Merry Christmas from Resonate Choir, please enjoy listening to Winter Wonderland.

 

The Henry Beaufort school joined 12 other schools from across Hampshire to compete against each other in the QinetiQ Schools’ Powerboat Challenge.  Our team of 5 engineering students designed and built a remote-control powerboat, which was put to the test at QinetiQ’s Ocean basin facility at Haslar, Gosport; the biggest testing tank of its type in the world.  The engineering and problem-solving skills of our engineers were put to the test as we faced multiple issues throughout the day during races. Each race highlighted a new issue, but our engineers worked to overcome each one, showing great resilience. Because of this never giving up attitude, our students walked away with an award for perseverance, something to be incredibly proud of.

 A link to a BBC South news article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn5w6v2r9qdo

On Tuesday 5^th November, the Maths Department were able to take 15 Top Set Year 10 Mathematicians to the Maths Inspiration Show held at the Theatre Royal in Portsmouth.  The show was the chance for the students see real life applications of maths and participate in some fun, interactive audience quizzes.  They heard from some of the most inspiring and creative speakers who have a love of communicating maths in exciting and original ways.  

Three guest speakers gave talks about:

Statistics and Misleading Data, how this can lead to some advertisers and newspapers using statistical data in dishonest ways.

The World of Computer Game Designers and the issues around the use of maps for gamers.

And finally, we heard about getting things wrong in maths and the ‘Theory of Intuition’ which can often lead us to make incorrect assumptions about the answer to simple mathematical problems.

The students all said the show was a great success with many talking about their theories to what they had learnt on the journey home.

All of the students were outstanding and a credit to The Henry Beaufort School.

 

 

We are excited to announce the launch of our first ever Henry Beaufort Book Award!  The award is open to all students, who will be able to vote for their favourite from a shortlist of 3 books with categories for both the upper and lower school.  Students will have until World Book Day on the 6th March to read as many of the 3 shortlisted books as they can. On World Book Day, the whole school will be invited to vote for their favourite book and winners will be announced shortly thereafter.

On Wednesday 13^th November we had our first Cultural Capital days.

The purpose of cultural capital days is to ensure our students have a broad and balanced curriculum, with all future pathways kept open. We offer three Cultural Capital Days per academic year.  Through Year 7-9, students have 10-hour exposure to option-based subjects. The content is developed with elements of the National Curriculum and designed to be ambitious for all. Through Year 10-11, students are taught life skills, experience life as a university student, understand the impact of core subjects in society and improve their memory retention; all of which broadens our students’ horizons and provides skills for their future.

 

Year 7 

This day is celebrated European Day of Languages. Students learnt about the importance of languages, learnt a new language in a taster session, which was Mandarin, and learnt about how language and culture intertwine.

 

Students are asked to attend school on that day in some form of dress that reflects the culture of another country. This could be as simple as dressing in the colours of the flag of another country or wearing the flag of another country, wearing the football kit of another country or, as in previous years, coming into school in the national dress of another country.  There were lots of different outfits and the MFL teachers embraced the challenge!

              

Year 8 

The focus of this day was Expressive Arts. Students took part in the following sessions:

• Music - students participated in a workshop based around the Balinese Gamelan
• Art – students will take part in workshops learning about and creating Balinese-style shadow puppets.
• Photography – students participated in a photo shoot using miniature props.
• Drama – students participated in a workshop and watched a performance delivered by Box Theatre

Year 9

The focus of the day for Year 9 was Humanities.

All the Year 9’s went to Portsmouth for the day. Students had the opportunity to experience three different sites that reflect the three different Humanities subjects of Geography, History and Religious Studies.

Students conducted Geographical Fieldwork at Gunwharf Quays Shopping Centre; visited the Apprenticeship Museum and Boat House 7 in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard and learnt about the modernising of places of worship at St George’s Church.

The students were fantastic and a credit to the school.

 

Year 10

Year 10 spent the day focusing on life at post 18. They were very fortunate to welcome Winchester University who, in the morning, delivered sessions on all aspects of University Life including budget, life as a student and post 18 options.

In the afternoon, the whole of Year 10 headed to Winchester University for a tour of the campus and the opportunity to visit a lecture theatre.

Thank you, Winchester University for this amazing opportunity.

 

We are looking forward to the next Cultural Capital day which takes place on the 6^th February 2025.

On Thursday 28^th November, we were delighted to welcome back the Class of 2024 Leavers to celebrate their GCSE achievements at our annual Certificate Presentation Evening.  It was wonderful to catch up with the ex-students, hear about their new studies and future pathways, and, most importantly, celebrate their successes in various subjects and whole school awards.  Students and parents were also able to attend the Art and Photography Exhibition, and we were impressed by the final pieces of work produced for the exams. 

We hope the Class of 2024 stays in touch through our alumni network, and we wish them all the very best for the future.