Beech Tree Class Blog 2023-2024
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Weekly Update-29/9/23
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
We've had another busy week in Beech. In maths, the children have been learning to read and write Roman Numerals, as well as rounding to 10 and 100.
In our writing, we have started working on our next piece, which will be a recount of our trip to Murton Park. It's a super piece of writing to be working on and the children have been working hard on learning about and using the different features that are used in recounts e.g writing in chronological order.
In our music lesson, we were focusing on the gospel song called This Little Light of Mine, and the children were just getting to know the song and practised singing it together and adding some movement to it as we sang. We even had a few children sing certain sections on their own, which was brilliant to hear. Below is a video of the children singing a section of it.
We also elected our school council class member. We had some lovely posters that were designed, the children spoke to the class about why they would make a great school council representative and then every child was given the opportunity to vote for who they thought we make the best representative for the class.
In computing, this week we focused on using finite and infinite coding loops to animate our names and the children were tasked with making different letters do two things e.g change colour and move upwards. They worked really hard on these and there were some lovely digital pieces produced.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou :)
Weekly Update-22/9/23
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
Year 4 had a fantastic trip out this week. For the day, they were living the life of Vikings at the Danelaw Centre for Living History, near York. Throughout the day, the children learnt to guard their village from Anglo-Saxons, grind flour, bake bread, collect firewood, create their own pottery... and much more. The children were absolutely fantastic, they had good manners, they were keen and enthusiastic during every activity and they had lots of fun. We were very proud with how they represented the school. Well done!
Below is the link to the Year 3 and 4 trip page, where you'll see lots of photos of the children enjoying all the different activities.
https://www.ruffordparkprimary.org.uk/classes/year4beech/murton-park-trip
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou :)
Weekly Update - 15/9/23
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
We are continuing to focus on recapping different writing skills. Using commas for lists, using exclamation marks and question marks correctly, using a and an correctly and creating expanded noun phrases are some of the writing skills that we have focused on this week. Below are some lovely examples of the whiteboard work from some of those lessons.
As part of our Programming unit of work, which focuses on Repetition in Games, the aim of our first lesson was to use loops to create shapes. The children applied their mathematical skills to create the code which would allow them to create a variety of different digital shapes. The repeated movement of their sprite (for this lesson, these were pencils) would depend on how many sides the shape had. Then, they programmed the sprite to move a specific amount of steps each time and finally the children then had to work out what angle the sprite would need to move after each line was drawn in order for this to continue and draw the the entire shape. This could then be repeated as many times as they wanted. It was fantastic to see the children combining their computing and mathematical skills together in order to draw a variety of shapes, starting with a triangle and going all the way up to a decagon.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou :)