Beech House School

Beech House School Year 6 Victorian Wax Museum

Swimming

Castleton Baths hosted the Rochdale Borough School Games Partnership (RBSGP) swimming preliminaries for this academic year. Beech House were fortunate enough to travel with a strong squad for this year’s event, which was reflected in some very impressive performances and results.

It was a team event with every result counting towards a final total; the team with the highest number of points progressing through to the Greater Manchester Winter Games at Todmorden Sports Centre on Thursday 8 February.

After a very competitive day racing The Beech House boys’ team, who were largely overlooked going into the event, came away with the win and qualification through to the final event. However sadly, the girls team were hampered by a late withdrawal and had to compete with just three swimmers.

Anais Aston, Camilla Zebedee-Howard and Elana El-Hage all put impressive swims together but unfortunately it was not enough.

The boys team captain, Christian Cullen, displayed many strong and consistent swims in his individual events, giving his relay team - Harry Hurst-Grover, Aryan Malik and Oliver Ashton - every chance of qualification going into the last race.

After a strong start from Cullen, the boys each put in a personal best performance. Grover and Malik were particularly impressive having only recently moved up to the intermediate swim groups at school, claiming a hard-fought victory.

In total the scores were:

Boys - Beech House 8 and St. Patrick’s 7
Girls - Beech House 6 and St. Patrick’s 12

Victorian wax museum

Year 6 amazed parents and children alike with their innovative ‘Victorian wax museum’. The children worked extremely hard researching a famous Victorian of their choice and then bringing their character to life in our magical museum.

Parents were very impressed by their hard work and confident speaking voices.

Awards

In the lower prep, Fatima Afzal, Jibreel Muwahhid, Yahya Tahir and Avalee Sullivan-Mander have all earned their Orange Award for 50 House Points.

The House Point totals for the week are: Jupiter 26, Mercury 22, Saturn 17 and Neptune 11.

Pupil of the Week Certificates were awarded to:

Nursery – Isaac Khan
Reception – Kaiden Engelke
Year 1 – Evie Wallett