Blog Author: Doolan F

This week in Beech, we finally started making our puppets!  The children have designed their own puppet based on a character from The Wind in The Willows and we drew around a template.  We have begun to sew them using running stitch. 
In P.E. we have been practising our tennis skills.  It was…

This week we were delighted to welcome Amy Troner to speak with ourselves, Year 1 and Year 5 all about her faith and experiences as a member of the Jewish community.

Amy shared fascinating insights into Judaism, helping us to develop our understanding of different beliefs and traditions as…

What a fabulous day we have had at Brockholes today.  Despite the changeable weather, the children thoroughly enjoyed exploring the different habitats,, including the lake, meadow, woodland and river.  We had fun trying to find the characters from The Wind in the Willows.  We practised our map…

We have had a great week in Beech.  
On Wednesday, we celebrated National Numeracy Day.  We used our totalling skills to work out how much we would spend when purchasing a meal.  Our meals included a main, topping, 2 sides, a dessert and topping and a drink.  The children used their addition…

This week in Beech Class, we walked to Fulwood Library. 
We found out about all the fun things we can do at the library, including Lego Club on a Saturday morning.

The librarian read a story and then we had chance to look at all the books available.  The children really enjoyed sharing…

This week in Beech Class we learned all about keeping ourselves safe on and around the railway.

The video we watched, provided by the Rail Safe Friendly Organisation, taught us all about safety around level crossings, how to behave on trains and platforms and near the tracks.  
 

The…

What a busy week we’ve had in a Beech Class this week!

In maths, we have looked at properties of 2D shape, regular and irregular shapes and lines of symmetry.  

During music we revised tuned and untuned instruments and then went out to listen to the sounds around us.  We decided what was…

We hope you had a lovely Easter break and welcome back to the Summer Term.

This week in computing, we created pictograms about the types of houses we live in.  It is great to see how much the children have grown in both confidence and skill when using the laptops.

On Wednesday, we were…

We’ve had a lovely Holy Week in school.  We retold the events leading up to, and including, Jesus’ death and resurrection.  It was lovely to see how knowledgeable the children were about this important time in the Church year.  

On Tuesday, we took part in our Reconciliation service with…

The children have been working so hard for the past couple of weeks, finding out all about Neil Armstrong, Tim Peake and their missions to Space.

They continue to develop their space dance in PE and it is looking great! 
 

We really enjoyed looking at a range of tuned and untuned…

What a wonderful day we had for World Book Day this year! 
All the children looked amazing and it was clear a lot of time, thought and effort went into all of the costumes.  
We began our day by creating a door cover for our door using ‘Bob, Man on the Moon’ as our theme. 
We took part in the…

This week in Beech we celebrated National Story Telling Week.

Using the text ‘I am Nefertiti,’ by Annemarie Anyang, we wrote our own poems, a diary entry and non-fiction fact sheet. 

We performed some of our work in assembly. 
Well done Beech Class!