Congratulations to all the children who completed the Maths Challenge to raise money for the NSPCC.
We are so proud to announce that we raised a massive £2,300.75 for this wonderful charity.
Kim Williams of the NSPCC presented the cheque in a special assembly to mark the event.
Welcome to the year 3 and 4 (Lower KS2) blog.
In this area we will be giving you the highlights of the week to keep you up to date with what the children are getting up to.
This week year three and four have been getting green fingered. We have been investigating the conditions needed for seed germination. We are all hoping our investigations are a success and we learn what a seed needs to germinate.
Check out the following link at BBC Bitesize http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/zb4rkqt
Linked to our up coming production of Snow White, we have started learning about play scripts in English. We are very pleased with the production to date but the children desperately need to know all their lines by heart so please support your child with this.
It would be wonderful if you could also discuss with them how they can make their acting more dramatic!
Log in next week to find out more!
At Beechwood we are always doing something interesting, previously it was the Titanic however this time we wanted to do something more hands on!
Today we are helping to save the River Kennet, supported by Ark – a charity dedicated fighting water pollution. Children in year 3/4 have been given the task of hatching 120 trout eggs, and in the process also finding out where our food comes from.
In the wild just 1 out of 100 eggs survive predators and pollution to become an adult fish, so it is not an easy task for any budding Nemo’s! Children have to understand the importance of keeping the water (and rivers!) clean, otherwise our fish wouldn’t survive. They also need to carefully monitor the temperature (fish don’t like hot showers, but prefer a rather chilly 10 degrees!), and the tank must stay dark and calm.
(Young fish are the shy retiring types – and normally hatch under stones away from currents and sunlight).
At first several eggs didn’t survive and had to be carefully removed, however under the children’s careful watch over 50 eggs have hatched, and are now wriggling around eating their egg sacks. Exciting news but it is not over yet as tomorrow we need to start feeding them to help them grow into a young fish that can survive in the wild.
By the time we let them go into the wild they will be 10cm long, and will eventually grow to be over 3 times that size!
So tomorrow when you are having dinner, think of the struggles your poor fish has endured to make it to your plate!
It has been a great experience for the children to see the changes and the stages on the life cycle of a trout and how hard it is for some creatures to survive if we don’t look after their environment. We are planning to release them back into the river in around 6 weeks to increase the declining number of fish in the river.
Stay tuned for more (older!) fish tales!
View ARK’s website at www.riverkennet.org
Mrs Cuellar
First round was Beechwood versus South Lake playing best of three games per match. South Lake had good ability players winning each one of their matches bar one with Jack Green winning his game match by 2 games to 1. Second round was played with winners of first round playing Radstock (Radstock only having 5 seads to play). South Lake again won most of their matches and progressed on to final play-off round as to did Beechwood (Jack Green) where he played a play off match against Souht Lake (1) with South Lake wining 2 games to 1. Losers of the first round played both Radstock and South Lake losing players in deciding play off round.
Overall winning team was South Lake recording 16 winning matches with Beechwood scoring 5 matches won and Radstock 4 matches. All players played continually (3 or 4 matches per player) and scorers from all schools were excellent and reliable throughout the competition. All players showed real improvement from first league competition with Jack Green, Ruben Callutas, Morgan Hill, Ben Howells, Oliver Long and Rahul Nayak showing good ability and hard work.
Well done to everyone who took part!
The Road
The road was very wet and never had been used .One day there was a cat passing by suddenly, a bright light flashed on…the cat was terrified. She had no idea what was going on. Suddenly a shadow appeared behind her. The cat nearly fainted to death. When she looked closer in she thought it was a DOG!
When she tried to run away she found out that she was stuck!
And when she tried to free herself the shadow was getting closer.
The cat saw it was her owner trying her best to pick her up.
Beechwood B team Tag Rugby Festival – Tuesday 27th January 2015
Beechwood had a fantastic turnout for our B team festival yesterday, hosting 10 teams; Beechwood (1, 2 & 3), Southlake (1, 2 & 3), Oldfield, Aldryngton, The Coombes and Farley Hill. We had Forest School boys refereeing the games who did a brilliant job allowing the games to flow very nicely and communicating well with a good understanding of the rules.
There were some strong performances throughout the tournament With Beechwood 2nd team winning all 4 of their games in group 1 with Yussef Aziz scoring some great tries and Aldryngton winning all 4 in group 2. After the group stages we went straight onto the semi’s, the first semi was Aldryngton v The Coombes which was an incredibly tight game played to a very good standard in the end there was only one try in it with Aldryngton sneaking it 8-7. The second semi was Beechwood v Oldfield, this game was not as close and Oldfield won quite convincingly with some fantastic runs through the middle, excellent support play and capitalising on the space out on the wings. The game finished 8-5 to Oldfield.
This set up for a great final between Aldryngton and Oldfield who had already met in the group stages, it was a very physical match and there were a number of players in both sides who looked like they had experience of playing rugby out of school. In the end Aldryngton finished the competition unbeaten winning the final 7-5. Beechwood 2nd team and The Coombes also played a third and fourth place final which was another very close affair which the Coombes winning 8-7. Overall the tournament ran smoothly and all the teams got at least 5 games which was great to see.
See all the results below:
| Round 1 | |
| Southlake C 4 | The Coombes 8 |
| Farley Hill 2 | Beechwood B 6 |
| Oldfield 4 | Southlake A 1 |
| Aldryngton 7 | Southlake B 4 |
| Round 2 | |
| Beechwood A 4 | Farley Hill 4 |
| Beechwood B 4 | Southlake C 3 |
| Beechwood C 2 | Aldryngton 6 |
| Southlake B 3 | Oldfield 6 |
| Round 3 | |
| Beechwood B 8 | The Coombes 3 |
| Beechwood A 8 | Southlake C 2 |
| Southlake B 5 | Southlake A 3 |
| Beechwood C 3 | Oldfield 4 |
| Round 4 | |
| Southlake C 5 | Farley Hill 4 |
| The Coombes 8 | Beechwood A 3 |
| Oldfield 3 | Aldryngton 7 |
| Southlake A 2 | Beechwood C 8 |
| Round 5 | |
| Beechwood A 2 | Beechwood B 5 |
| Farley Hill 0 | The Coombes 6 |
| Beechwood C 6 | Southlake B 2 |
| Aldyngton 6 | Southlake A 2 |
| Pool 1 | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Points | For | Against | Difference |
| Beechwood B | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 23 | 10 | +13 |
| The Coombes | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 25 | 15 | +10 |
| Beechwood A | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 19 | -2 |
| Southlake C | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 24 | -10 |
| Farley Hill | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 21 | -11 |
| Pool 2 | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Points | For | Against | Difference |
| Aldryngton | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 26 | 11 | +15 |
| Oldfield | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 17 | 14 | +3 |
| Beechwood C | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 19 | 14 | +5 |
| Southlake B | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 22 | -8 |
Knock out Phase
| Semi Finals | |
| Aldryngton 8 | The Coombes 7 |
| Beechwood B 5 | Oldfield 8 |
| 3rd Place Final | |
| Beechwood B 7 | The Coombes 8 |
| Final | |
| Aldryngton 7 | Oldfield 5 |
Other games: Southlake B 4 v Southlake C 1, South Lake A 4 v Farley Hill 5 and Beechwood A 3 v Beechwood C 6
Beechwood A 7 v Rivermead B 4
Beechwood A 5 v Rivermead A 4
A team: Jayden, Dylan, Ronak, Cameron, William, Kielan, Joshau, Kiera, Eliasabet, Rylie and Alex
Beechwood B 4 v Rivermead A 8
Beechwood B 5 v Rivermead B 5
B team: Jake, Tusha, Oliver, Ojash, Kieran, Liam, James, Nina, Sophie, Dylan and Abhigyan
On Tuesday afternoon Beechwood fielded two teams to play against Radstock Primary. Radstock were a team that Beechwood defeated in the group stages of the tournament in October, however this was not the case in our fixture last week with the ‘A team’ losing 7-1 and the ‘B team’ Drawing 6-6. It was apparent that the ‘A team’ needed management, as Mr Boseley was away umpiring the B team’s game.
The highlight of the fixture was the appearance of Leo French who was ‘assistant manager’ and it was fantastic to see him getting involved in sport. He listened and learnt about tactics and participated in the team talk, he clearly got lots out of the occasion.
On the pitch for the ‘B team’ our defence clearly had weakness, however the attacking options were impressing with Ollie Long scoring 4 of the 6 goals. It was interesting to see children who were debutants for the team and the year 6s seemed to settle well into the team, it was apparent that they have learnt lots through their roller hockey.
After speaking to the ‘A team’ captain, Jack felt that we lacked shape, and couldn’t keep hold of the ball which resulted in such a score line. The next game will be crucial, if we are to do well in the upcoming tournament.
‘A Team’ – 7-1 Loss (Scorer: Jack Green)
‘B Team’ – 6-6 Draw (Scorers: Ollie Long 4, Alex Routledge 1, Malik Djotni 1)
There is a Maths Curriculum evening next week on Wednesday 28th January.
Please do make an effort to come along to see why maths is fun and why it is so important in our everyday lives.
Victory for the Netball Squad at Lambs lane on Tuesday 20th January.
Both of our Football teams were well beaten by Sonning on an infamous night in mid January. Sonning thrashed our sides 12-0 and 12-5 which is unprecedented in Beechwood’s annals of sporting history.
Today I am going to school. I am in a glorious mood because for the first time in forever I have done all my homework. I am skipping to school and a bright light shines!
I am petrified! When a soothing voice addresses me. I start wondering towards the bright light, awed I steal away leaving my best friend, Anushka by her self. She was furious! Tentatively she followed me. Never wasting precious time I obliviously away stumbling each step I took. “SPELL” boomed the voice. Precisely I spelled cat. “C, A, T.” I screeched louder than a male lion roaring…
By Josette Osabutey
I was so put out I was walking down the street, the pavement was wet so the lampposts were shining so bright on them.
Shall I tell you why I was so put out? I had not done my homework so I was on my way to my headmaster’s house. I went down Crockemham Road and I guessed it was the first sporty house I saw (Mr Davis was very sporty.) I knocked on the door and looked in the window. He was finishing his Zumba and coming to the door. “Hello” I said smirking.
“Hello would you like to dance?”
Joseph walked in to the room.
If he was to defeat the horrible witch he should find her lair first. Slowly he turned around there was a lamp in one corner, he gave it a tug and there opened a large cavey like tunnel right beneath his feet. “AAAAAAHHH” screamed Joseph.
He fell into a cave and faced the witch, beside her shoulder there shone a globe the light was so bright he quickly grabbed a stick and a sword on her stony table and dived to grab the shiny thing he thrust it up to her face blinded.
To find out what your children will be learning across the spring term read the Curriculum News for all teams below
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