Beech Tree Class Blog 2023-2024
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Weekly Update-24/4/26
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, we have started a new unit of work for our writing. We are focusing biographies and the children have been learning all about what biographies are and what features they include. We have then turned our attention to the subject of our biography, which is Howard Carter, the famous archaeologist responsible for discovering the tomb of Tutankhamun. As Ancient Egypt is our topic for the summer term, Howard Carter is the perfect person to focus our biography on and the children have really enjoyed researching facts about him and increasing their own knowledge about the subject of the biographies which they will eventually write. The children have also been practising turning sentences from first person into third person and also creating captions based around images relating to key events in Howard Carter’s life.
In reading, we have started our new class novel, which is The Cat Mummy by Jacqueline Wilson. The children have already been making lots of predictions about what they think the story will be about base don the front cover and the title of the story and we have started to read the first two chapters of the book as well. The children then followed this up with some super retrieval and inference work base don those first two chapters.
In maths, we have been continuing our work on decimals. This has been challenging for some children, but I've been extremely impressed with how much effort the children have been putting in and how much their knowledge and and confidence has increased throughout this unit of work. We have been focusing on hundredths as decimals, hundredths on a place value chart and dividing 1 and 2 digit numbers by 100.
The children also attended The Skipping School’s Skipping Festival this week where they competed against five other schools. The children took part in individual and group skipping events and they all tried their absolute best and represented the school extremely well. Many of the children earned themselves gold, silver and bronze awards for the skills that they took part in and collectively it was more than enough to win the tournament. We’re very proud of all the children’s efforts and they will now be competing against eight other schools in the Leeds City Final, which will take place in June.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou :)
Weekly Update-24/4/26
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, we have started a new unit of work for our writing. We are focusing biographies and the children have been learning all about what biographies are and what features they include. We have then turned our attention to the subject of our biography, which is Howard Carter, the famous archaeologist responsible for discovering the tomb of Tutankhamun. As Ancient Egypt is our topic for the summer term, Howard Carter is the perfect person to focus our biography on and the children have really enjoyed researching facts about him and increasing their own knowledge about the subject of the biographies which they will eventually write. The children have also been practising turning sentences from first person into third person and also creating captions based around images relating to key events in Howard Carter’s life.
In reading, we have started our new class novel, which is The Cat Mummy by Jacqueline Wilson. The children have already been making lots of predictions about what they think the story will be about base don the front cover and the title of the story and we have started to read the first two chapters of the book as well. The children then followed this up with some super retrieval and inference work base don those first two chapters.
In maths, we have been continuing our work on decimals. This has been challenging for some children, but I've been extremely impressed with how much effort the children have been putting in and how much their knowledge and and confidence has increased throughout this unit of work. We have been focusing on hundredths as decimals, hundredths on a place value chart and dividing 1 and 2 digit numbers by 100.
The children also attended The Skipping School’s Skipping Festival this week where they competed against five other schools. The children took part in individual and group skipping events and they all tried their absolute best and represented the school extremely well. Many of the children earned themselves gold, silver and bronze awards for the skills that they took part in and collectively it was more than enough to win the tournament. We’re very proud of all the children’s efforts and they will now be competing against eight other schools in the Leeds City Final, which will take place in June.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou
Weekly Update-2/4/26
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, for our writing, the children generated their ideas for their Haiku poems, drafted their poems, edited them and published them. There were lots of fantastic poems, filled with alliteration, similes, personification and metaphors. We then read out different poems to the class and expressed what we liked about each poem.
In our reading, we completed The Chocolate Touch this week and we wrote our book reviews based on it. They summarised the story without giving away any plot points, listed the main characters, given it a review out of 10 and my favourite part was reading what the children’s favourite parts of the book were. We also completed our story time book (I Swapped My Brother on the Internet) which the children absolutely loved. We also completed our book club book, which I read with a small group of children once a week at lunch time. This book was Varjak Paw, and it was so lovely to see how much the children enjoyed this book.
In maths, we have continued with our unit of work on decimals. We have been focusing on dividing 1- and 2-digit numbers by 10 and 100 using a variety of different ways to work out the answer. It’s been lovely to see the children becoming more confident with all three methods.
In DT, the children completed their kites. They produced some beautiful pieces of work, and they should all be very proud of them.
In our topic work, the children were learning all about the culture and traditions associated with the consumption of chocolate around the world. The children absolutely loved the lesson, and we had so man fantastic discussions about it. To close the topic off, the children also designed their own chocolate bar packaging for their own brands, which were of course Fairtrade chocolate as well.
I hope you all have an egg-cellent break and make sure to stay safe.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou