HUMANITIES
HUMANITIES
Medievel Shield Competition
Earlier this year the Humanities Team ran a Medieval shield competition.
The rules were that the shield had to represent your House Team and it
had to follow the guidelines of Medieval heraldry.
We were inundated with entries, so many in fact that we thought we would
select the best to go up in form rooms next year.
The winners for each house were:
Brindley: Ellie-Kay 7B2, Cadbury: Kaide 7C2
Lanchester: Abbie 7L1
Each of these 3 won 50 merits for their house.
Mr Baker was asked to select the overall winner and he chose
Kaide’s excellent shield for Cadbury!
Kaide wins an extra 25 merits for his house. Well done to all who took part
- look out for examples of Year 7 shields around school in September.
Miss Graham and the Humanities Team.
Monday 17th to 21st June was
National Geography Awareness
Week. To mark the week, the
Geography department invited
an ambassador from the Royal
Geographical Society to come in
to talk to some of our year 7 and
8 students and get them thinking
about how Geography is all around
them.
Year 7 looked at the variety of countries that their school uniform were
made in and also looked at the issue
of fair trade. Year 8 looked at holidays
and the impact these had on the environment in terms of carbon emissions.
In addition to a FROG capital cities
quiz open to all years, year 7 got stuck
in to their own “Creative Geography
Quiz.” In addition to the conventional
“name that place” and physical Geography questions, the teams also
had to design a building to survive an
earthquake using a bag of Maltesers
and some chocolate fingers and round
one involved constructing a world
map using a packet of crisps!
There were some fantastic map
creations and some excellent
buildings that survived the shake
test. Well done to Lanchester for
gaining the most points overall
and a special mention to Miss
Rigley and Miss Houston for their
second place finish!
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Year 7 trip to the
OPAL Weather
Roadshow
A small group of
Year 7 students
were invited to
attend a workshop at the
OPAL Weather
Roadshow that
was being hosted by King
Edwards Five Ways school in Bartley
Green. The roadshow truck had a
range of weather equipment for students to get their hands on. They had
great fun trying to imitate Carol Kirkwood using the green screen technology on board to present their very
own weather forecast. They also got
to see clouds being made in a bottle,
create their own tornadoes and play
with a range of equipment to measure
the temperature and wind speed.
Thanks to Miss Price for coming along
in support.
Wythall
Community News:
Wythall Library is celebrating its 40th
anniversary this year. The history students
are putting together a display to help
commemorate this event. Do you have
any memories or photographs of Wythall
from circa.1973?
If so we would love to hear from you so
we can share your memorabilia.
Please contact Miss Graham at
Woodrush School.
Year 7 Geography
trip to Middleton
Lakes
Just after half term year 7 travelled
over to Middleton Lakes RSPB reserve
near Bodymoor Heath to practice their
Geography fieldwork skills. Each group
carried out two stream surveys and
using various bits of equipment, we
measured elements such as the speed
of the river, its depth and its width.
We then tried out some less technical
equipment to test the speed with good
old fashioned pooh sticks!
After a picnic lunch in the sunshine,
we headed out to the lake area. We
tested our artistic skills with a spot
of field sketching and then moved on
to the storm simulation tables. We all
had great fun pouring gallons of water
on three different surfaces to see how
different surfaces might affect how
quickly rainwater gets to the river.
Needless to say the concrete one was
the fastest!