What do you know about WWII?
Science- Forces
What do you know about forces?
Autumn 2 in Maple 1
Festival of learning week
The last week of half term was Bearwood’s festival of learning week. The whole school focused on inspirational people, different cultures and maths through the ages.
What was your favourite activity and why? What did you learn?
Autumn 2 topic – World War Two
Next half term Maple base will be learning about World War II. They will be thinking about the soldiers, families and children who were involved in the war. Maple base will be discussing what impact WWII has had on Britain today.
11.11.15- Both classes will visit Scaplen’s court in Poole to deepen their learning.
More information about next half term’s topics will be posted shortly!
World War II
Wednesday 11th November- remembrance day
Year 5 and 6 will be visiting Scaplen’s Court in Poole to deepen their learning of World War II- a letter will be sent out nearer the time.
If you are able to help on the trip please let base teachers know.
http://www.poole.gov.uk/leisure-and-culture/museums-and-local-history/museum/scaplens-court/
Festival of learning week
This week all the children at Bearwood school will be learning about different countries, cultures and religions.
In Maple base we will also be learning about inspirational black leaders from the past and today as well as influential black people from history.
Thursday 22nd October is Maple Bases’ Greek Learning Day
Have you got your Ancient Greek costume ready?
What are you coming to school as and why?
The children will be developing their learning through creating, theatre masks, shields and pottery, they will also be tasting and making Greek foods, learning about seasonal products and where the ingredients come from, as well as acting out a battle between the Athenians and Spartans.
Parents, families, governors and the community are welcome to Maple base at 3pm to share their fantastic learning this half term!
We hope to see you there!
Pictures and learning will appear on our blog next week.
Maths problem solving day
Thursday 15th October Maths Problem solving day.
In Maple 1 we linked our learning from the week to develop and deepen our understanding of converting time and finding time zone differences. We turned our classroom into a departure lounge to to help ‘adventure bear’ travel the world keeping track of his time in each country. Adventure Bear problem
During the day we were also very lucky to work with Barney; he taught us three maths problems that we could play at home and test our parents!
We also tried to solve the following problem:
During 24 hours how many times does 5 appear on a digital clock?
Post your comments on how you solved the problem!
Maple Base are to Perform poems from Macbeth
On Tuesday 29th September at 9.05am Maple base will perform two poems from Shakespeare’s play Macbeth. The parents, friends and family of the children are invited to this performance. The children have been very much inspired by the Young Shakespeare company who visited last Friday.
Maths
‘Maths has been really exciting because we have had to really challenge our brains’
Max Maple 1
These are some of the fun games that we had to solve.
Can you solve this problem? Click below to see the problem. Once you have completed the problem leave a comment with your answer.
Come and look at our outstanding learning!
Since we have been back we have been learning about:
- Macbeth and other Shakespeare Stories
- Space and earth
- How to write biographies
- Negative numbers
New Blog Going Live September 2015
Maple Base’s Blog will be going live in the new school year. Please come back in September to see the learning that will be taking place in the Autumn term.