Parents and Carers learn all about apprenticeships in a Careers webinar

This week, Bishop’s Hatfield hosted a Careers Webinar to demystify the career route of Apprenticeships. Katie Doran of Aim Group, a government supported agency to promote Apprenticeships as a career route for all over 16year olds, delivered 30 minutes of detailed information on the Apprenticeship route to dozens of our parents and carers.

Information ranged from the types and levels; the costs and pay scales; the prospects and types of employers involved was covered. Additionally, Katie Doran covered where to find Apprenticeships; tips for applying and case studies and examples of live apprenticeships available in this increasingly popular.

For those attending, there was an opportunity for Q&As – and the following recording is available on our Careers website for anyone unable to attend: Apprenticeship Awareness Webinar – ASK recording Any questions on Apprenticeships that arise out of the webinar please email Mrs Julia Higgins, Careers Subject Leader: jhiggins@bishophatfield.herts.sch.uk

A variety of magnet tricks were on display as part of Physics Week at Bishop’s

During Physics Week, we had the chance to play around with various magnetic tricks. The one that captivated me was the balancing coins. We suspended a tower of coins underneath a strong magnet, the coins became magnetized and stuck to each other, and the magnet kept the column still, even against the force of gravity. Another display was the homopolar train. Magnets are placed at either end of a battery and pushed into a long copper coil. The magnets connect with the copper coils creating a circuit. The coils become magnetised pushing and pulling the battery through the long length of coil! All displays were a great visual way of showing how important physics and magnets are in technology and our every day lives. A fascinating set of activities for Physics Week!

Mahi Jani

Year 9 win Tesco’s vouchers in Career Skills Competition

Back in March, Year 9 enjoyed the expertise of some of our local large and small businesses during a Career Skills Day. The skills learnt and practiced ranged from building that first CV to personality questionnaires and thinking about the skills needed in interviews. One of our guest businesses, Tesco, ran a session on logistics – “Go Bananas Supply Chain Workshop”. There were bananas everywhere that day in Bishop’s! Tesco ran this as a competition and the results are now in! The team Bananarama from 9 Hadid came up with the highest number of jobs related to a banana… the mind boggles! They found 205 jobs! Tesco provided prizes of £5 gift vouchers. Sam Sullivan of Tesco commented ” We had a great day with your fantastic students – they really engaged in all the activities. Enthusiasm and a “can do ” attitude is great to see in Year 9.”

Well done to the following pupils: Isobel R, Anjali P, Daniella O, Jayla H, Tenzin Y, Isabelle T, Chloe K, Chloe A, Rihanna K, Amelia A, Tegan J, Ellie S, Evie J.

Look out for the Tesco team as they come back in June to deliver a Year 7 workshop with Bishop’s!

Anna S (9Au) stars in the Hertfordshire U15 Badminton triumph

On Saturday 17th April, the Hertfordshire U15 Badminton team took part in the National Badminton finals at the impressive Derby Arena, Pride Park.

The event sees counties across England compete in regional groups during the season. Each match is the best of 20 games. The top 8 performing counties from the group stages then meet in the knockout finals. Herts had finished qualifying as number two seeds behind Berkshire, both teams having won all 6 of their regional qualifying matches, Berkshire having slightly better games difference.

The team train out of Herts Sports Village in Hatfield under the guidance of coaches Mike Newlove, Kelly Matthews and Graeme Clarke.

Herts drew Nottinghamshire in the first round of eight. The Herts team were focused and able to find a high playing level early, rolling out comfortable 18-2 winners. In the semi-finals Herts played Surrey who had finished 5th in the group stages and again Herts produced a first-class performance for a straightforward 18-2 win. The final was contested by the top two seeds. Herts had been magnificent all day and kept up their performance levels. After the boys and girls singles and mixed doubles games Herts had already secured the win by beating Berkshire in all to lead 12-0. The boys and girls doubles, although immaterial, were played in good spirit with Herts eventually taking the trophy with an extremely convincing 17-3 victory and therefore crowned as National County champions 2022.

Anna S (9Au), as the only Bishop’s pupil in this squad, performed incredibly well, playing the maximum 12 matches (3 singles, 3 mixed doubles and 6 girls doubles) against opponents from the 3 counties Herts beat on the day. Anna won 11 out of 12 of those, including beating a Nottingham girl in the doubles with her partner Saghana, who is graded the best U15 singles player in the country.

A fantastic achievement for Anna and the team! Congratulations!

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