Junior and Senior teams win the first round of the County Athletics competition

On Thursday 20th May, the PE department took the Junior and Senior Athletics teams to Westminster Lodge Athletics track in St Albans for their first competitive fixture in nearly 2 years. Due to the pandemic, there were no Athletics competitions at all last year (including District, County and Cross Country) which meant the majority of the pupils had never represented Bishop’s at an Athletics fixture before.

The weather was quite blustery and rained threatened (and then appeared intermittently throughout) which meant some challenging conditions for our teams. However, the girls showed good resilience and composure to produce some excellent results against the other competing schools – Beaumont, Loreto, Ridgeway and Sandringham.

Junior team results – Hurdles – Libby P – 1st 100m – Ella C – 1st 200m – Stephanie O – 3rd 300m – Erin M – 1st 800m – Ruby S – 2nd 1500m – Anna S – 2nd 4 x 100m relay – Ife N, Daniella H, Princela O-A and Ella C – 3rd High Jump – Ella S – 1st Long Jump – Abi L – 2nd Discus – Gracie B – 2nd Shot – Ife N – 1st Javelin – Evie J – 2nd This meant the Junior team scored 51 points out of a possible 60 and they finished in 1st place! Well done girls!

Senior team results – Hurdles – Ena O – 1st 100m – Amelie H – 1st 200m – Katelin R – 1st 300m – Amelie D – 1st 800m – Daniella S – 1st 1500m – Amelie H – 2nd 4 x 100m Relay – Ena O, Erin A, Katelin R and Amelie H – 1st High Jump – Ena O – 1st Long Jump – Imogen D – 3rd Triple Jump – Katelin R – 1st Discus – Gwen F – 2nd Shot – Livi- Grace H – 1st Javelin – Roxy M – 4th This meant the Senior team scored 58 points out of a possible 65 and they finished in 1st place! Well done girls!

An outstanding achievement from all of the girls involved – well done! Thank you to all of the PE department for all of their time preparing the girls for this competition.

The next round of the competition will take place on Tuesday 25th May at Ridlins End Athletics track in Stevenage between 4-6pm. Competing schools – Dame Alice Owens, Presdales, Queenswood and John Warner.

Good luck to all of the girls involved!

In science we have taken a virtual trip to the planets and sent a postcard home to describe our experience!

In Mr Short’s science lessons we have been ‘exploring space’. We have been on a journey through the solar system and looked at all the planets, their atmospheres and how different they are to earth. After choosing our favourite planet we wrote a postcard home to describe our virtual experience living on our planet. My planet was Jupiter and the temperature was very difficult to cope with! Mia’s journey took her to Neptune where the lack of oxygen was a bit of a problem! We had great fun discovering all the facts about the planets, choosing our favourite and writing our postcards.

Save the World Club pledge to save the planet

For the past few weeks, members of our Save The World Club have participated in the BBC Climate Heroes Challenge in order to help our environment and combat climate change. We made pledges about Plastic, Power and Plants.

We chose to: – sort through our recycling at home carefully – switch from cling film to a reusable sandwich wrap – swap half an hour on screen time to half an hour outside – turn off an electrical device when we are finished using it rather than leaving it on standby – plant pollinator-friendly plants and look after them – save water by turning off the taps when brushing our teeth.

As a Club pledge, we went round all classrooms after school to turn off lights in any unused classrooms. Although these are small steps, we will continue with our pledges and make a difference to our world!

We completed our pledges over three weeks and created a collage from recycled materials, displaying photos of evidence of our pledges to save the world and become ‘climate heroes!’. We have sent off our evidence to earn our Blue Peter Green badges. This is the first time that adults can receive a Blue Peter badge so Mrs Ruffhead is very excited that she will receive one!