Class 9

Day 2 Lake District

The coach drove us to Keswick. First, we explored the town centre and compared it to Seacroft and Leeds. Everyone noticed that there were a lot of outdoor clothing shops and gift shops. Then, the children spoke to members of the public to find out why they visit the Lake District. People love the scenery, go walking and go shopping. We really enjoyed the scenery when we ate our lunch overlooking Derwent Water. The boat trip across it to end our residential was excellent.

Day 1 Lake District

Year 4 enjoyed a great start to our trip to the Lake District.

We arrived at Ambleside in glorious sunshine and enjoyed a walk to Lake Windermere. We were amazed by the scenery and amazing views surrounding us. We ate lunch with our friends before leaning how to skim stones across the water.

We traveled to Hawkshead and had a great time exploring the grounds of the youth hostel.

Dinner was delicious and we following this by doing some art, playing outdoors, walking to the river or playing games.

We hope to have a sing song before bed.

Year 4 researched what climate injustice is, how it impacts the earth and everything on it. The children each created a piece of art reflecting their own views on injustice and the causes/outcomes of it.

Week Ending 13/03/2026

Star - Ruby

Dojo - Sheikha

Reader - Freddey

Writer - Luca

Maths - Ivy

Week Ending 06/03/2026

Year 4 added an eco-theme to Science Week to work on the theme: Curiosity - What's your question? Working in groups, we designed, built, tested and evaluated how we could add recyclable materials to work as insulation for a building. We had great fun during the process and were surprised by some of the results!

Star  - Jacob

Dojo - Rahma

Reader - Kingsley

Writer - Thomas

Maths - Aiden

Class 9 helped launch Climate Joy Day by taking part in an assembly and explaining what we do in our Green School Project. We explained what a carbon footprint is and the fact that the school has reduced emissions by 10%. We worked with Shine to learn The Climate Joy song and created a posted to show how Ghana has been affected by climate change. Our day had a science theme as we worked on a project to see how we could insulate a building using recyclable materials; the results were very interesting.

World Book Day

Class 9 had a brilliant World Book Day. We took part in various activities during the day and our highlight was reading with Class 1 (while enjoying  a biscuit too). We took part in an interactive lesson on BBC Bitesize, discussed our favourite types of books and explored where we like to read. 

Week Ending 06/02/2026

Dojo - Kingsley

Star - Charlie

Maths - Ivy

Writing - Dolcie

Reading - Codie

Week Ending 30/01/2026

Ava - Maths

Brodie - Star

Aleigha - Writer

Codie - Reader

Star (a 3 way tie) -  Rahma

                Sheikha

                Teddy

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.

Week Ending 23/01/2026

Ava - Writing

Brodie - Guided reading

Dojo - Nevaeh

Lyla - Maths

Aiden - Star

Week Ending 16/01/2026

Aleigha - Dojo

Jacob - Maths

Thomas - Writing

Emily - Star

Musaab - Reading

Our award winners for the week commencing 5/1/26 are:

Ireti - Star of the week

Ava - Writer of the week

Siraaj - Mathematcian of the week

Ruby - Reader of the week

Well done every for a great week

Year of Aspiration

Catherine Conyard visited our school to lead us on a journey through Ancient Greece.  Catherine used to be a teacher and has been running historical workshops for over 10 years. We interviewed her to see how she got to this point in her career. We asked the following questions ...

What do you enjoy about your job?

"I love history and working with children.  I am in a different school each day and on average, work in 150 schools a year. Every day is different and I never know what challenges I will face.  I love working for myself as it gives me lots of opportunity to develop new skills."

Why did you decide to do this work?

"I started teaching around 23 years ago but had to stop when I had children. As my children got older, I started these workshops and have been running them for many years. I love my job."

How do you develop the knowledge/skills to complete the workshops?

"I do a lot of research and can create a new workshop in 2-3 weeks. I use books, tv and the internet to help research new topics - I love to learn! Some of the reconstructed artefacts I use can take a bit of time to find or build (not always by me) but they are essential so children can imagine what life was like in those times."