Oak Tree Class Blog
Oak Tree Class Blog
Week 5, ending 3 July
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Reader: Millie
Special Mention: Ella
A special well done to these children!
One Hit Wonders have been the music of the week – Chesney Hawkes gained the most positive feedback.
We completed our shape unit in maths; we published 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 participate in a Y5 Transition Day. Lots of subjects were explored by the children, including Maths, Science, Art, DT, Drama and French. 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.
We had a Y12 student joining us for the week - Izzy was very helpful and the children seemed to enjoy having her working in the classroom. We may well see her when we go for another Transition Day to Guisely on 15th July.
I hope you have a lovely weekend!
Mrs Adrienne Amos
Week 3, ending 19 June
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Ooops - thought I had uploaded this!
Reader: Evie
Special Mention: Amelia
A super week for these children!
We have been listening to Prog Rock all week, as we have completed our Early Bird Maths tasks. The children greatly enjoyed hearing Mr Jennings’ band, Mostly Autumn and on Wednesday!
In English, time is being spent retelling the myth of Perseus and Medusa. Each day, the children are rewriting aspects of it in their own wards, trying hard to include some of the grammatical aspects learned this year: expanded noun phrases, parentheses, relative clauses. Hopefully these will be finished and edited by the end of next week, ready for publication, when you will be able to read them too!
In Maths, most of our lessons have been about shape – including measuring angles, identifying 2D shapes and recognising the properties of 3D shapes.
Homework is due in next Wednesday.
*Don’t forget that this year’s Ukulele Gig is forming part of Rufford ParkLife. The Y5s will be performing a number of their learned songs at 3.30 next Friday, 26th June. We would love to have a big audience for this!*
I have you have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Adrienne Amos
Summer 2, week 2 ending 12 June
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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!
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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
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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