News Roundup!

This is our last News Roundup of 2019-20. Although it isn't exactly how we had
envisaged celebrating the end of the academic year, the breadth of news items
below demonstrates that our pupils are able to sustain Bishop's core values
despite being away from school. We were impressed with their participation ​in
all school activities both in lessons and outside, but it is their contribution to
their respective Houses in our Virtual Sports Day that impressed us the most.
All Houses did fantastically though congratulations go to House Austin for
winning the House Cup for the second year in a row. Thank you to pupils,
families/carers and our staff for helping us maintain Bishop's high standards.

Sadly this is Ms Nickson's last News Roundup and we would like to wish her a
happy and well-deserved retirement. We wish you all a restful summer holiday
and look forward to seeing you in September.
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World Oceans Day

Today, June 8th, is World Oceans Day
which celebrates the diversity of life in
our oceans and reminds us of the
dangers of climate change etc. World
Oceans Day is designed to celebrate the
world's oceans and its biodiversity whilst
reminding us of the perils of over-
fishing, climate change and pollution on
our marine life. As part of my Extended
…

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Black Lives Matter to Bishop's
Understanding the Black Lives Matter
movement We know that the Black Lives
Matter movement is important to our
pupils, staff and their families. We have
posted a set of slides in each year group
classroom to help everyone to explore
the issues that it raises and help us all
to understand more about it. There are
also lots of ideas …

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Year 12 Are Back
Wonderful to see Year 12 back in school
after 3 months! Year 12 returned to
school for their first day of teaching on
site since March. It was great to see
them back and staff reported how
impressed they were with the levels of
engagement. Welcome back!

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Musical Creativity
Being Creative using Incredibox I
wanted to encourage students to be
creative practically during Lockdown;
many do not have instruments at home
with the exception of their voice. So far
they have made string instruments and
some wind instruments. Students have
created drum kits out of everyday items
at home but I wanted even more
creativity, so I asked them …

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Y12 Law Revision
Year 12 Law students revising all about
theft and robbery Since the lockdown,
the Year 12 Law classes have covered a
wide range of topics from negligence to
self-defence. We have been focusing on
the crimes of theft and robbery, and one
challenge set was to build a revision wall
with each of the bricks representing a
different aspect of …

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Amazing Wind Turbines!
Year 9 renewable energy wind turbine
models Year 9 have been studying the
issues associated with the burning of
fossil fuels in their Geography lessons.
The girls have been investigating
alternative sources of energy including
wind and solar energy. Year 9 were
given the challenge to design and build a
model of a wind turbine or solar oven.
Here are …

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Top 50 Finish for Legal Apprentices
A Year 12 team has finished in the top
50 of a national legal competition run by
law firm, Kingsley Napley. A Year 12
team has finished in the top 50 of a
national legal competition run by law
firm, Kingsley Napley. The team, Molly
Hoy, Abbie Smith, Bella Pocknell and Lily
Kersey had to complete three tasks
between February …

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Junior Maths Challenge Record
Record number of Gold Awards! Our
Years 7 and 8 girls proved to us how
fantastic they could be as our top groups
managed to pull in a record number of
awards. This competition was made all
the harder this year as schools and
students had to make arrangements for
the competition to be done online for the
first time …

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Year 9 investigate South Africa

Year 9 have developed their research

skills through investigating the
geography of South Africa. To finish off
the academic year, some of our Year 9
students have been researching the
country of South Africa in their
Geography lessons. The girls have been
developed their research skills and
enjoyed creating some excellent
presentations covering topics such as: -
Interesting Facts about …

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Miniature Book Making with
Chatterbooks
We made miniature books in
Chatterbooks The Year 7 Chatterbooks
club were inspired by the British
Library's blog about the Infant’s Library
created by John Marshall more than 200
years ago. He had the idea of helping
children learn to read by creating
miniature books for then to read to their
dolls. Miniature books were so popular
that Charlotte Bronte's …

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Shocking Acidic Levels in Oceans
Ocean Acidification Tests in the Lab
Hannah in Year 12 is currently working
on a Report as part of the Extended
Project Qualification (EPQ). Hannah’s
title is: The implications of ocean
acidification on marine biodiversity.
Having completed a huge amount of
research, reading through lots of articles
and books on theories behind ocean
acidification, Hannah designed an
experiment that could …

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Library Summer 2020 Reads
Recommended summer reads and the
power of reading The Library have put
together a list of recommended summer
reads for all year groups, as well as
parents and staff. Click on the link to
take a look: BHGS Library
Recommended Summer 2020 Reads The
power of reading is immense.
International reading studies show that
reading is more important than ever …

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Virtual Sports Day Week 2020

House Hadid emerge as winners for the

first ever BHGS Virtual Sports Day
Week! Huge congratulations to House
Hadid for winning our first ever BHGS
Virtual Sports Day Week with a
whopping 597 points!We had over 150
pupils taking part and around 30 staff
too with some excellent results in all of
the 8 events. It was brilliant to see …

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