Humanities Broadcast - Edition 3

Ms Preston

Welcome to The Humanities Broadcast NO:3 I hope that this finds our Roding Valley Community safe and well… some new ideas and things to do!

Winner of the last caption competition is Alana Cooper with “Stay in doors and we're Stayin' Alive.... Ah, ha ha ha stayin' alive”.

Well done Alana! - 100 House points for Rendell House Second Place to Ria Blundell “When you’re at a party and your favourite tune comes on” Well done Ria - 50 House points for Hawking

Follow us on twitter @humsrvhs This is Peppa helping with printing … needless to say the printer is now broken

Here is the caption competition for this week -email tpreston@rodingvalley.net with your captions - again, 100 house points on offer for the winner!

Ms Preston

Spot the difference Coffee Break Page

Find the items in the picture

What do you think this is?

Outside the window ...

If you are visited by hedgehogs - they like cat/dog food ( not fish based)...and water not milk as this can make them sick!

Whilst we have been indoors the wildlife has been carrying on … and flourishing. There are lots of things that you can do to encourage wildlife in your garden or window boxes. With 6 cats, a birdbath, seed balls or nesting-box would be a mistake, but I have got a couple of other things dotted about the garden.

Insect Hotel

Individual bee house

Flowers for bees and butterflies

Use this link for more ideas or to join https://www.wildlifetrusts.org

Ms Preston

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Ms Preston

Last week Well done to Ria Blundell and Zach Waters!

Top video received of Ria’s tortoise fighting over dandelion - here is a still!

Did anyone else get a shot of that amazing rainbow on Thursday night?

Send me your ones - if anyone was near the pot of gold I’ll happily share with you! tpreston@rodingvalley.net

Ms Williams

The amazing teenage brain!

Children’s brains have a massive growth spurt when they’re very young. By the time you are six, your brain is already about 90-95% of adult size. But the brain still needs a lot of remodelling before it can function as an adult brain.

This brain remodelling happens intensively during adolescence, continuing into your mid-20s.

Adolescence is therefore a time of significant growth and development.

How you spend your time is crucial to your brain development. So it’s worth thinking about the range of activities and experiences you engage in– music, sports, study, languages, video games. The teen brain has lots of plasticity, which means it can change, adapt, and respond to its environment. Challenging academics or mental activities, exercise, and creative activities such as art can help the brain mature and learn.

So this is a vital time to develop good habits around activities like thinking positively, eating and exercise as that wires together for adulthood. We know that the brain can change throughout life but it is much easier to get the 'wiring right at the start, in teenage times'. It takes a lot of hard work to rewire as adults.

What can you do to help your brain make the transition to adulthood? ● ● ● ●

Keep to routines including getting a good night sleep (9-10 hours) Exercise regularly- Bums love couches. Brains aren’t so keen.

Artistic expressions- try being creative to stimulate that brain!

Brain food- Aiming for three meals a day and two healthy snacks (snack smart)

The following image shows that the brain doesn't change much in size between 5 and 20 years of age. What changes is the colour. The blue colour shows all the connections happening between all the parts of the brain that are already formed.

A few recent holiday photos but Where am I? All emailed answers get house points - right or wrong! hbarron@rodingvalley.net Lockdown throwback

Lockdown dog

Lockdown read

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Ms Barron

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Mrs Cain How many did you score?

Well done to Zachary Walters! the last riddle’s answer was footsteps

Watching my first YouTube clip - Nettie

We got a carrot, I fell asleep Playing Gerty Pupdates from Mrs Cain’s fur babies!

Do you know where this picture is and who painted it?

Mrs Cain

A great Pilgrimage game!

Have you submitted yours?

With the instructions below...

Sent by Paige Richards.

Well done!

Scoring House Points for Rendel!

JapanesePod101

Ms Garip

Ever been on holiday and wished they would just ‘understand’ you?

Love and want to visit the most famous Cherry Blossom season?

Why not try this all-inclusive website? It’s free to sign up and offers everything from Youtube videos and podcasts to complementary online content.

Videos from its Youtube channel include learning the 25 most useful Japanese phrases, understanding the basics of hiragana, and learning how to introduce yourself properly in Japanese.

JapanesePod101: Learn Japanese Online with Podcasts

Mr Warry

Download Googleearth Drop yourself in these places and go exploring Atacama Desert, Chile Yosemite Park, USA Lhasa, Tibet Algonquin Park, Canada Park City, Utah Dal Lake, Srinagar, India Kyoto, Japan

Find the best place and email humanities@rodingvalley.net letting us know where we should go for our post-lockdown holiday !

Ms Delbourgo

Board games - how many can you name?

A great way to spend an afternoon, board games develop skills you need for life.

Board games teach you: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Logic & Strategy Focus & Attention Patience Collaboration Critical Thinking & Problem Solving Resource Management Creative Thinking Negotiation & Communication.

Did you know that they can also help you improve your social skills and can reduce stress? They can strengthen family relationships and keep older people’s brains younger for longer!

Time to dig out Cluedo, Risk or Chess.

Mr Goodall’s message to his Year 10 History class The following students have sent in all of their work on time every week and the standard has been really high in the vast majority of cases. What is really impressive is that this is an entirely new way of working and yet these students have adapted so quickly, that I cannot help but be impressed.

Adam Ghounbaz, Adam Gowler, Anastasia Grytsai, Demmy Nicolaou, Isabella Ruse, Livvy Spiller, Grace Welton and Sadie Worrell.

Others have come close but these really have stood out. Well done!

Mr Cocker

History Read of the Week

This week I thought I would suggest another topical book to read. This time a historical fiction set in the time of Alfred the Great. This was an amazing time in British History.

Alfred the Great, king of Wessex was attempting to unite the shattered kingdoms of England under one king. However, the danes (vikings) had invaded all of the North and East of England and had taken control of much of Essex. They would soon capture London and Alfred’s dream of creating an England would fail. In this novel we meet Uhtred of Bebbanburg, born as a Saxon, raised as a Dane. He will find himself driving back the Danish invasion of England despite his loyalty to his adopted Danish family.

These books has also been made into a TV series, first by the BBC and now Netflix.

Series 4 arrived on Netflix this week so if you are not sure you will like the books you can always enjoy the story as a historical drama.

Please note that there is some violence and other adult themes in the Netflix series so please check with your parents before watching them. Even better, watch them along with your parents and enjoy the History together.

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Mother Teresa Frida Kahlo Anne Frank Alun Turing Henry VIII Mohammed Ali

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Can you get all of this week’s Famous Faces?

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Praise Well done to Ayse Ibrahim (year 10) for sending me some excellent 12 and 16 mark essays to mark- well done! Ms Larkin Well done to Ivy Prutton & Eloise Handleigh (year 12) for an excellent live presentation on Western Influences on the GDR- Ms Larkin Excellent Efforts by Zach Waters - well done! Ms Preston Loving Bailey Cogan’s enthusiasm - well done! Ms Preston Thank you to Ria Blundell for her contributions - especially the tortoise video! - Ms Preston