Rufford Park Primary School

Weekly Update-15/3/24

Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog

Hello everyone,

This week, the children published their persuasive letters where they took on the role of a Fairtrade farmer trying to persuade a non-Fairtrade farmer to become a Fairtrade farmer as well. They provided fantastic reasons about how working with Fairtrade could benefit the non-Fairtrade farmer and I think they did an excellent job with their letters. Well done!

The children have also been busy with assessments this week and I am pleased to say that the results show just how much the children have progressed since the Autumn term. Well done!

In computing, we have continued our unit of work on photo editing, The editing programme that the children have been using is called Luna Pic. This week, on top of the editing techniques learnt in previous lessons, we have focused on changing our image from colour to black and white, altering the brightness and contrast, the hue and saturation, applying a vignette and using the sepia tone filter. We also looked at combining different images into one, copying and pasting and experimenting with the transparency of the image. The children learnt about what each editing technique is used for, looked at examples and then practised using them on their own images. The results were fantastic (see below) and the children have been absolutely loving it!

I am also so pleased to show you some work that one child has been working on from home because they have enjoyed the photo editing lessons that much.

We also had a PSHE workshop (called It’s Great to be Me!) which the children thoroughly enjoyed. Below are the main aims of the workshop for the children.

Finally, it was lovely to meet with all the parents this week to discuss the academic progress of the children.

Take care,

Mr Kyriacou :)

Weekly Update-8/3/24

Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog

Weekly Update-1/3/24

Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog

Hello everyone,

In English, we have been working on writing a persuasive letter which relates to Fairtrade farming. We have taken on the role of a Fairtrade farmer, and we are writing to a farmer who doesn’t work with Fairtrade. The aim of the letter is to persuade the non-Fairtrade farmer to become a Fairtrade farmer by explaining all the benefits of working with Fairtrade and what the organisation can do for them. The children have been working incredibly hard on these, and so far, there has been some excellent and persuasive pieces of work that have been produced..

In computing, we have started our unit of work on photo editing. This week, the children learnt what photo editing is all about and why it is done. Additionally, they also learnt about what it means to crop an image, to rotate it, to mirror and copy an image and what composition and exposure mean in relation to photos and editing.  They then practised doing a range of these edits to a picture of a swan on a lake using an editing programme. The children absolutely loved it and they really enjoyed seeing the different results of the different edits that they could apply to the image.

On Wednesday, the children had a special visitor come to school. This was James Ketchell, who is an adventurer and motivational speaker. The children really enjoyed listening to the stories about his adventures, which includes climbing Mount Everest, hearing about the records he has set, the challenges he has faced and how he overcame those challenges. They also enjoyed the workshop with James where they got to ask him lots of questions, try on mountaineering equipment and try some delicious food that he uses when out and about in the mountains.

Take care,

Mr Kyriacou :)