Year 6 visit the Centre for Life.

30th June 2023S Admin (Biddick Hall Juniors)

As part of our ‘Light’ unit we visited the Centre for Life. It was an amazing day. We rotated zones, live shows and a ‘Light’ workshop where we used prisms, light sources, spray, magnifying glasses, maze resources, mini disco balls and laser beams to explore the path of light, how to alter it and how to create rainbow colours using bubbles and prisms to show the spectrum of light. We also learned about scientists like Isaac Newton who have ‘light’ links.

Cooking in Year 6 in Design and Technology lessons.

26th June 2023S Admin (Biddick Hall Juniors)

In Design and Technology lessons, year 6 are working in groups to prepare either a starter dish using peppers, a main dish using salmon fillet or a dessert that uses pineapple as the main ingredient.

This week our start pairs created some wonderful concoctions ranging from pepper and vegetable soup to stuffed peppers using rice, cheese, capers and even anchovies to red pepper salsa nachos and finally minced beef and red pepper salad tacos. The pupils worked tenaciously and thoroughly enjoyed the cooking opportunity. Their manners and skill building in the school kitchen were first class and then when their groups joined them at the end of the cooking session, all were able to taste test the dishes and rate them.

School Council’s Message

22nd May 2023a hayward

LITTERING
This week, Shay and Abbie spoke in assembly about littering. They told the school
that…

  •  Researchers estimate that over one million animals die each year after becoming
    trapped in, or eating litter.
  • The most common killer of animals is plastic litter, notably impacting marine
    animals. Each year more than 100,000 dolphins, fish, whales, and turtles drown after
    becoming entangled or eating plastic.
  • Litter can become a breeding ground for bacteria and can spread disease through
    direct or indirect contact with humans. It can also attract creatures such as rats.
  • As well as this, litter on the ground makes our local area look horrible. We should all
    have pride in where we live and it is part of our responsibility to look after our
    community and not litter.

We hope that this message will make everyone think a little bit more carefully about what
they do with their litter. If we all work together, we can make the world a better place!

 

Year 6 visited the Victors tunnels in Newcastle

11th April 2023S Admin (Biddick Hall Juniors)

Year 6 visited the Victors tunnels in Newcastle.  The Victoria Tunnel is a preserved underground wagon way that was constructed in the 19th-century to support the local coal-mining trade. Almost 100 years later, it was converted into a life-saving air-raid shelter during the Second World War.

We all had a one-hour tour underground into the Victoria Tunnel and a one-hour classroom activity where we handled original and replica artefacts and found out lots of information from a lady who lived through World War two and was trapped in a Morrison Shelter for around 7 hours when her house was bombed.  We had great fun and learned lots.

Easter labyrinth event at West Harton Methodist church.

23rd March 2023S Admin (Biddick Hall Juniors)

Year 6 visited West Harton Methodist Church to take part in an Easter labyrinth event. Volunteers from the church led small groups around different scenes of the journey which Jesus would have taken during Holy Week in the lead up to his crucifixion and when he rose again. We linked his life and journey to our lives; discussing times we have felt betrayed or judged and the strength to show forgiveness during such trials. It was very interesting and at the end we were gifted a sunflower seed to plant, a psalm cross and a small egg to help us remember the trip and what Christian’s believe in and celebrate at Easter.