Classroom News 

Foundation ~ Year 1

STEM Education ~ BBC (BeeBot City) is under construction!

Lots of ideas and designs and conversations and collaborations around our BeeBot city and what makes a city were the basis of many discussions in the junior area over the past fortnight. Our STEM unit is culminating in the construction of our city and the coding of our BeeBot technologies to navigate these vehicles safely around the city. It's been wonderful watching and listening to children's creative ideas and seeing these ideas turn into pieces that have been used as part of our city ~ restaurants, offices, homes, towers, bridges, pools etc are all ideas that our junior students have created. It's going to be a fun last four weeks, that's for sure.

Religion ~ We Remember

Inspired by the poem 'In Flanders Fields', the students had an opportunity to complete a piece of artwork to commemorate November 11th and the anniversary of the end of WW1. A difficult concept for most people, least of all our young ones, We centred mainly on the poppy as a sign of growth, change, beauty and peace. Students used charcoal and water paints to create a war scene and used a range of different sized poppies to illustrate the importance of peace in our world. 

Year 3/4 

A Limerick is:

• a short, rhyming, funny poem. 
• it has a bouncy rhythm that makes them easy to memorize.

There was a bunny

Who had some money 

He didn’t know where to put it

So he put it in a bucket

And then he enjoyed some honey

Georgia 

There was a dog

Who met a frog

Who likes to swim

In the gym

And became very strong

Jazlyn

There was a frog

They were in a fog

It was the night

They slept just right

In the morning they were in a log.

Suzie 

There once was a cat

Who was chasing a rat

That came from the trash

And knocked everything down with a crash

And fell on the floor flat.

Tazlyn 

There was a block

Whose name was Jock

He had a kid

That liked to bid

And they all liked to play Roblocks

Rayzon

There once was a cat

That had a mat

Who was always jumping

And couldn’t stop bumping

So he lost his hat.

Sharlotte

There was a Knight

That had a bite

From a bear

Who has lots of hair

And won the fight.

Jazlyn 

There once was a cat

Who was friends with a rat

They did some dances

By chances and circumstances

Then fell on the floor flat. 

Riyon 

There was a monkey

That wanted some money

So he took a phone

And a bone

Then he found some honey.

Leo 

There was a frog

In the log

He liked to run

Out in the sun

With his tong

Vlami

Some Bee-bot action in Y3/4. 

Dancing Bee-bots and playing Snakes and ladders and a game of Three little pigs.

Year 5/6 

Over the last two weeks, 5/6 have been diving into our new Inquiry topic 'Bee Bot Adventures'. The intention of this unit is to allow them to build their understanding of basic coding and algorithms in an engaging and team based approach. 

The students have been working collaboratively to explore how the bee bots work, and ways in which they can design courses/pathways for these bee bots to follow. 

The kids have had such a fabulous time enjoying these robots, here are some pictures of what we have been up to!