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Week 5, ending 2 December 2022
Posted: Dec 1, 2022 by: Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
December already!? We haven’t gone Christmas-Crazy just yet in Oak Tree Class, you will be pleased to know, but we are busily practising a set of carols and readings with WW2 themes for you to enjoy on Wednesday 14 December. Hopefully, everyone has returned their ticket slip by now…
This week, our mornings have primarily been taken up with completing Autumn assessments in maths and English; we have had fun in other curriculum areas, though!
In our history topic session, we evaluated sources of information about the Blitz in 1940 and were surprised to realise that the ‘stiff upper lip’ played a huge part in thwarting the German’s plan to demoralise the British public. How funny we found the photograph of a milkman still going about his daily duties while all the buildings around him had been reduced to rubble! It certainly made us re-evaluate our original thoughts about the devastation of the Blitz.
We have started reading an auto-biographical account of a man, John Denison, who spent his teenage years in Yeadon, during WW2. Recognising street names and other places he talks about, including the old Avro factory, has sent ripples of delight across the classroom at times. We looked at Google maps too to help us get an idea of the area that John writes about, including gauging the size of the Avro factory during the war. These memoirs of John Denison have really helped to bring our topic alive – the local link has been fantastic!
As we haven’t been able to use the hall for any PE lessons this week, due to EYFS/KS1 Nativity rehearsals, we have embarked on a Daily Mile session, where we tried to run a mile. We calculated how many times we would need to run around the MUGA, plus a little extra up and down the path, would equate to a mile. We have done this a couple of times now and it has been so pleasing to see the children wanting to improve their own record each time! We have also introduced Go Noodle dances as part of our PE sessions. Ask your child to tell you all about “Banana, Banana, Meatball”!
Thank you again for all your donations for the school Christmas Fayre. They were certainly worth it – Oak Tree Class (along with Cherry Tree Class) won! So FORP (Friends Of Rufford Park) has been in touch to congratulate us and we are currently in discussions as to what our ‘treat’ will be…
Homework this weekend is a bit of Maths and Spellings, as usual, as well as learning a poem off by heart: In Flanders’ Fields.
Have a fun-filled weekend,
Mrs Adrienne Amos