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Week 1, ending 19 April.
Posted: Apr 19, 2024 by: Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Tom
Special Mention: Amber
A fantastic start for these children!
Welcome back to school for Summer 1 – the countdown to your children moving up to Year 6! Every morning, the children have been listening to a little opera as they worked. (The song from Mr Bean most certainly gained the biggest reaction – O Mio Babbino Caro!)
In Maths, we have been learning all about percentages – and especially how they link with fractions and decimals. It has been a really good start to this topic – this week’s Maths homework is on this topic.
As the children seemed to enjoy last term’s class novel (King of the Cloud Forest by Michael Morpurgo), we have spent much of our English time planning and writing book reviews. It was pleasing to see how many children gave the book 4 or 5 stars in their reviews. This term’s class novel s by Maz Evans and is called ‘Who Let the Gods out?’ The children have looked at the cover, made predictions and read and discussed the blurb for it so far – we shall start reading it very soon. They seem to be looking forward to it.
PE this half term is Cricket – two fun lessons have happened already this week. We have been practising basic skills so to start off with, but we will soon move onto small games of cricket. We have also done a Daily Mile session and two mini Pilates slots.
While our Y6 peers have been on their exciting residential visit to Peat Rigg, the Year 5s have been spending time learning all about the artist, Romero Britto and have had a go at creating a spring-themed picture, using his very recognisable style.
As you can tell, it has been a busy start – and I haven’t even mentioned the fabulous songwriting project in our ukulele session with Mr Jennings – more about that next week!
Have a super weekend.
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos