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Weekly Update-26/4/24
Posted: Apr 26, 2024 by: Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
In our writing, we have been focused on writing our recounts based on our experiences during the Easter break. We have completed our drafts and have just finished editing them. The children have done a great job with these, and it’s been so lovely to read about all the lovely things that they did throughout their two-week break. Well done!
This week, in science, we have been dissecting plants, looking at the different parts of them, understanding what the roles of each part are and why they are necessary. We have also been discussing the similarities and differences between different plants.
The children also took part in their road safety workshop this week. They gave some great answers when they were asked a variety of questions about different road safety scenarios, and yet again, they also represented the school incredibly well.
As part of our unit of work on Egyptian death masks, this week’s lesson has been focused on creating self-portraits using sketching pencils. The children took their time, applied the skills that they had learnt and created some lovely pieces of work.
For our topic launch lesson, the children became archaeologists and were searching around different areas of the school field to locate ancient Egyptian artefacts. As a class, we then discussed what we could infer about the items that we had found. We also looked at a history timeline, with the children placing the timeline in the correct chronological order and then locating the time period that the ancient Egyptian civilisation existed in. We also identified other civilisations that existed at the same time. This helped the children to understand that in the past, it wasn’t just one civilisation existing at a time, which was then followed by another, but instead, multiple civilisations which existed simultaneously in different parts of the world.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou :)