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Weekly Update-11/7/25
Posted: Jul 11, 2025 by: Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, we completed our unit of work on position and direction in maths. The children have been learning how to describe position using coordinates, plot coordinates on a grid using the x and y axis, drawing 2-D shapes on a grid and translating on a grid. The children have done extremely well with this short unit of work in maths and made great progress.
In our reading, the children really enjoyed a task where they came up with alternative titles for each chapter of Stig of the Dump. There were some very creative ideas which still worked perfectly with the events of each chapter. The children also reviewed the book, wrote a small summary and what their favourite part of the book was. They then drew their favourite scene and gave the book a rating out of 10.
For writing, the children’s final big piece of writing this year will be an instruction text. They have looked at a WAGOLL instruction text and identified all the features required. This focused on how to make a Stone Age fire. The children have then been watching videos and doing online research about how to make Stone Age clothing. They noted down all their ideas down about what resources would be required and the necessary steps. Finally, they wrote their first draft of their instruction text.
The children have been growing red sunflowers over the last 5 weeks, which have been growing extremely well, and the children have loved looking after them and watching them grow. This week, it was finally time for the children to take them home and continue to look after them.
In art, over the last two weeks, the children have been creating their fruit plushies. They have used the sewing skills that they have learnt to stitch together and stuff the fruit that they chose to work on. This was a challenging task for the children, but they learnt the skills very quickly, and with a lot of determination, focus and resilience, they created some beautiful pieces that they should be very proud of. Well done!
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou