Croeso i wefan Dosbarth Beech
Miss Ffoulkes Miss Jones Miss Camps
Welcome to Dosbarth Beech's class page. In Dosbarth Beech, Miss Ffoulkes is our Class Teacher and Miss Camps is our class Teaching Assistant. We are lucky enough to have Miss Christian with us some parts of the day as well. We are also very lucky to have Miss Jones who runs our Forest School with us for one session a week.
Here on our class page you will find all of the important documents you need and take a look at our learning in action.
General Information
PE: For Spring Term 2, Dosbarth Beech will be focussing on swimming and going to the Wrexham Baths for swimming lessons every Friday morning. Children will need their swimming kit every Friday. Please check Seesaw for an up to date swimming kit letter.
Forest School: Dosbarth Beech will be having Forest School every Wednesday afternoon with Miss Jones. Children will need their Forest School kit every Wednesday. A kit list letter has been sent out.
Spring 2: Cynefin, Our Community
This half term we will be focussing our Cynefin (where we feel we belong). We will be focussing on our own Cynefin and the local community. We will carry out a project to improve the local community in some way.
PE - In PE we will be taking part in weekly swimming lessons.
Maths - We will be continuing our focus on multiplication and division. We follow a mastery approach giving pupils the opportunity to work on fluency, reasoning and problem solving. From this we will also touch upon temperature. To help at home, we will be primarily focussing on all tables up to our 8 times table, division and multiplication.
English - This half term we will focus on writing stories. We are going to use the stimuli 'The Dragon of the Racecourse' to write stories about our community and Cynefin. Our process will follow the Talk For Writing process.
Homework
Here you will find our Homework grid which will usually be posted every second Friday of a fresh half term. There are 6 activities in total all differentiated so please choose which activities you think are most appropriate for your child and complete at least 3. All children should be able to upload to Seesaw from home but if you have any trouble with this, contact Miss Ffoulkes via Seesaw. We expect the children to be sending home via their own accounts and not through parent's messages as it encourages independence and ICT skills.
Please click on the link below for an electronic copy of our current homework grid:
Below are all of the previous homework grids and half termly overviews from this Academic year:
Spring 1 - Out of This World
This half term we will be focussing Space and in particular the stars and light and dark. We will be investigating manmade and natural light sources as well as different materials that support and discourage light.
PE - In PE we will be following on with gymnastics as we did not complete our topic from before Christmas. After this we will be carrying out an astronaut training camp.
Maths - We will be continuing our focus on the four processes this half term: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. We follow a mastery approach giving pupils the opportunity to work on fluency, reasoning and problem solving. From this we will also touch upon temperature.
English - This half term we will focus on writing Non-Chronological Reports. We are going to use the stimuli 'The Moon'. We are going to use this and the talk for writing approach to write our own Non Chronological Reports based on an element of Outer Space.
Autumn 2 - Lessons from the Past: World War 2
This half term we will be focussing on lessons from the past. Our focus in year 3&4 will be World War 2. Our primary focus will be on comparing school and homelife then and now. We will be learning all about evacuees and we will end our half term by planning and having our very own VE Party.
PE - in PE we will be focussing on gymnastics and allowing the pupils to create their own routine.
Maths - We will be focussing on the four processes this half term: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. We follow a mastery approach giving pupils the opportunity to work on fluency, reasoning and problem solving.
English - This half term we will focus on writing warning stories. We are going to use the stimuli 'The Caravan' which is a Pie Corbett story. We are going to use this and the talk for writing approach to write our own warning stories based in World War 2.
Autumn 1 - Reach for the Stars & Dyma Fi!
For the first two weeks of the term we will be solely focussing on the children. This is an opportunity for me to get to know my new class better and for the children to learn about their friends and themselves. We will be looking at achievements, goals, aiming high and what we might want to be when we grow up. After that we will flow naturally into Dyma Fi! A Welsh driven topic to allow the children to practise their increasing Welsh skills.
PE - in PE we will be focussing on Dance, we will be looking into different traditional dances from different countries and cultures and then allowing the children to get stuck into creating their own.
Maths - Place Value and Number is a main focus so any types of number games you can play at home with your children would be very beneficial.
English - This half term we will focus on writing Personal Profiles using the stimuli 'Can I Build Another Me?' by Shinsuke Yoshitake. We will then be moving onto writing our very own poetry based on a poem called 'The Magic Box'.
Alongside the homework grids children also have logins for each of the following learning platforms. Please click on the links below to take you directly to the websites:
https://hourofcode.com/uk/learn
https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student/16026
https://play.numbots.com/#/intro
https://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com/
https:///appuk.idlsgroup.com/#/login
Google Classroom
All of our class are now set up on Google Classroom, we will be using Google Classroom throughout our year in class.
Please click the link below to find a help sheet about how to log on to Google Classroom: