This term Pioneer have been a formidable force and have been the champions of the House Cup for a good few weeks – This is down to the colossal efforts of the whole team and the daily demonstrations of our corner stones. Keep up the amazing work, Pioneer, especially as Voyager are on and off in taking the 1^st position over us.

Pioneer have had so much fun at House Events in recent weeks, and we’ve maintained our lead in gaining the most points from the standings from House Events, notably due to the expert teamwork in our year groups.

Additionally, looking at all of our tutor groups, Pioneer are in either the 1^st, 2^nd or 3^rd place spots for highest HCPs in each year group, storming ahead of the other 6/7 tutor groups in each year group.

Particularly well done to the following:

1^st place positions – 11Pr1, 10Pr1 and 8Pr2.

2^nd place positions – 9Pr2 and 9Pr1.

3^rd place positions – 7Pr2.

A very celebratory newsletter today as Pioneer have absolutely stormed ahead in the House Cup and have taken first place! The last few weeks have seen Voyagers and Pioneers on the edge of their seats with daily checking to see which House is reigning supreme each day. We have never seen this much change as for the last few years especially, Voyager have been consistent reigning champions - not anymore!

A very well deserved huge well done to every member of the green team – it is because of the consistent collaboration, commitment, kindness and courage that is demonstrated on the daily that leads to this success!

Pioneer are also continuing in their leads from last year, demonstrating the highest points accrued from House Events and building up the most points there! Consistency is the key and has put us at a tremendous lead here!

Huge shoutout to Olek H (Y7), Abigail M (Y8), Charlie H (Y9), Lewis G (Y10) and Lisa E (Y11) for leading the way with their House Cup Points. These students alone make up 727 points for the House which is truly phenomenal.

Coming up after the Easter holidays we have the following House Events scheduled:

A ‘House of Games’ Humanities event, a STEM event with a collaboration between our Tech and Science departments, a Maths escape room, gaming, chess, dance, psychology and a House Event run by our very own Student Council as they lead their ‘Green Army’ event! House Captains will inform all tutees of the events in upcoming weeks or please speak to your Head of House for details.

Finally, an update about what our Y7 House Lunch assembly topics have covered in recent weeks. These interactive assemblies are to support our youngest cohort with their transition into secondary school, provide them opportunities to discuss with fellow peers, their tutors and Head of House as well as supporting them in becoming the greatest individuals they can be.

• Charity work and local charities
• The importance of being punctual
• Uniform and the rationale
• Everyone has a different normal
• Bullying – Being a bystander vs an upstander

Pioneer have been a formidable force recently at House events, in lessons and around school. They are storming closer and closer to the lead of the House Cup!

 House Events have seen several Pioneer wins at French and Humanities in recent weeks. Keep up that fantastic work! Last year we accrued the most points from House Events…let’s try to mirror that consistency and success again.

At the current standings of the House cup, we are a mere 415 points away from the top spot. Huge shoutout to Sarah H, Abigail M, Maks K and Charlie H, Jeremiah M and Ewan D who have the most points in their respective year groups! Well done to all.

Y7 have been enjoying our fortnightly ‘House Lunch assemblies’. So far this year we have addressed the following topics to support their transition into life at secondary school:

• Introduction to the House
• Maintaining high expectations
• Our environment and its importance
• Social interactions and accountability
• The importance of language
• Navigating the school
• Christmas values
• Charity work

It is a continuous joy to get to know our Y7s!

In addition to our most recent House Lunch with Y7, our students and tutors were tasked with shortlisting some charities they wish to support over the coming years. More to come on this topic once all of Pioneer has voted!

I cannot believe we are concluding our Autumn term already; this year is flying by and I think part of that is the level of activity we have going on at school currently. Each week is filled with extra-curricular opportunities and a wide array of House Events.

Pioneer are switching between 2^nd and 3^rd place currently in the House Cup and we are continuing our reign of consistency with House Event wins.

So far we have had one assembly together where we celebrated different students for their exceptional work in different subjects, crediting them for demonstrating our corner stones in their lessons. Additionally, we awarded our first coveted Chilly bottle prize (in Brighton Hill navy and yellow of course) and this went to Harrison H in Y10 for his unwavering commitment and exceptional behaviour in lessons throughout his time at Brighton Hill so far.

To our other Pioneer legends, well done to all! Prize winners took part in a ‘spin the wheel’ to win sweets, stationery or even Amazon vouchers!

Well done to the following:

• Leighton B in Y9 for showing Kindness in Maths!
• Lily P in Y10 for showing Courage in Science!
• Liam DP in Y9 for showing Courage in PE!
• Kai RA in Y9 for showing Courage in Languages!
• Lacey L in Y7 for showing Kindness in Languages!
• Lisa E in Y11 for showing Commitment in Humanities!
• Lexie W in Y11 for showing Commitment in EPA!
• Fin G for showing Courage in Humanities!

Keep up the fantastic work, Pioneer, and have a lovely well deserved 2 week break!

Hello! Welcome to a new academic year and the start of a new term.

Pioneer have kicked off positively and within just 25 days have accumulated 1463 positive House Cup Points!

This year we’ve also added additional targets for our students as House Cup Points can now be awarded in line with our cornerstones in a tiered system. Students can be awarded either 1, 3 or 5 House Cup Points for demonstrating kindness, for being collaborative, for showing courage and for showcasing commitment. For those students who go above and beyond, we see you and we are so grateful for your outstanding contributions to the school and wider community.

For an insight into where our students are racking up these points, I can share with you that Pioneers have so far received…

• 161 House Cup Points in English
• 83 House Cup Points in Maths
• 75 House Cup Points in Geography
• 47 and 44 House Cup Points in Technology and Spanish
• 160 points out and about around school

And so much more!

To my wonderful cohort, continue your brilliance and alacrity; I truly cannot wait to see what’s in store for us all this year and I am forever proud of you all.

I would also like to formally introduce Pioneer’s House Captain, Megan H, alongside our brilliant Deputy House Captain, Lisa E. Both of our House Captains have been a formidable force since the year began, visiting tutor groups routinely, attending House Lunches with our Y7s, supporting the running of House Events every Friday and representing our House and school excellently.

Already, our House Captains have been recognised by our prospective parents / carers from Open Evening, as we were provided with the wonderful feedback about our House Captain greeting visitors at reception.

“The pupil who was the house captain for the green house was a great representation of the school before we even entered.”

House Events:

House event posters have been put up in tutor groups but for additional awareness, here are the upcoming events until the end of the year. I hope to see as many of you there as possible!

17^th October – Chess for all years (H4) and KS4 Photography (V2).

24^th October  - Y8 and Y9 Darts (Dining room).

7^th November – KS4 French (H8) and KS3 Art (A1).

14^th November – KS3 Debating (L7), KS4 Art (A1) and Y8 Marble Runs (TE5).

21^st November – KS4 Spanish (H8).

28^th November – Media for all years (L5).

4^th December – KS3 Dance (Thursday in LP2).

5^th December – KS3 Gaming (Sports Hall).

12^th December – Y7 Maths (M3).

Wow, Pioneer! What a fantastic first term you have had!

I have seen so many of your smiling faces at house events, after school clubs, in lessons and around school. Meeting you all, having conversations and seeing you enjoy yourselves in school is such a joy.

I’ve felt a huge sense of community this term. The Pioneer team – students, staff and tutors alike, are a formidable group and I want to say thank you to all of you. Additionally, thank you so much to our superb House Captain Zara, who has been working exceptionally hard to inform and encourage you all to support your house where possible; as well as providing a friendly face to many house events.

In terms of The House Cup, we have come back with a vengeance! Coming back from 4th and making our way to 3rd. I know it is only going to go up from here so well done!! Super proud of all of you earning House Cup Points for kindness, collaboration, commitment and courage.

All year groups are working exceptionally hard to earn house cup points, but a special shout out to Sam R in Y10 who is the first in Pioneer to earn 100 HCP! Very well done, Sam.

Finally, exciting news for Harrison B, Lucy M, Lyra W who have all secured a role in our upcoming Grease production. Huge congratulations to Evie R who will be playing Sandy. Can’t wait to see these Pioneer heroes in actions in the summer!

Have a wonderful Christmas and I will see you in January with our first house event which is KS4 Music!

Miss Heath

Wow, Pioneer! What a fantastic first term you have had!

I have seen so many of your smiling faces at house events, after school clubs, in lessons and around school. Meeting you all, having conversations and seeing you enjoy yourselves in school is such a joy.

I’ve felt a huge sense of community this term. The Pioneer team – students, staff and tutors alike, are a formidable group and I want to say thank you to all of you. Additionally, thank you so much to our superb House Captain Zara, who has been working exceptionally hard to inform and encourage you all to support your house where possible; as well as providing a friendly face to many house events.

In terms of The House Cup, we have come back with a vengeance! Coming back from 4th and making our way to 3rd. I know it is only going to go up from here so well done!! Super proud of all of you earning House Cup Points for kindness, collaboration, commitment and courage.

All year groups are working exceptionally hard to earn house cup points, but a special shout out to Sam R in Y10 who is the first in Pioneer to earn 100 HCP! Very well done, Sam.

Finally, exciting news for Harrison B, Lucy M, Lyra W who have all secured a role in our upcoming Grease production. Huge congratulations to Evie R who will be playing Sandy. Can’t wait to see these Pioneer heroes in actions in the summer!

Have a wonderful Christmas and I will see you in January with our first house event which is KS4 Music!

Miss Heath

Another brilliant month for Pioneer! 

We have had some incredible turnouts for house events, in particular our Year 7 footballers being the only tutor group so far to hit our target of 7 attendees! This competition will continue through to next half term so there is still opportunity for your tutor to win a prize for your tutor! A massive well done and thank you to all year 7's for their amazing support of the shoebox appeal- Mrs Moore was absolutely overwhelmed with the volume of gifts! We wish the best of luck to our Year 11 Pioneers preparing for their mocks in January- keep up the revision you will be amazing! 

A final thank you to every student who has designed and completed their sunflower and handed it to either their tutor or to me- I cannot wait to add these to our house display to show our support of St Michael's Hospice and to get to know you all a bit better! If yours is not quite finished please get these over to me as soon as possible!

Well done to all for a brilliant start back to Brighton Hill with a fabulous first half term! We have had some incredible house events with stupendous Pioneer support which we will carry through to the Christmas break. A special well done to all of our Year 7 footballers, Chess players, Y10/11 Scientists, Y9 Footballers, Y9 Artists, and Y8 Footballers! Keep your eyes peeled for some exciting new challenges and competitions in the Winter months. 

A massive congratulations to all of those who have come along to one of our brilliant house events this half term! We would love to see some more smiling Pioneer faces each week (remember its 10 house points and some wonderful memories for each attendee!) Miss Arundale, Head of Pioneer

Here we go for another wonderful year of being in Horizon! We ended up narrowly bottom of the standings in the House Cup table last year, but the enthusiasm I have seen from students already has given me no doubt that we won't be there again come July. It has been amazing to see the new Year 7 students proudly wearing their House colours and to hear their excitement at being in Horizon and I'm sure that excitement is going to carry us to a win - I've already started drafting my victory speech. 

We have so many House events coming up over the next month, kicking off with Year 11 Football in the first week. I've had a glance at the squad and I'm looking forward to seeing some glorious football out on the pitch (hopefully it doesn't rain!) We then have events for every single year group over the next few weeks and I know that we're going to get off to such a strong start that Horizon will be top of the leader board by the end of the month!

The Sun is shining and our wonderful Pioneer's are out supporting their team! A huge well done to our Year 8 Pioneer's for enjoying the glorious summer Sun with a fierce game of rounders! As a team let's bring it home with a massive final push so we can relive the glory of last year! Continue to rack up those house points in lesson and around school by demonstrating our 4 cornerstones: kindness, collaboration, courage, and commitment as we know

kindness always wins!

Another term gone! Congratulations to all of our wonderful Pioneers for making it through the cold months of January as we welcome the brighter months of Spring! Our students have done a brilliant job of representing our school values should feel very proud. Indeed they have shown their commitment every Friday, building a team to tackle the House competitions from Drama to Badminton to Science, our Pioneers have shown up and done incredibly well! Let's bring the same attitude next term and have a brilliant end to the year!

Welcome to Pioneer House! 

Greta Thunberg is our house ambassador, as she is a perfect representation of Brighton Hill’s four cornerstones. She has shown great courage, speaking up about global concerns to our world leaders even when people have said that it is not her place. She has shown 100% commitment to her cause, going on marches in the cold and wet. On a daily basis she collaborates with world leaders, politicians, scientists, and even musicians, doing everything she can to spread her message. And with every action and every work Greta shows kindness. Kindness to the future, kindness to the planet, and kindness to people she disagrees with.  

What better person to have as a role model for our Pioneers to look up to throughout their years at Brighton Hill! As Pioneers come together for house challenges and support each other in class we see their Pioneer spirit use these cornerstones to make success inevitable in every challenge they undertake, as you know… kindness always wins!