Beech Tree Class Blog 2023-2024
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Weekly Update-22/12/23
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, the children drafted, edited and published their poems, which have all revolved around Please Mrs Butler. They've done a brilliant job with them and we've had so much fun performing them. Their poems have also come together as a lovely display, so that the rest of the school can enjoy reading them as much as I have.
In DT, the children created their kites based around their planned design. Making the kites required good listening, concentration, determination and resilience and I'm very happy to say that every child showed those qualities throughout the kite making process. The end results were fantastic!
The children also made some lovely Christmas cards this week and enjoyed their Christmas party yesterday.
I hope you all have a lovely Christmas. Have fun and stay safe.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou :)
Weekly Update-15/12/23
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, in our writing, we have continued our poetry unit of work, which is based around Please Mrs Butler. After analysing the different features used within the poem, the children have been changing different sections of the poem which revolve around those different features used. They have now created their own versions of Please Mrs Butler and will stitch all the changed sections together. We have been reading the poems out each as each section has been changed and they sound fantastic!
In our computing, we have continued our programming unit based around repetition of shapes. The children have really enjoyed this unit and produced some great work. Their task this week was to create a geometric wrapping paper design which used one or several shapes (squares and triangles) repeatedly to create the design. They used efficient coding methods to reduce the amount of coding required in order to produce a larger geometric design quicker.
Finally, the children performed their Carol Concert and were absolutely brilliant. I hope all the parents enjoyed it as much we did.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou :)
Weekly update-8/12/23
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, in our writing, the children published their newspaper reports, which were all about the Viking attack at Lindisfarne. They've done a great job with them and even had the opportunity to make their newspapers look old.
We have now moved onto our poetry unit of work, which will be focusing on the narrative poem, Please Mrs Butler. The children have really enjoyed performing it and looking at the literacy devices used within the poem.
In maths, we have been focusing on the 11 and 12x tables, working on fluency, reasoning and problem solving. The children have been working really hard - we have had great discussions about different ways and the necessary steps to solve trickier problems. The children have also been creating their own word problems based on specific calculations and have been encouraged to use good mathematical language within those and it's also lovely to see that they are getting more confident with giving good mathematical reasoning to back up their opinions about a particular statement or statements that have been made.
In PSHE, we have continued our unit of work on Valuing Differences, and the focus of this week's lesson was stereotypes. The children learnt what stereotyping is; we looked at various different examples of stereotypes and had a really stimulating discussion about why it is important not to stereotype and the impact that can have.
The children have also created their own Viking board game, based on the game that they played at Murton Park. They all did a great job with their designs and then had a go playing against each other.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou :)