Sunny Days at Summer School

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Twenty girls attended Summer School in August.

We welcomed twenty girls to our Summer School in August where we had a great time getting to know each other before the start of year 7.

On Monday the girls took part in a treasure trail around the school building helping them to become familiar with the school and working in teams. On Tuesday we took part in Drama and art activities that all related to Matilda by Roald Dahl. The girls created freeze frames of important scenes from the story and made wooden spoon puppets of characters from the books.
We walked to Hatfield House park farm on Wednesday and enjoyed a day with the animals in the sunshine before playing in the Bloody Hollow play area.
On Thursday the girls asked lots of questions about being a pupil at Bishop’s and we watched the film version of Matilda. On Friday we made fruit kebabs, taking the time to try new flavours and design our own combinations of fruit on our skewers.

Throughout the week we played lots of ‘getting to know you’ games as well as some very competitive games of bench ball and rounders. We also tried various mindfulness techniques such as yoga and meditation.

It was lovely to see all of the girls grow in confidence over the course of the week and the beginnings of some wonderful friendships. We look forward to seeing all of the girls at the start of term in September!

Miss Lawrence, Miss Parkin & Miss Ekins.

GCSE results 2019

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Bishop’s celebrates the best ever GCSE results!

Bishop’s girls are celebrating another fantastic set of results which are even better than last year’s successes! Preliminary analysis shows that the vast majority of our girls have made excellent progress through their GCSE years.

18 girls achieved a minimum of 8 grades at 7-9; outstanding results were achieved by, amongst others:

• Hannah Talmage – eight grade 9s and two 8s
• Rosie Langston – seven grade 9s and three 8s
• Charlotte Deane – seven grade 9s, three 7s
• Jodie Garg – six grade 9s, three 8s

There is no doubt that all the students have worked very hard to achieve these excellent results and thanks must go to their teachers and parents for the support given. We wish all our girls success in what they choose to do next, confident that that their GCSE results give them a firm foundation for the future.

A level results 2019

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Students celebrate an excellent set of A level and BTEC results

We are very pleased with this year’s A Level and BTEC results which show a further improvement on last year’s good ones. Again, universities have been making an unprecedented number of unconditional offers (25% of our students received one) and whilst this may be discouraging some students from aiming for the top grades, we have still achieved over 25% of our grades at A* – A and over 80% of grades at C or above.

We wish all our Year 13 leavers the very best of luck for their future aspirations whether they are heading for university, apprenticeships, employment or taking a gap year.

Outstanding achievers include:

• Ella Keenan – History A*, Geography *, Government and Politics A – off to Keble College, University of Oxford to study History and Politics
• Melody Cremer – Geography A*, English A, Biology A – off to Churchill College, University of Cambridge to study Geography
• Lucy Afford – Psychology A*, Geography A, Biology A – off to Bristol University to study Biology
• Erica Ugoji – History A*, Geography A, Economics A – off to SOAS, University of London to study Economics
• Anna Brockman – Economics A, History A, Sociology A – off to Liverpool University to study Law
• Anna Groombridge – History A, Religious Studies A, Core Maths A, Psychology B – off to Birmingham University to study History

All our girls are to be congratulated on their dedication and commitment to their studies which have produced such brilliant results alongside the relentless support offered by their teachers.

Discovery Week

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Pupils in Years 7 to 10 learned new skills through Discovery Week activities

In the last week of term pupils across the year groups were able to choose from a range of residential and day trips and in-school activities. We were really pleased to see how well the girls embraced new experiences and how much they benefited from learning new skills. Residential trips included visits to Paris, Iceland and Belgium, whilst day trips ranged from STEM focused experiences to drama, street dancing and crafts. Enriching their skillset, Year 7 learned outdoor survival, Year 8 how to make lemonade, Year 9 raft building and Year 10 how to raise funds for charity. All in all, it was a successful and exciting week! For more news and photos of the activities, please see our Social Wall: https://bishophatfield.herts.sch.uk/social-wall/

We had excellent feedback from external organisations on the pupils’ behaviour. One Bushcraft team leader said, “The Bishop’s girls were the best school we’ve seen this summer – they were enthusiastic about the activities and were great fun to be with but knew when to quietly listen to instruction. They were a pleasure to supervise!”

Thank you to those staff who worked so hard behind the scenes to ensure the week ran smoothly.

Bishop’s is blooming

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The July sunshine has brought out the flowers in our grounds

It’s lovely to see how colourful our new landscaping looks with the maturing flowering shrubs and wildflower verges. Interserve are still working on the amenity areas and school field which we hope will be handed over for use next year.

Sports Day 2019

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Great teamwork and sportsmanship contributed to another successful Sports Day

The weather was in our favour on Sports Day this year. Pupils showed fantastic determination and commitment in their performance and there was a great atmosphere amongst the audience on the field.

Year winners were: Year 7 – 1st Seacole, 2nd Franklin; Year 8 – 1st Parr, 2nd Hadid; Year 9 – 1st Franklin, 2nd Hadid; Year 10 – 1st Parr, 2nd Hadid. There were some brilliant individual performances – a huge well done to all competitors!

Well done to the staff too, for organising the day and also joining in the staff relay team which was won by Austen!

Royal Society Young People’s Book Awards

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BHGS was delighted to be chosen to judge the Young People’s Book Awards 2019

A group of Year 8s judged the shortlist for the Royal Society’s Young People’s Book Awards 2019 today. Chosen to be one of the judging panel schools, BHGS received a set of the six fabulous shortlisted science books for our pupils to review.

This prize is solely judged by under-14s, with the winners announced in the autumn. The girls were all very enthusiastic and entered into some lively debates about the books in their groups. Thanks to our Librarians for organising this.

BHGS Science Fair 10th anniversary

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BHGS’ 10th Science Fair crowned a success

This was the 10th in a series of annual Science Fairs and it promised to be the most exciting one yet. The competition began during British Science Week in March, 2019. Pupils in Years 7 to 9 worked with a team of their peers to investigate a scientific question or topic of their choice. Having presented their plan to their Science class, the best were selected to go forward to the finals.
Their hard work was clear to see at our Science Fair showcase on Wednesday 3rd July. This inspiring science event was attended by many other pupils and there was even an opportunity to purchase ‘do it yourself’ Science activity packs ideal to keep busy throughout the summer holidays.

Gifted Little Linguists

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BHGS hosts the annual Key Stage 2 Gifted & Talented Languages Day for local primary schools

On Tuesday 25th June, BHGS was pleased once again to host the Key Stage 2 Gifted & Talented Languages Day for 32 boys and girls with a particular linguistic aptitude from Hatfield Community Free School, Oak View School and St Philip Howard School. The pupils took part in six sessions designed to extend their linguistic and cultural knowledge as well as having fun applying their new skills. Activities and themes included exploring German food, what school-life is like in Germany, Weird Spanish Fiestas, Learning through French games, Multi-lingual singing and Break-though Russian. Although the day was quite intense the pupils kept their focus throughout and certificates were awarded at the end to the pupils from each of the schools who had shown themselves to be the most pro-active over the course of the day.
This is now a regular feature of the MFL Faculty’s year and we look forward to developing this further in 2020 in collaboration with our partner primary schools.

Health Festival 2019

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Health Festival sets pupils challenges in a week of fun activities

  • Always have breakfast, at least 5 portions of fruit and vegetables
  • Have 6 – 8 drinks every day
  • Get active and move more.
  • Sleep well.

These were the BNF Healthy Eating Week challenges that most pupils took up this week. Healthy habits were on display with some fun activities such as our Seed Planting Extravaganza, Onion Cell experiments, Kahoot it Quiz, Fruit & Vegetable Tasting Stand, Daily Recipe Cards and watching “Ready Steady Cook”. We even had a visit from a local goat farmer and his many animals.

Monday
Having a proper breakfast every day was the focus for today.
Many came and got moving with Just Dance in the Studio.
Ready Steady Cook: so many pupils, 140 in fact, came to watch Mr Kench and Mr Goodall cook against each other and against the clock. There was a Vegan theme to the cooking this year, finally Mr Kench won.

Tuesday
Drink plenty was Tuesday’s Challenge
Form Time – any day this week. Kahoot it! Drink Plenty Quiz.
Seed Planting Extravaganza – 33 pupils came to plant some herbs into pots to take home.
The Science department set up and ran experiments at lunch time based on – Wilting without water. Water is vital for all living cells, they looked at onion cells and observed the effects of not having enough water under microscopes. 59 pupils came and tried the activities.

Wednesday
Getting Active was today’s daily Challenge
Get up and go – forms planned their own activity to get everyone moving, e.g. yoga session, a brisk walk and parachute games.
Unfortunately the eagerly awaited Staff Football Match was cancelled due to the very poor weather.

Thursday
Pupils brought a selection of prepared vegetables for a “Form Veggie Platter” for break and lunchtime. Trying different fruits and vegetables for the first time was one of the challenges for today. It was great to see so many pupils daring their friends to try things for the very first time. 194 pupils were up for the test. Wow!
Thank you to Morrison’s who provided a £50 voucher which enabled us to buy the fruit and veg.

Friday
Tai Chi was tried out by 43 pupils at lunchtime.
Pupils and staff enjoyed the visit from Paul Grey, a local goat farmer. He explained to the whole of Year 7 how he improves his stock by selective breeding methods, then pupils got to stroke and cuddle the goats, lambs, running ducks, chickens, guinea pigs and a rabbit. Again an amazingly well attended event with 181 pupils visiting the stand at lunch time – a great end to our 2019 Health Festival.

In total there were 679 visits by pupils to the events this week.

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