The Royal Academy visit Bishop’s Art Department to run an intensive one day life drawing workshop for Year 10 Art students. The Royal Academy’s Outreach Workshop Programme is centred on life drawing. These workshops for students encourage an approach to art based upon observation, instinct and exploration. The workshop explores what kind of language charcoal […]
BHGS Pupils and staff remember 1918 Armistice On the eleventh day of the eleventh month, we held a Remembrance Ceremony led by our cadets to remember those who lost their lives or suffered due to war and conflict. Thank you to Amy North for sounding the Last Post and to Amelie Robson for reading a […]
Year 9 become geographers for a day in a Riverfly trip to Stanborough Lakes On Friday 8th November, we went to Stanborough Lakes to experience what a Geographer does while experimenting. Whilst at the River Lea, we went through a risk assessment to make sure everyone was aware and safe just in case something happened, […]
Biosciences are showcased in an array of activities for Biology Week 2019 It has been another exciting Biology Week at Bishop’s this year as the amazing world of biosciences was showcased in an array of activities and experiments. House Franklin reports on what they enjoyed the most: Plague, pox and pestilence – How pathogens enter […]
Tudor history brought to life at Hatfield House On Tuesday 15th October, Year 8 visited Hatfield House, as part of our History topic on Henry VIII. The day began by firstly meeting Catherine Parr, Henry VIII’s sixth wife. She taught us about what life was like being married to Henry VIII and also how we […]
Becoming a Holocaust Educational Trust Ambassador by Melody Cremer In February 2018, I stood upon one of the worlds’ biggest graveyards. It was not covered with tombstones or flowers, however, but cattle sheds. These cattle sheds were filled with bunk beds- if they could even be called beds. I don’t know when the magnitude of […]
Experiencing different ecosystems from around the world! Year 8 pupils enjoyed a wonderful time at Kew Gardens on 10th October 2019. We visited the Palm House where there are fantastic examples of rainforest plants, the Princess of Wales Conservatory for hot desert cacti and succulents and also the Temperate House. The girls experienced the hot […]
Experiment to find the best earthquake proof structure! Year 9 geographers were given the challenge of designing a structure out of spaghetti and marshmallows that would withstand the ‘earthquake test’. Each group was given 30 pieces of spaghetti and 40 pieces of marshmallow and had 15 minutes to design their structure. Each group then had […]
Selling cakes in Lister Hospital for Cancer Research UK House Franklin decided to raise money for Cancer Research as we had a member in our form who had suffered with leukaemia. We decided to organise a Teacher’s Karaoke session at a lunch time but this didn’t exactly go to plan… but we learnt from it […]
House Hadid’s chocolate raffle raises a lot of money for charity For its £1 Challenge, House Hadid chose the Sands charity, a stillbirth and neonatal charity that supports all families affected by the death of a baby. We chose this charity because it is not a charity that many people know about; so we wanted […]
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