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Weekly Update-18/9/26
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Oak Tree Blog
Hello everyone.
This week, the children were able to meet an author who had come in to speak about his books, the process of writing, the ideas that he works with and how he became an author in the first place. This author was Tom Palmer and the children really enjoyed their morning with him and asked lots of good questions when they had the opportunity to do so.
In maths, the children have been focusing on reading and writing numbers to 100,000 and then to 1,000,000, as well as solving lots of different word problems relating to numbers that go up to 1,000,000. We have also just started working with powers of 10 as well. This was a challenging lesson for some children, but it was fantastic to see how resilient the children were and the progress that they made throughout that lesson.
In writing, the children have been focusing on understanding and using fronted adverbials, we have been reading examples of BBC 500-word stories from previous finalists and identifying features that appear within them that the children will be aiming got include within their own story. The children have then started to plan out their 500-word stories, with them thinking about their basic plot outline and description of their main characters and settings.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou
Weekly Update-11/9/26
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Oak Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
It’s been a very busy week, but the children have been absolute superstars throughout it. We have continued reading Goodnight Mister Tom and focusing in on using dictionaries to identify the meaning of challenging vocabulary that appears in the text and using retrieval and inference skills to answer increasingly complex comprehension questions. We have also started reading our story time book, which is Ratburger by David Walliams and it's lovely to see the children giggling and enjoying all the funny parts in the book.
In our writing, we have been focusing on simple, compound and complex sentences, creating exciting expanded noun phrases and using inverted commas for speech. We have also focused on understanding what determiners are, the different types of determiners and identifying them within different sentences.
In maths, we have continued with our place value unit and have focused on numbers to 1000, 10,000 and 100,000. Although some of the children have found it challenging, they have all shown great resilience throughout the lessons.
We have also continued with our history unit on WW2 with the focus being on the outbreak of the war, why it started and which countries were involved. The children were fascinated with the lesson, asked lots of great questions and we had lots of stimulating discussions about it.
The children also had their first ukulele lesson, which they all really enjoyed as well.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou
Weekly Update 4/9/26
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Oak Tree Blog