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Weekly Update-6/9/24

Posted: Sep 6, 2024 by: Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog

Hello everyone,

Welcome back to Rufford Park and welcome to our weekly class blog where we will share the learning we have undertaken in class. It will be updated every Friday each week of term. What a fantastic start to the year! It has been lovely getting to know the children this week. They have settled in really well and I have been extremely impressed with how positive and enthusiastic they have all been whilst settling into our new classroom and routines. I have had such an enjoyable start to each day because the children have welcomed me every day with such happy beaming smiles despite potentially underlying start of term nerves.

We are very excited to share that we have been able to organise a visit to Murton Park this half term to support us with our new topic about the Celts and Roman Britain. Further details regarding the trip have been shared via ParentPay.

In reading, the children have been learning about the importance of reading and how it can support their learning. We have focused on on the different reading skills that we will be using throughout the year, which are represented in the form of dogs e.g Inference Iggy and Predicting Pip. Our class novel, which is related to our topic this term, is called The Thieves of Ostia by Caroline Lawrence, and the children have already made some great predictions about what it might be about just based on what they could see on the front cover. We have also chosen our story time book, which is The Hundred Mile An Hour Dog by Jeremy Strong, and the children have been really enjoying that so far. The children have also made their own lovely bookmarks and created their own book monster. The book monsters will form a lovely display in the corridor out side the Beech Tree classroom.

In our writing, we have started by focusing on handwriting (specifically focusing on size, formation and joins) and we have also been focusing on using capital letters and full stops correctly in sentences, as well as using commas for lists correctly as well.

In maths, we have started working on place value, understanding what it is, how to identify the value of each digit in a number and also show the value of each digit in a number in a variety of different ways. The children have shown great mathematical knowledge and shown a really positive attitude to their learning. 

I am here to support both your child and you, so if you have any questions, or are unsure of information we send out, please just let me or the office know (at the class door, via the Beech Tree email address beech@ruffordparkprimary.org.uk or via the Office telephone).

Take care,

Mr Kyriacou :)