Beech House School

Beech House School visit to York Dungeons

After a short journey over The Pennines a group of Year 8 students started the day at York with a guided tour with a gruesome background around Clifford’s Tower where Dick Turpin was hung drawn and quartered.

It was a very informative tour in which some of the students enacted the results of Typhus, a disease caught and spread by prisoners in the dungeons.

All of the students were terrified of the experiences in the dungeons; some students were ‘burnt as witches’, some were ‘tried for stealing’, some were ‘decapitated’ and some were ‘put in ‘Bais-Tue.’

The smell in the dungeons was so sickening.

The three staff members, Miss McGarvey, Mr Bateman and Dr Hudson were all ‘volunteered’ and took part in many gruesome activities, particularly in the torture chamber.

The hall of mirrors provided many students with the ability to panic at being lost and, at the same time, to see the fear of being lost.

To end a fantastic day the students took part in a ‘Deadly Drama Workshop.’

In this activity the students performed both vocal and physical ‘warm up’ activities and then were allocated a grizzly theme in which they had to design and perform a five minute performance.

Everybody totally enjoyed their visit to York Dungeons and after a tiring journey back along the M62 to Beech House the students went home to dream of their frightening experiences.

The following School appointments were made from September:

School
Head Boy - Gareth Tattersall
Head Girl – Isabella Zebedee-Howard

Upper Prep
Head Boy – Sami Hasan
Head Girl – Pheobe Stephens

Lower Prep
Head Girl – Fatima Afzal
Senior Prefects – Mehmoona Naqvi
Prefects – Harris Husnain & Sara Karim
Sub-Prefects –Fiza Ahmad, Jessica Nuttall, Ellie Roebuck & Jasmine Slater

House Captains –
Jupiter - Mia Greenwood
Mercury - Jessica Bennett
Neptune - Amy Hanson
Saturn - Maya Servio

House Point Totals are: Saturn 23, Mercury 23, Jupiter 22 and Neptune 15

Pupil of the Week Certificates were awarded to:
Nursery - Rayan Mahmood
Reception - Roman McInnes
Year 1 - Anas Farid
Year 2 - Fatima Afzal
Year 3 - Cristiano Bernales
Year 4 - Imaan Afzal
Year 5 - Anais Aston
Year 6 - Aaron Waddington