Beechwood Primary School

A term full of interest and exciting learning!

What a fantastic half term we have had in Upper Key Stage 2!

The children have all settled in extremely well and are working hard whilst having lots of fun.

As you will have seen in the previous blogs, this term has been so full of interesting and exciting learning opportunities and experiences for the children. From trips to the cinema and the museum; class assemblies to Harvest services; Roald Dahl Day fundraiser to Class Cake Sales; visits from World War 2 enthusiasts to a visit from a children’s author and so much more– Wow, we have packed so much in!

Our World War 2 topic has really captured their interests and they have thoroughly enjoyed finding out what life was like for children during that time. Some of the display boards throughout school reflect the amazing work that the children have done in topic and English – please feel free to come and see some of the work displayed  for yourselves!

One of the highlights of the last two weeks was the visit from author Will Grill. Beechwood hosted the event which was attended by over 400 children from schools in Woodley. Will Grill is a new children’s author and illustrator whose book ‘Shackleton’s Journey’ has recently been published. Will spoke to the children about the process of writing and illustrating his book and gave the children a quick master class in illustrating. This was an absolutely brilliant experience for the children, many of whom bought signed copies of his book.

The half term holiday is now here and I sincerely hope you have a lovely, restful break. We don’t want the children to spend their holiday working but if they are bored on a cold, rainy day then you might like to direct them to the websites below which are packed with fun things to learn, games to play and things to do.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/subjects/z826n39

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/index.html

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/literacy/index.htm

http://www.mathsisfun.com/games/

Thank you for your continued support of all that we are doing in Year 5 & 6.

Miss Timms

Next Term: Look out for photos and a report of our VE Day celebration with the Woodley Day Centre; Christmas Choir performances and details of all that we are learning about with our new topic – Stars and Stripes!

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