Welcome to Beech Class

Hello, my name is Miss Hough, and I am the teacher of Beech Class. In our class, we are lucky to have Miss Camp as our teaching assistant.

In Beech class, we are always willing to ‘have a go’ and we have an understanding that everyone makes mistakes and that these help us to learn. We respect everybody and show kindness which will make our class a welcoming and happy place for everyone. Working as a team is important in Beech class, making sure we help others, to make sure that everyone reaches their potential. We want everyone to be proud of their peers for their achievements.

There are a few things we need to remember this year:

• PE kit: your full (named) PE kit needs to be in school every day.

• Reading: We strongly encourage daily reading at home and progress will be tracked on a display in the classroom. Alongside this, rewards will be presented at regular milestones through the 100 club. Please listen to your child’s reading regularly and record this in the back of their orange Learning Destination (Homework book); Please ensure that this is brought in every morning.

• Homework: Spellings and maths homework will be set on Friday each week and the work will be due in on the following Friday. Please encourage your children to write sentences using their spelling words. The learning destination book can also be used for any other home learning that your children may wish to do. They will always be rewarded for this.

I am really looking forward to sharing some fantastic learning with you have an amazing time with lots of engaging learning opportunities planned.

Al Sylvester visits Newtown.

On Wednesday 8th January, we had an exciting visitor named Al Sylvester. Al is an Antarctic explorer and told us all about his expedition to Antarctica with an aim to reach the south pole.
The children listened brilliantly, and Al was amazed by the thoughtful questions they had for him.
He even let one of us dress up in the gear he wore in Antarctica!

Can you guess who it is?
 

History

In history this term, we have been learning about the Anglo Saxons. The children created some beautiful pencil drawings of Anglo-Saxon helmets including the intricate details and engravings. These look beautiful on the front of our history books.

Science

This term in Science, Beech class have been learning about forces. We completed an experiment thinking about weight and mass. To find out the weight of classroom objects we used a newton meter. The weight of an object is how strongly gravity is pulling on the object.

Remembrance

In Beech class this term, we have learnt about the importance of remembrance. We have thought carefully about the job of people in the armed forces and how they help us. The children have worked extremely hard to create silhouette paintings to represent fallen soldiers.

Harvest

In Beech class this term, we have been learning about the celebration of harvest. We have thought carefully about the reproduction of pumpkins through reseeding and have created perspective pumpkin artwork using oil pastels. The children have worked extremely hard on this and write pumpkin poems. We showed some of these in our harvest assembly.

DT

This term in DT, Beech class have been working on making boats. We have worked hard to design our own boats and have thought carefully about each boats purpose. To make them we carefully measured and cut cardboard then made our boats watertight using hot glue and PVA glue.

Computing

In computing this term, we have learnt how to collect data on google forms and then use this to make graphs on Excel. The children really enjoyed this and I can’t wait to do more computing with them next term.

PE

In PE this term the children have been very lucky to work with Bath Rugby. This is something that the children have really enjoyed and have worked extremely hard to improve their skills.