Cedar Tree Class Blog
Cedar Tree Class
Weekly Update 26/09/25
Mr Dring (p.dring) on: Cedar Tree Class
Hi Everyone,
Firstly, a huge thank you to you all for ensuring your children were able to attend our trips this week – I really do appreciate the earlier start for everybody and the adjustments you made for the later pick-up. The children had a lot of fun and were a real credit to the school. Thank you, children!
I do hope you have enjoyed hearing about the children’s experiences when they got back home. We will be doing more work on this next week.
In English, we have been writing character descriptions of Beowulf using expanded noun phrases. In Maths, we have been working on number lines up to 10,000. In Reading, we have been developing our dictionary skills.
It has been a busy and exciting week of learning, and we are really proud of the effort the children have put in.
Have a lovely weekend!
Mrs Ward and Miss Maher
Weekly Update 19/09/25
Mr Dring (p.dring) on: Cedar Tree Class
Hi Everyone!
It has been a busy but enjoyable week.
In Art, we continued our topic on British art. The children learned about the British Afro-Caribbean artist Sonia Boyce, who is well known for painting figures of family and friends.
In Maths, we have been focusing on number. Over the past two days, the children have been working on finding 1 more/1 less, 100 more/100 less, and 1000 more/1000 less.
In English, we have started reading the story of Beowulf. The children wrote character descriptions of Beowulf this week, and we will continue exploring the story further next week.
Just a reminder that we will be going on our trip next week:
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Year 3 on Tuesday
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Year 4 on Wednesday
Please also encourage your child to read regularly at home, as this greatly supports their writing, particularly with generating ideas.
We hope you have a lovely weekend.
Best wishes,
Mrs Ward and Miss Maher
Week 2 Update 12/09/25
Mr Dring (p.dring) on: Cedar Tree Class
The children have continued to settle in really well this week. It was lovely to see so many of you on Wednesday afternoon – thank you for coming along.
In Art, we have started our topic on British Art. The children enjoyed a fun paint-by-numbers activity to help them practise their painting skills and build confidence with colour.
In Maths, we have been concentrating on number and partition, making sure we understand how numbers can be broken down and represented in different ways.
In English, our focus has been on grammar. The children have been working hard to develop their skills, which will support their writing as we move into our next unit of work.
The children are making a great start to the term, and we are really enjoying our time together as a new class.
We hope you have a lovely weekend, and we look forward to seeing the children next week.
Mrs Ward and Miss Maher
Welcome Back!
Mr Dring (p.dring) on: Cedar Tree Class
And that is the end of week 1!
It has been so wonderful to see the children back this week and we have really enjoyed meeting and getting to know our new class. The children have settled into their new routines really well and have made a great start to the year.
This week we have been recapping good behaviours for learning and how to keep ourselves and each other happy and safe whilst we are at school.
We have started to look at our new guided reading book - Thorfin the Nicest Viking and the Terrible Treasure which will link to our History topic on Vikings and Anglo-Saxons.
In maths we have been recapping some basic skills before we progress to some new year 3/4 learning next week.
The Cedar curriculum page has been updated and has all the information that you need about what we are learning this half term.
Have a lovely weekend and we will see you all next week.
Mrs Ward and Miss Maher
The Final Week! 18.07.25
Mr Dring (p.dring) on: Cedar Tree Class
Hi everyone,
It’s been a busy and exciting term!
It has been a pleasure getting to know the wonderful children in Cedar. They’ve made our time together truly enjoyable.
We’ve now completed our cushion project, and the children are so excited to take them home. They’ve worked incredibly hard and should be very proud of what they’ve achieved—learning how to design and sew their own unique creations from start to finish.
In Maths, we’ve been revisiting key concepts: Year 3 have been consolidating their understanding of fractions, while Year 4 have explored position and direction.
In English, we published our set of instructions on how to sew a cushion. The children have worked hard on this and used their knowledge from the DT lessons to aid their writing.
The homework project was a success! Thank you to all those who came in to support the children - we appreciate your time.
It has been a joy teaching Cedar this term, and we wish all the children the very best as they move into Year 4 and Year 5.
We hope you all have a wonderful summer break, whatever your plans may be.
See you in September 2025!
Miss Maher and Mrs Ward