Oak Tree Class Blog
Oak Tree Class Blog
Week 3, ending 20/21 November
Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Rutendo
Special Mention: Savannah
Well done to these children!
Rock-a-billy and Rock ‘n’ Roll music have greeted us in class each morning – Elvis was by far the most commented upon artist! Lots of children said that their parents/grandparents loved listening to Elvis Presley.
We have continued to learn about biographies this week, which will culminate in writing one about Thomas Barnardo. I have suggested that children may like to spend a bit of time at home collecting information as an extra homework task – it’s always really special to include extra facts found at home in a piece of school work!
Equivalent fractions have been the mainstay of maths this week – we shall be spending a little longer on this concept too, as it seems to be one that the children have found tricky. Any support you can give with this in homework would be welcomed. (Often, hearing it explained by someone else can work wonders!)
Finally, well done to those children who are remembering to read regularly at home! We have noticed a bit of a dip in this with our Y5 children and would just like to remind you of the importance of reading. In UKS2, the expectation is that children should still be reading at least 5 times a week (approx. 1 hour of reading combined!) and they can do this independently and fill in their own reading records or with an adult. We are always happy to provide your child with book recommendations and strongly encourage them to come and talk to us if they are not enjoying the books they have chosen.
The Reading Agency is a UK charity with a mission to empower people of all ages to read. Their research shows that:
- One in four children hasn't reached the expected level of reading by the age of 11. Many of these children will struggle to keep up at secondary school.
- Students are less able to learn other subjects if they do not develop sufficient reading skills by the middle of primary school.
- Only 35% of 10-year-olds in England report that they like reading 'very much'. This lags behind countries like Russia (46%), Ireland (46%), New Zealand (44%), and Australia (43%).
- Children who read books often at age 10 and more than once a week at age 16 gain higher results in maths, vocabulary and spelling tests at age 16 than those who read less regularly.
We greatly appreciate everything parents, carers and children do to support reading for pleasure already - please keep it up!
Have a lovely w/end.
Yours,
Mrs Amos
Week 2 - ending 14 November
Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Just writing a quick note on behalf of Mrs Amos.
This week as part of anti-bullying week we enjoyed an online lesson, undertaking missions to show how the 'Power for Good' can help deal with bullying. On Thursday we had a wonderful collection of odd socks to mark the event too.
We have been busy with sports this week as children from across both Y5 classes represented school at a North West Cross Country event at Wharfe Meadows in Otley on Thursday.
Today some children visited The Vue Cinema (in Leeds Lights) for a free screening of Paddington in Peru.
We have also been working very hard in English, maths, science, computing, history etc... as we always do!
Have a lovely weekend.
Mr Cooke
Week 1, ending 7 November
Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Zeeya
Special Mention: Amelia
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 Clarke Junior.
In Maths, we are continuing our unit on multiplication- particularly looking at the roles of factors and multiples. These are quite difficult concepts to grasp and we will need to revisit them in the future. Any support you can give your child on their homework (and with their times tables) this weekend would be very much appreciated.
In English, we have published our fantastic poems, which use onomatopoeia to describe the conditions of a Victorian Mill. Hopefully your child will bring theirs home to show you.
In PE, we have begun our units on football (Mondays) and Gymnastics (Thursdays).
Next week, we begin our long-awaited DT work on structures – I look forward to telling you more next Friday!
Have a splendid weekend,
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos
Week 8, ending 24 October
Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Archie
Special Mention: Amelia
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.
Fabulous poetry has been created – using rhyme, rhythm AND onomatopoeia; tricky aspects of maths have been smashed (negative numbers!) and an internal hockey tournament has been carried out, to celebrate the end of a very successful unit in PE. In the rain!
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 – “Ode to Joy” 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!!
I hope you have a fab half term holiday! See you on November 3rd. (And please find more cardboard tubes for our Marble Runs!!)
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos
Week 7, ending 17 October
Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Layne
Special Mention: Hannah
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.
SPaG and Reading have dominated our English lessons this week and the children have learned lots of new aspects of English: namely, possessive apostrophes and summarising – but we begin a very exciting unit on Onomatopoeia next week!
Maths has been all about solving word problems in addition and subtraction and ensuring all children have a sound method for these two operations. Homework shall also reflect this.
We had our final hockey lessons in PE and both Sam and I are really pleased to see how the children’s hockey skills have developed over the half term. We are looking forward to our inter-house tournament next week – keep your fingers crossed for kind weather!
Our most exciting learning over the past couple of weeks has been researching and presenting historical information about the jobs children did during the Victorian era. This week saw the finished products of all their labour and the children spent an interesting afternoon explaining their researched facts to their small groups.
Pretty soon we are looking at Marble Runs in DT, before we start to design and build one. If you have one kicking about that we could borrow, please do send in with your child!
It has been lovely to meet everybody at Parents’ Evenings this past week - I hope you have a splendid weekend!
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos