Oak Tree Class Blog
Oak Tree Class Blog
Week 1, ending 8 November
Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Deacon
Special Mention: Matilda
Well done to these children!
Welcome back to school for Autumn 2! Blues music has greeted us each morning in Oak Tree Class and the children seemed mostly to enjoy Gary Clark Junior’s blues guitar playing.
In Maths, we have finished our unit on multiplication, particularly learning concepts of cube numbers, multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000 and also identifying multiples of 10. Next week, we begin a Y5 unit on fractions. Yet again, this unit really relies on having a good grasp of times table facts. We shall be revisiting this when we can, but any extra consolidating you can do in this area at home will surely reap rewards.
In English, we have continued to learn about non-chronological reports, beginning to collect information from a variety of resources on the role of women during WW2.
In PE, we have begun our unit on netball and had two fantastic sessions. In RE, we started our work on Sikhism.
But the highlight of our week has definitely been exploring more about the seasonal food that is grown at this time of year. It was so encouraging to hear the children talking about why it is good to use seasonal food but also it was fab to witness everyone tasting a wide variety of seasonal food. Ask your child which of the following foodstuffs they tried and enjoyed: swede, runner beans, butternut squash, parsnip, broccoli, cauliflower, lentils, corned beef and spam. Over the next few weeks, the children will be designing seasonal meals that are healthy and that adhere to WW2 rationing restrictions. Your child might find this website useful to look at before making any decisions: https://the1940sexperiment.com/100-wartime-recipes/
Continuing with the WW2 topic, on Monday, we will be walking to the Town Hall to begin our enquiry question of ‘Why we remember’. Hopefully, the children have had the opportunity to buy a poppy to wear on this day to help reflect this act of remembrance – it all seems very fitting for us this year, as we are learning about events in World War Two.
**Please make sure your child wears school uniform to school on Monday – not PE kit**
Have a splendid weekend,
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos
Week 8, ending 25 October
Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Noah
Special Mention: Lottie
A special well done to all these pupils this week!
And we have made it!! The past eight weeks have been a long, but rewarding half term for us in Oak Tree Class – none moreso than this past week.
Our fabulous diary entries have been produced, mounted and displayed; tricky aspects of maths have been smashed (including prime and square numbers!) and an inter-team rugby tournament has been carried out, to celebrate the end of a very successful unit in PE.
It is clear that many of you are practising times table facts with your children and this has been so helpful in our recent maths unit. Please continue to do so, as after half term, we shall be moving onto FRACTIONS – and a secure times table knowledge makes this a much easier unit for Y5 children.
The ukulele playing has improved dramatically this week – “Lean on Me” sounded great and many children volunteered to play solos to the class!
Our morning music style has been Soul – James Brown was a definite fave with this class!!
Oak Tree's Got talent was FA-BU-LOUS this afternoon.
I am attaching some pics for your pleasure. All children who participated received a sweet treat and a certificate. Well done to them all!
Look out for our *extra optional homework* for this half term – creating a WW2 shelter in a shoebox.
I hope you have a fab half term holiday! See you on November 4!
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos
Week 7, ending 18 October
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Week 7, ending 18 October
Reader: Harrison
Special Mention: Lillian
A super well done to these pupils this week!
And the long term continues….! Just one week to go! But in the past week, we have been very busy in Oak Tree Class again, while listening to a variety of ‘Disney Classics’ in the morning.
Finally, we have published our WW2 diary entries. They are amazing. The children have evidently been able to empathise with children of their own age from this era – very pleasing. It was lovely to share these diary entries with so many parents on Parents’ Evenings. It is true to say that the handwriting of this class is excellent – many pen licences have been awarded.
Maths has been all about multiples this week, including a multiplication tables test – homework is also on this theme, so any support would be greatly appreciated.
It was our final Tag Rugby session this week – next week, we are hoping to hold an Intra-House Tournament for UKS2. Watch this space for the winners!
Many children from our class represented RPPS in a Cross-Country event – well done, guys!
Just to let you know, we have now sent home the children’s Celebration Books for you to enjoy. Due to time constraints etc we can no longer source, download, print and add further pics to these mementoes. But I can assure you that I shall regularly put pictures onto the weekly blog, so you can easily print them out and add them yourselves.
It has been lovely to meet so many of you at Parents’ Evenings this past week - I hope you have a splendid weekend!
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos
Week 6, ending 11 October
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Week 5, ending 11 October
Reader: Millie
Special Mention: Seth
A super well done to these pupils this week!
It has been another great week for the children in Oak Tree Class. Tina Turner was by far the most enjoyed ‘Female Legend’ in our early morning music!
In Ukuleles, we all sang and plucked our way through 'Happy Birthday to you' to Dima, as it was actually his birthday. We have moved onto chords too, and began to sing and strum to 'A Thousand Years'.
Our English unit continues – diary entries have been written and edited; now we will publish! Already I can see progress in how the children are writing their ideas down – they are much more fluently adding details to each sentence, including elative clauses, expanded noun phrases and a range of conjunctions. All of these will stand them in good stead for the rest of Y5 and beyond.
In our topic session (history), the children have been investigating what food was rationed during WW2 and have also considered the language that was used in propaganda posters, encouraging families to ration their food. A lot of persuasive posters have been created by my brilliant class. I have been thrilled by the number of Ration Recipe pics that have been coming in - what superstars you all are! Keep up the fab work and continue to send photos of kids with creations to oak@ruffordparkprimary.org.uk
Here is a pic of us tasting the amazing bread, baked by Ted, following a WW2 ration recipe! Yum. We all loved it!
In Maths, more work has been done on addition and subtraction. We will revisit this area again shortly in Y5 but it would be very helpful if you could spend time revising ‘halving and doubling’ with your Y5 child. This is an area of weakness at the minute and could do with an extra boost from home. Thank you!
If you know how to say ‘Hello’ and ‘How are you’ in French, do practise together! Our French lessons are a lot of fun and it’s always good to know the children remember these phrases at home.
Have a lovely weekend! Hope to see you all at one of the Parents’ Evenings next week.
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos
Week 5, ending 4 October
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Week 5, ending 4 October
Reader: Leah
Special Mention: Deacon
A special well done to these pupils this week!
This week, the children have been coming into school to the sounds of Boy Bands. All were well-received, but I definitely think that Year 3000 by Busted was the favourite tune!
Ukulele lessons have been progressing very well in Year 5. The children’s song ‘Rocky Mountain’ is now recognisable (!) and we also had a lot of fun picking our way through Happy Birthday to You this week!
We have continued to work our way through addition and subtraction in maths lessons, including practising the skill of rounding numbers to help us check answers.
But, for me, the best part of this week was the English lesson on National Poetry Day (Thursday) when the children worked in small groups to plan, perfect and perform a poem. Well done everyone!
The children are also working hard to plan and write WW2 diary entries – I really hope these will be published and displayed by Parents’ Evenings. Do remember to sign up for an appointment on 15th or 16th October.
I hope you all have a fab weekend – please continue to send in the fabulous Ration cooking pics.They make my day!
Homework is spellings and SPaG tasks.- all due in on Wednesday.
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos