Welcome to Amethyst Class. 

This term our topic is World War Two. See the knowledge organiser area of our class page to find out what else we are learning about in each curriculum area. 

Week beginning 4th November 2024

We visited the War Memorial ahead of Remembrance Day

DT Making Soup from our own recipes which needed to have a seasonal vegetable and a herb or spice.

Fun at Forest School on the first day of term 2: Building structures, popcorn, Guy Fawkes, tree planting and mud. Lots of sticky mud!

Week beginning 16th September

This week we have had our second brass lesson. We have been rounding numbers to varying degrees in maths and in science have been exploring 'What happens to the shadow shape and size when we move the direction of the light source?' We got to use the brand new compasses and will be using these again in geography this term:

We have also watched the full clip of 'Beyond the Lines' in our English lesson and have been very good at spotting the misplaced items:

Beyond the Lines (link to vimeo site)

Week beginning 9th September

This week we have started a full timetable of lessons in Amethyst Class. We have started our history work on World War and in geography used our map skills to find the names of countries in Europe and their captial cities. We have applied our dictionary skills in our science lesson on light to find the meaning of the words transparent, translucent and opaque. 

Mr McLaughlin has come in to teach us our first brass lesson as part of our whole class music tuition this term. We found out that all brass instruments have a mouthpiece, bell and tube and by the end of our first lesson had played two songs! Here is a sample of us learning how to use our mouthpieces: