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Oak Tree Class Blog
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
Week 4, ending 28 June
Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Amber
Special Mention: Tom
A super well done to these children!
Grunge music has greeted the children each morning as they have arrived this week – many children have mentioned how their parents have liked certain songs! They themselves did not seem too keen though…..!
In English, we are making good progress in planning how to retell the Ancient Greek myth, Medusa and Perseus. This is likely to be our final major piece of writing, so we are aiming to write to impress! It is hoped that all the children will try their hardest to include all that they’ve learned about writing in Y5. Watch this space!
More work on decimals in maths for Oak Tree Class. Again, this mathematical concept will be more of a focus in Y6, but it’s good to get the children familiar with decimals at this stage. Some have a great grasp of it already! Lucky y6 teachers!
In our Ancient Greek topic session (history), the children focused on the subject of ‘Legacy’ this week. In groups, they researched key elements of Greek legacy (Architecture, Olympics, Philosophy, Language and Democracy) and then we ended our session (in true Ancient Greek style) with a debate about which element is the greatest legacy. They did very well indeed!
In PSHE, we talked about how stereotypes can lead to unkind behaviour – how you don’t have to be a girl to like pink, or be a boy to play football. In pairs, the children created STOP and START signs, where they talked to each other about behaviour that needs to stop in society (eg teasing someone for their gender expression) and also behaviour that needs to be started (eg being friendly to children who appear ‘different’, using only kind words). This was a great session and I was very proud of their mature responses.
I hope you have a lovely weekend – we are heading to Benton Park High School next Wednesday afternoon to see their school show, ‘School of Rock’. This should be fun! And is also a chance for our Y5s to look inside a high school, if they haven’t already done so.
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos
PS you might like to know that the New Parent Packs went out this week - and each one included a fabulous persuasive leaflet about RPPS, written by one of the children from Oak Tree Class. Proud Teacher Moment #3921
Week 3, ending 21 June
Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Phoebe
Special Mention: Niamh
A super week for these children!
We have been listening to Prog Rock all week, as we have completed our Early Bird Maths tasks.
Two key events have dominated our work in Week 3: Sports Day and the ALPT Art Exhibition.
Practising and assigning races are always exciting aspects of a primary school’s sports’ day – and that has definitely been the case this year in Oak Tree Class. All the children were very keen to be assigned to the sports’ day activities and our athletics sessions leading up to this momentous event certainly prepared the children well for their interhouse competitions! It is also glorious to note that, for once, the sun shone!!
The theme for this year’s ALPT (Aireborough Learning Partnership Trust) Art Exhibition was Marine Conservation, so we have honed our pen work and created a marvellous ‘shoal of fish’, which look really effective. Please see image below.
It has also been assessment week this week – the children have behaved superbly throughout the tests and have also demonstrated, by their secure tests results, how much progress they have made this year. Well done, Oak Tree!
I have you have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Adrienne Amos
Week 3, ending 14 June
Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Stanley
Special Mention: Padme
A special well done to these children!
We have all really enjoyed listening to ‘world instrumental’ music at the start of our day. It’s been very calm each day. Ladysmith Black Mambazo went down well on Tuesday morning!
We have just about completed our original song compositions in Music/Ukuleles. They are definitely ‘original’! We hope to record them all with Mr Jennings this week and I shall find a way to share the recordings with you.
In Maths, we are really enjoying a Y5 unit on angles. I have been so impressed with how well the children have dealt with this new (quite abstract) knowledge.
We have also been working hard getting ready for our KS2 Sports Day. Weather allowing, we will look forward to seeing some of you on Thursday afternoon.
I hope you have a lovely weekend – homework this weekend is Spellings and a Maths sheet, too.
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos
Week 1, ending 7 June
Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Viraaj
Special Mention: Eva
A special well done to these children!
The music theme this week has been instrumentals.
The children have had a good 4 days in school since returning after the half term break. They particularly enjoyed the Ancient Greek workshops where the children learned about the importance of theatre in Ancient Greek society and how to use their bodies to show a range of emotions as they recreated the myth of Perseus and Medusa. This will feed into their English work over the coming weeks.
The children also enjoyed an extra PE lesson with Sam this afternoon.
Apologies for the briefness of this blog. Mrs Amos has not been in school the last couple of days but may add some information to it at some point.
Have a lovely weekend
Y5 Oak Tree staff