Blog Author: Doolan F

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! 
 

This week in Beech has been very busy indeed!

We have been trying out different axles for when we come to design and make our own Moon buggies.  It was lovely to see the children decide on the axle they thought would be the best.

Well done to the children that represented us in the multi…

This week we celebrated Safer Internet Day.  This year’s theme was ‘Smart tech, safe choices- Exploring the safe and responsible use of AI.’

We took part in an assembly all about AI and how to use it safely and responsibly but also how to have fun with it.

In class, we completed different…

What an excellent morning we have had at Alston Observatory.

When we arrived, we got the chance to look at the planetarium.  We learned all about solar eclipses, planets, stars and galaxies.  We were amazed at how huge our Universe is. 
It was interesting to see the difference in sizes between…

This week in Music we listened to rock.  We discussed that rock music is usually ‘forte’ and can often make us feel strong and powerful. 
We loved listening to ‘We Will Rock You’ by Queen.  We clapped the rhythm and discussed how the song only had one instrument.

In computing, we are learning…

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…