Beech Tree Class Blog 2023-2024
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Weekly Update-2/4/26
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, for our writing, the children generated their ideas for their Haiku poems, drafted their poems, edited them and published them. There were lots of fantastic poems, filled with alliteration, similes, personification and metaphors. We then read out different poems to the class and expressed what we liked about each poem.
In our reading, we completed The Chocolate Touch this week and we wrote our book reviews based on it. They summarised the story without giving away any plot points, listed the main characters, given it a review out of 10 and my favourite part was reading what the children’s favourite parts of the book were. We also completed our story time book (I Swapped My Brother on the Internet) which the children absolutely loved. We also completed our book club book, which I read with a small group of children once a week at lunch time. This book was Varjak Paw, and it was so lovely to see how much the children enjoyed this book.
In maths, we have continued with our unit of work on decimals. We have been focusing on dividing 1- and 2-digit numbers by 10 and 100 using a variety of different ways to work out the answer. It’s been lovely to see the children becoming more confident with all three methods.
In DT, the children completed their kites. They produced some beautiful pieces of work, and they should all be very proud of them.
In our topic work, the children were learning all about the culture and traditions associated with the consumption of chocolate around the world. The children absolutely loved the lesson, and we had so man fantastic discussions about it. To close the topic off, the children also designed their own chocolate bar packaging for their own brands, which were of course Fairtrade chocolate as well.
I hope you all have an egg-cellent break and make sure to stay safe.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou
Weekly update-27/3/26
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, the children have published their persuasive leaflet work, which they have worked so hard on. The finished pieces are excellent and they should be very proud of them! We have now begun our poetry unit on Haikus.
In maths, we have been finding tenths as fractions, finding tenths as decimals and we have been finding tenths as decimals using our place value charts. It’s been lovely to see the children becoming more confident with explaining what is happening to the value of the digits as they move right or left on the place value chart (especially now that we have introduced decimals) and understanding the calculations that are required in order to turn tenths as fractions into tenths as decimals.
The children have also taken part in The Wizard of Oz performance, and they were all fantastic, so well done everyone!
In DT, the children have also started making their kites using a range of tools and skills to create ithem. These will be completed next week!
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou
Weekly Update-20/3/26
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, in our writing, the children have been working on their persuasive leaflets which are all about food waste. The children have really enjoyed this piece of work and have shown how passionate they are about the problem. They’ve used a great range of persuasive devices within their writing to get people to start reducing their waste.
In our reading, we have continued with our class novel (The Chocolate Touch) and the children are eager to find out how John manages to get rid of his powers which have now become a curse.
In maths, we have continued our unit of work on fractions. We have focused on find fractions of amounts and also finding equivalent fractions.
In computing, we have continued with outraging unit based around repetition of shapes. This week, the children learnt how to combine multiple lines of code into one using the repeat by a certain number of times code. This allowed them to create hexagons. And by decreasing or increasing the amount of steps, it allowed them to increase or decrease the size of them, so they made lots of hexagons within hexagons.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou :)