Year 5
Year 5 enjoyed a fantastic session with Shine to learn the new song, 'Our Ocean Rocks'. They worked hard to learn the verses, pre-chorus and chorus and helped to choregraph actions to each section of the song. Year 5 worked together to create a class environmemtal art outcome on the theme of climate justice and injustice. Class 12 used oil and chalk pastels to create a group collage of the challenges created by plastic pollution in the ocean. Their art work depicts a sea turtle swimming in water polluted by plastic bottles and bags. Class 11 had the theme of climate justice and created a joint piece of Sir David Attenborough to highlight the amazing work he has done as his 100th birthday approaches. Every child had a section of the image to produce and they were combined together to form a collaborative piece. The final outcomes are almost ready and will be displayed during our art exhibition in May.
For Climate Joy Day in Year 5, we enjoyed an assembly called Exploring Urban Wildlife Careers which made us consider how our aspirations for the future could be related to climate activism. We explored a poem about small changes we can make to make a difference and enjoyed creating actions to perform it. We also had a brilliant singing session with Shine!
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.
