Year 11 students rose to the Bishop’s challenge and completed all the outdoor obstacles and activities designed to test their endurance!

On Friday 3rd February, all year 11 students spent the afternoon completing physical and mental challenges designed to test their teamwork, resilience and ability to adapt.

We worked in teams. Some teams were dressed for the occasion, e.g. one team was dressed as the teenage mutant ninja turtles! We had 5 minutes for each member of our team to complete an obstacle, some were team events and some were individual challenges. One of the challenges involved fishing out numbered shells from a paddling pool full of water and a lot of students enjoyed jumping into the water to complete this challenge! Other challenges included ‘balance for your life’ where we had to work our way across zigzagged benches in groups of 3 and the trippy trappy tyre run where we had to see how quickly our team could traverse the tyres! In amongst the physical obstacles we had to complete mental agility tasks including number puzzles and memory games. It was great fun and we ended with a tug of war for the ultimate challenge!

These events helped us to realise that we can dig deep when we have to and complete tasks that we would never normally encounter. A great, fun way to prepare us for the next few months as our GCSE exams approach.

Seyram A (Year 11)

Have you ever wanted to play a game like the TV show The Traitors?

After-school enrichment is one of the aspects of Bishop’s life that teachers drive to excel at. The sheer variety on offer to students of all ages can encourage all sorts of students to try things they never had before and discover new hobbies. One such club is Tabletopia, a club dedicated to table top games and social deduction games. One of the clubs favourite games is Werewolf, where students take on the roles of villager or werewolf, with villagers trying to uncover the werewolves before the werewolves take out the villagers. It is in fact this very game and others like it that have inspired the recent hit BBC TV show ” The Traitors”! What makes this club stand out is how much it encourages students from neurodivergent backgrounds to socialise within a fixed framework, teaching them how they should interact with others if they are a certain character, or react under certain conditions, and learn the repercussions of certain actions, without the worry of if it’s the right choice as it is “just a game”. The club is open to any and all year groups and has a regular attendance of 20 to 30 people weekly. If any student wants to try their hand at a game they need only turn up and join in the fun.

Mr Webster