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Spring Term, Week 1, ending 27 February

Posted: Feb 27, 2026 by: Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog

Reader: Coral

Special Mention: Sophie R

Well done to these children!

Welcome back to school after half term. 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!

This week has been super busy. We have started to develop knowledge of decimal numbers – by the end of Y5, the children need to know about tenths, hundredths and thousandths.

In other news, The Wizard of Oz rehearsals continue and we are all enjoying putting together the scenes 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. Could you please send your child’s costume into school on Friday 13^th March? If it could be hung on a hanger and then covered by a plastic bag with your child’s name on it, that would be so helpful!

In our Art unit this term, we have been looking at American landscapes and the children spent an afternoon learning about (and presenting an artist study on) Ansel Adams. Hopefully, your child can tell you a little about him and his work.

Rivers was the theme for our topic lesson this week – a real geography skills session, where the children looked at maps and atlases, comparing a river in California and a local river, the Wharfe. I have challenged the children to learn the names of ten rivers this term, including five from Great Britain. Perhaps you could help them with this too?

I hope you have a lovely weekend,

Yours,

Mrs Adrienne Amos