Beech Tree Class Blog 2023-2024
Beech Tree Blog
Weekly Update-12/9/25
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, in our writing, we have continued our work on recapping and practising using different punctuation. This week we have focused on using commas for lists, question marks and exclamation marks.
In reading, we have focused on the first chapter of our class novel and practised using our retrieval skills to pick answers out of the text.
In maths, we have been focusing on representing the value of digits in four digit numbers in a variety of ways and comparing and ordering numbers to 10,000, with a big focus on understanding the meaning of all the mathematical vocabulary involved with it e.g ascending and descending.
In science, we have been focusing on the functions of the skeleton and the different roles that different bones have e.g protecting vital, internal organs.
The children also attended their first swimming session this week, which they all really enjoyed and it was lovely to see!
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou :)
Weekly Update-5/9/25
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
Welcome back to Rufford Park and welcome to our weekly class blog where we will share the learning we have undertaken in class. It will be updated every Friday each week of term. What a fantastic start to the year! It has been lovely getting to know the children this week. They have settled in really well and I have been extremely impressed with how positive and enthusiastic they have all been whilst settling into our new classroom and routines. I have had such an enjoyable start to each day because the children have welcomed me every day with such happy beaming smiles despite potentially underlying start of term nerves.
We are very excited to share that we have been able to organise a visit to Murton Park this half term to support us with our new topic about the Vikings and Anglo-Saxons. Further details regarding the trip have been shared via ParentPay.
In reading, the children have been learning about the importance of reading and how it can support their learning. We have focused on on the different reading skills that we will be using throughout the year, which are represented in the form of dogs e.g Inference Iggy and Predicting Pip. Our class novel, which is related to our topic this term, is called Thorfinn the Nicest Viking and the Terrible Treasure by David MacPhail, and the children have already made some great predictions about what it might be about just based on what they could see on the front cover. We have also chosen our story time book, which is Billionaire Boy by David Walliams, and the children have been really enjoying that so far. The children have also made their own lovely bookmarks and created their cubist style portraits. The portraits will form a lovely display in the corridor out side the Beech Tree classroom.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou
Weekly Update-18/7/25
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, the children published their final piece of writing of the year. It was their instruction text about how to make Stone Age clothing.
In art, the children created their own Stonehenge silhouette paintings. Some paintings show a sun rise and some show a full moon at night. They all worked very hard on them and the finished pieces looked lovely!
The children also brought in their Stone Age to Iron Age projects this week and presented them to the class. Parents were also invited to see the projects and they were very impressed. The projects were absolutely amazing, really creative and the children should be really proud of them!
The children also took part in the Park Life music performance which celebrated everything musical that children in different year groups have done throughout the year. Beech Tree performed their own version of Hot Cross Buns. Two children also performed part of the song as a duet and one child played part of the song on their own.
In reading, we have been reading and completing our story time book called Dead Man’s Cove, which is a prequel to one of our class novels that we read earlier in the year. The children have really enjoyed it and it’s been a brilliant story time book to end the year with.
Well done for all of your hard this year! I hope you all have an amazing break and make sure to stay safe and look after yourselves!
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou