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We have been learning about the importance of fairtrade over the last two weeks. Â We made banana chocolate chip muffins and brownies in cookery, created fairtrade threading arts and crafts and looked at the origins of chocolate. Â Toni and Emma enjoyed designing their own fairtrade inspired chocolate bars!
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We had a lovely day on Thursday celebrating World Book Day! Â Some of us dressed up as our favourite characters and we all completed a variety of activities based on some known and loved stories.
We had a book and fairytale quiz, a game of ‘guess who/what’, made a character mask for our friends, had a game of book bingo and a character scavenger hunt!
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We have started our brand new ‘Ancient Egypt’ topic in the Beech class!
We have already explored mummification and the pyramids as well as hieroglyphics!
Here are some of our favourite photos of us attempting to reconstruct the pyramids with different media during a STEAM session and going through the mummification process whilst learning about our internal organs!
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We’ve started looking at different jobs and careers that people do after they leave school.  Today we were focusing on the skills that we have and compared them to the skills that are needed for different jobs.  We each chose a job or career and completed some research about it to find out about pay, working hours, equipment and uniforms.  We had to think hard about what skills or qualifications were needed for a job as well as our own skills and abilities and whether we would like to try the job we researched.
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We have been celebrating the LGBTQ+ community this week by having ‘Purple Friday’.  We dressed in purple and took part in lots of different purple themed activities.  We celebrated all the different kids of love and families that exist in our world.  Some of our activities included; making rainbow bracelets, making lavender flowers and play dough, painting and sensory writing.
well done, Beech class!
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We have been working hard on developing our understanding of measuring equipment, units of measurement and how to measure different types of objects. Â Today we were looking at capacity and volume. We explored how to measure the volume of different liquids and correct terminology.
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We celebrates Chine New Year recently by having a sensory afternoon in class where we explore all things Chinese.
We made a traditional Chinese drum, attempted to write numbers and animals in Mandarin using dough, paint and coloured rice and listened to traditional Chinese music.  We also had great fun attempting to make our very own fortune cookies! It wasn’t a very successful venture but we loved giving it a go!
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We are celebrating the LGBT+ community this February. Today we read a story called ‘Red: A Crayon’s Story’ which was all about a blue crayon who was wearing a red cover by mistake. Everyone expected the crayon to colour in red but it couldn’t make itself be red no matter how hard it tried. It taught us to always be the person we feel inside no matter what label we are given.
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We found all our class crayons and ripped off their labels to ‘set them free’ then melted some crayons to make a piece of art work showing all the true colours of every crayon as they mixed together.
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As part of our school’s ’50 things to do outdoors’ initiative, we embraced the winter cold today to feel the earth on our barefeet! It was lots of fun and we enjoyed trying to think of adjectives to help describe all the things we could feel on our feet.
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