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Continue to Keep Yourself Busy with Your Family During Lockdown With the Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty Hopefully, some of you managed to achieve some of the challenges...
Keep Yourself Busy with Your Family During Lockdown With the Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty It can be difficult to find new things to do when you are stuck at home for...
Hello, my name is Andrea. I am a year 10 student, and I decided to take psychology as one of my options for GCSE because I thought that it would be really interesting to learn...
In KS3 RE we have been getting creative and making our own religious bookmarks. The students loved doing this activity as they were able to showcase their talents and deepen their...
On Saturday 8th February, a small group of Year 10 and 11 students taking GCSE History were given the opportunity to visit Pevensey Castle and the site where the Battle of...
This term, across Key Stage 3, students have taken an interactive approach in studying the impact of significant events in British history. Year 7’s have been studying the...
Every year, the Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty like to present some extension suggestions for all its students to enjoy over the Christmas holidays. Do have fun with...
On Friday 6th December, year 11 spent the day experience life as a 6th former. Over 70% of 6th form students at Bushey Meads School student at least one subject within the...
At the recent Open Sixth Form evening, Miss Lister and several of her Year 12 pupils asked a poignant question; who does better in education, boys or girls? People were invited to...
It was great to observe the very focused students in Mr Mitchell’s A level geography lesson this week as they grappled with the complexities of erosional processes in the...
Continue to Keep Yourself Busy with Your Family During Lockdown With the Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty
Hopefully, some of you managed to achieve some of the challenges set for you last week.
This week, we have suggestions of things that you and your family can do from the Geography, History, Law and Psychology departments.
Geography recommends that you take advantage of the extension opportunities available on the web, many of which are really inspiring. For example, take a look at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, which added a number of live cams (click link to see) to let you keep an eye on the jellyfish, kelp forest, coral reef, and even the penguins. The national parks in America have provide
d virtual tours to help you to walk through them and experience the open, dramatic scenery. Enjoy taking a virtual walk through America’s national park. We all love David Attenborough. Don’t miss out on David Attenborough’s new geography lesson. Finally, why not create a grid reference treasure map of your house and garden. Perhaps actually hide some treasure and challenge family members to find it!
You will have seen that during lockdown many families across the globe have risen to the challenge set by museums and art galleries to re-create art masterpieces within their own home.
For example,
and
and even Banksy with Lego
The law challenge is to recreate the iconic ‘Statute of Justice’ that sits on top of the London Central Criminal Court, ‘The Old Bailey’.
Send your pictures to Ms Knowles at – knowless@busheymeads.org.uk who will provide a prize for the best entry. Please be aware, though, keep in mind health and safety. Do not really stand on a ball, nor on top of any building!
Psychology is sure that, whilst we will all remember this bizzare lockdown period, each person’s memory will be different because memories can be influenced by many factors, including our emotional state or where we were when we encoded the memory. Psychologists call these ‘state cues’ and ‘context cues’. Read these articles to find out more about how we construct and reconstruct our memories – and why we may remember things differently from the actual event.
Why do we remember certain things and forget others?
Why do we remember things the way we want to remember them?
Or just have some fun trying these memory games (all free sites)
https://www.brightfocus.org/alzheimers/memory-games
https://www.helpfulgames.com/subjects/brain-training/memory.html
There are a range of memory games, pictures, spot the difference, matching words, as well as crosswords and sudoku. Send a screenshot of who’s top of your family leaderboard! Email monksg@busheymeads.org.uk
Related to the subject of memories, the History department would love your help to create a book of “Bushey Meads Lockdown Memories”. Write approximately between 100 to 500 words about your experience of life during the school closure in order to create a historical record of the 2020 Coronavirus lockdown. Alternative, submit a photo that seems to visual sum up your life during lockdown that historians in the future might use as a historical record. Send your entries to newboldr@busheymeads.org.uk.
Whatever challenge you choose to do, make sure you keep safe and busy during this lockdown.
