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Welcome back to Beech Class after our Christmas break.

This week we have settled back into school well and started our new text, ‘Man on the Moon.’

We celebrated the Epiphany by going to Mass then visiting the crib at church.  It was lovely to see the children being so respectful and asking…

What a fun filled week we have had celebrating in the run up to Christmas. Where we have been thinking about the shepherds as we lit our advent wreath candle. We went to watch the Snow Queen pantomime and have spent lots of time practicing sharing and taking turns in our party games. We had a…

We have had a lovely last week of term in Beech Class and it has been very busy.
We have worked hard to retell the story of Jesus’ birth and created our own booklets.

It was great to watch Ryan and Catherine perform in their Rock Steady band! We were all very impressed. 
In science, the…

This week, Year 6 have had an incredible time filled with learning and special moments! In Science, we carried out an exciting experiment…

We loved showing you some of our learning from throughout this Advent season during our Bethlehem Bake-off performance. As part of our Advent preparations this week we lit our second candle thinking about peace and how we can be peacemakers being kind to others, sharing our toys and games, helping…

This week in Beech Class we have been learning how to write instructions.  
We got to make a paper Christmas tree and a paper reindeer.  Once we had made them, we wrote our own instructions so that someone could make them too.  We used numbers and made sure to use imperative verbs! We talked…

We have been working on our touch typing skills this week to help us type quicker and with more accuracy. 

we have also been learning about column addition in maths and used the base ten to help us. 

What an exciting week this has been as we have started thinking about the season of advent and what it means. We have introduced themes like waiting, being ready and kindness whilst on our Christmas countdown. We know that this is a time for us to get ready for Christmas and Jesus’ birth. We have…

We had an amazing time at Helmshore Textile Museum. We learnt about how cotton was made, the purpose of the different machines and the different jobs children had between the 1800s-1900s. 


 

This week Cherry class have been learning about hedgehogs and making them out of clay. Enjoy spotting your child's hedgehog.

This week the Fire Service came to visit us.  They discussed what their roles were as fire fighters and the types of uniforms they wore for all the different incidents they attend.  We learned how to ‘STOP, DROP and ROLL’ and when to use this if our clothes ever caught fire.  We found out how to…

This week was everyone's favourite..... FIRE week. The children recapped the fire safety rules before we lit the fire. They took it in turns to toast their marshmallow. Whilst this was happening in small groups they were making birds nests to see if we could save an egg if it fell out of a tree.…