Southchurch

Weekly News

26 June 2020 Welcome to our weekly newsletter - No 29

This week, students from Years 7, 8 and 9 collected packs of work to supplement the online

work they are doing at home. 590 packs of work were made and distributed by the staff of

Southchurch High School. Some packs were delivered home to those who were unable to visit

the school.

It was great to see everyone and we all noticed how much everyone has grown over the past

14 weeks!

We look forward to welcoming all of our students back into school as soon as we are able to,

but for now, thank you for your continued support.

BLACK LIVES MATTER – ASSEMBLY

We have a short assembly uploaded onto our website, covering the recent Black Lives Matter movement and links to Civil Rights movements in History.

Simply click on the link below to access it and follow the PowerPoint using the script to guide you.

http://www.southchurchschool.com/?page_id=9540

‘To help become part of a better future, first we must understand the past’

FREE SCHOOL MEAL VOUCHERS

Parents/carers with children entitled to Free School Meals will receive the next vouchers the week beginning 29 June. Vouchers will be valued at £45 per eligible child. These vouchers will cover the period 29 June to 17 July.

The Government has agreed to fund Free School Meals for eligible children over the summer holidays. Vouchers to the value of £90 per eligible child will be issued shortly after 17 July which will cover the whole of the six week holiday period.

No further vouchers will be issued after these as it is anticipated that the school will be fully open in September.

Computing Fact of the week!

Konrad Zuse, an early computer pioneer, was born in 1910, in Germany. In the 1940s he began work on Plankalkul (plan Calculus), the first algorithmic programming language. Seven years earlier, Zuse developed and built the world's first binary digital computing device, the Z1. He completed the first fully functional program-controlled (by a punched paper tape) electromechanical digital computer, the Z3, in 1941. Only the Z4, the most sophisticated of his creations, survived World War II.

BUSINESS - Podcast of the Week:

Please follow the link below to listen to ‘The Bottom Line: Consumer Habits After Lockdown’ where Evan Davis chairs a round table discussion providing insight into business.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000k32h

YEAR 11 GCSE RESULTS

All Year 11 students will receive their GCSE results on 20 August 2020 via their

school email account. If you have a child in Year 11 or have family or friends in Year 11, please notify them of this so they can look out for the email.

Here is this week’s GEOGGLEBOX!

There are some amazing TV shows on at the moment that have a geographical theme. Some have already aired, but if you have access to a smart TV or iPlayer, you can also watch them online anytime.

THIS is an easy way to brush up your current affairs or learn a little more about the world around us...

GLOBAL DISNEY CHALLENGE!

The geography department invites year 7 and 8 to join the ‘Global Disney’ challenge!

This involves you researching where a number of Disney films were set throughout the world and plotting these locations on a map. Once you have completed your map, we challenge you to select one location and explore the human and physical geography of that country and explain why it was a good location for the films storyline.

Additional information, including the Disney films and the worksheets will be emailed to you.

ENGLISH

The 24th June marks the third annual National Writing Day and as we emerge from lockdown, the power of words to give us a voice through our stories couldn’t be more pertinent. This National Writing Day we’re launching the simple writing challenge called #247Challenge. We’ll be awarding 20 Classcharts points to the best entry and 10 points to the runners-up.

To enter you must: 1. Write a 24-word story on a piece of paper, on your computer or record on video starting with ‘One day…’ 2. Take a maximum of 7 minutes to complete your writing. 3. Take a photo of your story or take a photo of yourself with your writing. 4. Send this to Miss Emmons (Memmons@southchurchschool.com) and the Southchurch English Department will judge the best. Deadline is Tuesday 30th June. 5. You can also enter this online via Twitter, Instagram or Facebook using the hashtag #247Challenge.

If you’re stuck, you can always visit the website www.firststory.org.uk/writeday for lots of support videos and inspiration for your writing.

We look forward to reading your fabulous writing!

Congratulations to Howie who has won the first Drama Challenge! He was the only student

to complete the ENTIRE challenge and send it back in record time!

Look out for the second Drama Challenge in your email inbox today.

Good luck everyone!

Motiv8

We are continuing to reward our students for their efforts whilst working at home, with our ‘Motiv8’ initiative!

We would love to see what your budding photographers, DJs, bakers, bike mechanics, story writers, DIY enthusiasts and sports people are getting up to!

Please keep emailing them in, we look forward to seeing all that they have done during June!