Beech Tree Class Blog 2023-2024
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Weekly Update-27/6/25
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, in our writing, the children have completed their drafts of their non-chronological reports based on the Stone Age and have used purple pens to edit them. They’ve done a great job with them and it ‘s fantastic to see all that historical knowledge being used within their writing. They will publish these next week.
In our reading, the children have voted on a new story time book and have gone for Dead Man's Cove by Lauren St John. This is the prequel to Kidnap in the Caribbean, which was a class novel that we read earlier in the year. Because they enjoyed that so much, they wanted to read the first book of the series and are already enjoying the first few chapters of it.
In maths, we completed our unit of work on shape, finishing off with work on regular and irregular polygons and symmetry. The children have worked really hard on this unit have really enjoyed it.
In computing, we have continued our work on database branching and the children created their own digitally branched databases based on a variety of things using closed questions to separate the different items that they had. They really enjoyed doing this!
For our art unit, the children have started working on creating their fruit and vegetable plushies, which require them to draw the shape of the fruit or vegetable of their choice, cut it out accurately and to sew and stuff it to a fabric background. Although the sewing part was challenging for some children, they showed great resilience and did not give up.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou
Weekly Update-20/6/25
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week the children have been doing a range of assessments, and I’m extremely pleased to tell you that they’ve all done brilliantly and made great progress throughout the year. Well done!
In science, our lesson focused on identifying different human teeth and understanding what they look like, where they are in the mouth, how many of each that we have and what their function is. The children really enjoyed the lesson and are looking forward to conducting an experiment next week.
In history, we have continued our work on the Stone Age to the Iron Age. This week, we were focusing on the Neolithic Stone Age, and we were looking at how food, tools and homes had changed during this age in comparison to the previous two ages that we have looked at. We also focused on how those changes impacted those early humans.
In art, the children have really been enjoying our unit of work on Fruit and Vegetables. This week, the children have been experimenting with mixing paints and creating a range of warm and cold colours and then using these skills to sketch and paint their own fruit or vegetable.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou
Weekly Update-13/6/25
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, in our reading, we have continued to read our class novel (Stig of the Dump) and have focused on the sixth chapter of the book called Skinned and Buried. The children are really enjoying the book so far and we’ve had lots of lovely class discussions about it. We have also just completed our story time book called The Shop of Impossible Ice Creams by Shane Hegarty which the children absolutely loved and found very funny. The class unanimously said that they would definitely recommend the book to other children in LKS2.
In maths, we have started our unit of work on shape, focusing on understanding what angles are, identifying a range of angles, focusing on the properties of triangles and quadrilaterals and understanding what parallel and perpendicular lines are and identifying them in different shapes.
In history, we are continuing our work on the Stone age to Iron Age. This week, we have focused on identifying what tools, food and homes were like in the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic periods of the Stone Age, how they changed and developed between the two periods and what impact that had on the lives of those early humans. The children really enjoyed the lesson and contributed their ideas well throughout the lesson.
In computing, the children have started their new unit of work on data branching databases. Their first lesson focused on the children investigating yes or no questions with yes or no answers to categorise different objects, creating their own yes or no questions with yes or no answers to categorise different objects, They also had to create yes or no question that could separate a whole group of objects into two separate categories that would be split due to one different attribute.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou