Beech Tree Class Blog 2023-2024
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Weekly Update 17/9/21
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
Beech Tree, have had another busy and exciting week. The children all went for their first swimming lessons, which they absolutely loved and they represented Rufford Park really well! Beech Tree have also won the Extreme Reader challenge for LKS2, which means that we have £100 to spend on a range of new books for our class! Very exciting!
This week, the children also performed freeze frames from scenes that appear in James and the Giant Peach. They worked in groups of three, created some amazing freeze frames and had lots of fun working together on them!
The children also did some dictionary work to find out the meaning of tricky vocabulary that will appear in the next chapter of our class novel, James and the Giant Peach.
In science, we had class discussions about what science is, who scientists are, different types of scientists, what they look like, what they do and how science has helped the world. We also looked at the different stages of an investigation and the children arranged them in the correct order.
The children have also started doing some planting and will continue to do so over the next few weeks.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou
Weekly Update 10/9/21
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Welcome to Beech Tree Class - it's lovely to have everyone back in school! The children have settled well into the classroom routines and it is very pleasing to see new friendships forming already.
This week the children created their own self portraits by mirroring the other half of their faces which were photographs. It was a challenging but very enjoyable activity for the class! All the children gave it their best effort, took their time and listened to the instructions given for each step of the drawing and they produced some absolutely lovely pieces of work! These will be displayed in the Y4 cloakroom.
The children also completed a task which revolved around 'The Rights of the Reader' by Daniel Pennac. As a class, we discussed the benefits of reading and how it helps us with our learning. We then read through the different rights of the reader and in pairs the children had to cut them all out, then discuss which they thought were the most important to them and the least important to them and rearrange them in a diamond formation starting from the most important at the top and working down to the least important at the bottom. The children understood that there were no right or wrong answers; these were just their opinions and what they felt were the more/less important to them. Each pair had a totally different order and each pair gave their reasons for the one they chose as the most important to them.
