Beechwood Primary School

Harvest Festival…

It has been a busy but fun week in year 5/6 and the children have once again been working extremely hard. The week started off with the whole school walking in the pouring rain to St. James’s Church where we held our harvest assembly. This was a fantastic occasion where the children all sang beautifully and 5/6D did a great poetry presentation. Many children from Year 5/6 were represented in the choir, who were once again outstanding.

On Wednesday, it was the turn of 5/6D and 5/6B to visit the Imperial War Museum in London. After a very excitable coach journey, we finally arrived and the children had a fantastic time. There was great enthusiasm as the children discovered new things and experienced what life was like for a family in World War 2. Over the last few days, children have written about their day out and the things they learned and it has been an absolute pleasure to read some of their outstanding write ups. In addition to this, our topic work has focussed on rationing. Children were introduced to the BBC website which has lots of interesting activities- click the link below to find out more and to do some of the activities:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/world_war2/

In English, children have had a debate using the language of persuasion and have entered into discussions to present their arguments. The children enjoyed using ICT to put together slides to back up their suggestions.

Maths was great fun in Miss Timms’ Class this week as the children were learning about the order of operations in calculations using BODMAS. To assist their learning, they learned a song which can be viewed below.

 

Finally, well done to Melissa Wicks, Sanaa Hassan Bhatti and Jonathan Oldach for winning the book fair competition, where they had to draw their favourite book character. Melissa drew a great picture of Hetty Feather and Jonathan drew Fantastic Mr Fox. Other congratulations go to the winners of the handwriting competition – great job everyone!

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Thanks for reading!

Miss Timms