Beech

Today, the children started their final art piece by using water colours on top of their Hever Castle pictures. Next week, they will begin adding different textured materials with glue.

In Science, the children investigated what makes a fruit a fruit and where the seeds in these can be found, comparing and contrasting them. They also had a look at how bulbs were different to seeds, using the examples of an onion or garlic plant.

The children investigated what happens to numbers when they are shared into two groups. They were able to relate to division number sentences and could explain how they could only share whole numbers equally if they were even numbers.

 

The children continued working on their fairground wheel designs in small groups, particularly considering the properties of materials which they thought would be good to use.

They made a model of a wheel and axle using paper plates and straws. We spoke through the difference between a fixed and rotating axle.

 

It was wonderful to come together for our Christmas service at the church today. The children shared some songs they have been learning in praise worships, thought about what Christmas means to them, considered what our Christmas jumper day was for and heard the Nativity story read to them. They showed compassion, happiness, pride and peace.

In Writing, we have been learning how to write instructions using imperative verbs to write commands. Today, the children followed some instructions to draw Christmas trees and stockings.

The children had a fantastic time travelling by bus to go to the Library. They found out about the different books they could read from the Library, listened to a story and chose their own book to borrow today. They all had a lot of fun!

 

In Art this week, the children looked and talked about some examples of printing. They then experimented with using inks, rollers and brayers to print an etched pattern from a slice of potato.

Beech class have had an amazing first week engaging with lots of dinosaur themed activities to inspire their writing topic for this term.

In Writing, Beech Class have been planning, drawing and writing their own comic book stories. Having finished them, they enjoyed being able to read and share them with their friends.

 

We loved participating in the whole school sports day! We used our running, jumping and throwing skills as well as showing lots of our values such as collaboration, aspiration and happiness.

 

In Maths this week, we have been working on Measurement. Within this we have been exploring ways to measure mass. In this activity we were making predictions and then testing how many cubes it would take to balance the mass of some classroom objects.

In World Views, we thought about what it means to be thankful and learned about what a Sukkah is. We built our own Sukkahs and decorated these.

 

Within our Computing lessons, Beech Class have been trialling their own set of commands to create algorithms with an online Beebot. They have been particularly focusing on programming with the forwards, backwards and turn commands.

In Art this half term, Beech Class have all been working on drawing portraits. This week they explored some artwork by Picasso, thinking about how he used colour to show emotions. We used this to inspire our own use of colour in portrait artwork.

Beech looked for ‘caterpillars’ that were camouflaged in the grass, to find out which colour was the best camouflage.  The green and brown were hardest to spot!

Beech Class loved getting to participate in the country dancing workshop this week as part of May Day celebrations. They learnt two routines from the wonderful dance teacher who came into school for the day. It was a lot of fun!

We’ve been looking at 2D and 3D shapes in Maths and learning about their different properties. Some groups have been challenged to sort shapes using Carroll and Venn diagrams thinking about one and then more than one category for sorting them.

Beech Class absolutely loved their trip to the Brighton Toy and Model Museum. We learnt about what toys were made from and how these toy materials have changed. We also made a timeline dating back 6000 years to the earliest known toy. It was a brilliant trip – “the best day ever!”

A couple of weeks ago, in groups, Beech Class made design plans for their own boat products which would have the purpose of safely carrying their paper people across water. This week the children worked collaboratively to make their final products using a range of tools and materials. They tested their boat models on real water and evaluated how functional and appealing they were. They all floated!

Beech Class had a lovely time welcoming Rev Bev into the class to answer their questions about Christian prayer.

 

In RHSE this week, Beech Class enjoyed making their own worry dolls.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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