Oak Tree Class Blog
Oak Tree Class Blog
Summer 2, week 2 ending 12 June
Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Luna
Special Mention: Isabella
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 completed our original song compositions in Music/Ukuleles and we are now polishing up a few of them, as well as practising the songs we have learned this year with Mr Jennings, ready for the Y5 Ukulele Gig on 26th June.
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) concept. Work starts on protractors next week…wish us luck!
The highlight of our week has to have been our Ancient Greek Day on Thursday. Photos have been put on the school Facebook page, demonstrating the fun the children all had in learning about the traditions of drama in Ancient Greece, as well as fabulous food tasting session in the afternoon. It was great to see children taking risks and trying food stuffs they had never eaten before (particularly olives, feta cheese, hummus and pomegranate).
Homework this weekend is Spellings and a Maths sheet, too.
I have also spoken to children in Year 5 about the opportunity to take part in a competition to become the next Leeds Children's Mayor.
Leeds Children's Mayor Entry Form
This is an optional homework activity that must be completed by Monday 22nd June 2026 if your child wishes to be considered.
I hope you have a lovely weekend
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos
Y5 World Cup Sweet Stake!
Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Hi parents,
With the World Cup approaching, I have organised a Y5 Sweet Stake!
It is hoped that the children will bring in a small sweet donation (like a couple of Maoam chews or a small Haribo pkt) and they can then draw a team name out of the basket.
It should be a fun way for us all to get involved - and with the Final being played the day after we break up for the summer hols (woohoo!), the two finalist teams can share the sweets between them.
Hope this is ok! Looking forward to your support!
Mrs A
Summer 2; Week 1, ending 5/6/26
Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Zeeya
Special Mention: Jenson
A fantastic start for these children!
It’s the children’s final term in Year 5 – and already we are starting to look forward to life in Y6. It is hoped that children are able to organise themselves (and look after their own stuff!) by the time they arrive in Y6, so if you feel this is an area of difficulty for your child, now is the time to start encouraging good habits: letting them pack their school bag the night before, thinking ahead about what they’ll need, knowing when it is a PE day and keeping a track of where important things like water bottles, hoodies, coats and pencil cases are. Reminders are obviously useful at times, but try not to do it all for your child – they will need to learn to do these things by themselves. It might be painful to start with, but it does get better! :)
It has been very calming to start the day listening to instrumental tracks this week. The theme tune by Vangelis for Chariots of Fire seemed to go down the best. (Especially when Mr Cooke came into the classroom miming a slow motion sprint!)
Maths has been a mixture of angles work (this week’s homework) and consolidating methods for multiplication and division. Once again, it’s the lack of times tables knowledge that lets some children down for each of these concepts, but it was very pleasing to see that by Friday morning, almost every child knew how to use the short division method accurately, some children even representing remainders as a fraction.
Topic has been learning about the legacy the Ancient Greeks have left; PE has been Sports’ Day training and Sports Day itself; Science work this term is all about Light and we are practising like mad for the Y5 Ukulele Gig, which will be on June 26th at 3.30pm. It will form an exciting part of Rufford ParkLife and we really hope you can all come along and watch our Y5 musicians shine.
Have a great weekend,
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos
Week 5, ending 22 May
Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Sophie R
Special Mention: Cam
A special well done to these children!
The music hits of Male Legends have been playing as the children have arrived each morning. No prizes for guessing the most popular ‘legend’… Michael Jackson! Every child had heard of him, but it was clear that only a few had heard of Frank Sinatra…poor Frank!
At last, in our English lessons, we have completed publishing our Yeadon Tarn leaflets and what delightful documents they have proved to be! We shared these with Y2 children and they loved us being there! We are incredibly proud of this work and so was Mrs Moore, who couldn’t believe the progress she could see.
In Maths, we have finished our two units about Decimals – now we can add, subtract, multiply and divide decimal numbers. These are very useful skills – not only for moving up into Y6, but for life in general!
The city-state of Sparta was our main focus in our history session. Now that we have looked in detail at both Athens and Sparta, we were able to compare and contrast both of these regions in our topic lesson on Ancient Greece. In the second week back, we are lucky enough to have an educational visitor come to lead the pupils in Phase 4 – this will be all about Ancient Greek theatre and their myths. It should be a lot of fun!
As it is half term, and the children have worked so hard for the past five weeks, there will be no other homework over the break, apart from regular reading/practising times tables. Please do remember to fill in the Reading Records, too.
Have a super week off!
See you all on Monday, 1 June!
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos
Week 5, ending 15 May
Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Evie
Special Mention: Archie
Fantastic efforts from for these children this week!
It has been a short week, but a very busy one nonetheless! Reggae music has accompanied our Early Bird Maths, with Bob Marley being the out and out winner in popularity!
We are still working hard on decimals numbers, so the homework this weekend reflects this; in English, the first drafts of the fabulous Yeadon Tarn leaflets have been finished and now await editing and publication; more has been learned about some ancient Greek traditions in topic sessions – that of the differences between Athens and Sparta and in PE, we continue to further skills in our ‘Aim, strike and retrieve’ unit.
In a bid to improve the children’s reading skills for Year 6, I have been encouraging the children to read meanings ‘behind the words’ – inference skills.
Eg Alex had a frown on his face and was dragging his feet as he walked. From this sentence, we can tell that Alex was having a bit of a bad day; he was feeling unhappy or grumpy and did not want to go where he was heading.
While you are reading with your children for the rest of the year, it would be so helpful if you could ask questions that require the children to think a little bit more deeply about the text.. Please encourage your child to read five times per week and to fill in the reading record books too. I can see/hear such a difference in their reading aloud when they are reading often at home.
We welcomed Front Row Music into school on Thursday afternoon and enjoyed a fabulous music gig in our very own hall! Was super fun to see the children dancing and jumping along to Elton John’s ‘I’m Still Standing’!
We have received confirmation that our Greek visitor will be coming into school to lead UKS2 workshops after the half term – could you please check to see if you’ve contributed your £5er!? Many thanks.
I hope you have a lovely weekend – I think the weather is supposed to get a bit nicer, so fingers crossed!
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos