Senior & Prep School News | 7 May 2020
Lincoln Minster School
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Message from the Headmaster
Dear Parent & Guardians, I hope this finds you safe and well. Many thanks to all of you and your children who responded to our surveys. Your time spent on this is much appreciated. We have just received your feedback from United Learning, so we will be looking at your responses in detail to give us a sense of what is working well and where we can make things better. Year 13 parents have received a letter from Mr Boot and Mrs Longstaffe regarding UCAS updates. In this letter you will have an invite to attend as MS Teams session on UCAS which we have scheduled for next Tuesday, 12 May 2020 at 7.00pm. We hope as many of you, along with your sons and daughters, can attend. Next week we will provide information for our provision for Year 11 and Year 13 pupils post 15 May 2020. There are a few areas we are confirming at present for both year groups. I am delighted to share with you news of Reyna D in Year 9. Reyna has been a source of inspiration to a children’s charity in Essex, called Shais Smile. She has performed a virtual live concert for the charities children, whereby children could send in their requests for Reyna to play. Reyna also gave an interview beforehand so that the children could get to know her and has agreed to help judge the Shais Smiles Got Talent competition in the next few weeks. Well done Reyna. The winners of my Limerick Competition are Jack N, Year 10, at Senior site and Poppy W, Year 5, at Prep. Well done to you both. We will find out on Sunday from the Government what their plans for schools across the country will be. There is speculation that there may be partial reopening of schools, however, what that will look like and mean, we need to wait to see. We have already started the planning for a return and giving consideration to key areas such as health and safety, compliance and safeguarding. I hope you have an enjoyable Bank Holiday weekend. With best wishes Mark Wallace Headmaster With my very best wishes I hope you can have a nice weekend. Mark Wallace
Message from the Head of Pre-Prep/Prep
Dear Parent & Guardians Despite these challenging times we are blessed in many ways, most importantly the health of the school community, however, to have this marvellous sunshine does make self-isolation a little more bearable. We have seen some incredible entries for Mr Burton’s famous painting challenge this week. From the Lady of Shallot to Caravaggio, the effort that the children, parents and staff have gone to is incredible. Watch out on social media as these are shared as our “Minster Moments”. I hope many of you managed to a catch a glimpse of some our Pre-Prep and Prep pupils on Look North on Monday evening. Several messages, including video, that the children attending The Mount prepared were aired. The face masks donated by Datong have now started to make their way to various care homes and hospices’ and we are also receiving requests from people who have seen the news story. Just today alone, Mrs Farrell and Mr McGowan have delivered 1000 face masks to Eccleshare Court Care Home in Lincoln. We still have approximately 2000 on route from China so if you do know of any facilities short of PPE please get in touch with us. Big thank-you to both parents and children for taking the time to complete the on-line survey. It was good to see such positive feedback and feedback that we have been able to act on by adjusting workload. It was also so good to see that so many pupils and parents feel that they have a variety of learning tasks and that learning tasks are sufficiently challenging. Enjoy the bank holiday weekend Best wishes Fiona Thomas Preparatory Head Teacher I hope you enjoy a restful weekend. Best wishes Fiona Thomas
In A level Geography last week we completed an entire week of Virtual Fieldwork! We couldn’t get to the National Parks so they came to us! In conjunction with The Field Studies Centre (FSC) and EncounterEdu, all our pupils completed two investigations to support their A level curriculum. The first investigation explored perception of ’John Constable Country’ around the village of Dedham.
The second of our investigations saw students study the Hydrology and Flood Risk of the catchment of the River Aire, starting at Malham Tarn and finishing in the flood prone town of Skipton.
Geography News
led by Senior Lecturers from Malham Tarn FSC. As part of the A level in Geography, pupils have to complete their own 3000 word investigation, so this special week provided them with some skills and ideas to help support this task! Well done Year 12, some excellent work completed and you now have some worthwhile fieldwork skills under your belt! Mrs GB and Mr Osborne.
Throughout the week pupils completed pre-fieldwork tasks and then had the opportunity to link into live fieldwork sessions
Lily H- 5G
Lily W - 6G
More wonderful submissions for the LMS Great Painting Challenge
Challenges
Isabella C - 6G
Jonathan G - 3G
Mr Burton
Tallia C - 6B
Ella M - 4B
Year 6 pupils inspired by this story, have shared some of their WW2 Diary extracts from the point of view of someone taking evacuees into their house.
Daisy by Amelia L - 5G
Carrie's War by Nina Bawden
Preparatory
The art project is Nature's Textures. Pupils had to take photos of different textures and make them into a photo montage then choose one of the photos and reproduce it using their choice of media with some beautiful results. Mrs Downes
by Lily W - 6G
Whole School Challenges keep on coming.....
We wandered down the grey, cobbled street and into the billeting hall. Children of all ages were sat on old, wooden benches waiting to be taken away to a new life.We wandered round the rows of children, we spotted a young girl with long, brown hair and a yellow polka dot dress. She was sitting next to a boy of a similar age wearing a school shirt and black trousers.We asked them a few questions and found out that the girls name was Eileen, an 8 year old “Londoner” as we called them.The boy next to her goes to her school but they have never spoken a word.He is 9 years of age, so we took both of them. We live in a small bungalow, so we don't have much space. Eileen is such a nice girl, but we have to share a bed! I have a double bed which makes it bearable though but Trevor, the young 9 year old, sleeps in a single bed right at the end of my room. He misses his parents so much and cries himself to sleep. I miss my parents too though I'm not an evacuee Fred and Elsie seems so different having three as opposed to one child stay. Trevor said he loved staying with us, but he wanted to go back home so his parents came and collected him two days later.Now I could have more of my parent’s attention back to me. After about two weeks of having Eileen stay, the deafening noise of the air raid sirens sounded! We had no proper air raid shelter so had to hide in the cupboard under the stairs! Strange I know. The German bomber dropped the bomb right by our house.Sadly, our neighbours died that night andof stairs looked like chairs, so I sat down on them.Eileen laughed and showed me how you walk down them. Weeks later, a couple called Mr and Mrs Day came. They invaded my room, so we bought an extra bed for me to put in my parents’ room.I loved them so dearly-they were like second parents. One day during the blitz, Eileen's mum sent as a letter saying Eileen and her father had been killed. I had only known her for a year, but I went into my new room and cried. the tyres were blown off our roof. That was the scariest night so far. They dropped the bombs on the way back from Coventry and, to our surprise, it landed right near us. A year went by and Eileen received a letter from her dad him and her mum were missing her so much we had to take her home, so we did just that. I had never been on the train so, when we got to the station, the endless stretch of stairs looked like stairs looked like chairs, so I sat down on them. Eileen laughed and showed me how you walk down them. Weeks later, a couple called Mr and Mrs Day came. They invaded my room, so we bought an extra bed for me to put in my parent’s room.I loved them so dearly-they were like second parents.One day, during the Blitz, Eileen’s mum sent us a letter saying Eileen and her Father had been killed.I had known her for only a year, but I went to my new room and cried. By Freya G - 6G Age 11 I interviewed my Great Grandma (Jean Harris) and asked her about what it was like to have an evacuee stay with her during the war because we were doing about evacuees in History. Then in English the next day, we were told to write a diary entry as if we were living in WW2 and we had an evacuee staying with us. I wrote about what my Great Grandma had said the previous night on FaceTime, but we were told that we had to have two children stay so Trevor is a made up character. Also, my Great Grandma isn’t sure if Eileen-the evacuee died or not but she was in London during the Blitz after she went home, so she thinks she probably did. Her story was very inspiring.
26th October 1940 Dear diary, Today I did something I thought I would never do in my life! I took in two evacuees! They came from London. Not to mention that they are a lovely pair! I have got a boy named Michael and a girl named Rosanne. They are just the sweetest although they do have their fair share of cheeky moments! We think that each other’s accents are most peculiar and try to imitate them for a laugh! I’m going to make dinner for them now. Goodbye! 30thOctober 1940 Dear diary, This morning, instead of waking up to the bells of the nearby church, I woke up to Spot (my dog) licking my face with Michael and Rosanne jumping on my bed! They were asking if we could go and make some turnip lanterns for Halloween. Since we live on a farm and have the materials, I said yes. I gave them a drink of milk from the cows we milked that morning and some porridge. I’ve got to go, I need to go and get some apples ready for the Halloween activities! Bye! Yours, Lorraine. By Faith D - 6B
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Datong's generous PPE donation arrived at Lincoln Minster School this week and is on the way to the frontline with the kind support of NHS Hero Support and Mrs Farrell!
Thank you Datong Primary School
News
We would love to hear your music news, please send us any video or pictures of you practicing, playing a piece or having a remote music lesson. Send your clips to natalie.hutchinson@lincolnminsterschool.co.uk Mrs Hutchinson
Lincoln Minster School are unbelievably proud to have been voted into the Top 100 Independent Schools in the UK for Sport. There are 2500 Independent Schools in the UK so this recognition of our sport provision puts us in the top 5% in the whole of the UK! This is all down to the tireless efforts of our dedicated team in the LMS Sports department and they should be proud of themselves along with our pupils who are benefiting from this excellent achievement!
P7 Enrichment Timetable
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Sports Leaders (Level 1) (pupils currently taking the course)
Italian Year 10
Italian Year 8 & 9
GCSE Drama Support Year 10 Tech Team Showbie Code: 5WMPE
Football Skills Showbie code: KTF22
Science Leaders Level 1 (pupils currently taking the course)
Reach for the moon. Showbie code: MDDDL Year 9/10
Rainbow Warriors Year 7-9 Showbie code: 4WECA
LMS News Life after lockdown.
School Sports Leaders Year 7- 10
School Sports Leaders Year 7-10
School Sports Leaders Year 7-10 Showbie code: 77KE8
Virtual House Drama Showbie Code: 726P3
‘My experience of lock down’ – House challenge Showbie code: YNR3V
PSHE Challenges (in form groups)
PSHE Challenges
Song for Minster
Choir (Invite only)
Choir (Invite only) Showbie Code: 23MT6
LMS Band
LMS Band (1pm) Showbie code: DC9HG
KS3 Drama challenge work (in lesson time)
Friday
Character Design Year 7-10 Showbie code: ELAHJ
Tennis drills and skills Showbie code: VUGYD
Art Freedom Club 7-10 Showbie code: KQCZH
Days highlighted in red refer to the days that staff will be running the session and available to support pupils. The other days involve additional independent practice/work as and when pupils have spare time. Showbie Codes are displayed where required to join the group. House Drama: For all budding performers. Students recreate a 2-minute scene from film. Year 10 and 12 can also perform a monologue from a published play. This will be judged in May. Song for Minster: A project where students create a song for our school. House Challenge: Students come up with a way to describe their time and experience of lock down. A winning entry will be selected from each house and then placed 1st– 4th for house points. There will also be 5 house points per pupil entry – get entering! Sports Leaders Level 1: For the year 9 pupils that are currently doing the accredited course. School Sports Leaders: A school version of Sports Leaders where pupils learn the fundamentals of ‘what make a good leader’ and put this into practice. Science Leaders: Level 1 accredited leaders’ course for students that are currently signed up to the course only. Rainbow Warriors: A club where students can be creative on their iPad. LMS Band: An amalgamation of all musicians from all the usual ensembles put into one big band. PSHE Challenge:Students have been given a code by form tutors where there is a variety of challenges set on wellbeing, life skills and self -development. Reach for the moon: A student-led organisation with the aim to reduce period poverty in the UK. Time will be spent identifying key school groups who can’t afford sanitary products, fundraising to purchase reusable sanitary products and distribute to those who need them most. It is hoped that through this initiative school girls from poorer backgrounds will have the equipment they need to attend school without worrying about running out of supplies and continue their education without fear. Drama challenge work: Students continue with the challenges set in their drama lessons. Character Design: Student are developing a character or illustration inspired by the COVID-19 Pandemic that can be applied to a poster. Art Freedom: Art the way you want it to be. Weekly challenges to be completed in any media of your choice. A chance to put your iPad down and use pencils, crayons, paint, food, paper, wool, glitter or any media of your choice to produce a final outcome. Or you can draw on your iPad if you prefer!
P7 Enrichment Clubs
One of the positive results we have already been seeing due to the widespread lockdown in response to COVID-19 is the range of free online resources and activities being made available. Below are some examples I have been able to identify:- · Gooseberry Planet · Phonics Play · Audible Stories · PE with Joe · Elevenses with the World of David Walliams · BBC Bitesize · Pobble writing lessons · Geography & Nature Q&A with Steve Backshall · Kids cook with Theo - live cookalong · DDMIX for schools - daily dance 'shake up' · Myleene Klass' Music Klass · History Hit TV · The Maths Factor with Carol Vorderman · Stem4 resources - supporting teenage mental health
"This is just a quick note to say thank you to all the staff for all their hard work in the past weeks. It was so helpful for us to have our daughter focussed on her work and have a proper school schedule to follow. The iPads have proven to be such a valuable asset for children for distant learning".
Resources available to support home learning
We would like to send a massive thank you to all staff and parents for your support and positivity at this time...
'As parents we are absolutely blown away with what the school are doing for their pupils. Thank you so much. It’s really appreciated.'
I just wanted to email to inform you how brilliant having teams is, having only had lessons with it for a day and a bit , I can say that it has made lessons so much better and much more engaging. I’m understanding topics easier and it’s so helpful having the teacher there to ask any questions. So a big thank you from me as this is a great app and it’s being used brilliantly by the school. So thank you ! - LMS Pupil
If you would like to attend please email: admissions@lincolnminsterschool.co.uk for domestic enquiries and sophie.frater@lincolnminsterschool.co.uk for international and we will ensure to provide you with an invitation link via Microsoft Teams.
Live Q&A - Parents
For all current and enquiring parents Thursday, 14th 2020 10:00am Current and enquiring International parents & guardians Thursday, 14th May 2020 1:00pm (GBT)
Lincoln Minster School Headmaster Mr Wallace would like to invite you to our weekly live Q&A sessions on. The next event will take place Thursday, 14th May 2020.