Tuesday 21st April 2020Daily Briefing

Marjorie Blackman (author of Noughts & Crosses) Southbank Centre’s Podcast: Malorie Blackman in conversationhttps://soundcloud.com/southbankcentre_book_podcast/malorie-blackman

Oak National Academy lessonsWe are looking at these and our teachers may incorporate some of them into their plans but students should continue to complete what they are being set by their teachers who know what they have and haven't covered.

Kindness will keep us together• Create your own ‘kindness will keep us together’ artwork.• Think about what it means. How can kindness unite us?• Share the artwork. You could put it up in your window to encourage

others to stay positive. Use #PowerOfKindness to share on social media

Random acts of kindness

Use the link below to download your own calendar to track your random acts of kindness

You can share your kind acts on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram using #PowerofKindness and @BritishRedCross

As the UK faces a global coronavirus pandemic, things can feel a little uncertain and even overwhelming. But, during these difficult times, one thing is clear: small acts of kindness make a big difference.

Click to download calendar

Family Fun - Virtual Quiz NightTuesday 21st April

We are incredibly excited to announce that our Patron and friend of the Waller family Alexander Armstrong will host a Virtual Quiz live on YouTube on Tuesday 21st April at 7.30pm in support of the Charlie Waller Memorial Trust!

It will be a family friendly quiz with a variety of topics, hosted by the brilliant presenter of Pointless. It’s free to play, and it will be live on our YouTube channel. We'd like to reach more people with our work so please spread the word amongst your friends and loved ones! If players would like to make a donation to CWMT after the quiz, we would of course be enormously grateful.

We’ve set up a Facebook event where you can register your interest.

For those not on Facebook, we’ve shared details on our website as well.

Focus on Science

Watch this clip to find out some of the science behind COVID-19 and what works to protect your family!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=5JWMhUPaKhk

Etymology of…furlough

• 1620s – the word vorloffe (or more crudely for leave), was used to mean "leave of absence," especially in military use – this is from the Dutch verlof, meaning literally "permission“.

• By 1946 in reference to temporary layoffs of workers (originally of civilian employees in the U.S. military)

• By 1975 it was applied to conditional temporary releases of prisoners for the purpose of going to jobs (work-release).

• By 2020 it has become the go-to phrase with regard to pandemic employment issues.

Revision Tips #1Reviewing previous learning should be part of your learning routine during this time.

Learn how to mind map correctly to have maximum impact. Watch this clip to see how to do it. Mindmapping

Recommendation of the day

One of the books I’ve been reading. I’m finding my concentration is not as

good at times as it normally is so short stories and non-fiction have

been a good alternative to novels for DEAR time.

The idea of Feminist patron saints is not to cause offence to those who worship Christian saints, but

to celebrate the achievements of women who have achieved incredible things or shaped our

lives today.

Matron Saint of Soul –Nina SimoneB.1933, USA

“The name of this tune is ‘Mississippi Goddam’. And I mean

every word of it.”

On a Sunday morning in September 1963, dynamite was detonated in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The bomb, planted by white

supremacists, was timed to go off during Sunday school classes; 4 little girls were killed.

It was a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement in the USA, as well as for one of its most vocal proponents. Born Eunice Waymon, the daughter of a North Carolina

preacher, she’d wanted to be a concert pianist. Her music didn’t then have words. As she became Nina

Simone, the ‘high priestess of soul,’ the words found her. ‘When I heard about the bombing of the church in which the four little black girls were killed in Alabama,’ she said, ‘I shut myself up in a room and that song happened.’ The

result was ‘Mississippi Goddam,’ a rallying cry for the movement, and one of Simone’s most famous protest

songs. Everybody knows about Mississippi – goddam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ25-U3jNWM Spike Lee, one of the world’s greatest film makers, made a

documentary about this Church bombing. It was one of many notorious acts of violence against Black people in the USA amidst

the battle for civil rights.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebuKaY0KIbI

https://www.bcri.org/The Civil Rights Institute is situated opposite the Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Well worth a visit in person (at some point in the future) or on

line (today).

We can still go to the theatre …..

National Theatre live streaming of Twelfth Night for free on Thursday at 7pm - Shakespeare's whirlwind comedy of mistaken identity and unrequited love, featuring Tamsin Greig as Malvolia

BBC Culture in Quarantine - bringing the arts into the home. FreeLeave a Light on – A series of intimate, three-times-a-day concerts staged by Lambert Jackson Productions and the Theatre Café. Cost £7.50Digital Theatre – Access to theatre productions for £7.99Globe Player – Shakespeare productions £4.99 Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals streaming. Free

Daily Maths Puzzle

For more puzzles follow @LPGSMaths on Twitter

Daily Maths Puzzle – The Answer!

Answer from 03/04/20

Classical Chill

At a difficult time in the Soviet Union, composers were instructed to raise moral by composing music for social occasions, such as tea dances. This delightful waltz, with its quirky melody is one of Shostakovich’s lighter pieces.

Shostakovich – Waltz no 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPmnn_iTQJE

VISUAL ARTS – Things to DoClick this link to find many creative projects to get involved in:

https://firefly.lpgs.bromley.sch.uk/visual-arts/things-to-do

Collaborative sculpture project – Plastic Jellyfish – click and follow this link:https://firefly.lpgs.bromley.sch.uk/visual-arts/things-to-do/plastic-jellyfishRather than throw away more plastic – aim to transform a regular plastic drinking bottleinto a 3D sculpture – all individual sculptures will then be used by the Visual ArtsDepartment to make a huge collaborative sculpture to display in the new academic year.

Please keep sending EFJ your favourite artist or artwork–efj@lpgs.bromley.sch.ukhttps://firefly.lpgs.bromley.sch.uk/visual-arts/things-to-do/artist-in-the-spotlighthttps://spark.adobe.com/page/WF9rdQrdhHhWP/