Class 2025

Year Four had their first school trip today.

We ventured into our local area and visited the lake at Fairhaven.

There was lots of getting stuck in the mud, as we used scientific equipment to explore the muddy habitat in search of creatures. We found lots of Scrobicularias and learnt all…

As part of our ICT unit we have been learning how to make PowerPoints. We used our English notes on bees to help us create a PowerPoint all about bees. Today we showed the rest of our class our PowerPoints and which transitions and animations we had chosen. 

Today, Mrs Croston brought in 2 little paddling pools for us to have some water play and keep cool. First we tried making paper boats. Then we had a raft building competition using multi link cubes. We all had some very innovative ideas! 

Today we took advantage of the sunshine and completed our shadow investigation. We wanted to answer the question, “How do our shadows change throughout the day.” We all wrote our predictions and then went outside to trace around the shape of our partner’s shadow 3 times throughout the day.…

This week, we are taking part in Monster Kickabout. Monster Kickabout is a nationwide Primary School football initiative from Sports Direct and Nike, created to encourage more kids to take up football. 

The children performed their bee assembly yesterday and I was extremely proud of them. They have worked so hard and couldn’t have done it better. Thank you to parents for helping the children learn their lines so well. Well done Beech Class! 

Today, we were treated to a wet felt workshop. W used the Great Barrier Reef to inspire our pieces and created some wonderful under the sea wet felt creations. We were really pleased with how they turned out. 

Today we were very lucky to have Shane Hegarty visit us to talk about his new book, The Shop of Impossible Ice Creams. He also gave us some tips and tricks to help our writing skills. Afterwards we felt inspired by his book and wrote our own impossible ice cream flavours and what magical powers…

Today BYGPAW came in to do some dance, visual arts and percussion workshops. We had SO much fun! First we danced with Danny, we all learned some new moves and it looked amazing. We then made some orangutan masks out of cars, they look brilliant. After that we played drums and it made a lot of…

This afternoon we had an Indian dancing workshop. The children had such fun and learned some great moves, they all did so well. 

Today we had our first session of Cricket with Danny from Fylde Coast Cricket. We had such a great time and the children learned some new skills. 

Yesterday we had our spelling bee and all children did extremely well. The words were tricky and it was fierce competition. We had 12 finalists today who all did amazingly! It was an extremely close competition. Well done to everyone.