Year 5 visit the Life Science Centre in Newcastle

7th March 2024S Admin (Biddick Hall Juniors)

On Friday 16th February, Year 5 visited the Life Science Centre in Newcastle to round off our Science topic of Earth and Space. We went into the planetarium and learned all about constellations and the relative sizes of the planets as well as the differences in their orbits and rotations – it really brought our learning to life! We explored the Space exhibit and some of us even got to film a weather report! We loved exploring the other elements of the Science Centre including the engineering elements in the WoW zone. We also experienced a special Science show all about colour and we were amazed that we all saw colours slightly differently.

 

School and Science Council have been teaming up to help create an improved and cleaner environment around out school.

27th February 2024S Admin (Biddick Hall Juniors)

School and Science Council have been teaming up to help create an improved and cleaner environment around out school. Using litter pickers and black bags so far years 5 and 6 have joined forces to collect discarded litter. We were certainly surprised by how much litter was caught in bushes and hedges and found all sorts ranging from crisp packets, to cigarette boxes, plastic bags to pop cans. Next week years 3 and 4 will help the anti-litter campaign around the school premises.

Number Day!

27th February 2024S Admin (Biddick Hall Juniors)

On Friday 2nd February, we enjoyed Number Day! We got to play with loads of games but used our maths skills such as counting, logic and problem solving.  We also did maths puzzles and investigations involving numbers!

Year 5 did activities including creating a mathematical clock where we had to create calculations with at least 2 operations in them to create the numbers 1 to 12. Another investigation was to count the frequency of different letters in an extract from The Lion the Witch and the wardrobe. We tallied the numbers and then created a bar chart, thinking carefully about what the scale had to go in up the side.  Number day was rounded off with a number related quiz!

Group Rocksteady entertain Biddick Hall Junior School!

16th January 2024S Admin (Biddick Hall Juniors)

On Thursday 11th January, we were visited by Will from a group called Rocksteady. He taught us about the various musical instruments such as an electric guitar, bass guitar, keyboard and drumkit that make up a band and we listened carefully to the different sounds they made. We enjoyed singing and dancing to various songs that Will sang and played.

European Day of Languages.

22nd November 2023S Admin (Biddick Hall Juniors)

We celebrated European Day of Languages. We talked about the value of learning different languages and about the variety of languages spoken across Europe. We even tried saying hello in lots of different languages.

As part of the day, we held a competition to design a ‘t-shirt’ to promote the occasion. We had such fabulous entries from across the school, but here are the winners – I think you’ll agree that they are pretty wonderful!