Latest News from Bracken Hill School and our community

• Year 11 students join in National Citizen Service Week

  Fri 17 May 2019 Sally Rawson

  NCS is a life-changing programme open to all teenagers aged 15-17 to discover who they are and what they can do. The Students have been given the opportunity to explore, be inspired and find a passion.

   Over 500,000 young people of all abilities from areas across the country have already taken part in this programme.

  . NCS is a four-phase programme specifically designed to provide students with all sorts of new experiences. Whether they are a daredevil or creative genius, talkative or more reserved, they have been given the opportunity to find out how much they’re actually capable of, coming away with a host of new skills and bags of confidence!

  On Monday the students went to Portland College and took part in bush craft activities with the Adventure Service.

  On Tuesday the students went to The Mill Adventure Base where participated in water sports.

  On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday the students attended Portland College where took part in orienteering, team work challenges, pizza making and making garden boxes for Aptcoo.

  As you can see from the photos. We all had lots of fun!!!

  

• Key Stage 4 Work Related Learning Week

  Fri 10 May 2019 Sally Rawson
  

• KS3 Residential a great success

  Thu 02 May 2019 Mrs Wright
  Monday to Wednesday this week, 20 students from KS3 took part in a range of team building and adventurous activities.  It was a fantastic 3 days and a big thank you to all the staff for the extra time and effort before and during the trip.

  

• National Mining Museum

  Thu 04 Apr 2019 Mrs Davis

  As part of our Local History Topic Welbeck, Clumber and Bestwood classes visited  the National Mining Museum near Wakefield on Monday 1^st April.

  We travelled down 140 metres in an authentic mining lift and sang “Baby Shark” as we descended!

  Down in the mine we learned about the history of mining from the 1800s to the 1990s. We found out how dark it was when the lamps were turned off and how low the roofs were where the miners had to crawl to get to the coal face.

  Back up on the top we looked around the Winding room, the Pithead Baths and the stables where we met some of the pit ponies. We all had a great time and very grateful that we don’t have to work down there!

  

• 'Skellig' Theatre Visit was amazing

  Thu 28 Mar 2019 Mrs Wright
  Mrs Wright took 14 pupils to see 'Skellig' at Nottingham Playhouse.  It was a fantastic play and the pupils were a credit to the school in their behaviour.  

  

• Bracken Hill Races for Life

  Mon 04 Mar 2019 Miss Mann
  This week Bracken Hill took part in the Race for Life.  Each class participated in either a race or walk, then received a medal.  This has been a huge success raising a total of £1400.  Half will go to Cancer Research and half will go to school for sports and outdoor equipment for the pupils. A big thank you for raising all that money.

  

• Table Cricket County Competition

  Fri 15 Feb 2019 Mrs Davis

  On Thursday 14^th February a team from Bracken Hill took part in a Table Cricket County Competition held at the Nottingham Trent University.

   

  Lavinia, Luke, Belle, Louise and Kiera from Welbeck class and Alex, Lauren, Kye, Caitlyn and Matthew from Newstead class all took part in the competition, playing games against teams from Redgate School, Sandon School and Ambergate Sports College, Woodlands School, The Beech Academy, Fountaindale School, Oakfield School and Carlton Digby School.

   

  They all played amazingly and was a credit to the school. Everyone enjoyed taking part and took joy in congratulating the overall winners, Fountaindale School at the end of the day.

  

• ZooLab visit Bracken Hill

  Fri 01 Feb 2019 Mrs Davis

  We had some very special visitors to school on Monday 28^th January. ZooLab came in and introduced us to a range of Rain Forest creatures! Each class had an opportunity to get up close and personal with the creatures. We met Sally the Giant Snail, Steve the Scorpion, Maxine the Millipede, Gary the Gecko, Chloe the Cockroach and Sophie the Corn Snake.

  Everyone enjoyed the day and for some they conquered a fear or two!