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BURGHERSH CLASS
Welcome to BURGHERSH CLASS!
Miss. Lea
Mrs. Pearce
Miss. Davies
Mrs. Lawrence
Burghersh Class are taught by Miss. Lea, with TA support from Mrs. Pearce, Miss. Davies and Mrs. Lawrence.
Our classroom is very unusual as it is located in the almshouses, so the residents are our neighbours. We work in two rooms and have our own bathroom and kitchen! Our two rooms mean we can work as a whole-class or in smaller groups. The class windows overlook the cloisters and gardens on one side and the churchyard on the other. We thrive on learning in our unique surroundings.
This term our topic is Prehistoric Britain, looking at the history of the British Isles up until the Roman Invasion. Our books are Stone Age Boy and Stig of the Dump. We will be studying them in English, looking at the plots of the stories, writing a biography of the author and exploring how the setting and characters change. In maths this term we will be looking at addition and subtraction using different methods including column method, then ,oving on to multiplication and division.
Our other subjects include light in science, football and team games in PE (with Mrs Seymour), Celebrations in RE and touch typing in computing (with Mr Ottaway). We are learning how to count and introduce ourselves and others in French and, in Music, we are learning chords and singing songs with the ukulele. Our next topic in the summer term is Romans.
We recently made our own paint and used them to make paintings ! We also did some classroom archeology, digging up (replica) Stone Age artefacts and working out what they could tell us about how people lived in prehistoric times.
We are also taking our turn at Forest School this term, exploring and creating art from natural resources. We have worked together to make up games, catch insects, explore the pond and the world around us.
This has been lots of fun, and has also given lots of ideas about what life might have been like in the Stone Age using natural tools. We have shown lots of resilience when the weather is cold or wet, and when we try the many new things Rachel introduces us to each week!