Class 8

21st March

Year 3 had a great time visiting the Recycling and Energy Recovery Facility. We learnt all about what we can and can't recycle at home and what happens to the rubbish that we throw away. We learnt that instead of going to a landfill, the rubbish is taken to the facility and burnt to create energy which is then used to power homes. We enjoyed seeing the control room and made pledges about how we can be better at recyclin

The splash of red around our classroom to celebrate Red Nose Day got us off to a cheery start on Friday. Highlights include the following: practising our new verbs through a variety of team and partner games; making and drawing time on analogue clocks; learning about the function of a stem in science and a visit from Class 10, showing us a tub of frogspawn found in our school pond. We were all impressed to see how well Darina had been looking after her bulb, too -it is really growing now! It is lovely to hear so many others of you are being careful and successful gardeners with yours as well. Keep it up! 

Star of the Week:  Harlow
Maths Whizz: Oliver

14th  March 

Star of the Week: Riley
Librarian Award: Poppie
Maths Whizz: Jacob

The children really enjoyed their new French unit, learning 5 verbs, using their listening and speaking skills. In maths, they continued to learn to tell and write the time for o'clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to through a variety of practical activities. In the afternoon, they started a new science topic about plants and labelled the parts and functions of a flower. 

As part of Science week, we looked at the adaptations of different animals. We worked in pairs to match adaptation clues to different animals. We then chose our favourite animal and did our own research, putting our favourite facts into posters and fact files.

7th  March 

Paris: Maths Whizz of the Week 

Emerson: Star of the Week
Emily & Niamh: Librarian of the Week

It was a wonderful World Book Day on Friday with fabulous outfits and pyjama wear! Class 8 held their own Beechwood Book Club and they were partnered with a Nursery child with whom they shared a story- everyone in Class 8 showed how caring and patient they were 🙂 In the afternoon they finished their science topic on light and shadows, making posters about how to keep safe in the sun. 
Have a great weekend! 

28th February

Well done to all those who kept going until Friday this week -what a busy time it has been!
In French, on Friday,  we showcased our skills at speaking, listening, reading and writing about  instruments. In maths, we enjoyed a variety of practical activities to recap our knowledge of time to the hour. Finally, in science we planned and carried out an investigation to test how shadows change. 

I am very impressed with everyone telling me how well they are looking after their bulb, and it was lovely to see Emily's shoots beginning to show 🌼. Remember: your bulb may soon need to be replanted into a larger pot now it has grown a bit.

Star of the Week: Noah
Library Awards: Taya & Paulina
Nell Bank Stars: Jacob/Isla/Rebeka/Taya

14th February

Certificates:
Star of the Week: Harriett, Noah and Harry
Maths Whizz: Oliver and Maja

The children loved taking part in a virtual draw along with Neill Cameron and James Turner, drawing robot characters in the style of these artists. In French, we had a conversation about the instruments we play, and dropped in greetings exchanges that we had previously learnt. Then in the afternoon,  the children got inspiration for their next creative writing task when they found  an old suitcase in the classroom, and had to work out who it might belong to by unpacking its items. They deduced it was from a young girl, travelling without family, who loved gardening. This led them on to a bulb planting activity. The day ended with Golden Time. Have a great half term (and take care of your bulbs!) 🙂🌱

We have had a very busy last week of this half term. One of our favourite parts of the week was continuing with our art work. We enjoyed taking our own photographs using cameras and chose our favourite photo to use in art. We then used the computers to explore different digital painting techniques, recreating colours, shapes and patterns. 
Here are some of our drawings that we did at home to celebrate Chinese New Year. 

7th February

Friday highlights included: learning that the French have 3 different words for 'the': le, la, les. We successfully sorted the French words for  different instruments according to whether they were masculine, feminine or plural. In science, we explored and observed how shadows can change size, shape and direction according to the object making them and the light source. Finally, we celebrated having the top attendance in the school this week with cookies and orange juice: congratulations. 🎉 Keep up the good work for the last week!

This week we completed our gymnastics routines in PE. We have enjoyed working together over the last few weeks to make a routine that included rolls, balances and jumps. We are looking forward to watching our routines together as a class.

Awards:

Star of the Week: Eughan
Mathematician of the Week: Nevaeh
Writer of the Week: Taya

31st January

Class 8 enjoyed our local walk around Seacroft with Matthew Bellwood. We learnt lots of interesting facts about different buildings and enjoyed listening to some stories about the past from local residents. We also enjoyed looking at some maps of Seacroft and learning about how Seacroft has changed over time.

Class 8 Blog:

We continued to learn another 5 instruments in French as well as recapping the first 5 we learnt last week. We are so good at spotting cognates🌟 Our half term science topic is all about light and shadows. In the first two weeks,  we drew a mind map to show our prior knowledge and sorted statements about light into true/false/unsure. Then we grouped objects into hard / easy to see in the dark using a peephole and bravely experienced the absence of light by trying the dark tent. Today, we considered the question: Which objects are the most reflective? Our investigation led us to discover that the least shiny objects were the least reflective and the shiniest were the most reflective. We also considered, though, how this investigation wasn't a fair test. Maybe, you could carry out a test at home, making it even more fair💡Please send in any photos.

Certificates- week ending 24th January

Mathematician of the Week: Paris  and  Rebeka

Star of the Week: Lewan

17th January

This week, we have had our launch lesson for our new topic - Our community, our responsibility. We enjoyed looking at different types of maps of Yorkshire, Leeds and Seacroft. We also used books and chromebooks to find facts about recycling and looking after our environment. We went on a walk around school to find facts about the United Kingdom and other countries around the world.

Class 8 certificates:

Star of the Week: Jacob
Jaxson: Mathematician of the Week
Harry By: Mathematician of the Week
Leo: Mathematician of the Week
Niamh: Reader of the Week

10th January 2025

Our Friday learning included; learning 5 French words for musical instruments; gathering information from tally charts and pictograms and starting our science topic on lights and shadows. We shared our prior knowledge on this topic by drawing a mind map. Then we investigated the scientific question: "What do we need to see?". To answer this, we made predictions about which objects would be hard/less hard to see in the dark. Then we tested our predictions using a dark tent and a peephole box. 🔆💡🔦

The children have shown great resilience this week, coming to school in the snow and ice, and not complaining about having indoor playtimes/lunchtimes each day. We are very proud of them all! 🌟

Let's hope everyone can get out a bit more as the thaw begins ☃☀️🙂
 

Awards

Mathematician: Maison and Isla
Star of the Week: Maja
PE award: Riley

13th December

Friday highlights in Class 8:  learning how to say 10 colours in French and playing a game of 'Quiz Quiz Trade' to practise this new vocabulary; practising with Year 4 for the Christmas concert -listen out for O Holy Night!- and finally working as palaeontologists in the afternoon, identifying and classifying fossils. 

Awards:

Star of the Week: Paris
Writer of the Week: Maja
Mathematician of the Week: Maison

6th December

Friday had an energetic start with the Santa Dash. We then warmed up back inside and consolidated our French numbers 1-10. Afterwards, Class 8  focused on their soil investigation, working out what might be causing flooding in a vegetable garden and offering various solutions. We also enjoyed practising our Christmas carols.

Awards:
Oliver: Writer of the Week
Eughan: Mathematician of the Week
Harlow: Star of the Week

29th November

On Thursday, Class 8 had a wonderful trip to Meanwood Valley Farm as part of their rocks and soil  topic in science. They learned about how rocks are formed, their properties and uses. They then got messy making fossil impressions! 

On Friday in French, the children perfected exchanging greetings and began to learn their numbers to 10. In the afternoon, they became scientists, identifying different types of soil.

Awards:

Star of the Week: Emily
Writer of the Week: Ellie and Isla
Reader of the Week: Darina

22nd November

This week, Year 3 were very excited to spend another day with Catherine learning all about the Anglo-Saxons. We explored reconstructed sources to learn about life in Anglo-Saxon times, made keyrings showing Anglo-Saxon runes, played different games and learnt all about Anglo-Saxon armour and weapons.

15th November 

Star of the Week: Nevaeh
Mathematician of the Week: Noah
Reader of the Week: Aubrey
Reader of the Week: Niamh
 

8th November

Certificate winners

Star of the Week: Poppie

Reading: Jacob 

Maths: Bobby

Writer: Harry Bl

Eco: Niamh/Nevaeh/Emily/Harriet

25th October

Science: Harriett
Star of the Week: Emily
Maths: Maja
PE: Jaxson

18th October

This week, Class 8 have had a busy week. We have written our reports about the Romans, practised our column addition with different maths games and enjoyed acting out a story in RE. 
 

⭐️ Emily: Star of the Week
🧮 Kimberley: Mathematician of the Week
🏏 Emerson: PE award
📖 Lucan: Reader of the Week

11th October

This week, Year 3 were very excited to spend another day with Catherine learning all about the Romans. We explored reconstructed sources to learn about life in Roman times, wrote messages using Roman letters, played different games and learnt all about Roman armour and weapons.

⭐️ Star of the Week: Rebeka⭐️
✍🏻Writer of the Week: Riley ✍🏻
🧮Mathematician of the Week: Leo🧮
📖Reader of the Week: Emily📖

27th September

This week Class 8 enjoyed taking part in the European Day of Languages. Some of us dressed up and brought some delicious cakes for us to share. We took part in some different activities and games during the day and really enjoyed playing the Hello Bingo game. 

These are Class 8 certificate winners:

Rebeka and Leo: EDL Star 
Harry By and Paris: Star of the week
Paulina: Mathematician of the Week
 

20th September

Harriet -Hand writer
Darina - Writer
Noah - Star of the Week

13th September 

 Congratulations to this week's stars 👏

Oliver W and Taya K - star of the week
Niamh G -writer of the week
Maison M -mathematician of the week

This week, Year 3 were very excited to spend the day with a history expert. We explored reconstructed sources to learn about life in the Stone Age, drew our own cave paintings, made a Bronze Age mirror and learnt all about roundhouses. 

6th September 2024

Well done to our certificate winners:

Isla B - star of the week
Taya K - handwriter of the week
Lewan M - writer of the week
Harlow J - reader of the week
Eughan K- mathematician of the week 

Mrs Powley loved her first day with Class 8 on Friday. Highlights included maths challenges, science mind maps about our amazing bodies and eating lollipops outside.