Rufford Park Primary School and Nursery

Weekly Update-13/12/24

Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog

Hello everyone,

This week, in English, we have published our Winter themed poems and have been practising to perform them for our Christmas performance. The children have produced some fantastic pieces of work and it’s been lovely to see them all enjoying the performance part of their poetry unit.

In maths, we have focused on multiplying and dividing by 1 and 0 as well as multiplying by 3 numbers. The children have also been practising their x tables on maths frame in preparation for their x tables assessment in June. They have all been working extremely hard and it’s lovely to see all the children’s scores steadily increasing.

In our reading, we have completed our class novel, The Thieves of Ostia, and it's fantastic to see how much the children enjoyed it. We also completed our story time book, The Boy in the Dress, which the children also enjoyed. As the children enjoyed The Thieves of Ostia so much, they have voted to read the sequel novel as part of our story time book next term, this is called The Secrets of Vesuvius, which we will start to read next week.

In history, we concluded our final lesson of the unit by having a debate about whether you would be for or against the Romans coming to Britain if you lived in Britain at the time. The children prepared all their ideas for the for and against parts of their arguments and then chose which side they would be on. It was lovely to see the children applying all of the knowledge that they have learnt throughout this term to argue their cases for both sides of the argument.

Take care,

Mr Kyriacou

Weekly Update-6/12/24

Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog

Hello everyone,

This week, the children have been doing a range of assessments. Everyone worked very hard on these and the results are very promising.

In writing, the children have completed writing their four individual stanzas for their Winter themed poems and completed their first draft of the entire poem. The children have worked very hard on these and I’ve really enjoyed reading them.

In maths, we have continued with multiplication and division, and this week, we have been looking at the 12x table, focusing on fluency, reasoning and problem-solving lessons.

In our reading, we are extremely close to completing our class novel, The Thieves of Ostia, which the children have absolutely loved reading. This week, the children finally found out who the culprit was behind all the murders that have taken place and learnt about the reasons as to why this character committed these crimes. It was lovely to see the children connect the clues that have been left throughout the book and make accurate predictions about they thought it was. We shall be completing the book over the last two weeks of term and as the children have enjoyed the book so much, they are requesting to read the sequel novel as part of our story time book after Christmas.

Take care,

Mr Kyriacou :)

Weekly Update-06/12/24

Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog