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Weekly Update-17/10/25
Posted: Oct 17, 2025 by: Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
In maths, we have focused on column subtraction this week. The children have been using this method with no exchanges, one exchange and multiple exchanges. We’ve also been using the inverse operation to check that our calculations are accurate. It’s been lovely to hear the children’s explanations about why we have to exchange in the first place and seeing them coming up to the board to solve calculations and then coming up to do the inverse to check that their peer has solved the calculation accurately.
This week, in writing, we focused on understanding what subordinate conjunctions and clauses are and how to use them and then we moved onto starting our recount of our Viking trip to Murton Park. So far, the children have written three paragraphs, which covers their introduction, pottery making and bread making. They’re really enjoying the writing process, and we are constantly reading different pieces aloud to highlight what works really well and what could be improved. It’s lovely to see the children using all the resources they have to support them, taking all the advice they are given to improve their pieces as they go along and working so hard to include the great range of features required within this piece of writing.
In reading, we have continued reading Thorfinn the Nicest Viking, which the children are really enjoying. This week, the children made fantastic predictions about what will happen in the next chapter, and we had a lot of fun generating all of our ideas before the children wrote their predictions into their books. We’ve also focused on a range of other reading skills like retrieval and inference to answer questions based around the two chapters that have been read this week. We also applied these skills when we read a lovely short text about Diwali.
In science. We have moved onto our new topic of Nutrition and Diet, and this week we focused on the five food groups and understanding what food falls into each category and what each food group does for our bodies.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou