Animal Temperature Monitors: Year 5 DT

23rd March 2022S Admin (Biddick Hall Juniors)

The children in Year 5 have been designing and programming a monitoring device to monitor the temperature of an enclosure for a chosen animal. They first researched the conditions needed for the animal to survive in their enclosure, including the minimum and maximum temperatures.

The children then programmed a BBC Micro bit to act as a temperature monitor which would alert the animal’s owner to a drop or increase in temperature. They were then challenged to make a plastic holder for the device, before finally using their 3D CAD Skills on the site ‘Tinkercad’ to make a 3D representation of their Micro bit holder. The children have definitely demonstrated their impressive design skills throughout this DT project.

Year 4 visit The Word!

23rd March 2022S Admin (Biddick Hall Juniors)

Year 4 had a great time at the Open Zone at The Word. We created our own websites using google sites and found out how to use google maps and google earth to locate Yellowstone Park.  We enjoyed using WeDo Lego to work on coding and we all had a lot of fun! Mrs Walls was very proud of our fantastic behaviour.

Plant a tree for the jubilee!

23rd March 2022S Admin (Biddick Hall Juniors)

Science Council met at Temple Park near Whiteleas Way with Durham Wildlife Trust where we planted over 500 trees on Thursday morning. The theme was ‘plant a tree for the jubilee.’These trees will hopefully grow into a large wooded area that will benefit our local community in the future. We did this to support the planet, help provide habitats for species and also gain from the oxygen the trees help put back into the air. We worked tirelessly: it was challenging and required a lot of physical effort. The feeling of success afterwards was rewarding and seeing our amazing Science Council work together was incredible. Well done Science Council.

 

Recycling in Year 6!

23rd March 2022S Admin (Biddick Hall Juniors)

Ann from Gateshead Recycling and Waste Centre came to visit year 6 to discuss what we can recycle, how to correctly recycle and the importance of recycling. This linked brilliantly to our recycled outfit challenge.

Year 4 and Year 6 get a visit from Kate from Science Buddies as part of MST week.

23rd March 2022S Admin (Biddick Hall Juniors)

Kate from Science Buddies is a real life scientist and she came to visit us as part of MST week. We had a ‘wow’ workshop where we learned all about bath bombs and how they are made. We got the chance to make our own: we measured out alkali and acid powder ingredients in level amounts, selected scents and colours, mixed them and compacted them into tubs to take home and use ourselves of gift to a family member. We also did a quick skittles investigation where we thought about colour dispersal – it was cool to watch the colours and how they ran into each other and lost pigment on the original sweet once mixed with water. We loved this workshop.

Science council get busy organising activities for MST week.

23rd March 2022S Admin (Biddick Hall Juniors)

Science Council helped Ms Drake to organise science activities for MST week. Years 3 and 4 representatives created a PowerPoint question round, picture round and a science word anagram sheet to be part of a fun quiz for all the classes in school to do. Years 5 and 6 Science Council members thought up a recycled outfit challenge for each class to take part in. Because there will be a class winner for the best recycled outfit, all Science Council members from year 3, 4, 5, and 6 helped to make recycled certificates for the winners, again trying to incorporate the importance of recycling into the theme. These challenges have kept the pupils busy and focused in the Spring term and they are already planning Summer term activities for the whole school.

Year 3 visit ‘The Word.’

23rd March 2022S Admin (Biddick Hall Juniors)

Year 3 visited Open Zone at The Word. The children learned about coding using Lego WeDo and used Google Maps and Google Earth to create their own maps of Italy.  The children had lots of fun and represented the school brilliantly.

 

Inspired by Abel Rodriguez in Year 5!

23rd March 2022S Admin (Biddick Hall Juniors)

Year 5 are currently studying South America, with a focus on the Amazon. Abel Rodríguez is an elder from the Nonuya ethnic group, native to the Cahuinarí river in the Colombian Amazon. Rodríguez’s work is grounded in his ancestral knowledge of the indigenous plants of the region, which was passed to him by his uncle. He has an exhibition at the Baltic on Gateshead quayside where you can go and see his work. We used his art as inspiration to create these pop up rainforests. We tried hard to create texture in our rainforests using magazines and hatching using oil pastels on different types of paper before cutting out leaf and tree shapes.

Terrific Tree Planting

21st March 2022a hayward

Science Council met at Temple Park near Whiteleas Way with Durham Wildlife Trust where we planted over 500 trees on Thursday morning. These trees will hopefully grow into a large wooded area that will benefit our local community in the future. We did this to support the planet, help provide habitats for species and also gain from the oxygen the trees help put back into the air. We worked tirelessly: it was challenging and required a lot of physical effort. The feeling of success afterwards was rewarding and seeing our amazing Science Council work together was incredible.
Well done Science Council.