At Bohunt School Worthing our values are simple: ‘enjoy, respect, achieve’ – and we encourage our students to become game-changers: resilient, ambitious, confident and independent people who are not afraid to do things differently, are global citizens and possess the desire to be the change they want to be. Lockdown has presented its own set of challenges for all. The articles on these pages share with you some of the amazing efforts and contributions that students and staff have made to pull us all closer together as a local community.

Our minibuses have been out and about in the community, whether it be delivering food parcels to families impacted by changes to their circumstance because of the COVID-19 outbreak, or delivering library books to some of our students to keep them engaged in reading over the school closure period.We have supported the NHS in collaboration with Liquidesign, a local design company based in Brighton, who provided the raw materials ready cut for the assembly of essential PPE masks for health workers in the early weeks of the pandemic.A team of BSW staff made over 300 masks during the Easter break. Although originally designated for Brighton and Worthing hospitals, in the end they went to an East Sussex hospital along with messages of support.

We are very proud of our Student Council for their work with the Adopt A Ward scheme. As a school we chose to adopt the Broadwater Ward in Worthing Hospital. Student Council members sent in a variety of ‘thinking of you’ written and video messages which were gratefully received by the patients of Broadwater Ward. It was lovely to receive this reply from the Ward Manager: ‘’Thank you so much for your e-mail and messages from your students. They mean such a lot. Please do thank Ben, Emma, Benita, Max, Fyn, Jayden, Ruby, Lexie, Antoni and Emily for their time in thinking of someone else. They are very special students to be able to think of others in need and I know the patients will really appreciate this. “Due to the success of the Student Council’s work, we have rolled out the ‘thinking of you’ messages initiative to all students, and there have already been many wonderful submissions sent in by BSW pupils to show the patients of Broadwater Ward their support during this difficult time.we were able to link the school with a local care home, through our staff member Mandy Hawkins, and lend them some of our iPads.This has enabled residents to keep in touch with their loved ones throughout the extended lockdown.

Home learning:Bohunt students use iPads as a key tool in their day-to-day learning and many of our teachers are qualified Apple teachers. With our well-established iPad 1:1 scheme, we were able to transfer from school to home learning with ease.During lockdown we extended our teaching to include video and live lessons. Through our school systems we have been able to track, celebrate and support work being completed at home.From the start of lockdown, all students, staff, and parents responded with a ‘can do’ attitude to home learning. We have maintained academic rigour but interspersed it with fun challenges to enhance enjoyment and variety – including toilet roll keepie-uppie, juggling, meals cooked for the family and homemade movies.Feedback throughout lockdown, via parent and student surveys has been overwhelmingly positive and has highlighted that a regular routine, high quality feedback and a variety of activities are key pillars in supporting students’ academic progress, wellbeing and motivation whilst working from home.We have celebrated a high number of students with 100% attendance to online lessons each week.Bohunt Education Trust launched a device donation appeal in March asking for old iPads, chromebooks and laptops. Donation points were set up in local supermarkets and the devices collected were reconditioned and tested before being distributed to students in Worthing and across our six other schools enabling them to better access home schooling during lockdown.

Life goes on …Physical activity and mental wellbeing are closely linked. Students and staff have risen to various weekly challenges.BSW students, parents and staff have been competing in the Virtual Sussex School Games. This is a county-wide virtual competition set up by Active Sussex and local School Games Organisers (SGOs) in Sussex to give students an opportunity to represent their schools and locality in some well-needed competition.As part of ‘a week away from the screen’, PE teachers set the challenge for students to run, walk or cycle at least 3km during their timetabled PE lesson. They were asked to track their exercise through an app and share the image.Some of our creative students made letters with their exercise tracker and created ‘Bohunt School Worthing’! Felix M created the ‘g’ on an 18-mile bike ride.Code Club is part of the school’s Friday afternoon extra curricular clubs. Students have developed skills by getting familiar with Scratch, Kodu, Python and Raspberry Pi’s, learning and expanding some key concepts of programming.In a recent task students were encouraged to write a short programme to display a message to the astronauts on board the International Space Station. Amazingly, messages from 11 students, who took part in the project, were selected by the European Space Agency.Individuals have also been celebrating successes. We are very proud of Jack in Year 10 who became a qualified FA referee in May. Well done Jack!Assistant Headteacher Briony Palmer received a letter from the Sussex Teacher of the Year Awards organised by ‘Inspire’, confirming that she had won one of the categories. Sadly the awards evening has had to be postponed until after lockdown when she will find out the category

she has won. Congratulations Ms Palmer! We were visited by the BBC Education Editor, Branwen Jeffreys, on Monday June 15 to follow the return of our Year 10 students back into school. The camera followed one of our Year 10 students, Ella, on her first day back and the report commented on our effective home school provision over lockdown. You can watch the six o’clock newsclip – copyright BBC - here:https://youtu.be/8Pf3Vr-GklU via @YouTubeWe are delighted to be taking part in the first ever cross-Trust Virtual Visual Arts Exhibition with our fellow schools across Bohunt Education Trust. Our GCSE students’ work will be available to see online at a private view from 6pm on Friday July 10 - register your interest at: https://www.bohunttrust.co.uk/virtual-art-exhibition/

Student leadership:Despite not being in school many of our talented and creative students have played an active role in some of our initiatives to keep the school in touch.Bohunt Productions, a team of our industrious students, have set students, staff and parents weekly challenges over lockdown,

including TikTok dances, a 20-second clip of a skill, helping out with the housework, films of pets, writing a thank you letter to a keyworker, creating a collage with the letters of your name and a film of cooking at home.Bohunt Productions filmed each weekly challenge. You can view a challenge here: https://youtu.be/cg8VYvTXItU

BOB ‘Best of Bohunt’One of the most positive achievements brought about by lockdown is ‘Bob’. Celebrating the ‘best of Bohunt’, Bob was created to share the many lovely messages from our Bohunt Community and to offer a small slice of all the incredible moments we are missing from the days we are not together.Bob can be found under ‘parents’ on our website:https://www.bohuntworthing.com/best-of-bohunt/Bob has featured home learning, creativity, cooking, cats and much more!Virtual tour and Y6 Q and A: Current students filmed an interview with Y7 students for our future year 6 students to help answer their questions about joining us. They further supported this by producing a virtual tour of the school. Both films can be found under admissions on our website. . https://www.bohuntworthing.com/about/joining-bohunt/admissions/

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