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Weekly update-8/12/23

Posted: Dec 8, 2023 by: Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog

Hello everyone,

This week, in our writing, the children published their newspaper reports, which were all about the Viking attack at Lindisfarne. They've done a great job with them and even had the opportunity to make their newspapers look old.

We have now moved onto our poetry unit of work, which will be focusing on the narrative poem, Please Mrs Butler. The children have really enjoyed performing it and looking at the literacy devices used within the poem.

Please Mrs Butler

In maths, we have been focusing on the 11 and 12x tables, working on fluency, reasoning and problem solving. The children have been working really hard - we have had great discussions about different ways and the necessary steps to solve trickier problems. The children have also been creating their own word problems based on specific calculations and have been encouraged to use good mathematical language within those and it's also lovely to see that they are getting more confident with giving good mathematical reasoning to back up their opinions about a particular statement or statements that have been made.

In PSHE, we have continued our unit of work on Valuing Differences, and the focus of this week's lesson was stereotypes. The children learnt what stereotyping is; we looked at various different examples of stereotypes and had a really stimulating discussion about why it is important not to stereotype and the impact that can have.

The children have also created their own Viking board game, based on the game that they played at Murton Park. They all did a great job with their designs and then had a go playing against each other. 

Take care,

Mr Kyriacou :)