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Becket Keys Church of England School 22nd March 2019 IN THIS ISSUE GYMNASTICS TEAM – READ MORE PAGE 13 Mrs. Trebess writes… details about this and our Mathematics Challenge Club on page 4). Did you know that the best way to support your child with Sixth Form House Cup Mathematics is to encourage Competition time for our Sixth Formers. them to use our online resource Who is in the lead? Page 5 MathsWatch? All students should Biblical Pause be doing extra Mathematics With the Abel prize (seen by ‘Christian Stewardship’ – how can you be revision at home. many as the Nobel prize for a faithful steward of God’s gifts? mathematics) being won for the Page 6-7 first time ever by a woman this year, it seems only fitting that A Level Drama this week’s newsletter should Read the student account of the first https://Mathematicswatch.co.uk/ have a mathematical theme. A- level drama theatre trip. There is so much going on for Page 8 Maths Watch is an online students at the moment in our resource giving access to various World Poetry Day fabulous Mathematics tools to support success in Students discovered many types of department! mathematics. With MathsWatch, poems to celebrate this international it is possible to access video This week, Mrs Rubery day. Page 9 tutorials which will explain topics accompanied our top Sporting News just like a teacher would at the mathematicians to the University board. There is the opportunity to Details of the fantastic result for our of Cambridge where they took practise real exam-style Gymnastics team. part in the UK Mathematics Page 13 Challenge competition (more …..contd. on Page 2 9/9/2016 BECKET KEYS CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL 22ND MARCH 2019 Volume VII – Issue XXIII …….contd. From Page 1 questions, with instant feedback on performance. Finally there is the opportunity to complete assignments set by teachers, with Congratulations to everybody who has been making good use of instant feedback. MathsWatch this term! The “MathsWatch points” are made of a combination of the following: minutes spent using the resource, All students have an individual number of questions attempted, and number of videos watched – login (they can ask Miss Barnes or keep up the hard work at home! their Mathematics for this) and everyone has the password Mathswatch ‘radius’. This interactive resource Name Form points should be especially helpful for Year 10 students at the moment, Grace Middleditch 11 1a 8239 who are currently busy revising Ambrose Taylor 7T1 4424 for their Term 4 Assessments (comprising of two papers, Anna Jackson 11 1a 2619 assessing all of the content taught so far in Year 10). William Charters 7P1 2355 In addition, Mrs Robinson Samuel Cohen 7T1 2275 (Mathematics RET advisor) has Rachel Lyle 7T1 1839 set an exciting challenge for all schools in the trust (this has been Rebecca Lyle 8P/Ma1 1504 added to SMHW for all year groups). She would like students Louis Farel 7T1 1423 to log on to www.desomos.com and have a go at plotting graphs Abbie Hollington 9t/Ma1 1401 correctly to make a picture of a Bea Connor 7P1 1292 face. The best ten entries from Becket Keys will be sent to Mrs Abigail Catton 10 1b 1256 Robinson, who will judge the winners and award certificates Erin Delea 7T1 1243 across the trust. Holly Roberts 7P1 1228 So what are you waiting for? Ava Broughton 9t/Ma1 1208 Good luck! Beltran Gracia-Martin 7P2 1129 Mrs.Trebess Deputy Headteacher Ben Shelton 7T1 1108 Evie Knight 9t/Ma1 999 Josh Musk 7P1 956 Pouadjeu Josiane Kammani 8T/Ma1 926 Page 2 of 15 BECKET KEYS CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL 22ND MARCH 2019 Volume VII – Issue XXIII Mathematics Department have their game brought to life by Mangahigh and played by students all around the world! All students are welcome to attend Maths Challenge Club: Thursdays at 1pm in J25 with Mrs Rubery. In addition, with Mangahigh, all students have been given a login to be able to access all the resources on the website. Mangahigh are running a competition over the next ten days to be able to win prizes of done Rebecca Lyle, Lucy O’Hare, between £100 and £1000 for the On Tuesday 19th March, four Toby Hancox and Luis Hayes! school. Please see Mrs. Rubery if students from Year 8 and 9, you don’t have your login. We are represented the Maths Challenge currently 41st in the whole Club, at the regional finals of the country but with only forty six UKMT Team Challenge at the students active at the moment, Centre of Mathematical Sciences we could easily get into the top 10 at the University of Cambridge. if we all use the website for extra The students had to take part in a maths fun this weekend! Just try number of challenges, working in any activity on the website to pairs and across teams to use take part. their best mathematics skills. This also really tested their Our next goal for the Maths communication and leadership Challenge Club is to enter a skills, as no one person could do it competition to design a alone. It truly was a team effort. mathematics game. Schools are One particular highlight was the invited to encourage their KS3 ‘relay’ round, where each pair students to work together in would work on a problem as the teams of 4-6 to design a 2D, level- other team waited to be able to based, maths computer game for start theirs, really putting on the students across the globe to play pressure to answer quickly and to to improve their maths skills. also use their best ‘mathsletics’ to Upcoming dates for the diary. The top 10 game designs will be race across the room to get the The UKMT Junior Maths invited to an exciting awards next answer to each other. Challenge for students in 7P1, ceremony in London where the Unfortunately not a top 3 position 7T1, 8P1 and 8T1 will take place students will pitch their ideas to for us to get through to the finals, on Tuesday 30th April. but a great day had by all. Well our expert panel of judges. The winning student team will then Page 3 of 15 BECKET KEYS CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL 22ND MARCH 2019 Volume VII – Issue XXIII Friends of Becket Keys St Thomas of Easter Raffle Canterbury Church If there are any students, staff or parents who would be interested in being prepared for Make sure you get a raffle ticket or two for this bumper basket of confirmation so that they can Easter Eggs! Individual Eggs are also available for second and third receive Holy Communion and prize. Tickets are £1.00 each and available from your Tutor. confirm their baptismal promises, All the money raised from this raffle will go towards the playground please contact Fr Mark North to appeal. We are raising money for outdoor shelters and equipment. discuss this further. Draw will be on Tuesday 2nd April 2019 You can email him on [email protected] or Many thanks to Lakeside Container Services Ltd for the egg phone him on 01277 231629 or donations. 07508604115. GOOD LUCK!! Page 4 of 15 BECKET KEYS CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL 22ND MARCH 2019 Volume VII – Issue XXIII Sixth Form House Cup During lunch on Thursday, twenty Sixth Form students of varying artistic ability took part in the ‘Draw Your Tutor’ competition. This event formed the latest round of the Sixth Form House Cup, following on from events as diverse as the London Challenge, the weekly current affairs news quiz, Countdown and several mixed-gender sporting activities. Lastauskas and Holly Sanderson This means that the overall House produced excellent depictions of Cup scores are now: 1st – PP, 56 their subjects - although Chase points; 2nd – AC, 54; 3rd – WW, 52; White’s sketch of Mrs Phipps 4th – FS, 41; 5th – HS, 37. showed such exceptional talent that it has to be seen to be believed. Before this event, the top of the At the same time, it was also clear leader board was very tight with to see where the, ahem, ‘artistic three Houses tied in the lead. talent’ was: Oliver Potter and This meant that each House took George Warren went for it very seriously as every point is alternative versions of Mrs Tagg crucial at this stage. that cannot be summed up in a Consequently, four students from sentence or two; Toby Deacon each House (two from each year and Tom Bowles showed group) arrived in the art room immense bravery with their with keen eyes, creative minds caricatures of Mrs Martin; Will and sharp pencils to spend Stroud chose to copy a sketch of twenty minutes producing a Tom Cruise and then tried to turn portrait of their respective tutors. it into Mr Fenn (meaning that he is now his tutor’s favourite student) and a new portrait adorns the wall of the Fenn household! Mrs Cherry and Mrs Ginn judged the drawings, treating the four entries from each House collectively before awarding After a while, it was clear to see positions: 1st – HS; 2nd – PP; 3rd – where the artistic talent was: AC; 4th – WW; 5th – FS. Jennifer Hobday, Nicole Page 5 of 15 BECKET KEYS CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL 22ND MARCH 2019 Volume VII – Issue XXIII ‘The dignity of the human person is rooted in his creation in the image and likeness of God’ (Genesis 1:26). Due to this, the two greatest commandments are to love God and to love your neighbour (Mark.