Class Teacher: Mrs Hollinshead
Teaching Assistants: Mrs McGrath and Mr Playfer
Welcome to Beech Class. This Class has a combination of Year 1 and Year 2 children and is part of Key Stage 1.
Please check this page regularly to see updates of what we are learning.
Daily Routine
Drop off time: 8.40am
Drop off/collection point: Gates to KS1 yard
Morning playtime: 10.15am
Lunchtime: 11.30-12.30pm
Afternoon playtime: 1.45pm
Collection time: 3.10pm
We strongly believe that all children should experience high quality books that enhance literacy skills and inspire them to read. We aim for children to develop a love of reading and this will help motivate them to write. Here are some documents that will help you with our ‘School Improvement Priority 1 – Reading’
To help with this we are sharing a fabulous and highly recommended list of ‘100 Books to Read…’
Reading Spine takes place daily in every classroom where the children are read to. Each of the books help to develop the imagination of our children and equips them with language. We want our school to be a place where children are read to, enjoy, discuss and work with high quality books. We use the Pie Corbett Reading Spine so that children have access to high quality texts and develop a love for reading!
Take a look below at some of our learning
Over the Spring term we have been focussing on the Easter Story, the children have watched and listened to the story and discussed the most important parts. The children looked at a cross from San Salvador in Central America and designed their own using pictures from the Easter story and that represented Spring. The children also thought about the disciples and how they felt through the story and how the children would feel if they were there.
Take a look below at our contribution to the Remembrance Day display.
Over the Spring term we have been looking at our aspirations and ambitions and how this links into what money is, the jobs people do to make money and how people make decisions to save or spend their money. The children then moved on to looking at self-belief and why it is important to believe in ourselves and others. Looking at the challenges we face and how we can talk to people who can make situations happier and how we can show gratitude and show thanks.
Over the Spring term the children have been looking at plants, learning the names for parts of the plants, identifying and name a range of plants and trees and looking at the differences between evergreen and deciduous trees. The children then moved on to looking at seasonal change, how trees and the weather changes throughout the seasons.
Over the Spring term children have been focussing on their fundamental skills. We have also been working hard to collect points for our House Teams. It has been very exciting and has given us an element of competition and a chance to achieve our Personal Best Scores. We have also been practicing these skills during our playtimes.
The children have been looking at how school has changed over time. Children will use a range of sources; photographs, stories and videos to help find out what school will be link in the past. Children then moved on to looking at the Titanic and why the Titanic sank, the children will look at what life was like on the ship and the jobs that people did.
Over the Spring term children learnt how to create pictograms and what e-books are. Children then created their own moving book.
In DT we have been looking at mechanisms, learning about the different types of mechanisms, finding mechanisms and making different mechanisms using different materials. The topic finished by children creating moving Easter cards.
