Beech Tree Class Blog 2023-2024
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Weekly Update-2/5/25
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 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 :)
Weekly Update-25/4/25
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, in our writing, we have read and discussed Stone Age Boy, which is the focus of our writing this half term. We have focused on understanding the range of feelings that the two main characters feel throughout different situations which involved some drama activities and also focused on using our five senses to describe different settings that appear throughout the story.
In our reading, we have also started our new class novel called Stig of the Dump. The children have made predictions about the story based on the front cover, we have discussed the meaning of challenging vocabulary as we have read through the first chapter and we have also focused on retrieval and inference work based on the first chapter. The children have really enjoyed it so far and they love the links to the Stone Age!
In science, we have started our new unit of work on Habitats. The first lesson focused on living things and their habitats, which prompted some fantastic class discussions, especially around the human impact for different living things and their habitats.
We also had some lovely book in a box pieces that were created based around their favourite books or book series, so well done to those children!
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou
Weekly Update-4/4/25
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, in our writing, the children created their own volcano themed acrostic poems which were also written to create the shape of a volcano. The children really enjoyed creating them and I really enjoyed listening to them and reading them.
In computing, as part of our audio editing unit of work, the children used their planned podcast ideas and scripts to record their podcast using Audacity. The children also inserted certain sound effects that would work with the theme of their podcast e.g fans cheering or a whistle blowing for a football themed podcast. They really enjoyed working on them and listening to the final version after editing them.
The children took part in the Skipping School’s Skipping Festival this week. They represented the school incredibly well, they tried hard in all their events and, most importantly, they all enjoyed themselves! We had a range of bronze, silver and gold winners for different events and the children should be very proud with what they achieved.
We hope you all have a great break!
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou