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Weekly Update-7/2/25

Posted: Feb 7, 2025 by: Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog

Hello everyone,

This week, we have continued reading Kidnap in the Caribbean and focusing on reading tasks revolving around retrieval and inference skills, commentating and sharing opinions about different author choices made throughout the book and summarising skills.

In maths, we have been focusing on dividing 3 digit numbers by 1 digit numbers using short division, we have also focused dividing 3 digit numbers by 1 digit numbers with remainders. The children have also been practising to use the inverse (short multiplication) to check their division calculations. It's been amazing to see the progress!

In our writing we have focused on a variety of features that will be included in our next piece of writing. These include inverted commas for speech, expanded noun phrases and fronted adverbials. The children have also planned their resolutions and endings to the real-life story about three men trapped in the crater of Kilauea.

In PSHE, we had a Mind Mate assembly on resilience, along with a one-hour workshop. The children really enjoyed it and understood the value of having and showing resilience in everyday life. In our other PSHE lesson based on our Keeping Myself Safe unit, the children were learning all about the dangers of alcohol and cigarettes and the impact that they can have on your body.

In computing, as part of our Sequencing Sounds unit, the children used coding on Scratch to write the beginning of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. The children were also able to demonstrate good problem solving throughout the lesson in order to make their note sequence work correctly. The children also experimented with changing the pitch of the sound which also relates to work that we have been doing in science.

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Take care,

Mr Kyriacou :)