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Willow Tree Class Blog 2020-2021

Willow Tree Home Learning-7/5/21

Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Willow Tree Class Blog 2020-2021

Hello everyone,

Unfortunately, as you know, Willow Tree have had to isolate and work from home this week, but I'd just like to say how proud I am with the attitude to learning and the resilience that the children have shown. For English, we have focused our work around Stig of the Dump and for Maths we have focused on Fractions consolidation.

Below are some super pieces of work produced throughout the week.

The children have also been creating their own music (which relates to our work on Sound in Science) using Purple Mash, but also using any instruments they have at home as well. Below is a video of one of the children creating a tune on a tongue drum. I wonder if anyone recognises the tune and a very famous film that it is used in.

Olivia's Music.mov

Next week, normal teaching shall resume and on Tuesday 11th May the first of 6 catch-up sessions will start after school at 3:30.

That's all for now,

Mr Kyriacou :)

Home Learning 4.5.21-7.5.21

Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Willow Tree Class Blog 2020-2021

Dear parents and carers,

I hope you are all safe and well. As you are aware, Willow Tree will not be in school this week and teaching will be done remotely this week on Teams.

You can download this week's zip folder of learning resources from the link below

Willow Tree Planning and Resources

This week's live session will be:
Tuesday 4th May: 9:30am (introduction to the week's learning)

If there are any login issues, or any families that would prefer paper packs instead, please contact me as soon as possible at willow@ruffordparkprimary.org.uk

Take care,

Mr Kyriacou

Weekly Update 30.4.21

Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Willow Tree Class Blog 2020-2021

Hello everyone,

First, I just wanted to say that it was lovely to chat to you all throughout the week about the academic progress of the children, their wellbeing and how they've settled back in since schools have reopened.

It's been another busy week in Willow and the children have been working extremely hard on their persuasive leaflets that revolve around a Mary Anning theme park. They've included some brilliant rhetorical questions, lots of expanded noun phrases and imperative verbs. I am very proud of their efforts. Below are some examples of the fantastic work that has been produced. I've definitely been persuaded to go to all these theme parks.

Before reading the second chapter of Stig of the Dump, the children made predictions about what they think will happen next based on the ending of the first chapter. The children also did some excellent dictionary work to identify the meaning of tricky vocabulary before we read the second chapter.

In Maths, we have continued our work on fractions, with the main focus of this week revolving around comparing and ordering fractions. The build up of their fractions knowledge continues to impress me.

As I may have mentioned during parents' evening, the very best way to support your child's learning is to read with them every evening and to help them practise their times tables.

You can download practice copies here:

BRONZE (X2, X5, X10)
SILVER (X3, X4, X6)
GOLD (X7, X8, X9)
SUPER GOLD (X11, X12 and all at speed)

TT Rockstars and Hit the Button are both excellent websites for improving confidence in maths. And you can click here for some recommend reads for Year 3.

Regular use of our school website to practise Word Walls 2, 3 and 4 is also a great way to improve knowledge of core spellings.

I hope you all have a lovely extended weekend.

Take care,

Mr Kyriacou :)

Willow Tree Home Learning-23/4/21

Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Willow Tree Class Blog 2020-2021

Hello everyone,

I hope you have all had a lovely Easter break and managed to get out and enjoy the beautiful weather :)

The children have all come back fresh, recharged and ready to learn. This week, in Literacy, we have started our work on persuasive texts, looking at a variety of texts and identifying the key features used within those persuasive texts. The aim will be to eventually create a persuasive leaflet for a Mary Anning theme park and we have already started to plan it. The children have already started to come up with some very creative ideas for Mary Anning themed attractions.

We have also started reading our brand new class novel, Stig of the Dump, which the children have been very excited about.

In Maths, we have continued our fractions work, focusing on tenths as decimals and comparing and ordering fractions with the same denominator. I'm very impressed with the fractions knowledge that the children have built up and the way that they use the correct mathematical vocabulary when working out problems and answering questions.

Please get in touch if you have any questions.

Take care,

Mr Kyriacou

Weekly Update 1.4.21

Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Willow Tree Class Blog 2020-2021

Hello everyone,

This week the children have been focusing on retelling the story of Stone Girl, Bone Girl, which is based on the life of Mary Anning. The focus has been around rewriting the story in chronological order, using inverted commas correctly to show when a character is speaking and using fronted adverbials at the beginning of a sentence to describe the action that follows.

We have also continued our work with Fractions, looking at how pairs of fractions make 1 whole, whilst also going through our assessment papers and going through any weaker areas that have been identified and discussing strategies as to how we would approach those questions in order to work them out.

As part of out topic, the children got into the role of Mary Anning this week and they become fossil hunters. They searched for and identified different fossils that they found and each group also placed money on the fossils that they thought were the most valuable to them as a group.

The children also completed their fantastic sketches of ammonites that they have been working on since last week and they also completed their own portraits of Mary Anning. I'm very proud of their efforts.