Oak Tree Class Blog
Oak Tree Class Blog
Week 1, ending 6 June
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Welcome back after half term!
Well done to these pupils this week.
Reader of the Week: Matilda
Special Mention Pupil: Noah
100% Attendance Award: Charlie
The children have started this half term with a full and varied week.
The highlight was designing and creating Animal Automata models all day on Tuesday. The results were outstanding – hopefully some pictures are attached. Quite specific DT skills of measuring, cutting and tool work were employed in this unit. Thanks to Mr Martindale for braving this unit with Oak Tree Class!
In Maths, with the help of Miss Sanderson and Mr Fones, the children continued to work on the Y5 concepts – this unit is all about the properties of shapes. They have been particularly looking at angles – acute, obtuse, right and reflex. See how many angles you can find in real life during this weekend!
It was lovely to return to a warm welcome on Thursday. And I am most grateful for your messages of support for me and my family.
I hope you have a super weekend – see you all next week.
Yours
Mrs Adrienne Amos
Please note that Oak Class PE sessions are now on Mondays and Fridays for this term.
Week 5, ending 23rd May
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Week 4, ending 16 May
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Week 3, ending 9 May
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Well done to these pupils!
Reader of the Week: Syd
Special Mention Pupil: Morgan
100% Attendance Award:
Powerful ballads have started our mornings off all week – Meatloaf being the firm favourite amongst Oak Tree Class, I believe!
In Maths, we have begun a unit called Statistics. This week, we have been drawing, reading and interpreting line graphs; next week we look at interpreting tables, as well as another arithmetic test. We have continued to draft our leaflets for our Y2 pupils, and next week we hope to finish writing them and finally publish them too, before sharing with one of our young buddies! We shall also be delving more into our class novel, Darwin’s Dragons. The story has been exciting up to now.
By far, the big event in school this week has been our celebration of VE Day. The children really entered into this with thought and sensitivity, I am pleased to report. Our day on Thursday was spent entirely considering what it must’ve been like for children in 1945 – I hope they came home telling you all about our activities. It was also so pleasing to realise how much information they all remembered from our first Y5 topic on World War Two.
There are some pictures on our school Facebook page: Rufford Park Primary School and Nursery.
I hope you have a super weekend!
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos
Week 2, ending 2 May
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Reader of the Week: Shae
Special Mention Pupil: Toby
100% Attendance Prize: Lillian
Well done to these pupils!
What an effective week we have had! Our class music theme has been ‘funk music’ and it has certainly set us all up for full and funky lessons!
Our tricky Maths unit on Area and Perimeter has been finished – hurray! We spent an enjoyable ‘Round Robin’ style lesson today, ensuring we know how to find the area and the perimeter of any rectilinear shape. I was very impressed by their learning!
It would be really helpful if you could help your child recall these simple conversions for percentages:
½ = 0.5 = 50%
1/10 = 0.1 = 10%
1/5 = 0.2 = 20%
¼ = 0.25 = 75%
¾ = 0.75 = 75% and any other related facts.
It’s an area that the children still need much reminding.
In our English lessons, we have been researching and designing a special leaflet about Yeadon Tarn, which we plan to share/give to a Y2 child once finished. This task will have been made much easier after our visit to the tarn on a gloriously sunny Wednesday! What a fabulous day we had!
Our ukulele lessons continued – we are looking at and working on playing Low Rider and Three Little Birds, in preparation for our Big Y5 Ukulele Gig (more details to follow!).
Homework this week is more on spelling strategies (I spoke with lots of you at Parents' Evening about how these can help improve spelling recall), work on Area and Perimeter and, of course, our weekly spelling list! All due back in on Wednesday.
Have a lovely long weekend! May the sun keep shining...
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos