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Beech - Years 3&4

Welcome to Beech! 

Year 3/4

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8th March 2024

 

We've had a very exciting week this week, starting of with a very squelchy visit to Forest School on Monday! We all worked hard to match photos of animals an plants to their names, then made some very impressive dens.

 

On Wednesday Mrs Peacock kindly came in and celebrated International Women's Day with us by showing us the exciting world of Human Bioscience before we made our own arms using different materials.

 

Yesterday we all had fun celebrating World Book Day and it was amazing to see so many children bringing in and sharing their favourite books from home.

 

Well done for all your hard work this week and I hope you all have a lovely weekend!
 

23rd February 2024

 

We've had a great first week back after half term this week, full of exciting things! We all really enjoyed our Cricket lessons on Monday and are looking forward to our second lesson next week.

We also had an amazing forest school session, we worked together to create a web linking living things to the oak tree onsite and discussed what would happen if the tree was cut down. We then got nice and muddy building our own shield and stratovolcanoes before making one of them explode!

9th February 2024

 

Well done for a great last week everyone! I'm so proud of all your hard work in our Maths assessments this week - good job! Also a big thank you to everyone who contributed to our poetry competition, the finals this morning were lovely to watch.

 

I hope you all have a restful half term, see you all for Term 4!

 

 

2nd February 2024

 

Well done everyone for another great week! Thank you to everyone who contributed to our poetry competition this year, it was lovely to hear some of our creative efforts this morning.

We've all worked hard this week on our exchanging in our subtraction lessons and everyone has put great effort into including relative clauses into their writing.

I hope everyone has a lovely weekend.

 

19th January 2024

 

We've had a really good week in Beech class this week, well done to everyone who took part in the dodgeball tournament, and everyone who didn't for being so supportive!

 

We had some challenging Maths lesson this week that everyone persevered with and we had some high praise from our violin teacher today so a big well done to everyone.

16th November 2023

 

Well done to everyone practicing our Christmas carols this week, we're all looking forward to performing at the carol service in a few weeks time!

 

We also had a great time at forest school this week building dens and making our own charcoal to do some cave drawings.

19th October

 

This week we've been working hard to write our non-chronological reports all about the Iron Age - researching facts and learning new information! 

In Science we have learned how rocks become soil over hundreds of years and we will be going on a soil hunt to investigate what types of plant and animal matter we can find.

 

I hope everyone has a good weekend!

Miss Taylor

13th October

 

This week we finished off our cave paintings which are now proudly displayed in our classroom!

We have also started researching facts to write our own non-chronological reports and well done Year 4s on tackling rounding in Maths this week!

 

Miss Taylor

29th September

 

This week we finished off our first set of History lessons on the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages and started our Science unit all about rocks! We learnt about igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks and how they're formed.

 

In English we completed writing our stories based on our book 'Stone Age Boy' and have started to think about non-chronological reports. Soon we'll be writing our own!

 

Well done this week and I hope everyone has a great weekend,

Miss Taylor

The following content is from the previous academic year 2022 - 2023

These are the script and the song lyrics for the production, for your child to be practising at home.

Here are the links to the songs for the production on YouTube for your child to practice:

 

Once Upon A Crime 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWTubyqkRy4 

 

The Porridge Pot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d86HzoWJAUU

 

Boys In Blue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOeqz3RmKgs

 

It's Up To You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ8t9bTXjaE

 

While The World is Sleeping

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9npTDGw0HU

 

Happy Ever After

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkTtYZiZa8g

 

Times Table Rockstars

 

Your child(ren) has/have been sent home a personal log in to the learning platform 'Times Table rockstars'. Please use this to practice times tables. 

Spelling Check

All children in Beech Class will have weekly spellings to learn. These will be taken from the list below. They will be tested every Friday and new spellings will be issued.

 

Dear Beech Families, 

 

A huge well done to Beech and Birch for their amazing performance this week. They all should feel proud. 

 

This week we have been learning about the history of Kingswood village and Beech class went on a walk to compare the village from old photos and what it is now. We also found out about different dates buildings were built. We had a look at a virtual abbey to see what Kingswood abbey may have looked like. Have a look at the extended learning page if you want to explore some more!

 

Beech class were very lucky to have a visitor in this week to talk to us about ancient Egyptians and to show us loads of artefacts and stories about what life would have been like in ancient Egypt. 

 

Hope you all have a great week end.

 

Miss Holmes

Dear Beech Families, 

 

Beech class has been very busy this term. We have made clay models in Art, written some exciting Egyptian Stories, and a newspaper report about Tutankhamun's tomb discovery. We have learned about ancient Egyptians and tried to write like them.  Year 3 sang beautifully at Westgreen. Well done to those who read your stories. 

 

Yesterday we went to KLB and had fun learning about pressure. We made and launched our own rockets! 

 

Have a look at the knowledge organiser for detail about what we will be learning next term. There is also some links on the maths page to times table games and how to help your child(ren) with their times tables. 

 

Looking forward to working with Beech and Birch to create our version of 'Porridge'. Children have been sent home with a script to start learning lines and songs ready for next term. 

 

Hope you all have a great week. 

 

Miss Holmes

Dear Beech Families, 

 

Welcome back! 

 

Hope you all had a great break. 

 

Beech Class have started a new topic this term about 'Ancient Egypt' and have started to learn about Egyptian life. We have started reading our new book 'Secrets of a Sun King' by Emma Carroll and have continued to read 'The boy who Grew Dragons' in our Guided reading lessons. We have been using our adjectives and expanded noun phrases to describe an Egyptian setting in English and practicing our division in Maths. Children have been given their new spellings for the week which will be tested next Friday. 

 

Hope you have  a great Week end. 

 

Miss Holmes

Hello Beech Families, 

 

I hope you all have a wonderful Easter break. 

Beech class has had a fun week this week with all the Musical activities going on. Check out the news and events page to see all the photos. 

 

I just wanted to say well done to Beech class and all the other performers of our musical 'prom', you all did really well. I am super proud. 

 

Have a restful holiday and I will see you all next term! 

 

Miss Holmes

Monday 27th March 2023

Beech class enjoyed making wraps on Monday We practiced the bridge and claw cutting techniques We practiced grating cheese and peeling carrots We made sure we had good food hygiene by washing our hands, tying long hair. We also wore an apron. We filled our wraps with different ingredients

Hello Beech Families, 

 

Spellings this week will go out on Monday. In the meantime please can children be practicing all of the year 3 and 4 spellings, which can be found in the 'spelling' section at the bottom of this page, as we will be checking all spellings next week. Also, make sure children are practicing their times tables as these are very important. We will be having another Times Table test next week. 

 

Year 3 - 2, 5, 10, 3, 4, 8

 

Year 4 - all times tables

 

Have a lovely weekend, 

 

And I will see you all next week for our 'Music week'. 

 

Miss Holmes

Week 4 - Spring term 2

We have been writing a report about our chosen animal. In PSHE we worked as a group to write down how we can be kind to others We also thought of ways people show unkindness We discussed ways we can work together to make a difference In art we designed our final piece making prints. Our plants have been growing (or not growing) Some of our plants are tall and yellow as they have had no light Some of our plants have only just started sprouting as they have been too cold. We put celery in coloured water to see how water is transported in plants we put one in the fridge to see if that makes a difference

Spring Term 2 - Week 1. 

 

Welcome back, 

 

Beech class has had a fun start to this term. 

We enjoyed playing cricket on Thursday at Tubbs Turf. 

All children have been busy this morning in their houses doing craft activities based on the book 'The Secret Sky Garden'. There have been lovely kites, aeroplanes, flowers and butterflies being made. 

 

In English this term, Beech are learning about how to right a non-chronological report. We have looked at what features are needed and next week we will be learning about them ourselves. 

 

We have also started reading a new book 'the boy who grew dragons'. We have drawn our own dragons to go with the story. 

 

Hope you have a lovely weekend. 

 

Miss Holmes

 

PS: Just a reminder that Beech class PE days have changed to Wednesday and Thursday this term due to the cricket sessions. 

 

 

Week 6 - Spring term 1

We learnt about how to stay safe when sharing pictures We made posters to inform others on how to keep safe online In geography we learnt about 8 points on a compass and made treasure maps. We have been creating our final art piece based on Margaret Mee paintings. In English we have been writing leaflets about the Amazon Rainforest.

Week 5 - 30.1.23 - 3.2.23

We have been songwriters. We have written a verse to go in the song we are learning. In PSHE we talked about people who influence us. In art we painted our flower pictures with watercolours In English we have been writing to persuade. Would you want to go to the Amazon Rainforest? In Maths Year 4 have been learning column addition for 4 digit numbers Year 3 have been learning Column subtraction for 3 digit and 2 digits.

Spring term week 3 - 16.1.23 - 20.1.23

We made posters about the amazon rainforest we use ipads, books and fact cards to find out facts about the rainforest We learnt about expanded noun phrases and wrote some about the creatures of the rainforest In science we looked at animal skulls we matched them up with the animals we thought they belonged to We then learnt about what teeth each animal has based on their diet We sorted the animals based on the diet they had. Herbivores, omnivores and carnivores In English we acted out scenes from the story 'The Great Kapok tree'

Spring term week 2 - 9.1.23 - 13.1.23

In art we have been learning about shading and using different tone We used our observation skills to draw an object that was in front of us In science we have been learning about our teeth! We leant what our teeth look like and what their function is In Geography we leant about biomes! We have been reading 'Cogheart' we had a discussion about one of the characters In English we looked at rhetorical questions. We are learning about persuasive writing We came up with our own rhetorical questions! We learnt about alliteration and made some sentences about our fellow classmates In maths we have been practicing addition and subtraction we have been using number lines to help us

Spring term Week 1 - 2.1.23 - 6.1.23

We made predictions about 'the great Kapok tree' we read the blurb and made changes to our prediction In science we learned about the digestive system We wrote a story about the journey of our food through the digestive system Year 4 have been subtracting tens from 4 digit numbers Year 3 have been subtracting from 3-digit numbers Beech class will be looking at 'the great Kapok tree' this term in English Beech designed characters based on a hybrid character from the story 'Cogheart' We are learning about vegetables in french

Week Beginning 12th December

Week beginning 21st November

In Geography this week, Beech class have been learning about English Counties and Cities. In English we wrote letters as if we were Jim from 'Street Child' Beech class have been learning about time conjunctions In DT, we have been designing torches. Beech Class have been learning about Electricity. We made predictions about whether we thought materials were conductors or insulators We then tested them to find out if our predictions were correct. We have had fun trying to create circuits

Autumn Term Photos

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