As part of British Science Week Mrs Givens worked with children in Years 4,5 and 6 on The Fatberg Experiment. Ask your children what this was about?
Year have taken part in a range of activities for British science week.
On Tuesday 11th March Year 4Â enjoyed a visit from Science Buddies where we completed investigations linked to our Sound topic. We learned how sounds are made and how to change the volume of sounds by increasing the number of vibrations. We also used sound meters to measure how the level of sound changes when a stop watch is insulated. We tried a variety of materials and concluded that cotton wool is the best insulator.
A group of 12 year 4 girls had a brilliant time playing matches at Washington Football Hub.
The girls played excellently with each other showing great team spirit and were very successful in their matches.
Katie from science Buddies visited our school today and we took part in a workshop that linked mainly to our Geography topic – Energy but also to science. She explained how some energy e.g. wind power is renewable. Then she explained how wind turbines work and showed us some pictures of a wind farm that is local to us called Dogger Bank. Our Challenge was to design and create the blades for a model wind turbine that spun the best. After experimenting with various shapes and sizes (using paper, scissors masking tape and straws) we found out that the angle the blade was positioned at was very important. Most of us managed to create blades that turned, some of the faster than others.
Everyone at Biddick Hall Junior school enjoyed World Book Day 2025. We were lucky to have a visit from author Pauline Waters.
Public health are holding a Connectfest event aimed at informing residents about what services can support them in relation to loneliness and social isolation on 11th April at Temple Park.
4CL had a brilliant time at Jarrow Hall. We found out all about burials and battles.
We handled different artefacts and even took part in our own ferocious battle.
We enjoyed meeting the animals on farm and listening to the story of Beowulf around the fire in the Great Hall.
4KJ visited Jarrow Hall on Tuesday 11th February. We had great fun investigating Anglo Saxon settlements and a farm and loved meeting the animals. We also found out more about Anglo Saxon religious beliefs and burials and had the opportunity to look at weapons from the period. The day ended with a fierce battle.
On Number Day we came into school wearing a number and did LOADS of fun things linked to Maths! Throughout the school, we did activities including solving a theft by solving logic puzzles; graffiti maths where we wrote down everything we knew about maths on large sheets of paper; investigating spirals and how to make different patterns by following an algorithm; playing maths games and puzzles with each other and we did some active maths where we danced around the room solving addition and subtraction problems as well as lots of other activities. We had such good fun and realised that there’s more to maths than just numbers!!
