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Week 7, ending 21 October
Posted: Oct 21, 2022 by: Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
We have reached the end of the first half term and now we get a week off! Woop woop! The children in Oak Tree Class certainly do deserve a week off, after all the splendid work they have done over the past seven weeks.
This week has been no different to all the others – lots of work but lots of fun too.
Britpop has been our soundtrack, featuring Oasis, Blur, the Charlatans and others – for some, this has been a brand new style, so it’s been good to see their musical horizons expanding, as well as their other skills in the curriculum.
By far, our favourite session this past week has been the practical food tasting lesson for DT. On Monday, the children were encouraged to try four seasonal, locally grown foods: kale, beetroot, swede and butternut squash. I was delighted to see how many children were willing to ‘have a taste’ of vegetables they had never seen (or even hear of!) before. Some even asked for seconds! This DT session was a really important one, as it gave the children a greater variety of choice from which they can plan their own healthy, seasonal meal next half term.
We have furthered our knowledge of the developing role of women during WW2, and linked a little bit of this in a Code-Breaking maths lesson, too. Our PE units on Handball and O.A.A have finished this week and we are looking forward to Badminton and Gymnastics next half term.
Thank you for all the photos you are emailing (oak@ruffordparkprimary.org.uk) of the children and their Rationed Food items/baking. They truly do look yummy! Keep this up, if you can over half term – and I shall print out and display all the photos in November, when we return to school.
There are lots of exciting things to look forward to before Christmas, in our next half term, too. Thank you to everyone for making me feel so welcome at Rufford Park this term.
Have a super week!
Mrs Adrienne Amos