Beech Class is a Year 2 and 3 class. Mrs Chapman is the class teacher and shares the asseistance of our KS1 teaching assistant Miss Gray. During afternoons when Mrs Chapman is out of the class, the class is taught by our HLTA Mrs Cessford and Miss Gray.
The children are taught in single year groups for Phonics, English and Maths Monday - Thursday mornings and PE & PSHE on a Wednesday afternoon. This is organised:
Miss Darlow - Year 1
Mrs Chapman - Year 2
Miss Conroy - Year 3
WELCOME TO BEECH CLASS
We continue to run things a little different this year to ensure all the children are kept safe due to COVID.
Our weekly routine is as follows:
- WEDNESDAY ids PE day. Year 2s come in their PE kits, where as Year 3s bring their swimming things to change at Morpeth.
- THURSDAY they all come in their PE kits for PE with Mrs Cessford
- THURSDAY Reading books are taken in and changed and reading logged for the reading ladder.
- FRIDAY Spelling test completed and new spellings issued
- FRIDAY They bring their wellies into school for our forest school session with Miss Gray and their new reading books come home.
Year 3 'Play in a day.'
Year 3 have thoroughly enjoyed a play in a day where they re-enacted the story 'The Stone Age Boy.' This is the story that Year 3 children have been learning in Literacy which will support their learning further.
Friday 24th September - European Languages Day
What a great day we have had celebrating everything Norwegian. We started by learning facts about the country and recording on our fact finders, we then learnt some words and phrases using the finger puppets to talk t each other. After break it was all things Vikings creating posters about why they came to England. Then in the afternoon we worked with an artist to do printing of 'the scream' as well as ranking and recreating Norwegian landmarks in the forest.
WB: Monday 15th November - Interfaith Week
This year the whole school has focussed on Judaism, specifically as whole classes on the Mitzvah element. This is when they have a day dedicated to good deeds. This supports their core values of perfecting the world, acts of kindness and righteousness. In beech we focussed on perfecting and repairing the world. I was super impressed at home many children used their litter pickers to tidy up the community and how well they embraced tree planting and tidying the digging area for Early Years.
WB: Monday 13th December 2021 - ChristmasPlay
We were delighted to be able to perform Christmas Nativity performances this year, despite them only being audiences within school.
Year 3 were part of the KS2 performance "It's a Census get me out of here!" They were brilliant wise men, angels, shepherds and Roman Soldiers.
Year 2 were the narrators for the KS1 performance "Woolly!". They did so well speaking with great volume and expression and looked super smart in their best clothing.
It was great that the Friends of Grange View arranged DVD copies for all our families to watch the Nativities at home.
Tuesday 7th December - Angel of the North Sculpture
To conclude our materials topic the children learnt about sculptural artist Michelle Reader. They then planned and worked in groups to make a model of 'The Angel of the North'. During the afternoon they explored different joining techniques, considering which recycled materials could be used for different purposes and had to evaluate their work and others. They were really prod of their creations and used the task as a vehicle for their DT instructional writing.
Friday 4th February - Numbers Day fun!
We thoroughly enjoyed Numbers Day for NSPCC, this included in Year 2 Using our weekly popcorn task to write all the facts they know about the number 25, they then reinforced multiples of 2, 5 and 10 with the bee numbers day task and finished by identifying pattern and variation whilst playing maths themed games here as the Year 3s also recorded facts for their [popcorn number. After they had a range of challenges including a number ordering challenge, who wants to be a millionaire game, hit the button and number of the day facts. WE LOVE NUMBERS DAY AND GETTING TO DRESS UP WITH REPRESENTATIONS OF NUMBERS.
Thursday 10th February - Great Fire of London News Reports
For the last five weeks the Year 2s have been learning about News Reports, finding out lots of facts about the Great Fire of London, how to structure a News Report and what the features of Non Fiction texts are. This concluded with an amazing Hot Write, reporting about the events after the Great Fire of London. They all did brilliantly, here are a couple of their green screen News Reports. Haven't they done well!
Friday 11th February - Great Fire of London reenactment
To conclude our learning about the Great Fire of London, the children had created their own model Tudor houses, considering the features such as wattle and daub, thatch and small windows. We then created our own Pudding Lane on the yard, starting a fire at Thomas Farriners house on Pudding Lane. It really helped the children understand how houses built of wood would set fire so easily and being so close together meant the fire spread fast!
Monday 14th March - STEM WEEK
We have been super busy throughout the week which included:
Learning about the impact of women engineers and the difference you can make as a scientist
Watching Farming LIVE session to understand the life cycles of a cow and sheep compared to a chicken or butterfly
Handling many different animals with Zoo Lab – finding out about their class and their lifecycles
Listening to our special visitors including Mr Laskey and how fire fighting uses many STEM skulls
Considering what living things need to survive and designing a creature that could live n mars based on its cold habitat
Finding out about the different worm in our environment and their use for agriculture.
Tuesday 22nd March - KS2 River Trip
It was great to join the Year 3s as they followed the river Aln from it's source in Alnham up in the cheviot mountains all the way to its end at the sea in Alnmouth. The visit really helped the children understand the different stages of the course and observe how the river starts fast, clear and thin and gradually becomes slowed, wider, deeper and dirtier. They reinforced their understanding of geographical terms and conducted a range of experiments and investigations. It certainly helped having lovely weather and finishing with a play at the beach.
Week beginning 28th March 2022- Postcard writing YEAR 2
This term we have been learning about the continents and oceans of the world and considering where we would go visit. After innovating the story of ‘Somebody Swallowed Stanley we then looked at postcards using ‘Meerkat Mail’ as our shared text. The children did really well writing their fictional postcards, a couple have recorded with green screen for you to enjoy.
Privacy and cookies policy
Part 1: Privacy Policy
Last Edited: 22nd April 2021
1. Introduction
1.1. We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of the users of our services. Our services include and will hereby be referred to as 'Our Services' (our websites used to promote eSchools services and tutorial resources, specifically
https://www.eschools.co.uk
and https://academy.eschools.co.uk), 'School Websites' ( designed by eSchools and populated by individual schools themselves) and 'Platforms' (individual online services that provide teachers, learners, parents and governors with information, tools and resources) as well as our smartphone app. This policy sets out how we will treat your personal information across these services.
2. Collecting personal information on Our Services
2.1 We may process or temporarily store the following kinds of personal information:
information about your computer and about your visits to and use of Our Services (including but not limited to, your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths)
information contained in or relating to any communications that you send to us or send through our website (including, the communication content) via online forms
any other personal information that you choose to send to us via online forms
manually inputted details of users added to the platform
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2.2 Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person's consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with the terms of this policy.
2.3 eSchools websites may request cookies to be set on your device. We use cookies to let us know when you visit our websites, how you interact with us and to enrich your user experience. You can adapt your cookie preferences, although please note that blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience on our websites and the services we are able to offer. We will not, without your express consent, supply your personal information to any third party for the purpose of their or any other third party's direct marketing. For further information on how you can manage and set your cookie preferences, please see our Cookie Policy.
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3.3. eSchools understands our obligation to be mindful about the data we process and only process data that is required to fulfil our obligations in providing our services; to a school who enters into an agreement to use our services and you, the user.
3.4. We will not pass your information to third parties; except for the purpose of fulfilling our services to a school who enters into an agreement to use our services and you, the user or where we are required to do so by law.
4. Disclosing personal information
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to the school in the case of improper use on the platform by individuals
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5. International data transfers
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5.2. Personal information that an individual adds to our websites may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
6. Retaining personal information
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6.4. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 6, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
If we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and
In order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk). Data will no longer be kept after the termination of the contract with the school.
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7.3. eSchools use a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) which creates a secure connection and uses two keys to encrypt data in transit. Despite this, you acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data.
8. Amendments
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Part 2: Cookie Policy
Last Edited: 22nd April 2021
This Cookie Policy explains how eSchools use cookies and similar technologies in our Services. It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control their use.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by online service providers in order to (for example) make their websites or services work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.
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Why do we use cookies and other tracking technologies?
We use first party and third party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Services to operate, and we refer to these as “essential” cookies. Other cookies enable us and the third parties we work with to track and target the interests of visitors to our Services, and we refer to these as “advertising” or “analytical” cookies. For example, the embedding of YouTube and Vimeo videos, as added by individual schools, will require “advertising” cookies to be enabled in order to successfully play them. Schools that, for example, opt to track visitor data using Google Analytics will require “analytical” cookies to be enabled in order to do so. These third party cookies are used to tailor content and information that we may send or display to you and otherwise personalise your experience while interacting with our Services and to otherwise improve the functionality of the Services we provide. We also enable schools to employ cookies and similar tracking technologies in connection with their use of our Services in order to allow them to track visitors to and interactions with their school website.
How eSchools Uses Cookies
eSchools websites may request cookies to be set on your device. We use cookies to let us know when you visit our websites, how you interact with us and to enrich your user experience. The cookies differ depending on the information. You can adapt your cookie preferences, although please note that blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience on our websites and the services we are able to offer. We will not, without your express consent, supply your personal information to any third party for the purpose of their or any other third party's direct marketing.
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