May 2020 Follow us on Twitter @TBHAcademy 1,172 followers Dear all I hope you are all staying safe at this difficult All we can all do at this time is stay safe and do time. We miss all off our amazing students! the best we can. We have been opening to small numbers to We thought that we would share some of the support the fight against COVID 19, observing amazing work that we have been sent in. We are social distancing rules and following safe so pro proud of what is being achieved. It has routines. Our brilliant DT department have also been great to see a variety of creative / practical made PPE which as been distributed where work achieved off screen! Please continue to needed by Burgess Hill Town Council. share with us. You will also be aware of the latest Please email us if you have any urgent announcement from Government. Secondary questions or worries we are here to support. schools have been asked to consider after Also follow us on Twitter June 1st...'how best to supplement remote @PrincipalTBHA for regular updates and info education with some face to face support for about staff, students, education and community. students in year 10' If national 'tests' are met then this may mean some limited return to the academy for groups Stay safe and well, of year 10 before the summer break. We will keep year 10 parents updated. This means that for other year groups there will be no return this academic year. Mr J Francies Please do not worry about the impact of home Principal learning. Nationally and at Burgess Hill there will have to be adjustments made to ensure that no child suffers as a consequence. We will . ensure that this is the case. We will write to each year group next week. I am delighted to share some high quality work completed and a very realistic self portrait at home by Emma in Year 10. Independent working is a skill needed for future job, college and university so wonderful that students are developing their effective research and organisational skills. Well done Emma. Mrs Tanner Waterfall Painting by Emily, year 9 Rose, year 9 acting at home for the Drama Cinderella Challenge! I wanted to share some lovely work with you. The students had been asked to pick a zoo animal, imagine them in a human job and write a short description/story about them and this is what Myles, year 7 came up with: Patrick works as a waiter at a big restaurant its called “Fish for you”. Patrick has had many people give the restaurant bad reviews because the food never got to them even though the chef made it “wonder where that’s gone”. Patrick has a relatively short commute to get to work via a water slide but he doesn’t have to do anything on a morning he just goes down to the slide and collects fish from the lake outside the restaurant. Patrick has to wear a suit everyday but his fur looks like a suit so he gets away with not having to wearing one. I particularly like the fact he takes a waterslide to work! Joe, year 10, Underwater—final piece Ms Dewey The academy Design Technology team have made DT team PPE for healthcare workers using the resources they had in the department. Bob, year 7, has worked on this project while in lockdown. He was inspired by the upcycling work he was set and has used old pallet wood to make a picnic bench for the birds and squirrels! Miniature books produced for English... The Mountain By Molly, year 7 The leader of the pack surrounded by its subject mountains, The snow glistens off the tightly packed snow. The mountain seems too big today, Suddenly, a huge chunk of ice disappears from the mountain A ladder to dizzying heights, Picking up speed as it goes, But you’ll treasure the breath taking views, Once you brave the snowy white. The mountain is filled with woe, A climber, This journey seems impossible, Far off in the distance. While you struggle through the snow. I love being alone- But you are unstoppable, The wind chills me but fills me with warmth- As you leave the sadness below. Completely isolated. Then you find a hand rail, Smooth from so much use. This mountain you have scaled, I jumped Is a path we need to take. By Jacob, year 7 You rule over the wilderness from the peak, Frozen in fear facing the impossible, On a throne of glistening ice. Daunted by the giganticness looming ahead, You inhale the crisp air deeply, I look up and what do I see? Isn’t this nice? A huge black silhouette crowned in glistening white snow above me. The mountain seems so small today, A ladder with the finish line in sight. Energised, empowered facing the impassable, You treasure the breath taking views, I begin to climb nearer to the dream inside me, Now you’ve braved the snowy white. I look up and what do I see? The summit hiding in silvery mist - hiding from me. Feeling tired, scared and ready to give up, A Mountain To Climb I dig deep reaching for the dream inside of me, By Hollie, year 7 I look up and what do I see? The other side now only a metre away from me. I didn’t want to go. The darkness took me. A mountain, grand, breath-taking, Stretching my arms out I jumped… Towering over my shivering body. Landing on hard packed ice, Climbing, stumbling over footprints, I look up and what do I see? Of past climbers, giving me hope. A majestic, magical peak waiting for me. Thorns- sharp, unforgiving, With all my energy inside of me, Leaving scars on my skin. I climb until I can climb no more Rumble. Rain engulfs me, I look up and what do I see? Dripping off my skin. A beautiful sunset there for me. Isolated. Nowhere as shelter, The footprints guided me. Crack, rush, rumble – whooshing like a steam train, I squinted-the light- My heart stops, I brace myself, The light is blinding, I look up and what do I see? But wait, is that the top? A cloud of silvery mist speeding past me. Is the light telling me I’m here? Grab; blisters, cuts, scars- Relieved I’m ok, though my heart still pounding, I made it to the top I continue to rise, I look up and what do I see? An enormous crevasse in front of me. Mountain Poem Treacherous, untrodden and forbidden, By Oliver, year 7 I slip down to a rocky ledge, I look up and what do I see? Beauty surrounds me, The other side a mile away from me. Gracious green grass. Is this real? Far above me piercing the infinite sky, Mont Blanc appears, Lauren, year 7 Joe Wicks, The Body Coach has motivated students attending school and staff at home with his daily workouts. Specsavers Sussex School Games Specsavers Sussex School Games - Multi Sport event for the whole of Sussex's young people. Legacy of London 2012 Great sports people contribute to the legacy of their sport. Tennis has a rich history with amazing players & stories. Find & share facts through drawings/pics/vids with the #SussexSchGames hashtag. Can you build this into your training? Year 8 have shared - some great World War II projects. Our MFL students getting creative in showing support for our key workers! Film Review slippers, Oh dem golden slippers, golden slippers I’m gonna wear to walk the golden street.’’ With a bit of Introduction googling I learnt it was sung by plantation slaves in ‘’Well I’ll be jiggered.’’ Have you guessed the title of America. Cedric teaches the Earl’s orchestra to play this family loving film yet? For those of you, who have this and all ‘the swells’ dance which is the name Mr never heard this expression before; let me introduce Hobbs gives to rich people. Frances Hodgson Little Lord Fauntleroy. A film from the 1980s. Bennett wanted us to know she was against slavery Plot so thumbs up to the director for keeping the song in. The plot of the film is really easy to follow. An English The film has interesting history bits I will summarise aristocrat, The Earl of Dorincourt needs an heir and for you. Firstly, the Victorian aristocrats had all the sends for his grandson Cedric who is living with his money in England and kept their tenants in poverty. widowed mother on low wages in New York. Cedric Victorian women in England and America stayed at and his mother are happy, kind and loving working- home and only did low paid work like sewing. It class people compared to Cedric’s grandfather, who seems in America; the working classes are happier. is mean and uncaring; exactly like another Victorian They could be their own boss, like Mr Hobbs the character, Scrooge. Cedric doesn’t see further than grocer and Dick Tipton the bootblack, but in England his nose and loves his grandfather! The story is the working classes were slaves to the aristocrats. about Cedric going to live in a castle and begins English tenants like Higgins could not complain to learning how to be an earl. their Earl. Cedric’s grandfather has prejudice towards Americans because England lost control of the Background American colonies. When he plays ‘kick the can’ we I couldn’t tell you if it’s similar to the book it’s based see the Earl starting to like something American.