Beech Tree Class Blog 2023-2024
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Weekly Update-17/7/26
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, in our writing, the children published their magazine articles based on the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb. They did this using the Chrome Books and they were able to demonstrate lots of different computing skills in order to fully publish their articles. Well done!
In reading, we focused our last week on reading and performing Egyptian themed poetry. We also analysed and discussed the different features that appeared within this particular poem e.g rhyming words on line 2 and 4 for every stanza.
In maths, we completed our unit on statistics. The children had collected to different sets of data, one taken in a day and one taken over a period of five weeks, and these were presented using a bar chart and line graph. The children then analysed these and asked different questions about each set of data and then answered the questions.
For our topic work, the children created posters to showcase everything that they had learnt about Ancient Egypt, and they also brought in their homework projects (based on our topic) and presented these to the class. Parents were also invited to come in and have all at the children’s projects, which was a lovely experience for everyone. Well done, everyone!
I hope you all have a fantastic break and make sure to look after yourselves!
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou
Weekly Update-10/7/26
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, in reading we have completed our final class novel of the year and the children really enjoyed it. We also had a really fun lesson where the children ranked the class novels from their favourite ones to their least favourite, explained why they put that book in that particular position and then the children drew a scene from each book that they really liked. It was lovely that we had completely different rankings from all the children and lots of different reasons why they put certain books in certain positions. Well done!
In maths, we are on our final unit of the year, which is statistics. The children have been learning about what statistics are, how the date can be presented in different ways and how to read and analyse different types of data from pictograms, line graphs and bar charts.
In writing, the children have been working hard on writing their magazine articles about the discovery of Tutankhamun by Howard Carter and his team. They have also edited them and are now ready to be published which we will focus on next week. They have all worked incredibly hard on these and produced some excellent pieces.
The children completed their Egyptian death masks this week and they look absolutely fantastic. They have all worked so hard on all the little details and this really shows in their completed pieces! Well done!
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou
Weekly Update-3/7/26
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, in reading we have continued reading the next two chapters of our Jeremy Strong book, which the children are really enjoying. We have then focused on using summarising, retrieval and inference skills across a range of reading tasks relating to those two chapters.
In maths, we have moved onto our unit of work on position and direction. The children have been learning to describe position by using coordinates, plotting coordinates on a grid, drawing 2d shapes on a grid using coordinates and translating on a grid. The progress that the children have made with this smaller unit of work is amazing and it’s been great to use some assessment questions which the children got wrong (as this unit had not been taught yet at the time of the assessments) and get the children to use what they have learnt to now answer the questions again and achieve the marks successfully.
In writing, we have focused on researching facts about Tutankhamun’s burial chamber, creating captions for images and then the children have started to write their introductions to their articles along with having bold and catchy headlines.
In art, the children have continued to work on their Egyptian death masks which are looking fantastic so far.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou