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LSF.WEEK8 May 2020
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Fairfield Challenge 100 Inspired by Captain Tom Moore, Fairfield’s Charity Committee have elected to support Captain Tom Moore’s 100th Birthday Walk for the NHS by launching the ‘Fairfield Challenge 100’.
Taking inspiration from his 100th Birthday Walk for the NHS, Fairfield pupils will be challenged to be as creative as possible in using the number 100 as a springboard for fundraising.
Run 100 metres, 100 jumps on your trampoline, complete a 100-piece jigsaw, walk 100 laps in your garden, build a freestanding Lego tower out of 100 bricks, be silent for 100 minutes- you can do 100 of anything you like!
If pupils would like to participate in this exciting challenge, then please take a photo or video and send it to our ‘Padlet’ page so we can see what they have been up to via the following link: Fairfield Padlet
Many members of the Fairfield Family have already thought about sponsorship for their challenges, or indeed donating to Captain Tom Moore’s justgiving page via https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising-v2/tomswalkforthenhs
We cannot wait to see how creative everyone can be!Fairfield’s Charity Committee
Creativity and flairWe have received lots of feedback relating to the types of activities the children have responded well to and this has been truly impressive.
With so much to choose from, here are a few recent highlights:
Alyce painted a truly inspiring canvas based on the work she has undertaken over the last two weeks based on David Hockney.
Elizabeth and Luca have created their very own cookery programmes and Luke has written and directed his own uniquely, creative drama based upon Year 3’s ‘Escape From Pompeii’ work.
This level of engagement will provide the Fairfield staff with an excellent opportunity to build on their hard work
thus far and equally as important, act on any areas for improvement wherever possible.
Thank you to those parents who took the time to participate in our online learning survey. At the time of writing, the feedback thus far has been overwhelmingly positive with 90% of parents stating that their child had responded well to our online learning provision, 86% of parents gauging their child’s workload to be at the appropriate level and 84% of our parents stating that the level of communication from Fairfield is sufficient.
Andrew EarnshawHeadmaster
This week Miss Barham’s Health & Fitness challenge is linked to the nation-wide 2.6 Challenge which has been launched to help raise funds for UK charities that are losing billions of pounds of income, usually raised through fundraising.
She has so far completed 26 minutes of tennis ball ‘Keepy Uppys’ and also spent 26 minutes climbing the stairs at Fairfield whilst supporting our Key Worker Provision.
We look forward to seeing what our pupils are inspired to do. All donations are going to our school charity, Following Felix.
To find out more about the 2.6 Challenge, please click here
Food certificatesThe Year 11 Food students have completed their Level 2 Food Safety certificate online and have received their certificates in the post. Meanwhile our Year 7 gardeners are busy growing seasonal produce and hopefully, many of our pupils are also busy with VE day baking activities.
Sun designYear 7 were given the task: “Artist Bruno Munari created hundreds of drawings of the sun. Using any materials, see how many ways you can also draw the sun.” We think that Leo’s variation of materials and styles of sun design are fabulous. Well done Leo!
Miss Barham’s Health & Fitness challenge linked to the nation-wide 2.6 Challenge
Julian MurphyHeadmaster
Community contactThe Senior Leadership Team have started to telephone each of our families to discuss the remote learning provision and how this is going.
It is taking quite a while to get hold of everyone however please do expect a call in the next couple of weeks. We have received lots of positive feedback so far, which is lovely to hear!
Wishing everyone a great Bank Holiday weekend.
Artistic News
The Royal Academy of Arts Young Artists’ Summer ShowThe Young Artists’ Summer Show is a free, open submission exhibition to recognise talented young artists and is open to young artists aged 5-19 years.
This year, two of our students, Lulu in Year 13 and Sofia in Year 10, have submitted work and we wish them both the best of luck. The exhibition will open on 12 July and takes place both online and on-site at the Royal Academy of Arts.
Prep SchoolOur Reception class were given the challenge to learn to ride their bike without stabilisers. 2 weeks ago, Arjun could not balance and his dad had to hold him on the bike. This week we have been sent a video of him riding confidently all by himself. Well done Arjun!
The class have also been making their own versions of Little Red Riding Hood and have put so much effort in with costumes, props and music.
To celebrate VE Day, Reception children are having a Zoom party and will be wearing red, white and blue.
Prep pupils are getting involved with the Wellbeing activities
Back of the netThe most popular online event may have been an evening Football quiz hosted by Mr Marlow and Mr Korosi that drew in well over a hundred participants.
These included parents who had joined in the fun without their sons.
Even though the marking was taken on trust, there was some extremely competitive behaviour witnessed, with answers being queried down to the level of the colour of the piping on Tottenham’s home shirt.
CommunityMrs James ran a full marathon around our Quorn playing fields on Saturday, followed by another up and down Burton Walks on Sunday morning.
Meanwhile, Mr Kulk, Mr Lewis and Mr Miles completed a non-stop 24 hour cycling challenge riding indoors on their trainers in 2-hour rotating slots.
Over £9000 has been raised for the CLIC Sargent cancer charity and the Leicestershire Hospitals COVID-19 fund.
Firstly, many congratulations are due to LGS staff who completed a 24 hour running and cycling fundraiser at the weekend.
Duncan ByrneHeadmaster
Alex has been baking cakes for delivery drivers
Josh has delivered over 50 prescriptions to people in his community who are self-isolating
CoronakindnessGrammar School boys continue to embrace their creativity in finding new ways to support others. Year 7s have been particularly active in embracing our Coronakindness 525 initiative, undertaking random acts of kindness for their local communities. In week one, 121 recorded acts of kindness were recorded, which is an excellent start!
Creativity in online life The LGS satirical magazine VOX has been reborn in virtual form this week.
The Sixth Form editorial team has emerged from its period of mourning following the cancellation of A Level exams to embrace its role in cheering up the community with stories poking fun at staff and the School’s increasing reliance on Microsoft Teams.
One of the most notable uses of technology in the classroom this week has been in Drama, where Year 8 boys have been undertaking a ‘Stuntman challenge’. By videoing themselves launching Cantona-style kung-fu kicks into the camera, they have been learning about the techniques of physical theatre in a way that has certainly looked great fun!
Creativity has been much in evidence in boys’ artistic endeavours. The Art Department’s Lockdown Challenge has proved very popular and we heartily recommended the gallery on its Firefly page which contains traditional media but also a healthy smattering of stop motion animation: an imaginative way in which boys can use their electronic devices.
Fiona MilesHead
Une fille courageuse One of our Year 12 French A level students at Loughborough High School, Harriet, was exceptionally brave when looking out for her 80 year old Great Uncle who lives in Carcassonne, France.
Unfortunately, he didn’t have anyone who was able to deliver his shopping and was still having to leave his home for food instead of self-isolating at home.
Harriet normally wears hearing aids and finds telephone conversations very difficult, but took it upon herself to call the Carcassonne Mayor’s Office in search of organisations who deliver food.
Speaking entirely in French she managed to gain vital information and organised someone to deliver his shopping to him once a week.
We are immensely proud of her achievement! What a star pupil she is!
Year 12 Historians webinarOn Friday 1 May, a group of LHS Year 12 historians were fortunate to participate in a webinar with a Holocaust survivor, arranged in association with the National Holocaust Centre and Museum.
Our meeting was with Agnes, whose family experienced Nazi persecution in Hungary in the Second World War.
The girls were able to ask Agnes questions about her experience of this time as well as her life overall.
Agnes drew parallels with some of the difficulties people are facing now with her own.
The talk was both humbling and inspiring, and we are very grateful for the support of the National Holocaust Centre and Museum for facilitating this opportunity.
We look forward to developing our links even further.
Despite the current situation, it’s great to hear about our students stepping out of their comfort zones to help members of their families and communities.
The High School Recipe BookThe High School are looking for submissions of great family recipes, for a recipe book to raise money for the NHS and school charities.
Please note, the recipes must be classics that have been handed down for generations or that are tried-and-tested family favourites.
If you would like to have a recipe included in the book, please can you ask your daughter to email it to [email protected], with the ingredients (and correct quantities) and a simple method, as well as a photo if you have one.
We look forward to receiving your delicious and unique recipes over the next couple of weeks. Thank you.
Building BridgesIngrid Richardson in Year 11 entered a competition called “Learn Languages to Build Bridges” organised by Lancaster University.
Although her entry did not win, she was commended for her linguistic ability and passion for learning languages by a panel of academic staff.
Cookies for NHS staffCharlotte in Year 7 has been busy at home over the last few weeks.
She has made various baked goods for her mother to take in for frontline NHS staff at Leicester General Hospital including some Coronavirus cookies!
She also made a beautiful rainbow themed hanging decoration for the offices.
Alice, also in Year 7, has baked, iced and delivered fairy cakes for the NHS staff at Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham. A lovely act of kindness.
VE day bunting The children have also been busy creating their own bunting ready for the VE75 Celebrations, which will be proudly displayed around the Nursery walls.
International Dance Day Last week we celebrated International Dance Day, by reading the story ‘Giraffes Can’t Dance’ by Giles Andreae.
The children watched the interactive story on our big screen in the Pioneers room, as well as doing lots of fun activities involving Giraffes, finishing off with our very own ‘Giraffe Dance’.
Lots of fun was had by all!
Another week of Lockdown at Loughborough Nursery and our rooms are all waiting for our friends to return with lots of bright, new and inviting display boards.
Carla BrindleyNursery Manager
Facebook videos
On our Facebook page we continue to put regular videos for parents and children, you may have also found a surprise special guest demonstrating ‘How to Wash Our Hands’.
High spirits The staff and children at Loughborough Nursery are keeping spirits high and sending home the important message of ‘Stay Safe, Stay Home’.
As Chaplain she attends and speaks at special events and religious celebrations in our schools, but this is only part of her role which also includes teaching and offering pastoral care to pupils (and by association families) and staff of all faiths and none, across the Foundation.
During Lockdown she has written a series of reflective emails to staff in which she has commented on change and uncertainty, signposted and celebrated positive news and explored the nature of community. Her two, most-recent emails have been shared more widely via LSF social media. Here she writes for the extended LSF family on purpose and priorities in a time of pandemic.
Eight weeks ago, I used these words of the prominent suffragette, Dame Millicent Fawcett, at the beginning of an assembly at the High School on the theme of International Women’s Day.
The quote could be interpreted in two ways: I hoped to inspire girls to continue to think about their own unique sense of calling and vocation, but this was also the beginning of the penultimate week of the Easter term (which became our final week, although we didn’t know this then) and I used these words as a means to naming the growing feeling of disquiet that accompanied the spread of the Coronavirus and its observed impact on our neighbours in Europe and across the world.
Referring to a recent article in Grazia magazine in which the PM talked about five women who had most inspired him, I talked about five women who have inspired me, including the eponymous heroine of the book of Esther in the Old Testament, who, having suddenly found herself crowned queen, uses her newly-acquired status and influence to prevent mass slaughter.
There’s much more to the narrative than one assembly or this article can tell, but I shared Esther’s story because it inspires me to think about the unique contribution I may be able to make wherever I find myself.
Perhaps one of most quoted moments from this story is when Esther’s guardian, Mordecai, urges her to act to save her people: ‘
‘Who knows,’ he says, ‘perhaps you have come to your position for such a time as this.’ Under pressure, and in an unfamiliar situation, Esther shows courage and resolve; she recognises her God-given gifts and opportunities and uses them for the good of others.
You may not be familiar with the story of Esther, but I believe all of us have seen the same courage and resolve in evidence during these past weeks of Lockdown, as individuals have stepped up to serve and communities have come together to meet the challenges associated with ‘such a time as this.’ Looking back, these past two months have been characterised by times of revolution and evolution: as our society has been forced to adapt to dramatic changes in the way we live, work and educate our children, so we have also noticed new ways of being for and being with others, because the fight against Covid-19 has provided many opportunities for us to reflect both on the meaning of solidarity, as well as the importance of belonging - of being in community.
Like Esther we have found ourselves unprepared, under pressure and been forced to re-assess our purpose and priorities.
For example, we have learned so much about the power of physical presence during this time, as well as coming to a new understanding of the impact our pre-Covid work and leisure patterns were having on the environment. If or how we will be changed collectively by these experiences as we go forward remains to be seen, but these will be difficult lessons to disregard.
As the song that has become something of a popular Coronavirus anthem says, ‘in times like these we learn to live and love again’.
At present we are a scattered learning community and yet despite this we remain, as our Foundation hymn reminds us, ‘one family unbroken’. One day, we will meet again and when we do, we must try to ensure, as many other families will, that we continue the Covid conversations and learning and take as many positives from this experience as we can. As I have said before, the best memories from this pandemic season will be those times we remember when people responded with practical love in action - there are already several inspiring examples of this within our own LSF community. I do not want to ignore or dismiss the reality of sickness and the pain of separation and bereavement which have affected so many people in these past months. Many parallels have been drawn between times of war and our experiences during the pandemic.
Whilst I believe we must speak boldly and hold onto hope for the future, as previous generations learned to, we must also have compassion for those who are finding it difficult to join us in this - just as, 75 years ago, the nation needed to support those for whom VE day did not mark the end of their war.
Whatever the impact the virus has had on our individual families, a common thread is the need for courage. Thankfully, history, and our own, lived experiences teach us its voice cannot be denied.
Loughborough Schools Foundation Chaplain, Rev Elizabeth York, joined the Foundation in September 2019. .
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‘Courage calls to courage everywhere – and its voice cannot be denied.’
Chaplaincy
THE SHOW MUST GO ON!
Cheryl has shown a remarkable flair for quickly adapting to the fast-paced changes in teaching and learning and is providing fabulous online resources for those staff and students who are studying the text. The LSF Drama department is looking forward to many more Zoom lectures from Cheryl in the coming weeks and in fact next week, the students will be encouraged to join in with some comedic japes.
The LSF Drama staff have continued to be creative with their classes and with the wider school community during the period of lockdown.
The Drama prefects have also been very active in devising ways to collaborate and connect and this has included quizzes, film screenings and the production of videos. The Loo Roll Challenge for Shakespeare’s Birthday is definitely worth watching!
The Year 12 Drama students took part in a Zoom meeting this week, led by an expert in Commedia Dell Arte, Cheryl Stapleton from Drama Through Theatre.
Cheryl is a regular visiting lecturer to the LSF Drama department and provides excellent practical workshops to support the students studying for their A Level set text, Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of An Anarchist
COMMEDIA DELL ARTE
STUNTMAN CHALLENGEYear 8 classes took part in the Stuntman Challenge. The pupils had already worked on stage combat as part of their recent Gang/West Side Story themed work however this took it to the next level. These challenges can be viewed on our Twitter feed @LSF_Drama
FRANKENSTEIN & FRANTIC ASSEMBLYMeanwhile, GCSE and A Level students have been working in small groups devising tasks, watching and developing their appreciation of Live Theatre, such as Frankenstein and Frantic Assembly.
COMPETITIONSA reminder that all Foundation pupils are invited to take part in the Monologues or Song & Dance competitions run by the prefects. This will culminate in a virtual performance a public and judges vote for the winners after the May half-term break. @LSF_Drama!
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Drama
1870: THE LAST SCHOOL CLOSURE !
When the Grammar School opened at Burton Walks in 1852, the drainage and sanitation were an immediate issue.
In June 1861 a request was made to the Board of Health that they should bring the main drain to ‘The Lodge’ so that the School and School House could have an effective drain.
In March 1862, Headmaster Wallace asked for an examination of the cess pool on the School premises but it was not until 1868 that officials from the Board of Health consulted with him on ‘means of rectifying the present inefficient means of draining the House and premises at present dangerous to health.’
Early in 1870 Scarlet fever broke out and the School had to temporarily close.
A special meeting was called at which the Headmaster reported that it was of the utmost importance to have water laid on from the town mains both for sanitary and domestic purposes and the Loughborough Surveyor, George Hodson (who is father of the two Hodson Boys Walter (LGS 1881-88) and George (LGS 1889-91) after which the Hodson Hall is named), conveyed the resolution to the Board of Health.
The cess pools in the grounds were cleared away and the cleaning up and disinfecting of the School took place.
Six weeks later the old water closets had been removed and water was laid on from the mains at a cost of £115. During this period the School was closed. It took a severe epidemic to force the authorities into action!
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History
Mr Weitzel (Archivist for the Grammar School) has discovered that the only other time the Grammar School was temporarily closed, was in 1870 when Scarlet Fever was the cause.
The start of the Summer Term saw the launch of the Loughborough High School World Series Challenge.
WORLD SERIES CHALLENGE 2020
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Sports
The PE department have been setting weekly challenges to test the physical, creative and mental strength of all students within their PE lessons.
Students have been completing as many of these challenges as they can and are aiming to gain as many points for their ‘Country’ as possible.
At the end of each week the PE department are awarding their performers of the week for each challenge, and the winning team will be presented with a trophy upon returning to school.
Students have been accessing the weekly challenges on the PE Firefly page and once completed they have been uploading their results onto their Team pages and emailing their work to their allocated member of staff.
It has also been fantastic to see our amazing staff community getting involved in the weekly step challenge too, clocking up some impressive results.
Weekly updates and celebrations can be seen on the PE Twitter page @LboroHSSport
Well done to everyone who has got involved in the challenge!
We are very excited to reveal the first picture of the most requested item during the pupil voice sessions… the new Foundation bobble hat!
PORTUGAL57 points
MEXICO56 points
ITALY49 points
STOP PRESS - SPORTS KIT
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IN THE NEWS...
CONGRATULATIONSLeon, who is in Year 6 at Fairfield was awarded with his brown belt in kick boxing.
A great achievement Leon, well done!
ART COMPETITIONSofia, who is at Fairfield, has won a £50 Smyths Toy voucher for her marvellous drawing in the Horton’s ‘Draw a House’ art competition. Fantastic work!
SINGING MR WESTAmazing work by our very own Director of Music, Mr West singing ‘Let My People Go’ @LboroSchMusic
CLIMBING EVERESTGeorge in Year 7 at the Grammar School, is climbing the equivalent height of Everest to raise money for Alzheimer’s charity.
During May, he will be walking up and down his stairs 3,539 times!
Good luck George!
MARATHON RUNVery well done to Chloe, at Amherst School, who worked together with her football team, Quorn Juniors, to run a marathon in 5 hours 34 minutes!
MAKING NEWS DOWN UNDERRachel Hunt (Class of ’81) has been making news Down Under as a Covid Superhero. Check out the video @loughburians
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