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.