Class 14

Foot Tech Tournament

Mrs Haylings and Miss Taylor took children from both Y5/6 to compete in a Foot Tech football 3 v 3 tournament at Bishop Young Academy on Tuesday 9^th February.  The children played a number of competitive games against schools from across East and North Leeds.  Everyone enjoyed the morning and there were some incredible skills shown including perseverance and resilience.  At the end of the tournament a select few children were shown to be standout players (MVPs!) and Year 6's very own Summer H was chosen!  We are very proud of all the children who took part.

As it is Internet Safety Day tomorrow (Tuesday 10th February), we had an assembly all about keeping safe on the internet. We learnt about AI and it’s positive uses as well how to use it responsibly.

On Friday morning we were able to share the climate work we are doing in school with some very important visitors. Councillor John Tudor and Richard Burgon MP joined our whole school assembly and then met different groups of children to learn more about what we believe is important at Beechwood. The children discussed our curriculum brilliantly, listened carefully and asked very thoughtful questions. We learned that Richard Burgon already does a lot of work promoting climate education and we hope he will tell people about what we do at Beechwood. John Tudor inspired us with his own story about how he began picking up litter locally to make a difference in his own area. After this visit, we have lots of ideas about what we will do next in school.

Year 6 - First Week Back

What a fantastic first week back year 6 have had. Their behaviour has been excellent and they have been acting as fantastic role models to the rest of the school. In maths we have enjoyed exploring place value to a million. We have used place value counters to help us do this! During English, we have been reading ‘Running Wild’ - an excellent book which has really engaged us all! After analysing Will, his feelings and behaviour, we can’t wait to find out more about what happened to him on his holiday to Indonesia! Geography lessons contained our pre- launch  and we impressed Miss Spooner and Miss Warren with our prior knowledge! We labelled a world map 🗺️ and made sure we included South Africa, Italy, United Kingdom, Greece, Egypt, Ghana, France, Germany, Poland, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and all the other countries we have looked at previously! We certainly had multiple facts about these countries in our long term memory already. We are looking forward to our launch lesson next week to introduce North and South America! In Science, we classified and then sorted all different kinds of animals into scientific groups.  

The topic we will be starting with this year is North and South America. Below is the home learning mat for this topic with lots of activities to do at home. We are excited to see what your child does at home!

Welcome back! We hope you have enjoyed the summer holidays and are excited to be back in school for an exciting final year at Beechwood.

The Autumn Newsletter below has all of the information ready to start the year.