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Weekly Update-7/1/22
Posted: Jan 7, 2022 by: Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
I hope you had an enjoyable Christmas… Happy New Year to you all! It was lovely to see everyone back in school this week, the children have made a brilliant start to 2022.
- In geography / ICT we introduced our new topic for the Spring term – India & Fairtrade. The children developed their enquiry skills by using Google Earth to ‘go for a walk’ in India. We discovered a wide range of geographical features – including mountains, deserts, forests, jungles, lakes, huge cities and tiny villages.
- In English we read the first chapter of our new class reader - the brilliant ‘Grandpa Chatterji’ by Jamila Gavin – after making predictions and learning new vocabulary.
- In maths we developed our multiplication and division skills – focusing on factor pairs and multiplying 3 numbers together
- In PE on Wednesday, we had our first Lacrosse lesson with Sam from Fisical.
- In science, we are focusing on States of Matter and have been identifying the properties of solids, liquids and gases.
Well done to everyone who completed the holiday reading challenge! As always, the biggest impact parents/carers can make on their child’s learning is to encourage a love of reading for pleasure – and by listening to them read at least five times per week. It is little surprise that the children who read the most at home last term, also made the most progress in their end-of-term reading comprehension tests.
BRONZE BADGE = x2, x5, x10
SILVER BADGE = x3, x4, x6
GOLD BADGE = x7, x8, x9
SUPER GOLD = x11, x12 and all others at speed
Have a lovely weekend!
Mr Kyriacou :)