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Weekly Update 10/10/25
Posted: Oct 10, 2025 by: Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
In reading, we have continue reading Thorfinn the Nicest Viking, which the children are really enjoying. We have focused on understanding and discussing the meaning of tricky vocabulary and focusing on retrieval and inference skills. The children are also really enjoying or story time book and love how funny the book is.
In maths, we continued our work on column addition. We have focused on using the column method, exchanging hundreds and thousands separately, and then focusing on multiple exchanges in one calculation. It’s been lovely to see how confident the children have become with using the method and being able to handle the multiple exchanges when necessary.
This week, in writing, we have continued with our recount unit of work focused on our trip to Murton Park. We have continued looking at the different features that will be required. We have focused on first person, banking a range of descriptive words and phrases based around our senses and feelings, using time adverbials and creating a range of powerful expanded noun phrases.
The children also completed the second half of their two-part art lesson this week. This split lesson focused on a painting by Thomas Gainsborough called Mr and Mrs Andrews. After discussing all the features of the painting and the way that the children would create depth within their paintings, the painting was split into quarters, and each child was given one of the quarters to focus on. The aim was to accurately recreate the quarter of the paining that they had been given, slowly working on the background features and then working on the foreground features in the second lesson. Once these were completed, they would be brought back together to create the complete painting. This was a challenging tow part lesson, but the children worked incredibly hard and listened to all the advice given to help them achieve certain effects, create the depth and produce an accurately recreated painting.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou