Beech Tree Class Blog 2023-2024
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Weekly Update-13/6/25
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, in our reading, we have continued to read our class novel (Stig of the Dump) and have focused on the sixth chapter of the book called Skinned and Buried. The children are really enjoying the book so far and we’ve had lots of lovely class discussions about it. We have also just completed our story time book called The Shop of Impossible Ice Creams by Shane Hegarty which the children absolutely loved and found very funny. The class unanimously said that they would definitely recommend the book to other children in LKS2.
In maths, we have started our unit of work on shape, focusing on understanding what angles are, identifying a range of angles, focusing on the properties of triangles and quadrilaterals and understanding what parallel and perpendicular lines are and identifying them in different shapes.
In history, we are continuing our work on the Stone age to Iron Age. This week, we have focused on identifying what tools, food and homes were like in the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic periods of the Stone Age, how they changed and developed between the two periods and what impact that had on the lives of those early humans. The children really enjoyed the lesson and contributed their ideas well throughout the lesson.
In computing, the children have started their new unit of work on data branching databases. Their first lesson focused on the children investigating yes or no questions with yes or no answers to categorise different objects, creating their own yes or no questions with yes or no answers to categorise different objects, They also had to create yes or no question that could separate a whole group of objects into two separate categories that would be split due to one different attribute.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou
Weekly Update-6/6/25
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, we have continued our adventure story unit of work that we started before the half term break. The children have spent the week writing their alternative adventure story which involves the main character of the story travelling back to a particular period in history. The children all voted for the period to be 1912, during the maiden voyage of the Titanic. The followed their five-part structures to create exciting adventure stories that included an introduction, a build-up, a dilemma, a resolution and a conclusion. Once they completed their writing, the children then revised and edited their pieces.
In maths, we have continued our unit of work on time, focusing on converting from analogue time to 12 hour digital, converting from analogue time to 24 hour digital and then converting from 24 hour digital time to 12 digital hour time and then also representing that in analogue time. The children have found this unit challenging; however, they’ve also been extremely resilient and made great progress with it.
In our reading, we have continued reading our class novel, which is Stig of the Dump. This week, we read the fifth chapter, titled The Snargets, and focused on retrieval, inference and summarising skills. We have also continued reading our story time book, which is called The Shop of Impossible Ice Creams and the children are absolutely loving it.
As part of our ALPT art exhibition, which is themed around Yorkshire, the children have taken inspiration from David Hockney’s digitally created paintings to create their own digital landscape paintings of Ilkley Moor.
The children also completed their multiplication tables assessments this week. They all tried very hard. Well done, everyone!
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou :)
Weekly Update-23/5/25
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, in maths, we have started our unit of work on time. This involved focusing on days, weeks, months and years, along with a focus on converting between analogue and 12-hour digital time and then also converting between 12-hour and 24-hour time.
As part of our reading this week, we focused on a Stone Age themed poem called I Was Born in the Stone Age by Michael Rosen. We discussed what the poem was all about and the children also really enjoyed that it was a funny poem as well. We then moved onto performing the poems, with a focus on intonation, varying the volume and varying the pace. The children also included actions when they performed them as well. They all really enjoyed it and it was lovely to see the different performances!
In writing, as part of our time travel adventure story, the children all voted on sending our main character back in time to 1912 on the maiden voyage of the Titanic. So this week, we have researched lots of facts about the Titanic and her ill fated voyage, focused on using inverted commas to create correctly punctuated lines of dialogue between our main character and Captain Smith, we have used descriptive words and phrases to describe the Titanic and the iceberg that she hit and our final lesson involved the children creating their plans for their story using a story mountain planner.
In computing, we have continued our work on programming events and actions. The children have absolutely loved this unit of work and produced some brilliant work throughout it. This week, we focused on debugging. The children were tasked with identifying the errors with the different lines of code and had to work out whether the code needed to be changed, removed or a new line of code needed to be added. The children were absolutely brilliant and really showed off how much they’ve learnt throughout this entire unit of work and were able to apply that knowledge with confidence to solve the problems.
Have a lovely week off and stay safe