Oak Tree Class Blog
Oak Tree Class Blog
Week 4, ending 30 June
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A huge congratulations to the pupils this week for their hard work and dedication. Mrs Amos has been out of school on a 3 day training course this week (Wednesday to Friday) so this week's blog comes from Mr Fone's and a couple of children from Y5 Oak:
Week 3, ending 23 June
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Much of this week has been dominated by our end of year assessments and I have been really encouraged by how mature Oak Tree Class has been about them. They have worked quietly and diligently and all children were most keen to show the progress they have made this year.
And apart from PE and Ukuleles, our other main concern has been to provide a piece of artwork for the ALPT art project, this year with the theme of CELEBRATIONS. (You may have already heard that we decided to go down the route of Cadbury’s Celebrations, rather than kingly celebrations!!)
In our art sessions, we have evaluated the sweet wrapper designs, copied them and then created a pattern, using similar colours, shape and styles from one chosen chocolate. These were then represented on a puzzle piece and six lovely final collaboration pieces were created. They look fantastic and the amount of detail in some is just phenomenal!
Homework this week is spellings and place value work.
Enjoy your long weekend!
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos
Week 2, ending 16 June
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Well done to these pupils this week.
Reader of the Week: Sheldon
Special Mention Pupil: Violet
World Music has greeted the children every morning – there has been quite a ‘zen’ atmosphere to start our day!
In English, we have continued to read our novel, Darwin’s Dragons, and this week, the children have completed a variety of tasks, which have furthered their understanding of the plot so far. I think a highlight was looking at and learning about the prickly pear cactus, which is found on the Galapagos Islands and then creating a little information booklet.
In Maths, we have completed our shape work on angles – now the children should know how many degrees are in a right angle, a straight line and also a full turn. Test them and check that they do!
PE sessions were fun again this week, as the Y5s spent time with our Y3s, teaching them the finer art of bowling and catching for rounders. The weather was super-hot again, so we also spent some of the time reading with the Y3s in the shade. It was encouraging to see how supportive the children were with their younger peers. (I am really hoping to have been able to put some photos of this session onto our class gallery!)
We had an important message delivered to us on Tuesday, by an IT expert, about Internet Safety. We have had a few discussions since and I think it would be worthwhile for you to visit this site, to continue the open discussions with your child:
Hope you have a pleasant and sunny w/end.
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos
Week 2, ending 16 June
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Well done to these pupils this week.
Reader of the Week: Sheldon
Special Mention Pupil: Violet
World Music has greeted the children every morning – there has been quite a ‘zen’ atmosphere to start our day!
In English, we have continued to read our novel, Darwin’s Dragons, and this week, the children have completed a variety of tasks, which have furthered their understanding of the plot so far. I think a highlight was looking at and learning about the prickly pear cactus, which is found on the Galapagos Islands and then creating a little information booklet.
In Maths, we have completed our shape work on angles – now the children should know how many degrees are in a right angle, a straight line and also a full turn. Test them and check that they do!
PE sessions were fun again this week, as the Y5s spent time with our Y3s, teaching them the finer art of bowling and catching for rounders. The weather was super-hot again, so we also spent some of the time reading with the Y3s in the shade. It was encouraging to see how supportive the children were with their younger peers. (I am really hoping to have been able to put some photos of this session onto our class gallery!)
We had an important message delivered to us on Tuesday, by an IT expert, about Internet Safety. We have had a few discussions since and I think it would be worthwhile for you to visit this site, to continue the open discussions with your child:
Hope you have a pleasant and sunny w/end.
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos
Week 1, ending 9 June 2023
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Welcome back after half term!
Well done to these pupils this week.
Reader of the Week: Seth
Special Mention Pupil: Henry
We have started this half term with a full and varied week.
Our new PE sessions of Rounders and Tennis were well-received by the children – please keep your fingers crossed for warm and pleasant weather on Tuesdays and Wednesdays for the next six weeks, so our lessons can happen without rain!
Because the weather forecast for Friday was so warm, I made the decision not to do the Weekly Mile – but it has been great seeing the children from Oak Tree Class join in each lunchtime with the extra physical activities that Sam has organised. This is in a bid to keep our children moving. We are ever conscious that many children (not all!) would prefer to pick up a game controller nowadays for entertainment, rather than run a round for a while; this should help to raise every pupil’s fitness level.
I am so proud of the published pieces of work on Darwin’s Dragons that we concluded this week in our English lessons. I hope you will be too! In these tasks, the children have been allowed to choose four different text types to write in – the results have been stunning! And I have been particularly impressed by their presentation skills too – excellent handwriting (in pen!) and fantastic illustrations with captions.
In Maths, we continue to work on the Y5 concepts – this unit is all about the properties of shapes. We are particularly looking at angles – acute, obtuse, right and reflex. See how many angles you can find in real life during this weekend!
Homework is a revision of the method for subtraction.
Have a super weekend – see you next week.
Yours
Mrs Adrienne Amos