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Oak Tree Class Blog
Autumn 1 Week 2, ending 13 September
Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Joseph
Special Mention: Dima
Well done to these pupils!
This week has been a really happy week and the children have settled extremely well. I am impressed with how mature the children have been since moving up to Y5 – this bodes well for a successful year. Well done, Oak Tree Class! It was also lovely to meet so many of you at our ‘Meet the Teacher’ event on Wednesday.
The music genre the children have been listening to each morning has been R & B this week. Arianna Grande (with John Legend) was definitely the preferred track, I think.
In Maths this week, we have been developing our knowledge and skills in Place Value, learning how to recognise numbers up to 1,000,000. In English, we have been writing a piece of narrative, where we have described images of Ww2 evacuees, which builds nicely on from our class novel, Goodnight, Mr Tom. The vocabulary in this book can be quite challenging at times, due to it being set in the era of the outbreak of WW2, but we are having lots of interesting discussions about these words!
In our topic session, we placed the WW2 event on a timeline, linked to other key periods the children have already studied at RPPS. This skill of chronology is so important in primary school education.
Just to remind you, we plan to go on our school visit to Worth Valley on Wednesday 25 September. Hopefully, you have filled out the permission form and you are having discussions about what an evacuee might wear! A reminder that the children will require a packed lunch too. (This does not have to be WW2 styled, though!)
As well as the weekly spellings to find and practise, for homework this week the children are being given the opportunity to stand as our school council rep again. If they wish to be considered, they need to create a poster, explaining WHY they think they should be Oak Tree Class’s rep. They can explain what kind of person they are and how they think they would be good at the role. Any parental support would be gratefully appreciated, I am sure.
Posters and spellings need to be in on Wednesday, as normal. Also, please continue to read regularly (five times) with your child each week. Reading is at the crux of all our learning.
I hope you all have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Adrienne Amos
Autumn Term: week 1 - ending 6 September
Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Azhar
Special Mention: Kourtney
A super well done to these children, especially!
Welcome to Year 5! It has been a very enjoyable week in Oak Tree Class; I look forward to getting to know your child (and all of you!) over the coming academic year.
As well as a few of ‘Getting to know you’ activities, we have spent some time recapping the writing and grammar skills learned in y4 and also revisited place value, addition and subtraction, as reminders for our work in the coming weeks.
We haven’t yet started our Autumn Term topic, World War II, but I know the children are really excited about it. (If you happen to have anything in your attics/lofts/storage boxes which might help to boost the children’s experience of World War II, (old photos, medals, other memorabilia) then I would love to hear about it! You can email me at oak@ruffordparkprimary.org.uk)
Our PE days, as it already states on the website, are Mondays and Thursdays and in Y5, we continue to send homework out on Fridays and expect its return the following Wednesday.
Each week, in Oak Tree Class, the children will hear a different genre of music as they enter the classroom in the mornings. This week it has been the turn of SKA. They have loved tapping their feet along to Madness and the Mighty, Mighty Boss Tones among others this week! I hope the children will talk about these themes over the year.
The children have settled superbly this week, I feel – this is a delightful group to be working with! But should you have any issues, please do not hesitate to contact me – either by email or by stopping by at the end of the day. (Mornings are always very busy, so this possibly isn’t the best chance to chat – after school is better.)
I hope you have a lovely weekend!
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos
Week 7, ending 19 July
Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Violet
Special Mention: Isabel
A super week for these children!
Psychedelic music has greeted the children each morning as they’ve come in to school – most seem quite bemused by this genre!
We have finally finished our maths work – phew! So no homework this weekend!
And our Ancient Greek myth has been completely retold. I have been so proud of this final publication of work and am going to send it up to their new class teacher, so they can see what your child is capable of by the end of Y5.
We took part in quite an exciting STEM workshop on Wednesday afternoon – we listened to a scientist explain about her work, which was using powerful telescopes to look into space (particularly at exo-planets). All by the power of Zoom! Oak Tree Class was very excited when they got a name check and several of their insightful questions were answered by Sofia, too. That’s two STEM workshops we have participated in this year and I really hope it’s opened up this area even more for the children. They have certainly revelled in the most recent science topic – Earth and Space.
Only two more school days to go. But don’t forget we have our ‘Uke Gig’ on Monday morning. Coffee will be served from 8.50, so do just pop into the hall after school drop off and we look forward to having you as our audience.
Have a great weekend,
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos
Week 7, ending 12 July
Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Henry S
Special Mention: Ezmae
A special well done to these children!
Each morning, the children have come into class listening to Grime music – all radio edits, I can assure you! Stormzy seemed to get the best reaction of the week.
Work continues, as normal – we still need to get our Greek myths finished and do some more maths before Y5 ends! Hoping to have some fun next week...maybe our final Oak Tree’s Got Talent show??
In art, the children used chalk pastels and created images of shells, as part of our unit entitled The Seaside – the results were stunning! In science, we have completed work on Earth and Space - hopefully many of the class can recall all eight names of the planets in our solar system by now.
As well as practising hard for our ukulele gig (next Monday, 22 July, at 9.15am!) the most important event this week has definitely been visiting our new teachers and classrooms for Y6. I am pleased to report that both Y6 teachers said that the children were superbly behaved – which made me very proud to hear!
Please continue to read with your child until the end of term - I have really tried to cultivate a 'reading for pleasure' ethos in Oak Tree Class this year, so I hope it is not such a hard work to encourage them to read at home, too!
Have a lovely weekend – just 7 more ‘get ups’ to go!!
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos
Week 5, ending 5 July
Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Callum
Special Mention: Ruby
A special well done to these children!
One Hit Wonders have been the music of the week – Jo Dolce gained the most positive feedback from the children, with Shaddup ya face! (although Miss Sanderson and I did enjoy singing along to Anita Ward’s ‘Ring My Bell’ during Tuesday morning’s Early Bird Maths!)
Our decimals unit continues in maths; we are developing the retelling of the story of Perseus and Medusa in English sessions.
In Art, we spent a little more time researching the Victorian artist, Alfred Wallis – many members of the class have now finished fantastic artist studies in their Art/Sketch book. Next week, we are going to draw shells, so if you have any shells your child can bring in to school, that would be very helpful.
Our highlight was taking a trip across to Benton Park High School on Wednesday, to watch the dress rehearsal of School of Rock. It was a super show to watch, and the children definitely enjoyed it! Some even called it inspirational! But, for many, the best part of the afternoon was visiting an ‘actual high school’ and spending some time inside it. All good preparation for decisions to be made next year.
In RE, Miss Sanderson continues to teach the children all about Rites of Passage’ across different faiths. This week, the children have been exploring how and why Christians include baptism.
And finally for this week, much practising is being done for our ‘Uke Gig’ in ukulele lessons, so please do clear your diary for this little showing assembly, which will happen on Monday, 22 July at around 9.15am. We will be serving coffee/tea etc, so should be a lovely half hour, celebrating all we have learned with Mr Jennings in Y5. Hopefully, this notice will also go out on the newsletter this week.
Have a lovely weekend!
Mrs Adrienne Amos