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Week 5, ending 6 October
Posted: Oct 6, 2023 by: Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Callum Smith
Special Mention: Phoebe Gowland
A special well done to these pupils this week!
This week, with Boybands as our backing tracks, we have held our elections for Oak Tree’s class representative for the school council. I was so impressed that all of these children bravely put themselves forward: Lilly, Phoebe, Rumi, Amber, Amelia, Zara, Isabel and Niamh. All had promising manifestoes, but ultimately, Amber won! Congratulations, Amber – we look forward to your new role!
Ukulele lessons have been progressing very well in Year 5. The Harry Potter theme is now recognisable (!) and we also had a lot of fun picking our way through an AC/DC riff!
We have continued to work on addition and subtraction in maths lessons, including practising the skill of rounding numbers to help us check answers. Homework will be on consolidating the skills of adding and subtracting numbers with more than 4 digits. Thank you for all your support in helping your child to memorise the first two verses of Charge of the Light Brigade. This has been so much fun to learn! And the children did a marvellous recitation of the poem to Mrs Harris on Thursday afternoon – she was so impressed and said it had even given her goosebumps! A class merit was achieved, too.
But, for me, the best part of this week has been the final publishing of our Victorian diary entries. Every pupil has made a neat presentation in pen and the standard of their presentation AND the content of the diaries have been stunning! Many children have been given permission to use handwriting pens, which has delighted them. I have sent home copies of this piece of work so you can also praise them for their superb efforts, too. It is encouraging to see this standard of work at this point in the year. Well done everyone!
I hope you all have a fab weekend – please send in more long cardboard tubes for Design Technology this term.
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos