Beech Tree Class Blog 2023-2024
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Weekly Update-18/7/25
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, the children published their final piece of writing of the year. It was their instruction text about how to make Stone Age clothing.
In art, the children created their own Stonehenge silhouette paintings. Some paintings show a sun rise and some show a full moon at night. They all worked very hard on them and the finished pieces looked lovely!
The children also brought in their Stone Age to Iron Age projects this week and presented them to the class. Parents were also invited to see the projects and they were very impressed. The projects were absolutely amazing, really creative and the children should be really proud of them!
The children also took part in the Park Life music performance which celebrated everything musical that children in different year groups have done throughout the year. Beech Tree performed their own version of Hot Cross Buns. Two children also performed part of the song as a duet and one child played part of the song on their own.
In reading, we have been reading and completing our story time book called Dead Man’s Cove, which is a prequel to one of our class novels that we read earlier in the year. The children have really enjoyed it and it’s been a brilliant story time book to end the year with.
Well done for all of your hard this year! I hope you all have an amazing break and make sure to stay safe and look after yourselves!
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou
Weekly Update-11/7/25
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, we completed our unit of work on position and direction in maths. The children have been learning how to describe position using coordinates, plot coordinates on a grid using the x and y axis, drawing 2-D shapes on a grid and translating on a grid. The children have done extremely well with this short unit of work in maths and made great progress.
In our reading, the children really enjoyed a task where they came up with alternative titles for each chapter of Stig of the Dump. There were some very creative ideas which still worked perfectly with the events of each chapter. The children also reviewed the book, wrote a small summary and what their favourite part of the book was. They then drew their favourite scene and gave the book a rating out of 10.
For writing, the children’s final big piece of writing this year will be an instruction text. They have looked at a WAGOLL instruction text and identified all the features required. This focused on how to make a Stone Age fire. The children have then been watching videos and doing online research about how to make Stone Age clothing. They noted down all their ideas down about what resources would be required and the necessary steps. Finally, they wrote their first draft of their instruction text.
The children have been growing red sunflowers over the last 5 weeks, which have been growing extremely well, and the children have loved looking after them and watching them grow. This week, it was finally time for the children to take them home and continue to look after them.
In art, over the last two weeks, the children have been creating their fruit plushies. They have used the sewing skills that they have learnt to stitch together and stuff the fruit that they chose to work on. This was a challenging task for the children, but they learnt the skills very quickly, and with a lot of determination, focus and resilience, they created some beautiful pieces that they should be very proud of. Well done!
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou
Weekly Update-4/7/25
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, in our writing, the children have been learning all about limericks, reading a range of them, analysing the features of them and planning their own.
In our reading, we have complete Stig of the Dump, which has been our class novel over the summer term. The children really enjoyed the book and the ending of it created a really enjoyable discussion amongst the class.
In maths, we have been focusing on statistics. The children have been reading and analysing data from pictograms, line graphs and bar charts. They have also collected their own data and recorded it using a bar chart. The children then created a range of questions that they could ask based on the data and got their partners to work out the answers.
In history, we have gone beyond the Bronze Age and into the Iron Age. The children have been researching into how things like weapons, tools and homes continued to change throughout this age with the introduction of iron and what the advantages of using iron were instead of using Bronze.
In science, the children concluded their egg shell enamel experiment to see what the effect of different liquids would be on the shell which acts as the tooth enamel. They were very pleased to see that their predictions were correct with vinegar causing the most damage to the enamel and we discussed in detail as to why that was the case and recorded our findings.
Take care,’
Mr Kyriacou