Merry Christmas Everyone and Happy New Year!
🥳🎄☃️👏🌟❤️🎅🏻🤶🏻

Week beginning 16.12.24

Bestwood Class had a wonderful time at the pantomime Aladdin! The children were fantastic throughout and thoroughly enjoyed the show, especially watching the lively characters on stage. They laughed along with the funny moments, admired the colourful costumes, and loved the energetic singing and dancing.

Back at school, we invited parents to join us for a festive Christmas quiz. It was a lovely opportunity to come together, share some laughs, and enjoy a hot drink with a mince pie or biscuit. Everyone had great fun, and the Christmas spirit was in full swing!

As we approach the festive season, we’d like to wish all our families and the wider school community a very Merry Christmas and a happy, healthy New Year. See you in 2025! ☃️🎄🥳
Congratulations to Thomas and Logan for being our super proud Star of the Weeks. 🌟👏🤩

Week beginning 25.11.24

This week at school has been full of exciting activities! In class, we’ve been busy writing explanations, performing voice-overs, and sharpening our math skills using times tables. In humanities, we got creative (and a little messy) making “exploding buboes” – they may have looked gross, but they were surprisingly delicious! Team Bestwood has been hard at work manufacturing our enterprise products, showing great teamwork and dedication. Last Wednesday, we had a fantastic trip to the cinema for National Film Week, where we thoroughly enjoyed watching The Super Mario Bros. Movie. What a fun and productive week!

Week beginning 11.11.24

Welcome back, everyone! We’re thrilled to be back together, and our class is off to a fantastic start. Students have been working hard, and we’ve already launched into some exciting activities. Our new maths groups are up and running smoothly, and this week we’ve been fully immersed in Enterprise Week. We’re busy designing products to sell at the upcoming school Christmas Fayre. With lots of creative ideas, we’ve reached the prototype stage, and we’re excited to show off our work!

On Monday, we visited the war memorial and took part in the 2 minutes silence. We met two soldiers, who were once Green Jackets in the Rifles Regiment.

Today, we had a special visitor, Jake, a wind power and turbine expert, who gave us an inspiring talk on renewable energy. He shared insights into his job, demonstrated his safety gear, and even let a few students try on his helmet and harness. We were fascinated by the technical drawings of wind turbine designs and enjoyed exploring this cutting-edge field.

Happy Half Term Holiday Everyone! 🎃👻🍃🍂

Week beginning 14.10.24

Bestwood have been programming the rugged robots and planning routes around the classroom. They had some great ideas as to how to make sure the distances they needed were recorded. Groups worked in small teams and after some practise succeeded in guiding the robots across the classroom, around obstacles and out of the door! 👏
On Friday, we will present our ideas to the council for improving Morven Park. We have some fabulous suggestions for some play zones and hope our ideas might one day become reality. 🤞😌

Week beginning 23.9.24

Bestwood have continued to work on our class text ‘ A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ by William Shakespeare. We have enjoyed using Shakespeare’s insults and created some of our own. 
We had fun pretending to be Helena and Hermia, when they argued over Demetrius. 
In DT, we have been making structures and in science we have been learning about the heart and lungs. 🫁❤️

Despite the weather, we have been out and about in our community and have been practising crossing the roads around school and looking for potential hazards. ☺️

So far this term, Thomas, Logan, Caitlin, L’Auren, Joshua and Connor have been our stars of the week.🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Week beginning 9.9.24

Exciting Start to the Term at Bestwood!

We've hit the ground running this term at Bestwood with some fascinating new topics! In Humanities, our journey through history has begun with "Sneezes and Diseases", where we're exploring life in the Middle Ages, including the intriguing Feudal System.

In Science, we're diving deep into the inner workings of the human body, starting with the heart. We’re learning how it functions and exploring the causes and effects of heart disease.

Meanwhile, in English, we’ve been traveling back in time to meet the legendary William Shakespeare! We’ve asked him all about his life, and we can’t wait to dive into one of his famous plays, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, next week. Stay tuned for more Shakespearean adventures!

This term our main topic is Sneezes and Diseases. Please see Bestwood's curriculum map for more details.

Welcome back everyone!

Happy Holidays Everyone 🌞🏄‍♀️🍦😎

Week beginning 22.7.24

Bestwood have made a positive start to the new school year. They have moved into a new classroom and have a set of new friends to get to know!. Over the last few weeks we have started a new course of Independent travel, been trained in CPR and learned about the Ancient and Modern Olympics. It’s been a busy one and we are all looking forward to the Summer Holidays. We have all of our fingers crossed for sunny weather and lots of fun with our family and friends. Happy holidays everyone. ☺️🌞🤞🍦