Exams are now well underway with the GCSE Art exam, MFL speaking exams, PE moderation and BTEC Travel and Tourism exam taking place this week. Taking that into context, Sandra from the Wellbeing in Mind Team took the opportunity to have a stall in the Dining Hall at lunchtime so that she could discuss with students the strategies that they can use if they are feeling exam stress. As you’ll be aware, the Wellbeing in Mind Team are based in the Bungalow at BHS and work with young people in schools across our area.
In Forest School at the beginning of the week, as part of a team building activity, students were engaged in trying to build the highest structure. As you can see, they had a number of innovative ideas.
They were certainly also demonstrating our core value, resilience, which was the focus of my assemblies this week. We discussed what resilience means to us, that we are determined to succeed and see mistakes and setbacks as an opportunity to learn, and explored how the expectations and routines that we have in place support our students in becoming more resilient. For example, our BHS marking strategy very clearly gives the students the opportunity to identify the areas where they need to improve with the requirement to act upon them so they can ‘Show’ their teacher. Students were challenged to reflect on four questions,


- Do you meet learning expectations (phases of learning)?
- Do you get rewards not detentions?
- Do you answer and ask questions?
- Do you act upon written feedback?
and, if they could answer ‘Yes’ to each then they are certain to be developing their resilience.
This week marked the annual distribution of Year 11 hoodies which now become part of the uniform for Year 11. As in previous years, the pink proved to be a popular choice.

With the 80th anniversary of VE Day taking place on Thursday 8th May, we’re running a Victoria sponge cake baking competition. A message from Miss Robson that any students wishing to take part should bring their cake in a container that is clearly labelled with their name and hand it in to reception Thursday morning. The cakes will be taste tested by teachers and then sold to raise money for the Royal British Legion. Other bake sale items (cookies/cupcakes/brownies etc) are welcomed to be sold on the day too.
Staying on the fundraising theme, a message from our Parent/Carer group,
“The Friends of Boroughbridge High School will be running a stall at the Lions Fair in Boroughbridge (a tombola) on Monday 26th May and at Tractor Fest on 7th and 8th June (a tuck shop). We could do with a few more volunteers to man the stand with us at Tractor Fest so if you feel you can offer half a day that weekend please do email the Friends on boroughbridgehighschoolfriends@gmail.com We are also looking for donations for the tombola – this could be chocolate, bottles, little gifts etc. Really anything goes! Please can you drop any donations for the tombola at the school office by Thursday 22nd May. Thank you!”
We wish our 18 Year 10 and 11 students well as they’ve set off on their Silver Duke of Edinburgh Expedition today. We’ll let you know how they get on in next week’s Blog.
Wishing you a lovely Bank Holiday weekend too!