Beech Tree Class Blog 2023-2024
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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 :)
Weekly Update-13/3/26
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, it has been assessment week, and the children have worked really hard throughout all of them and it’s clear that lots of progress has been made. Well done, everyone!
In our writing, we have started writing our persuasive leaflets all about food waste. It’s lovely to see how passionate the children are about the solutions to quite a big problem and applying this into their writing using a range of great persuasive devices.
In our topic lesson, the children were learning all about the cocoa tree and understanding the journey of how a cocoa pod ends up as chocolate. The children really enjoyed it and demonstrated great knowledge throughout the lesson.
In DT, we have been learning about the different parts of kites, their functions, different types of kites, and, for this week’s lesson, the children planned, designed and labelled their own kites that they will make.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou