Year 6 enjoyed a taster session at The Urban Factory
On Thursday 18th May, That History Bloke visited Year 4 to teach us more about the Ancient Egyptians. We spoke some Ancient Egyptian language and said prayers, found out about mummification, embalming, canopic jars and pharaohs’ clothing. We also wrote hieroglyphics using ink pens and played ancient Egyptian games. We all had a great time.
LITTERING
This week, Shay and Abbie spoke in assembly about littering. They told the school
that…
- Â 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!
Children enjoyed dressing in red, white and blue and enjoyed a variety of activities as part of their celebrations.
Year 3 had a really interesting visitor in school. He told us lots of interesting facts about the Romans as an introduction to our new History topic.
We were lucky to see different objects and clothes that would have belonged to a Roman soldier.
We drew our own Roman shields.
We went outside and pretended to march like Roman soldiers. We had a pretend battle between the Romans and Celts using shields and balls.
Year 3 had such an informative and fun afternoon.
Year 3 had a visitor in to teach them about Roman Britain. They enjoyed learning about where in the Roman Empire people stationed at Hadrian’s Wall came from. They learned about the equipment a Roman legionary would carry. They learned about Roman battle tactics. They had a fantastic time!
Biddick Hall Junior School continues to be a good school. There is enough evidence of
improved performance to suggest that the school could be judged outstanding if we were
to carry out a graded (section 5) inspection now. The school’s next inspection will be a
graded inspection.
This year, the school Council have looked at our school community and our
local community. This term, the School Council are focusing on our global
community. In our meeting, we generated ideas for how we think that we can
become better global citizens.
Some of our ideas were: stop littering, save water, stop using fossil fuels,
reducing our carbon footprint, stopping sea pollution, saving electricity, being
kind and celebrating diversity and including others no matter their differences.
Each week in our meetings, we are going to pick one of our ideas and research
it so we can write a message for the rest of the school on how they can be
better global citizens. We will deliver our message in assembly on a Friday.
