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Weekly Update-16/1/26
Posted: Jan 16, 2026 by: Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, the children have been working on their Christmas holiday recounts. It’s been lovely to see them effectively use a variety of features that are required and to hear all about what they did during the Christmas break when we have read them aloud together. The children been continuously editing their work as they have gone along to make their pieces as good as they can be. They have been a joy to read and I know the children will enjoy publishing these pieces after all fo their hard work on them throughout the week.
In maths, we have been focusing on multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100, understanding what is happening to numbers when we are doing this and using place value mats to show the movement of digits going left or right and by 1 or 2 places depending on the calculation that they are trying to solve. It’s been so lovely to see the children becoming increasingly confident with using their place value mats to show this and to hear the children using great mathematical vocabulary to explain what they have done and how they have solved different problems.
In reading, we have continued to read The Chocolate Touch, which the children are really enjoying, we have also continued to make numerous predictions about the story as it progresses and focused on retrieval and inference skills alongside this. We have also continued reading our story time book, which the children are finding very funny.
As part of our Keeping Safe PSHE topic, the focus of our lesson this week was on dangers, risks and hazards, understanding what each of them are, identifying a range of different examples of each and coming up with a range of their own examples. The children were super during the lesson and we had lots of interesting discussions about it based on the children’s different questions and opinions.
Finally, it was lovely to see al the parents and children who could attend the residential meeting this week. We hope we covered everything that you need and answered the questions that you asked in as much detail as possible. If there are any other questions or concerns, please feel free to email the Beech Tree email provided in the letter or to ask me in person at the end of the day.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou