Essex Country Council are developing a ‘Getting Your Child to School’ information service that will bring together all of the options and guidance on travel, whether it’s how to cycle or walk to school or what the rules are on wearing face coverings on transport.  This will be available from early August and you will find it here www.stopswapgo.co.uk.  It will contain the information you need to help get your child to school.  We ask you to look at this in advance once it is available because some things will be different, and you’ll want to talk to your child about that, so they are ready.  If you use social media, please follow Stop. Swap. GO! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stopswapgo Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stopswapgo/ Twitter:  https://twitter.com/stopswapgoessex These platforms are where you’ll find the service publicised, stories from residents on their sustainable travel journeys, essential advice and top tips!  For children entitled to transport to school, Essex County Council will send out transport allocation letters at the beginning of August which shows the contact details for your provider – please contact them in the first instance if you have any concerns.

As part of our Food and Nutrition departments Summer Activities work, students were asked to bake cupcakes to celebrate National Cupcake Day - which aims to raise money to help the fight against dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.  

On Tuesday 23rd of June, Great Baddow High School successfully participated in the online UK Mathematical Trust (UKMT) Junior Maths Challenge with thirty of our brightest Year 7 and Year 8 mathematicians.     (Normally the Maths Department runs the Junior Mathematical Challenge (JMC) in school around this time of the year) This is a national/ international competition run by UK Mathematical Trust and consists of a 60-minute multiple choice questions. It encourages students to really think mathematically, be precise, and solve interesting challenging problems. The results were outstanding with the following top scorers: Alex H: GoldBiS (An amazing result, scoring 135 out of 135) Rachel N: Gold Alex G: SilverBiY James R and Ellen S: Silver Ben S, Archie A, Charlotte B, Zachary H, Albert OP, Jasmine TH, Emma C and Lenny G: Bronze The candidates who scored Gold would progress to compete internationally in the UK Mathematical Trust Maths Olympiad; alas, due to the COVID19 circumstances it is cancelled. Congratulations to our wonderful team of mathematicians who participated and did exceptionally well in the competition! GBHS is very proud of you! Well done 

Web App of the Week - Great Baddow High School The Library at Great Baddow  High School has been awarded 'Web App of the Week' for outstanding users of Accessit Library. We are very proud to have been chosen for this week's Web App Of The Week for our library Webapp page. The Library team enjoy putting all the information together for our students to use. It can be accessed from home, via the portal, on pc or mobile. We use the Web App to its fullest extent. It incorporates the twitter widget and uses creative ways to display and promote various catalogue titles in their library. It also has a carousel displaying the latest book reviews. https://accessitlibrary.com/project/web-app-of-the-week-great-baddow-high-school/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=web%20app%20of%20the%20week%20great%20baddow%20school

National Careers Week is a celebration of careers guidance in education across the United Kingdom to provide careers guidance at an important stage in the academic calendar. Offering a range of careers activities across the school and curriculum areas, this year Great Baddow High School introduced their first ever “What’s my job?”, careers event as part of their National Careers Week schedule, which aimed to widen the knowledge of Year 7 students about the variety of job roles available and challenge preconceptions as to what their future might hold. Dressed in plain everyday clothes, mystery visitors were quizzed by students to try and identify what they did for a living. Allowing ten minutes to talk to each visitor, the students asked some very insightful questions as they tried to work out all the jobs, whilst others thought they knew as soon as they saw them. After an hour of questions the students made their final guesses. Some were close and others were spot on, but Dr Entwistle, with her PHD and surprising answers, had everyone scratching their heads, including the teachers!! “When the mystery visitors all went away and dressed for their jobs and walked into the hall of Year 7s there was quite a few gasps and groans from the students. The mystery guests were revealed as; a circus performer, mental health nurse, bank manager, site agent and a firefighter. After the big reveal, the students then heard how each adult got into their roles and learnt more about their job. The day certainly opened the students’ eyes to a wide range of job roles and challenged quite a few preconceptions and stereotypes.” Mr James Faulkner, Careers Leader “It was amazing. I learnt lots and I felt like a detective.” Elena, Year 7 student at Great Baddow High School Aimed at widening students understanding of different jobs roles and challenging stereotypes, the “What’s my job” event lets Year 7 students meet employees from a range of career sectors to find out what their roles involves and the education and training that was required to get there. “I was a good opportunity to challenge the stereotype of my job, especially being a female in the construction industry.”  Madeleine Bishop, Site Agent - Eurovia Infrastructure Ltd Photo:– Dr Entwistle (Circus Performer), Mr Kane (Essex Partnership University Trust Senior Community Mental Health Nurse), Mrs White (Santander Bank Manager), Miss Bishop (Site Agent) and a Local Firefighter, joined by Year 7 students Alasdair, Sophie and Lucy.

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