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Year 8 visit Kew Gardens

September 29, 2022/in General News, Home Page/by BHGS

Year 8 geographers enjoyed visiting Kew Gardens on 29th September

‘Plants and fungi are vital to the future of food, clean air and medicine. We’re fighting against biodiversity loss to save life on Earth’ – Kew Gardens website

Words can not even describe how beautiful Kew Gardens is. There are so many plants from the Venus flytrap to the Acanthaceae. The visit to Kew Gardens on 29th September 2022 gave Year 8 the opportunity to experience a wide range of biomes in the Princess of Wales Conservatory, the Palm House and the Temperate House. It was amazing to see how the plants had adapted to their environment because of the different climatic conditions. We saw large pointy drip tips on the leaves in the Palm House and tiny rolled up leaves as spikes on the cacti and succulents of the hot desert.

We loved walking in the canopy on the Treetop Walkway. It started to sway halfway giving us the sensation of what it would be like to be up in the canopy of the rainforest we’ve studied in lessons!

We discovered that Sir David Attenborough buried a time capsule in the foundation of the Princess of Wales Conservatory in 1985, during the glasshouse’s construction. The capsule contains seeds of important food crops and several endangered species. We will be 76 years old when the capsule is opened in 2085, when many of the plants it contains may be rare or extinct and Her Majesty The Queen visited Kew Gardens many times during her long reign; she even planted a tree there!

All the Year 8s at Bishop’s Hatfield Girls’ School enjoyed the trip very much. We loved seeing first-hand the ecosystems we had studied in lessons.

By Mia H (8Fr)

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Exploring Space

September 27, 2022/in General News/by BHGS

Learning about satellites

As part of our ‘exploring space’ topic in Science, Year 8 pupils have been learning about and building models of satellites.

A satellite is a moon, planet or machine that orbits a planet or star. For example Earth is a satellite that orbits the sun. Likewise the moon is a satellite as it orbits the Earth. A satellite can be a machine that is launched into space. The machine satellites help us to communicate with each other, survey space and provide information on the weather, which helps us understand climate change. Satellites can also help us travel safely across the world.

These are the satellites that Year 8 pupils designed and constructed, using simple materials found at home. They include features such as an orientation finder, power source, communication device and a storage area for all the scientific gizmos it needs to carry.

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Franklin celebrates its 2022 House Competition win

September 6, 2022/in General News, House Franklin/by BHGS

Franklin enjoyed a fun day of celebrations to mark their first House of the year win

Franklin Celebration was more than a perfect way to end the year in which everyone had done their very best.

Within a second of being on the field, everyone was laughing, smiling, dancing and singing the day through the activities. These activities included an inflatable obstacle course, which seemed to be everyone’s favourite, a basketball hoop and an inflatable (human) hungry hippo. We had some great competition between friends! It ended with the loudest of activities: a disco of pure excitement as everyone was singing and dancing. The day was filled with fun as we enjoyed a friendship photobooth, a staff versus students game of rounders and some delicious pizza! Do you need a better incentive to try and win next year?!

Gracie May (11Fr)

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Summer School Fun

September 5, 2022/in General News/by BHGS

A fun introduction to starting secondary school for our new Year 7 pupils

This August, we once again welcomed a small number of Year 7 pupils to our week-long Summer School. We spent time making friends, finding out about what lessons are like at secondary school, getting comfortable in and around the school all while taking part in a wide range of fun activities across a variety of subjects. Pupils took part in a treasure hunt around the school, made delicious fruit kebabs as well as learning about Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream through activities in English, Drama, Dance, Humanities, Maths, Science and Spanish. We learnt about our wellbeing throughout the week with Daniella and Emame, from the Mental Health Support Team, delivering excellent sessions on looking after our wellbeing during times of change, which the pupils said were really useful. At the end of the jam-packed week, the pupils said that they felt more confident with the start of Year 7 approaching, which was fantastic to hear! The pupils and staff involved had a great week and we look forward to getting to know everyone in Year 7 better as they embark on their Bishop’s journey in September.

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Bronze DofE Expedition Training Day

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