Beech Tree Class Blog 2023-2024
Beech Tree Blog
Weekly Update-20/12/24
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, the children were focusing on their final rehearsals for their Christmas performance, which included a range of lovely carols, along with Winter themed poems that the children had produced as part of their poetry unit of work in English. When it came to the performance, the children were absolutely amazing. The narration, the poems and the singing were all excellent! Well done!
Our final European Art and Artists lesson revolved around Coco Chanel. The children learnt all about her life and the fashion brand that she is known for. Hats were the specific focus of the lesson in relation to Chanel and the children were tasked with designing and creating their own hats. The children were given some options about the type of hat that they wanted to design and create and then set to work creating them. They used cardboard and tape to create the basic structure of their hats and then strengthened them with a layer papier mâché. Once they did this, using the exterior designs that they had originally drawn, they drew their designs onto their hats and painted them. Finally, once these were dry, the children added their own extra details onto the hats e.g feathers. These were fully completed over 3 lessons and the children have done a great job, as can be seen below.
The children also made their own lovely Christmas cards this week. These designs required lots of patience and good listening to create the proper three-dimensional effect with them and I think everyone did a fantastic job with them!
The children also had their Christmas party today and really enjoyed it.
There is no homework over the holidays, however, we are encouraging the children to still be reading to an adult as often as possible over the two-week break. We are also encouraging multiplication tables practise on TT Rockstars or Maths frame whenever it is possible to as well.
Have a great Christmas!
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou :)
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 :)