email protected] 2. by transferring it to a sibling remaining at [email protected] St Bart's, by e-mailing to [email protected] There will be a phased switchover so if you 3. or, if deposits weren’t paid by Parentpay stop receiving emails from St Bart’s we would within the last 24 months, a cheque can be advise you to check that they are not going requested by e-mailing into your SPAM folder. Some email providers [email protected]. have a ‘safe list’ feature. To make sure you receive emails, add our new address to this list. Please request a refund, or make a payment This new email address should not be used to before Friday 10 July; any monies remaining contact the school. Please continue to use on accounts in credit at the end of the summer [email protected] if you wish to send us term 2020 i.e. 17 July 2020, will be taken as emails. kindly donated to the school. SCHOOL UNIFORM SHOPPING Additional purchased printing credits of Skoolkit Online Facility Leavers The Skoolkit uniform shop in Newbury has If additional printing credits were purchased recently launched an online facility and all via Parentpay and you believe these are not items of St Bart’s uniform are available to fully utilised, please contact the ICT Support purchase through their website department [email protected] to request www.skoolkit.co.uk The summer months are a balance check. always busy and this year will be particularly challenging. Skoolkit is therefore encouraging Any unused purchased printing credits can be customers to buy from their website. refunded via Parentpay by e-mailing [email protected] before the 10 July. Over recent weeks all non-essential shops have been temporarily closed, and that included the Any monies remaining on accounts in credit at Skoolkit shop in The Kennet Centre. It is the end of the summer term 2020 i.e. 17 July anticipated this will reopen on Monday 15 2020, will be taken as kindly donated to the June, however this is dependent on school. government guidance. Skoolkit has been preparing for the reopening and put in place a Please note that due to the current situation, number of measures to maintain social refunds may take up to 2 weeks to process. distancing and ensure the safety of customers - 2 - and staff. For those who do need to visit the Just 'leaving the kids to it', while I am working shop please go as early as possible this year, at the kitchen table, has improved their allow extra time and be patient and comprehension skills so much. My favourite understanding with the staff. was their discussion of what simmer was. Eventually, they got it.” Included in this issue of BartholoNews is Skoolkit’s leaflet providing information about We hope that similar food based learning is free delivery codes for online uniform taking place in many students’ households purchased on specific dates, as well details during this home study period. Here are just a about the safety measures in place when few of the many photographs we have visiting the Skoolkit shop. Please see page 8 received of our busy Year 7 students cooking:

St Bart’s uniform is also available online from Joe Coley in Trutex Direct www.trutexdirect.com, at the (7E3) practicing password prompt type in LEA00631SC. his knife skills

The Parents’ Association has a well-stocked second hand shop which we hope will reopen in September at their usual time of Fridays from 3.00pm - 4.00pm.

HOME COOKING HEROES

Our Year 7 students started their food course Molly Piper after home study started, so our lessons have (7E3) made a been rather strange, as food teachers and delicious fruit students have not yet met! We have been salad asking students to do learning tasks broadly based on food work we would have been covering in more usual times. Additionally we have been asking students to learn and practice safe knife grips (claw and bridge grips), and to practice using different parts of their cooker at home. Our Year 7 students have then been Eloise Mortis submitting photographs of their food (7P1) made this preparation and cooking and the food teachers magnificent have had a wonderful time looking at what strawberry they have made. We are very grateful to meringue parents and carers for their support with this.

One parent of a Year 7 student recently emailed me; “I just had to say how amazing my son has been in helping with cooking at home. As a family, we do love to cook together and the children have always been hands on. However, due to the demands of my job in last few weeks, I have been quite stressed and my son, without prompting, has taken the lead to help with cooking with his younger sister. What I did notice was how far he has come in terms of reading a recipe / instructions. At the start, he was unable to see the bigger picture Erin Lay (7E1) made this beautiful Rainbow of all the steps but this has improved so much. Cake.

- 3 - Kaden Bamfield incredibly proud of Daniel and can't wait to (7E2) has been see his story published. helping his family by cooking meals.

Mawgan (7P1) made flapjacks

Students may wish to cook a recipe they made in school in a previous year, or may want to look for a new Looking at St Bart’s from the Nature Reserve recipe. Our recipes are organised into year group folders; please take a look. FOLLOW YOUR HOUSE ON INSTAGRAM The link to the St Bart’s recipe bank is: https://bit.ly/2V2Gwxt curnockhouse davis_barts Please continue to send us photographs of your evers_stbarts home cooking; you can email any food teacher; stbartspatterson

Mrs Eastman: [email protected] Mrs Bell: [email protected] EX STUDENT TO RELEASE Ms Wenlock [email protected] ALBUM One year since We will send you a Home Cooking Hero leaving St Bart’s ex certificate the first time you send us a student and Head photograph and your cooking may now be Boy, Archie featured on our food Instagram: stbarts_food. Awford, has (Please let us know if you’d rather we didn’t). released his debut album, “In Waves”, Mrs Linda Eastman with a “laidback, Head of Faculty Food & PDP Australian vibe”, performed and WELL DONE DANIEL produced in his Well done to Daniel bedroom. Ledwith 7C3 who entered a writing After graduation, when his friends headed off competition and won! to continue with their studies, Archie chose a His short story will be different path, to fulfil his dream of recording published in August in an album. “I did consider going to university a book called : ' Spine this year; I have a real passion for learning Chillers 2020 - new things. But I couldn’t ignore the voice in Creepy Tales'. The my head telling me to make this album. But it’s English Faculty are been a lot of hard work!”

- 4 - Archie has very happy memories of his time at Virtual School Games Footgolf Challenge St Bart’s, “I loved my time in the Sixth Form These are the results of the top 3 students in particularly because as Head Boy I was able Years 7 - 9 for week 4 and the Virtual School to give something back and make real Games Footgolf Challenge changes. I learned a huge amount from my time at Bart’s and had some fantastic Year 7 Boys opportunities. It was a great time.” Henry Waters Eish Mahajan Archie’s album ‘In Waves’ is available to download now on Spotify: Year 7 Girls https://spoti.fi/3dLnN1i Immy Duly Edith Rivers PE NEWS Beth Howell

Global Running Day Year 8 Boys On Wednesday Ashton Charlton 3 June the PE Tom Dair Department Lewis Gardener launched Global Running Year 8 Girls Day. They supported this event Angel Nwokporo by running/walking the mile and then tagging Izzy John a PE class of their choice to also then complete the mile! Miss Allwright, Mr Harmer and Mr Year 9 Boys: Ed Hall, Ben Cook, Callum Tang Fry were even mentioned in an official global running tag! Year 9 Girls: Ruby Lochead, Ruby Wiltshire, Abi Hobbs They also tried to getting other colleagues from other subjects around the school St Bart’s entered 4 Year 7 teams, 1 Year 8 involved. The PE Department would like to team and 1 Year 9 team into the mention staff such as Ms Moore, Mrs Bell, Virtual School Games Event and the county Mrs Wenlock, Mrs Clare, Miss Brown, Mrs result will follow later on this week. Wall, Ms Thompson. Mrs Grant, Mrs Eastman and Mrs Williams who all joined in. Well done SUPPORT DURING THE SCHOOL to everyone who took part. CLOSURE Don’t forget that we have compiled a list of Berkshire Virtual School Games useful services for those in need during this County Awards: Week 3 Handball difficult time. You can view it here: https://bit.ly/2YXUvYJ Spirit of the Games Awards 1st St Bartholomew’s School, We’re also maintaining an archive of 2nd Newlands School, Ascot & communications. You may find it useful to 3rd , refer to these documents here: 4th , Maidenhead https://bit.ly/35TD3pX and to back issues of Bartholonews, here: https://bit.ly/35XsBxm Event Awards Year 8 Find us: 1st Newlands, Ascot & Maidenhead 2nd St Bartholomew’s, West Berkshire 3rd Wexham School, Slough

- 5 - BLACK LIVES MATTER: RESOURCES

We are proud to support and promote diversity and inclusion in our school and will continue to work hard to ensure this is the case. As such we have put together a list of resources you may find useful in educating yourselves and/ or your families around the topic of racism both within the UK and further afield.

This is by no means an exhaustive list but it is a start and we also aim to input more work around this in our PSHE programme once the students return to school. Five pieces of news to put the protests against George Floyd’s death in context https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52904593

George Floyd: Five powerful anti racist speeches in response to his death compiled by Newsround: https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/amp/52917648

Radio 1 DJ Clara Amfo talking about racism, George Floyd’s death and its impact on her mental health: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p08ftycl

Link to five news live episodes about George Floyd’s death and UK Reaction: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02pc9s8

Systemic Racism in the US Explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrHIQIO_bdQ

Debunking Myths about Race-Robin DiAngelo Author of White Fragility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjHg65JORi8

Interview with British author Renni Eddo-Lodge: Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vJZdeSqfFY

Book suggestions to parents and children (Age defined) https://www.healthline.com/health/parenting/anti-racism-resources-for-parents-and- kids#books

Anti racist reading list from the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2020/jun/03/do-the-work-an-anti-racist- reading-list-layla-f-saad

Interview with author of the book Anti-Racist Baby about how parents can talk to children about racism https://www.cbsnews.com/video/how-to-raise-kids-to-be-anti-racist-and-talk-to-them-about- racism/#x

Abridged version of Girl, Woman, Other Booker Prize Winning Novel by Bernadine Evaristo. (Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through the years): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jmmn.

Campaign about putting more education relating to black history and literature into the curriculum: https://www.theblackcurriculum.com/action

Clips from Alt History a documentary presented by David Olusoga: https://youtu.be/Ut5gtrezN4E https://youtu.be/R5zQuKRwix4 https://youtu.be/3lg0mAX0FOM https://youtu.be/vCD9zuQcFuU

Clip of Black to Life: Rethinking the Black Presence in British History https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07dt1d3

Channel 4 News Special from 2018 about the Windrush Scandal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izsLi-FB5Fg

Documentaries (We have included clips to trailers)

13th https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6IXQbXPO3I The Central Park Five https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AehmA3hTLmA The Hard Stop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbXb0sQQ2is St. Louis Superman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66QwXixHuk4 3 ½ minutes, Ten Bullets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKbCoRA__UI Strong Island https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h64qugj_iDg Black Sheep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-Y5zvnDxsI I am Not Your Negro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNUYdgIyaPM The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F56O3kZ9qr0 Reconstruction: America after the Civil War www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWBYUWLFTg4 Slavery by Another Name www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s8ccKepCms Netflix Explained: The Racial Wealth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqrhn8khGLM Black and Scottish https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07psnyv

Hello Parents/Carers, we hope everyone is safe and well.

June 15th is the provisional date given by the Government for non-essential retailers like Skoolkit to reopen. So, we would like to update you with our plans to help this happen and to hopefully cover any questions.

We have a social responsibility to not attract large numbers to our shops to maintain social distancing measures, so where possible we would like to encourage customers to buy from our website. Please use the FAQ on our website to help answer any questions you may have regarding ordering online.

Regrettably our usual “discount week” has been suspended for this year, however we will be offering free delivery codes for uniforms purchased on-line on specific dates as follows: Just enter the code at the checkout.

26TH – 28TH JUNE 2020 – JUNEDEL20 27TH JUNE – 26TH JULY – SUMMER2020 29TH – 31ST JULY 2020 – JULYDEL20 5TH – 7TH AUGUST 2020 – AUGDEL20

If you do need to visit our shops please buy early to help avoid crowds building up through the summer. There will be queues for uniform and service will take longer than usual but we aim to move customers through as safely as possible and we will be observing all Government guidelines including:  Providing staff with PPE as advised  Providing hand sanitiser in-store for use by staff and customers  Installing cough/sneeze guards  Observing 2 metre social distancing rule by using a one-way flow system through stores with floor markings and signage.  Limiting the number of people who can be inside a shop at any given time. With only one adult with their children where possible.  Limiting the use of fitting rooms so that they are only used where absolutely necessary  Limiting customers’ handling of uniform. So, please come prepared with size  information (Refer to www.skoolkit.co.uk for size guides)  Encouraging the use of card payment

Can we please ask our customers to be patient with our staff who will be working incredibly hard to help make sure your child has all they need for their return back to school. If we all help each other stay safe we can survive this challenging time together.

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