Rufford Park Primary School

Weekly Update-1/7/22

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

Hello everyone, 

This week, in maths we have been collecting data from the class, based around the children's favourite food and we also collected data which revolved around the temperatures throughout the day on Monday and Tuesday. The data was put into excel and for the favourite food data, this was then represented as a digital  bar chart and for the data involving the temperatures throughout Monday and Tuesday, this was then represented as a digital line graph. The children did a great job collecting the data, typing it all up and then turning it into a bar and line graph. The also labelled them with titles and labelled the X and Y axis. The children also used a legend for the line graph, so that anyone looking at it would know which day was which. 

The children also finished painting and decorating their canopic jars. They've done a wonderful job with them and I would definitely mistake them for the real thing!

In science, we have been focusing on using mirrors to reflect light and understanding how we see our reflection, what type of surface creates the best reflection and what the children noticed when looking at their reflection. We experimented with this by writing our names correctly and seeing how they reflected and then we wrote them in reverse and then saw what the reflection looked like. We discussed what they could see in the reflection and why it looked like that. We then tried the mirror maze. A wiggly path was created around the classroom and the children were tasked with only being able to look up at the mirror and use the reflection to guide them around the maze. The children absolutely loved this and we discussed what made this task so tricky.

Mr Kyriacou :)

Weekly Update-24/6/22

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

Hello everyone,

This week we have been doing lots of assessments in Beech Tree. I am very happy and proud to say that the children have scored absolutely fantastic results. I can't believe how much progress they have made throughout the year. They are a very hardworking class, who want to learn, who listen to the advice given and who want to achieve their full potential, and that is exactly what they've done! Brilliant work, Beech Tree!

Thanks :)

Mr Kyriacou

Weekly Update-17/6/22

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

Hello everyone,

This week our focus in maths has revolved around statistics as well as interpreting and analysing data from pictograms and bar charts. The children have been amazing at this and have also produced their own pictograms and bar charts with their own data. Well done!

We have also continued our work on our canopic jars, creating the base for them and then inscribing the name of the god that each child has chosen.

As part of a nature themed art project that Rufford Park is taking part in, Beech Tree spent an afternoon at Rawdon Billing creating art inspired by nature and from our current topic - Ancient Egyptians. The class were split into small groups and each were given a letter. Each letter would be represented as an Egyptian hieroglyph and together the letters would spell out Beech Tree. The children worked incredibly well together to create their specific hieroglyph, using a combination of stones, sticks, leaves and feathers. They did a fabulous job creating each letter and all the letters together looked fantastic as a piece of art that combines the themes of nature and our current topic.