Welcome to Beech Class

We are a key stage 2, Enrichment Pathway class at Hawthorns School. We follow a bespoke curriculum focusing on foundational skills that enable the students to become confident, happy and independent learners.

The curriculum is split into three key areas:

My Communication
My Thinking and Problem Solving
My Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Our key priorities are providing a nurturing and stimulating learning environment, that allows students to access the curriculum through a total communication approach alongside enabling resources that scaffold learning.

We use the SEE-KS framework to inform our teaching which focusing on three key areas:

Fostering Investment
Fostering Independence
Fostering Initiation

The Adults in Beech Class are:

Name	Position
Miss K. Daziel	Class Teacher
Mrs S. Shaw	Teaching Assistant
Miss K. Jones	Teaching Assistant

In addition to the three key areas, we also cover a wide range of exciting topics to expand our interests in the world around us. Topics have a History, Geography or Science focus, each are taught as experiential learning opportunities that are hands on and engaging. Each session is differentiated to ensure all students can access the topic and is therefore meaningful and purposeful for them

Here are the topics we will cover this year:

Autumn Term 1	Autumn Term 2	Spring Term 1	Spring Term 2	Summer Term 1	Summer Term 2
Colour Chaos Focus: Art: Colours Mixing Expression and creativity	What can I hear? Focus: Phonics: Sounds My senses Rhyming and Rhythm	What under your feet? Focus: Science: Minibeast	Reduce Reuse Recycle Focus: Science / Geography: Recycling Eco Environment Materials Sorting	Through the Keyhole Focus: Geography: Exploring homes and houses	The Magic School Bus Focus: Geography: Exploring places and transport around the World
*History is taught by celebrating festivals throughout the year, which are presented on our class calendar which is updated throughout the year.

Wellbeing Timetable

Autumn Term		Spring Term		Summer Term
All about ME Focus: History / PSHE Self-Expression Family Friendship Emotions		Healthy Lifestyles Focus: Science / PSHE Health and Hygiene Diet and food		My Community Focus: Geography / PSHE Where I Live People that help us Road Safety

Weekly Timetable

Here’s some of the things we love to do in Beech Class …

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Please see our class twitter page, @Hawthorn_Beech for regular updates of what we get up to. Click on the follow below to visit our page now.

Please feel free to contact us via the class twitter page above or on our email:

beech@hawthorns.tameside.sch.uk

Parent App

We also have a parent app, which we use to send out messages, letters and important information. If you haven’t signed up, and would like to, contact school to receive an invitation by email. For step by step instructions on how to install the app click here