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Weekly Update-25/11/21
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, we have continued our work on multiplication and division and have been focusing on the 6 times tables and using the inverse operation, which the children have been using brilliantly and with greater confidence. Below are some videos of the class practising to chant their 6 times tables together with greater confidence and greater speed. Enjoy!
Practising chanting the 6 times tables
Practising chanting the 6 times tables in reverse
As part of our topic and writing work, the children have been exploring the monastery of Lindisfarne, Hadrian's Wall and an Anglo-Saxon village using Google Earth. They absolutely loved exploring these different places and this will help support their writing further.
In science, we have been focusing on the human skeleton this week, identifying why we need a skeleton, how it helps us, discussing whether all skeletons are the same or not and why that is, learning the common names for the different bones and then learning the scientific names for different bones. The children were all given a full skeleton that was cut up into separate bones, these had the scientific names for the bones on and together, in their different groups, they had to work together to place the correct bones on the correct part of one person in their group. They worked really well together and were able to navigate their way through the challenging task and all of the groups were able to place a good portion of the bones in the correct places. We then went through it together as a class and made any changes necessary to put certain bones into the correct places.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou :)
Weekly Update 12/11/21
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
It's been another busy week for Beech Tree and the children have been busy writing their newspaper reports about the Viking attack on Lindisfarne.
We have also just started our work on multiplication and division and the children have also put in a heroic effort on TT Rockstars for the England Rocks competition, accumulating over 47,000 points, whilst having lots of fun but also doing lots of multiplication and division practise at the same time. Well done everyone!
Year 4 also had their skipping workshop this week, which they absolutely loved and there are some lovely photos of their session as well as some videos below for you to watch.
Several children have also achieved their 25m distance award in their swimming sessions and were given their awards in our celebration assembly.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou :)
Weekly Update 05/11/21
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, the children have started their work on newspaper reports and our reports will be focusing on the Viking attack on Lindisfarne. To start with, the children were given the opportunity to look through newspapers (in pars) and see what they could identify within them without any support. We then discussed what they had found within their newspapers and then began to go through the features together.
As part of our work on newspaper reports, we have also been identifying and discussing features of quotes within different reports and the children were also given the opportunity to do a bit of drama. In pairs, one took the role of either Ragnar Lodbrok (Viking leader of the attack) or Bishop Higbald (monk of Lindisfarne) and they were being interviewed by the other, who took the role of the interviewer. The children really enjoyed this and it supported their writing when writing their own quotes based on what Ragnar Lodbrok and Bishop Higbald would have said and how they would have said it.
The children have also been absolutely loving their swimming lessons each week and it is a lovely activity to look forward to throughout the week. Some children have now also achieved their 25m distance award and will receive their awards in assembly next week.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou :)