For ‘Children in Need,’ pupils came to school in non-uniform and donated £1 for this worthy cause. They enjoyed completing various activities.
On Tuesday 12th November, Year 5 visited Durham Cathedral. We have been studying the Northern Saints in RE and this is the place in which several of them are buried. We acted out some of the stories linked to Saint Oswald and the lessons that we could learn from them. We are also studying architecture in Art and Durham Cathedral has some of the finest examples of architecture in England. We had an interesting tour around the cathedral and learned that it took 40 years to build and that it was all done by hand. The huge pillars were made and carved in pieces that were put together like a big jigsaw. One of our favourite things were the stained glass windows which were stunning. Some were very old, some were religious and told stories and some were more abstract and made you think. We thought it was a wonderful place and we are looking forward to making a leaflet on Durham Cathedral with what we learned.
4CL visited the Sunderland Wintergardens. We investigated the layers of the rainforest thinking about animals and plants.
We walked around answering questions to follow a trail. This was followed by sketching and colouring the plants.
Afterwards we went into Mowbray Park and completed questionnaires with members of the public about how they use the park.
We all had a fantastic day.
Year 3 children took part in Divali workshop. We found out about how Hindus celebrate Divali and some of us dressed up. We found out about the importance of the goddess Lakshmi for Hindus.
We are delighted to share our recent Ofsted Report.  We are all thrilled with our outcomes overall.
The quality of education        Outstanding
Behaviour and attitudes        Good
Personal development         Outstanding
Leadership and Management    Outstanding
Great news, we’ve done it again!
Biddick Hall Juniors has topped the Autumn 2024 WOW Top Ten leaderboard for South Tyneside  Congratulations and well done to you all pupils who logged their trips to school on Travel Tracker, and everyone who travelled actively to school, during October. They have all contributed to Biddick Hall Junior School reaching the top of the local leaderboard. We also finished in 45th place on the national leaderboard for England – 30 places higher than last term! That’s out of more than 650 schools – what an amazing achievement!!
Father Mervyn joined us to celebrate our Harvest Festival at Biddick Hall Junior school. Thanks you to all our parents and carers who donated food items. They were distributed to two local foodbanks. They were very grateful that you shared your harvest gifts with them.
This week in Science Council we all met together and created chemical reactions between bicarbonate of soda and vinegar to create some spooky potions. We also had a special visitor, Mrs Hayward, who came in to meet us and help.
Year 5 participated in a Year5/6 dodgeball festival at Temple Park. There were 25 teams and 300 children taking part. Our teams should resilience, passion and determination. All the children had fun and their teachers were very proud of how they conducted themselves.
Year 5 were visited by ‘That History Bloke’ and we explored the Tudor times. We answered some true or false questions about the time period and looked at a Tudor instrument called the lute. We handled some Tudor objects and explored them, even looking at a real leech that would’ve been used by healers! We wrote a death warrant using a quill and ink which was trickier than we thought it would be, and we played a strategy game called Merelle which actually linked with battle tactics.
