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Weekly Update - 14/7/23
Posted: Jul 14, 2023 by: Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, in our writing, we have been focusing on poetry, specifically looking at Haiku poems. The children have been really enthusiastic about it and we've had some lovely discussions. They have learnt about all the rules for Haiku poems and where it originated from and what the themes of Haiku poems usually revolve around. They have been working on their own drafts and I have to say that they were great to read and even greater to listen to the children reading them aloud for the rest of the class. They will edit and publish these next week.
In maths, we have started our work on statistics this week. The children have learnt about what statistics are, what they involve and how to read and analyse data in tables, bar charts and graphs, whilst also asking their own questions based on the information that has been collected and presented.
In science, we have continued our work on plants, and this week we have been focusing on the different parts of a plant and the roles that those have in pollination and fertilisation.
As you know, we have also been growing our own sunflowers and they are growing very well, we now even have some that are beginning to flower, which put a lot of smiles on faces.
In music, we have continued our unit on recorders. This week, we introduced another note (D) alongside the other notes that the children have practised with previously (B, C, A and G) and it has become even more challenging playing all these notes accurately, for the right amount of beats and in tune, together as a class, but the children have been brilliant and have always been willing to put the effort and practice in to play a tune successfully. We even had a pupil be brave enough to come to the front and play a solo, which I thought was fantastic.
The children also took part in sports day, and even though the weather wasn't brilliant, they still had a great time and took part in all the events with a great competitive attitude.
The KS2 science club has also been very popular this half term and the children have really enjoyed all the different sessions, which have allowed them to step in to the role of a young engineer and make a range of great creations and understand the science behind how they work e.g vibrating bugs.
