Beech Tree Class Blog 2023-2024
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Weekly Update-20/6/25
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week the children have been doing a range of assessments, and I’m extremely pleased to tell you that they’ve all done brilliantly and made great progress throughout the year. Well done!
In science, our lesson focused on identifying different human teeth and understanding what they look like, where they are in the mouth, how many of each that we have and what their function is. The children really enjoyed the lesson and are looking forward to conducting an experiment next week.
In history, we have continued our work on the Stone Age to the Iron Age. This week, we were focusing on the Neolithic Stone Age, and we were looking at how food, tools and homes had changed during this age in comparison to the previous two ages that we have looked at. We also focused on how those changes impacted those early humans.
In art, the children have really been enjoying our unit of work on Fruit and Vegetables. This week, the children have been experimenting with mixing paints and creating a range of warm and cold colours and then using these skills to sketch and paint their own fruit or vegetable.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou
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 :)