Beavers
Welcome to Beavers Class
Curriculum Newsletters 2024-2025
What a wonderful day everyone had during our Upper School sport's day. Everyone involved supported everyone else and just thoroughly enjoyed all the events. Her are a few photos of Beavers class.
Here are some of the wonderful work we have been doing during maths. We have been working on capacity, measuring using standard and non-standards methods, number work, shape and time.
Practicing our cycling and scooter riding skills out on the main playground. We had so much fun.
We have been working on measurement specifically heavy and light today and they all did really well. We recorded our findings in our math books. We have also been working on our addition and subtraction calculations using number lines and numicon to support.
Today we have been learning all about Saint David's Day and celebrating with lots of different activities linked to the special event.
We have been celebrating French Day this week and doing lots of different activities linking to French customs and Daily French life.
This week in Beavers, we have been celebrating Chinese New Year. We made our own lanterns, explored a sensory story, make cookies and shaped them like snakes for the year of the snake and then tried some Chinese food.
This week in maths we have been looking at and exploring money in different ways. We have been looking at coins and making different amounts. We also created a Beavers shop where children were given coins and chose what they would like to buy from the shop with their money.
Our topic in science is materials, this week we have been making predictions on what we think will happen when we heat a material up. Some children said they think it will change colour or change shape.
This week in Beavers we have been getting in the Christmas spirit and have been making Christmas decorations, ginger bread men and mince pies. Beavers class have thought these have tasted so good!
In Music we have been looking at different rhythms and dynamics of how loud and quiet we can play an instrument. Some of us then went outside and followed the sound cards while playing our instruments.
In Art we have been creating different types of Autumnal art using natural resources but also paint, which we all love!
In Beavers class, we have been celebrating Children in Need Day. The children came into school dressed up and then we did lots of fun activities for this such as our own life size Pudsey Bear collage, Pudsey Bear headbands and some delicious rice crispy cakes.
This week in Geography, we are taking a trip round the world to Bethlehem. We visited France this week. We made our own passports, boarded the plane and then learnt facts about France before trying food from France.
This week in Beavers we have been celebrating Bonfire Night. We did a range of activities for this such as building our own bonfire, making some amazing firework art, fruit rocket kababs and chocolate sparklers. Beavers have also learnt about Guy Fawkes and how bonfire night started.
We have started Computing this half term. We have been looking at technology of where we find it and how we use it. Today we have been exploring different types of technology and found some round school.
In Art, we have been looking at rockets and how they fly. We made balloon rockets and then let them fly across the room. Beavers class thoroughly enjoyed this.
In history we have been studying the Anglo- Saxon's. We have been looking at jobs that the Anglo-Saxon's used to do, one of the jobs was weaving to make clothes. We had a go at weaving too!
In English we have been looking at space and wondered what food an Astronaut would eat in space. We made some space biscuits and enjoyed feeling like we were in space.
In science, we have been exploring space. We have been looking at the sun and getting light from the sun, so turned the classroom into darkness and explored our surroundings using torches.
In PML, we have been looking at French Cafe's and turned our classroom into a French Cafe before ordering and trying some homemade lemonade.
In Beavers, in maths we have been looking at length. We explored a range of sensory activities making long and short lines and even had a go at ordering them too.
In Beavers in PSHE we have been looking at healthy eating and have tried some healthy and unhealthy foods and used symbols to organise them into categories.
