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Week 2, ending 11 November
Posted: Nov 9, 2022 by: Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
This has been a great week for us in Oak Tree. We have finished our amazing double page spreads in English, on the Role of Women in WWII and we have come in each morning, listening to punk/punk pop music!
These tunes have set us up well for motivated, enthusiastic learning.
As well as this, the children have spent a lot of time considering ‘Why we Remember’. Remembrance Day 2022 has had much more of a meaningful impact on our children this year, I feel, as we have been studying World War 2 for the term. Some children were able to invest time and thought when considering local fallen WW2 soldiers, by creating a Poppy Pebble. We hope, that by the end of Friday, every soldier from Yeadon who died, will have had a commemorative pebble, cross or wreath made in their name by the children in Y5/6. (Please see our photo.)
It has also been an exciting week for some of our athletes as SEVEN Oak Tree Class pupils represented Rufford Park Primary at an inter-school cross country event. It was really exciting to clap out of the classroom our seven sporting hopefuls on Wednesday afternoon.
Finally – a word about Reading in Year 5. Children can record any reading in their red reading records. This could be their school banded book, school library book, book club book or a book from home. As your child is now in Upper Key Stage Two, they can record independent reading in their reading record (as long as they can summarise what they have read!) alongside any reading they complete with an adult. Our goal is that children learn to enjoy reading for pleasure and achieve well during their time at Rufford Park and we want every child to leave at the end of Year 6 a confident and capable reader.
An interesting statistic from The Reading Agency, a national charity helping to create a world where everyone is reading, is that children who read books often at age 10 gain higher results in maths and English at age 16, than those who read less regularly.
Reading for just 20 minutes per day equates to being exposed to roughly 1,800,000 words per year compared to reading for 5 minutes per day which equates to around 282,000 words a year.
Have a super weekend – full of exciting reading, hopefully!
Yours, Mrs Adrienne Amos
(PS Do remember that next Friday is a Training Day for RPPS!)
