NEWSLETTERSHENLEY BROOK END SCHOOL

13 June 2019Vol 20 Issue 13

DIARY DATES

DATE EVENT

13 June Y10 Careers Higher Education Visit to Oxford and Cambridge

14 June DofE Bronze Assessed Expedition

17 - 19 June Y8 MFL Europa Centre Trips

17 June DofE Bronze Kit Return

Y10 WRL NHS Careers Fair

18 June PE Leadership Diploma Placements to Oxley Park

Y8 & Y9 Library Carnegie Gold Medal Announcement

19 June Y10 PE Leadership Diploma Placements

Y12 Careers Networking and Finance Event

Y12 Careers Networking Breakfast with Hazeley

Y12 Destinations Evening

Y8 - Y10 PE Beyond The Baseline Session 3

20 June Y8 Science on The City Bike Ride

21 June Y12 UCAS Higher Education Exhibition

21 - 25 June Y8 Maths, English and Science Exams

25 June GIV Project Day

Y9 DofE Silver Information Evening

WelcomeOnce again we have a wonderful newsletter highlighting the many experiences, success and opportunities enjoyed across our vibrant community. While it has been being collated even more has happened within school which we look forward to sharing next time. Hot off the press though is last night’s news from the MK Education Awards which were held at Jury’s Inn. I’m delighted to be able to tell you that our own Mrs Kaye was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award for her services to education. This is a great honour for her and for us at the school and for the Trust and many congratulations go to her from all of her colleagues here. I was also very proud to see one of our Y10 students involved on stage in the nomination and award process for the Inspirational Teacher Award on behalf of the MK Voice Group. The evening was a lovely celebration of the hard work and dedication across the city to developing the qualities and qualifications of children and young people from all backgrounds and a powerful reminder of why we do what we do.

C HolmwoodHeadteacher

FOOD TECHNOLOGY NEWS

Food Preparation and NutritionIt’s been a very busy couple of terms in the food preparation and nutrition lessons!

Y 11 completed their NEA 2 practical finals in April (photos can’t be published due to exam board rules) but to get an idea of what they do, Y 10 completed their mock NEA2 practicals in May and highlights are featured below. The practical element of this assessment is to make 3 dishes in 3

hours. They need to aim for as a high a level of skill and presentation as possible. The pictures show that students are striving to achieve high standards. Well done to all students! Thank you to all the staff who came to taste and give feedback. Y 9 will be completing a mini mock in June where they

complete 2 dishes in 2 hours.

STARCHEF

FOOD TECHNOLOGY NEWS Cont.

Star Chef!

The KS3 after school club is fully subscribed with a reserve list! Students make a selection of sweet and savoury foods which they take home to eat. It is lovely to see the level of interest and enthusiasm from the students wanting to learn this essential life skill. - Mrs Freeman

Year 8 students are continuing to enjoy competing for the Star Chef apron in their food preparation and nutrition lessons. Term 3 and 5 winners were making dishes from the eat well project. These

are: Chilli con carne, chicken or vegetable curry, cheese and onion pastry puffs, chicken or spicy bean burgers and fruit crumble. Term 4 winners were making dishes from the snack attack project which are leek and potato soup, macaroni cheese, savoury bread and risotto. Each week, 1 student per group is awarded the apron which is worn in the next week’s lesson. Please see the winners displayed in FT2

and here below. Congratulations to all who won!

We will be helping students celebrate National School Sports Week in line with the Youth Sports Trust from Monday 24th – Friday 28th June. This year’s theme is ‘5 Ways to wellbeing’ During this week we will be asking students to complete 30 minutes of physical activity inside and outside of school per day, encouraging students and staff to get involved in physical activity, promoting acts of kindness and taking class room lessons outside. Please do your best to take part and be as active as possible this week. Miss Green

Sports Presentation Awards

National School Sports Week

Students who have represented

the school in any sporting fixture, or those who have made significant progress

in an activity the school does not participate in competitively, will be invited to join the PE team in

our Sports Awards. While we have been making a note of achievements students talk to us about over the course of the year,

we find there are always those who compete to a high level who don’t get the recognition they deserve as we are not aware of it.

Some examples of these sports are swimming, winter sports, martial arts, dance and motor sport. We may also not be aware of young people’s

achievements in our usual sports if they are unable to compete with us, such as a rugby player for whom a fixture may not have taken place this year due to the weather, or a cross-country runner who was unable to

take part in the MK event we attend.

The criteria for recognition will be that the young person would have competed or performed at a county, regional or national level in

these events.

If you believe your son or daughter meets this criteria please ensure details are provided to Mr Doyle

(sdoyle@sbeschool.org.uk) for the consideration of the PE team.

PE NEWS

ENGLISH NEWS

I am FerociousI am mysteriousI am dangerousI am a challengeI am an opponentI am an enemyI am a shieldI am a homeI am a graveyardI am abusedI am usedI am ignoredI am a lifesaverI am the ocean

- Toby Clarkson

On World Oceans Day, people around our blue planet celebrate and honour the ocean, which connects us all. In English lessons this term, Year 8 students have been researching the impact of plastic pollution on our oceans and the world around us. They were also invited to submit poems and short stories on the theme of World Oceans Day to a competition run by artists Joe Little and Robin Souter. Our students produced some creative, thoughtful and provocative poems in response to this challenge. The following students’ work was highly commended by the judges:

Emily Campbell, Daniel Sinatra, Toby Shrimpton, Amy Harris and Issy Campbell

The winner of the competition was Toby Clarkson, for his poem ‘I am Ferocious’ (right). Toby was invited to attend a prize-giving event at the Westbury Arts Centre on World Oceans Day. Congratulations Toby!

Mrs Hazell - Director of English

World Ocean’s Day - 8 June 2019

ART NEWS

Also to the runners up: 1.Lilly Wheeler and Layla O’Brien2.Charlie Miller and Rod Flores Lopez3.Katie Powell and Charlotte Cheetham

World Oceans Day - Art

The year 7s completed their recycled plastic bird’s project they were working on in art and all the work was photographed and submitted for the World Ocean’s day competition.Congratulations to: Olivia-May Murray and Jaydn Kaye who were selected as the winners.

All the work will be exhibited at Westbury

Arts Centre from Saturday 8th June

SCIENCE NEWS

The 3D Atlas presentation

Team Shenley at the Visitor Centre

Shenley/Hazeley CERN Trip - Switzerland May 2019 At 3.45am on 6th May (yes, Bank Holiday Monday...) 14 Sixth Form Physicists from SBE joined 22 from Hazeley to board a bus to Luton Airport, there to catch a flight to Geneva. What could be worth such an unearthly departure time? A visit to the European Organization for Nuclear Research, more commonly known as CERN, of course! Established in 1954 on the Swiss-French border, CERN is the largest particle physics laboratory in the world employing the world’s most complex scientific instruments. The scale of the engineering feat just to get the Large Hadron Collider operating is simply staggering – it takes 2000 physicists, 4000 engineers and 3000 support staff to make tiny bundles of matter travel at 99.9999996% the speed of light, completing the 27km loop of the accelerator ‘tubes’ 11000 times every second! At full power, it needs as much electricity as the city of Geneva to operate – and all that is before analysing the colossal amounts of information produced to meet CERN’s aim of better understanding what the Universe is made of and how it works. One of the first European joint ventures, CERN now has 23 member states

Cathedral, The Jet D’Eau on Lake Geneva, the Botanical Gardens and many other landmarks before eventually finding a restaurant serving fondue in the afternoon. The tour of CERN started with a presentation and quiz in the main conference room, followed by a visit to the ATLAS detector – a 7000 tonne device buried 100m below the surface that was part of the search for the elusive Higgs boson and is now looking for particles that may comprise dark matter. Our guide was a research student from South Africa who gave great insight into working with ATLAS before conducting a virtual, 3D tour of the detector (hence the stylish glasses and headphones in the photo).

contributing to the research and their cooperation on such a large scale has not only driven technological development, it also promotes apolitical, educational collaboration on a massive scale. Fitting then that one of the destinations in our sightseeing time was the Palais de Nations, home of the second biggest office of the United Nations.

Our sixth formers also enjoyed the sunshine while visiting the

SCIENCE NEWS Cont.

The Atlas Control Room

Learning from the engineers about how the beam pipes are controlled

Next was a visit to the engineering team responsible for the installation and maintenance of the 1600 magnets that keep the particle bundles moving in a circle around the beam pipes of the accelerator. **WARNING: MORE ASTOUNDING FACTS COMING** These pipes are 5cm in diameter and contain a vacuum at a pressure of 1/10 000 000 000 000 that we experience in Earth – or to put it another way, equivalent to the vacuum of interstellar space! They are surrounded by electromagnets to ‘bend’ the beam that are cooled to –271.1 degrees Celsius so that the superconducting wire can carry currents of 13000amps (more than a thousand times what is needed by a boiling kettle)!! And if a magnet should fail and the particles were to

hit the inside of the pipe, the temperature of the collision site would instantly rise by over 1000 degrees!!! After all that excitement, and a tour of the visitor centre museum, we enjoyed a very pleasant lunch in the

staff canteen surrounded by snatches of ‘physics’ conversations in various languages. We were likely in the middle of one of the greatest concentrations of ‘brain power’ any of us had experienced. What a thoroughly enjoyable, 5 Dimensions trip this was – many inspirational moments talking with the passionate people who work at CERN and a return visit is something for future A Level physicists to look forward to.

Mr Whitbread (Physics)

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