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Weekly Update-5/9/25

Posted: Sep 5, 2025 by: 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