Year 5

Year 5 started our Climate Joy Day with a fantastic session with Shine. Shine retaught us the lyrics to our amazing song, "Wondrous World".  We spent the session adding actions to the lyrics and it really reminded us of why we celebrate days such as Climate Joy and why our climate work at Beechwood is so important. 

Throughout the day, year 5 did various activities in class and around the school grounds. Miss Khan took small groups out in the environment to complete our sponsored scavenger hunt. This really highlighted how much excellent work is already happening at Beechwood such as our solar panels and dedicated recycling efforts. We spent a lesson looking at the year 5 climate learning mat and researching how the Industrial Revolution has significantly contributed to climate change. This links to our history topic, The Victorians. Year 5 made connections to the events that took place during the Victorian era and the impact they have had environmentally since. We then looked at how many countries in the world have taken action to try and offset this. Finally, we focused on the COP30 conference. We revisited what it is and why it takes place each year. Considering what we had learned throughout the morning, we created posters to send to COP30 with messages about climate change and advocating action to be taken. We finished the day with a conscience alley activity where we imagined telling the world leaders who are attending COP 30 what we think they need to do to help protect our "wondrous world". A fantastic day by all children who showed deep understanding and commitment to finding climate joy.