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Weekly Update-2/4/26
Posted: Apr 2, 2026 by: Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, for our writing, the children generated their ideas for their Haiku poems, drafted their poems, edited them and published them. There were lots of fantastic poems, filled with alliteration, similes, personification and metaphors. We then read out different poems to the class and expressed what we liked about each poem.
In our reading, we completed The Chocolate Touch this week and we wrote our book reviews based on it. They summarised the story without giving away any plot points, listed the main characters, given it a review out of 10 and my favourite part was reading what the children’s favourite parts of the book were. We also completed our story time book (I Swapped My Brother on the Internet) which the children absolutely loved. We also completed our book club book, which I read with a small group of children once a week at lunch time. This book was Varjak Paw, and it was so lovely to see how much the children enjoyed this book.
In maths, we have continued with our unit of work on decimals. We have been focusing on dividing 1- and 2-digit numbers by 10 and 100 using a variety of different ways to work out the answer. It’s been lovely to see the children becoming more confident with all three methods.
In DT, the children completed their kites. They produced some beautiful pieces of work, and they should all be very proud of them.
In our topic work, the children were learning all about the culture and traditions associated with the consumption of chocolate around the world. The children absolutely loved the lesson, and we had so man fantastic discussions about it. To close the topic off, the children also designed their own chocolate bar packaging for their own brands, which were of course Fairtrade chocolate as well.
I hope you all have an egg-cellent break and make sure to stay safe.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou