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Weekly Update-2/5/25
Posted: May 2, 2025 by: 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 understanding the tricky vocabulary, our summarising skills and our retrieval and inference skills. It’s so lovely to see how much the children are enjoying it!
In our writing, we have focused on placing the events of Stone Age Boy in chronological order, writing in first person, past tense, using fronted adverbials effectively and creating powerful expanded noun phrases with prepositional phrases. The children have produced some super work which will really support them when they begin to write their diary entries.
In maths, we have come to the end of our unit of work on decimals this week. The children have been focusing on comparing decimals, ordering them, rounding them to the nearest whole and focusing on halves and quarters and converting them from fractions to decimals and vice versa. They have continued to work extremely hard, even during some of the more challenging lessons. It's great to see such resilience!
In computing, our unit of work this half term is focused on programming events and actions. This week, the lesson revolved around maze movement. The children learnt how to create their own maze, add their own sprites into the maze and then create the code to allow the sprite to move forwards going up, down, left and right in order to be able to navigate the sprite through the maze and to the other side. The children absolutely loved this and created some fantastic pieces of work! The children were also challenged with making parts of their mazes even more narrow and creating code that would allow them to reduce the size of their sprite in order to allow it to move through without touching the walls of the maze and then increase the size again when there was space to do so.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou :)