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Week 5, ending 8 December

Posted: Dec 8, 2023 by: Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog

Reader: Isabel

Special Mention: Viraaj

Very well done to these children!

Dance music has been the music genre this week each morning. Calvin Harris’ track featuring Dua Lipa gained the most attention, I think. But none of the children had heard of Calvin Harris – just Dua Lipa!

After weeks of researching, planning, writing and editing, the children have finally finished publishing their biographies on Dr Barnardo. The work really is astonishing! I am so pleased with all their efforts. Hopefully, you will have found a copy of their publications in their bags and can see the progress they have already made this year.

Fractions continues in Maths. This week, we have been trying to find ways in which we can compare two different fractions. This has been quite tricky to understand, but it is so useful when we move onto adding and subtracting fractions later in the term.

Our Gymnastics lesson was great fun this week – while learning how to move backwards into a ‘bridge’, the children also put together sequences that displayed other balances they have been learning. Their final sequences were really polished and the children demonstrated some great team work in this task.

Once again, using Digimaps in our topic session was a highlight. The children really enjoyed looking at their (and your!) address on the modern map – and then comparing it to a map of the same area in 1950 and in 1890. The discussions we had were very rich and they made lots of fantastic observations about their local area(s).

As part of our PSHE topic, where we are exploring how ‘we have more in common than not’, the children have voted to carry out our very own Secret Santa activity. Each child has drawn a child’s name out and needs to buy a gift for that child for between £2 and £3. Gifts should be brought into school by Monday 18^th December (wrapped, please!) and we will have fun opening them on our last day of term. I personally think the challenge will be keeping this a secret! (But if this task is a challenge for you, as a family, I have asked the children to let me know so I can sort out enough gifts for everyone. This is not an issue at all.)

I hope you have a lovely weekend – Christmas shopping?

Yours,

Mrs Adrienne Amos