Biddick Hall Junior School has recently received its reaccreditation for the Healthy School standard. We were told that, ‘Biddick Hall has an impressive offer of active and sustainable travel around the local area. This is complemented by a daily commitment to Wake Up Shake Up and an excellent offer of physical activity.’ Mrs Hayward and Mrs Sandy came to school to present it in an assembly.
Well done to Red House who won this years sports day!
Year 3 enjoyed making rockets and testing them as part of maths, science and technology week.
In Year 3, the children are currently studying Italy as part of their Geography topic. We have been learning about different aspects of the Italian culture and food plays an important part. As children will be making their own pizzas for their technology project, we decided to take a trip to an Italian restaurant to allow children to taste a range of traditional Italian dishes. The teachers were very impressed with everyone’s willingness to try new foods. We had a lovely time!
Year 6 designed and made Christmas stampers using polystyrene tiles, we then created our own Christmas wrapping paper using paint and brown paper to sell at our Christmas fayre.
To work out what profit the school could make we calculated how much each sheet had cost (including paint) and what we would could sell them for.
We also created some hot chocolate reindeer gift packs. These contain hot chocolate power, chocolate drops and marshmallows – everything needed for an amazing hot chocolate drink!
As part of our study of India during Multi-cultural week, Year 3 took part in a Bollywood Dance Class. We learned lots of traditional dance moves and were able to sequence them to perform an amazing routine.
This week, Year 3 visited The Word to take part in a Lego WeDo Programming Workshop. The children thoroughly enjoyed building Lego models and then programming them to make them move.
We have discussed the ways in which we know about people who lived in Ancient Greek times. Year 6 researched, designed and made Greek pots. When they are dry, we will be painting and decorating them to show aspects of Ancient Greek life.
Change 4 Life Celebration Festival
Our Change 4 Life Club were invited to take part in a celebration event at Temple Park last week. The children took part in a range of activities led by professional coaches, these included: Gymnastics, Football, Rugby, Skipping, Boxing, Dance and Hula Hooping. Both the children and the staff had a fantastic day and it was lovely to see the children taking part in sport confidently and enthusiastically.
