Willow Tree Class Blog
Willow Tree Class Blog 2020-2021
Weekly Update 18.6.21
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Willow Tree Class Blog 2020-2021
Hello everyone,
It's been another busy week in Willow Tree. For Maths, we have moved onto Geometry, specifically looking at turns and angles this week. The children have been working really hard and are now constantly spotting things within the the classroom that have right angles :)
We also continued our music workshop with Mr Jennings, which the children have been loving! Lots of children were confident enough to do a solo on their own as well, which was brilliant to see!
We have been focusing on the sixth chapter of Stig of the Dump this week. The children are really enjoying the story and got the chance to perform another scene together. This time they were portraying Barney and the two thieves who had stolen his gran's jewellery. The children showed lots of confidence and used great expression when reading their dialogue.
Stig of the Dump - Drama Activity
That's all for now, take care :)
Mr Kyriacou
Weekly Update 11.6.21
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Willow Tree Class Blog 2020-2021
Hello everyone,
It's been another busy week in Willow Tree. We are continuing to read our class novel, Stig of the Dump, which the children are absolutely loving. The children have continued their work on Time, focusing on converting between analogue and digital, converting between 12 hour digital and 24 hour and digital and looking at durations of time. The children have also continued their work on instruction writing and independently written a set of instructions about how to play Octopus Tig.
Willow Tree also had Mr Jennings come in this week for a music lesson. Below are a few videos and images from their first session. The children had a blast!
The children also performed a scene from Stig of the Dump, portraying the three Snarget brothers and Barney. They put so much effort into it and used lots of great expression when performing their scenes.
As part of our big sing performance, Willow Tree will be performing a song that revolves around friendship and being there for each other. We have already started practising the song and the children have been really enjoying it. The link below will take you to the song and will allow you to listen and sing along to the whole song or to practise singing specific sections of the song.
https://charanga.com/resources/36874-learn-to-sing-the-song-bringing-us-together
That's all for now :)
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou
Weekly Update-28/5/21
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Willow Tree Class Blog 2020-2021
Hello everyone,
This week the children have been focusing on writing instructions. We based our writing on our trip to Nell Bank and focused on creating instructions on how to make a Stone Age den, using images of them building their dens to support their writing. The worked incredibly hard and produced some super pieces that included all the necessary features required.
In Science, we were focusing on high and low pitch sounds and the children even created their own instruments and experimented with different pitches of sound.
High and low pitch sounds-George and Zac
High and low pitch sounds-Eleana and Lillian
We have continued to care for our sunflowers by moving them into bigger pots and keeping them watered. They are growing quickly and the class are very excited.
It's been a busy, productive and fun half term and the children have been working very hard.
I hope you all have a lovely week off and have lots of fun.
Take care and stay safe :)
Mr Kyriacou :)
Weekly Update 21.5.21
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Willow Tree Class Blog 2020-2021
Hello everyone,
This week's highlight was undoubtedly our trip to the award-winning Nell Bank centre in Ilkley! As a brilliant hook for our new topic (Stone Age to Iron Age), activities included den building, making fires, cave painting, basket weaving, an artefacts session and learning about the chronology of early history. Despite the mixed weather, we all had a fantastic time! The experiences we gained on the trip will feed into this term's learning back at school.
Massive thanks to everyone at Nell Bank, all our LKS2 staff and our parent volunteers for making this happen... as I'm sure you can imagine, running school trips in the current climate is a huge challenge, but extremely beneficial to the children's learning and wellbeing.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou :)
Weekly Update 14.5.21
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Willow Tree Class Blog 2020-2021
Hello everyone,
We hope your child is looking forward to next week's trip to the brilliant Nell Bank in Ilkley! If you have not returned the permission slip, please do so asap.
This week in maths we've been learning how to read clocks. Many children find this a very difficult concept, so any time you can spend over the weekend checking their understanding would be much appreciated. So far, we have learnt...
- O'clock and half past.
- Quarter past and quarter to.
- Months and years
- marks.co.uk/time/teaching-clock
Try chanting the time with your child as you move the clock hands forwards or backwards in regular intervals (e.g. "7 o'clock... quarter past 7... half past 7... quarter to 8... 8 o'clock") - and then challenge them to say the equivalent digital time.
In English, the children have written their improved persuasive letters and finished editing them today. They will write up their letters in neat and hopefully they will have used all the features that are required in order to persuade Mr Cooke to allow them an extra play on the trim trail.
The children have also been planting some sunflowers, which they really enjoyed and can't wait until they start seeing the flowers growing. We will measure the height of them weekly and input this data into a graph.
Have a lovely weekend,
Mr Kyriacou