As a school, we explored the idea of respect and positive relationships when using the internet.

Using the internet safely and positively is a key message that we promote in school and celebrating Safer Internet Week is a great opportunity for us to re-emphasise the online safety messages we deliver throughout the year. Safer Internet Week is a global campaign to promote the safe and responsible use of technology.

As part of this week, students worked together to build a replica of the school in Minecraft. Over the course of the week, students ranging from Year 7 to Year 11, along with the help of some teachers, attempted the challenge of building an exact replica of the BHGS site. The group showed fantastic teamwork and communication skills to develop something that looked amazingly identical to the school!

302 pupils have logged into CompleteMaths Tutor so far – are you one of them?

Just before Christmas, parents were emailed about CompleteMaths Tutor, a new online maths tutoring platform consisting of targeted maths teaching, delivered by qualified teachers. More information can be found in our last communication: All about CompleteMaths Tutor  and also here: https://completemaths.com/tutor

Pupils were issued with their own login details and over the holidays a number of pupils logged on and started doing the Diagnostic Quiz or started work on one of the courses their teacher had enrolled them on.

One pupil Mukarrama Malik (Year 12) managed to complete so many quizzes and goals that they were ranked in the top 25 in the COUNTRY! She will shortly be receiving an Amazon voucher from CompleteMaths! Well done, Mukarrama!

Top users last week (these will all receive 5 House points!): – Elliot Chaplin Year 11 – Katie Russouw Year 7 – Katie Earl Year 11 – Mahi Jani Year 11 – Oliwia Urbanska Year 7

A few statistics from the 3rd week in January 2022: – 302 pupils have now logged into CompleteMaths Tutor – 102 pupils completed at least 1 goal last week

How many will have logged in by next week? Who will be the top users next week?

Bishop’s pupils enter the Spelling Bee challenge

This Half Term, pupils took part in the Bishop’s Spelling Bee House competition. I am in House Franklin and although I am in Year 7, I worked with Year 8, 9 and 10 to spell some very hard words, including ‘discombobulation’! We came 2nd overall. Each word was said by different people on a video. This included policemen and women, staff at Woburn Safari Park and Stevenage Football Club, NHS staff as well as Bishop’s staff and governors. I enjoyed all these themes. It was great fun despite the pressure of only having 15 seconds to write the words down!

Lily (7Fr)

Did you know that Spelling Bees are thought to originate from the United States during the 1800s, as a way to motivate students to learn standardised spelling? These spelling bees were usually held within individual schools and towns rather than nationally organised. At Bishop’s, we run our Spelling Bee every year and we base it on the English dictionary.