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Weekly Update-14/11/25
Posted: Nov 14, 2025 by: Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, for our writing, we have continued our work on persuasive information texts. This week, we have focused on creating a range of headings, understanding what rhetorical questions are and creating a range of them related to our persuasive information text. We have also focused on using a range of connectives to link ideas together and we have also been continuing to look at apostrophes, with the focus being on using apostrophes to show plural possession.
In maths, we have started our unit of work on multiplication and division. This week, the focus has been on 6x tables and 9x tables multiplication and division facts, alongside word problems for both as well. Towards the end of the week, we have focused on 3, 6 and 9x tables together using everything they have learnt over the last two weeks to solve a range of problems related to all three x tables. It’s been lovely to see how much more confident children are beginning to get and this has also been noticeable with our times table challenge sheets, as quite a few children have managed to complete the level that they were on and can now move onto the next stage.
In art, the focus has been on abstract art, with the children looking at a range of different styles of abstract art, which included work by artists like Howard Hodgkin. The children learnt what abstract art is, we discussed how we felt about the different styles of abstract art, which ones the children liked and which ones they didn’t and how it made them feel. We then created our geometrically inspired abstract paintings which the children really enjoyed. Once they had completed them, the next step was to follow in the footsteps of several abstract artists and cut our paintings up. Once the children had cut them up, they rearranged them in their books to create brand new abstract paintings and then they glued them in. The children really enjoyed the whole creative process, and it was so lovely to see the exciting pieces of work that they created at the different stages of the process.
The children also learnt all about Remembrance Day and they created a poppy wreath.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou