Oak Tree Class Blog
Oak Tree Class Blog
Week 3, ending 14 March 2025
Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Charlie
Special Mention: Enid
Congratulations to these hard workers this week!
100% Attendance Prize: Morgan
Gosh, it has been a busy week here at Rufford Park! The music genre that the children in Oak have been listening to has been ‘Legendary Bands’. The Who, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones are among the tunes we have enjoyed.
In Maths, we have continued work on Decimals/Percentages, but we have also spent time doing our termly assessments. I will be able to speak with you about these at Parents’ Evening next week. (I hope you have booked a slot for Tuesday or Wednesday).
Our balanced arguments about palm oil continue in English lessons – we have been working especially hard to keep our language formal and to use relative clauses to add extra information. They are going to be a superb final piece of work, I think: one to be proud of.
DT this week had us all engaged in exploring cams and followers. (Every day is a school day....). We are looking forward to advancing these skills in our Animal Automata project.
Bugsy Malone rehearsals have continued for Y5 children – only a week or so to go now. Hopefully, all children can be at the two evening performances – it is really important you let me know as soon as possible if this is not the case. Most costumes have been brought in now – but if you haven’t managed to do this by today (Friday) could you please ensure it is brought into school on Monday?
Next week, we have the exciting opportunity to go to Benton Park High School to watch their performance of We Will Rock You (Tuesday morning) and also, an esteemed visitor, Dr Dianne Davies, will be visiting us to tell us all about the world of the Maya.
Homework this weekend is simply spellings and a letter-writing task. Details can be found in your child’s book bag…..
Have a great weekend
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos
Week 2, ending 7 March
Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Ella
Special Mention: Millie
Well done to these pupils especially!
100% Attendance prize: Katherine
EMO tunes have been the music theme for this week and Avril Lavigne’s classic hit, Sk8er Boi, was by far the most popular. Tune!
In English, the children are continuing to learn about newspapers and are constructing the two sides of an argument about deforestation in rainforests. It has been incredible how involved the children have become on the theme of palm oil. I gather some of you have even bought chocolate spread with NO palm oil in for Pancake Day – that is dedication. Thank you!
In Maths, we continue to learn even more about decimals numbers, especially with how they link with key fractions we know. This is knowledge for life – so please do quiz your child on the decimals for ½, ¼, 1/10, 1/5 and ¾.
World Book Day was fun again this year! I was really impressed with the variety of animal costumes created! We all took part in another BBC Live Lesson – and we took the opportunity to talk about favourite books we have. Please look at our pictures on the school Facebook page.
Bugsy rehearsals and prop making sessions continue – not long to go now! So please do encourage your child to learn their words (if they have not already done so). Tickets will soon be on sale, I am assured!
Homework is Maths, Grammar and Spellings – as always, due in on Wednesday. Next week is assessment week for Oak Tree Class, so now would be a good weekend to refresh times tables and other basic number skills (x by 10, 100, 1000 etc Number Bonds to 100, square and cube numbers)
I hope you have a super weekend.
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos
Delayed - 28/2/2025
Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Charlie
Special Mention: Shae
Well done to these children!
Welcome back to school for Spring Term 2! K-Pop has greeted the children every day – from BTS to 2NE1…(every day is a school day!).
This week has been super busy. We have started back on decimals, including recognising tenths and thousandths and we are continuing to look at examples of balanced arguments. We shall be writing these over the next couple of weeks.
In other news, Bugsy Malone rehearsals continue and we are all enjoying putting together the scenes, dances and songs, as well as designing and making the scenery for our production. Hopefully, costumes are being collected together by family and friends - please do contact me if there is an issue regarding the clothing your child needs. Email me, as usual, at oak@ruffordparkprimary.org.uk
I hope you have a lovely weekend,
Yours,
Mrs Amos
Week 6, ending 13/14 February
Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Kourtney
Special Mention: Ted G
Well done to these children this week!
Attendance raffle winner: Whole Class!
Our attendance in Oak Tree Class is not always in the 90 %s, so it is encouraging that the children have been determined to achieve a 'treat' at the end of this week for improved attendance. I really hope this continues next half term, as we cover a lot of important units in our work, preparing the children for Y6, along with, of course, much work on Bugsy Malone!
This week has been Internet Safety Week – and here is a link for you to follow and hopefully help to start a conversation with your children about this very important subject.
https://saferinternet.org.uk/guide-and-resource/parents-and-carers
We often spend time in discussion about how important it is that we keep ourselves as safe online, as we do irl (in real life!) and this week the children also learned more about how to recognise phishing and scams. Oak Tree Class took part in an online Live Lesson, courtesy of the BBC and it was exciting knowing that we were learning alongside thousands of other school children on Safer Internet Day.
Please see the following leaflet for more safety information about one of the most popular online games for our Y5 children: Roblox.
In maths, we have been continuing with fractions work, as well as working hard to improve arithmetic skills. If you know your child finds one area of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, please do try to spend some time this half-term encouraging them to practise. There is no homework, with it being half term, apart from Reading, of course.
Have a great half term,
Mrs Amos
Week 5, ending 7 February
Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Ted M
Special Mention: Joseph
Well done to these children this week!
Attendance raffle winner: Ella
Rap and Hip Hop have greeted the children each morning – don’t worry though, I have vetted each and every song to ensure a ‘clean’ version has been played!
Maths has been finding fractions of quantities, which links very closely to previous work completed on division. After half term, we are also introducing an Arithmetic Test each fortnight in Y5. This is in a bid to prepare the children well for their prospective work in Y6; any help you can give your child in addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and fractions would be very helpful. Each child has the aim to improve the score (even by one mark!) each week.
On Tuesday, the children had a workshop session delivered to them by the Mental Health Team all about Resilience. They were extremely responsive and gave some super answers – I know the Mental Health team greatly enjoyed our session!
We have continued improving our Handball skills in PE. And we have spent a lot of time learning about the fabulous flora and fauna of the Amazon Rainforest, too. A very busy week!
Letters about costumes for Bugsy (and all the song words) will be sent home next week. Homework is Maths, Grammar and Spelling practice.
Have a lovely weekend.
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos