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Week 1, ending 8 November
Posted: Nov 8, 2024 by: Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Deacon
Special Mention: Matilda
Well done to these children!
Welcome back to school for Autumn 2! Blues music has greeted us each morning in Oak Tree Class and the children seemed mostly to enjoy Gary Clark Junior’s blues guitar playing.
In Maths, we have finished our unit on multiplication, particularly learning concepts of cube numbers, multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000 and also identifying multiples of 10. Next week, we begin a Y5 unit on fractions. Yet again, this unit really relies on having a good grasp of times table facts. We shall be revisiting this when we can, but any extra consolidating you can do in this area at home will surely reap rewards.
In English, we have continued to learn about non-chronological reports, beginning to collect information from a variety of resources on the role of women during WW2.
In PE, we have begun our unit on netball and had two fantastic sessions. In RE, we started our work on Sikhism.
But the highlight of our week has definitely been exploring more about the seasonal food that is grown at this time of year. It was so encouraging to hear the children talking about why it is good to use seasonal food but also it was fab to witness everyone tasting a wide variety of seasonal food. Ask your child which of the following foodstuffs they tried and enjoyed: swede, runner beans, butternut squash, parsnip, broccoli, cauliflower, lentils, corned beef and spam. Over the next few weeks, the children will be designing seasonal meals that are healthy and that adhere to WW2 rationing restrictions. Your child might find this website useful to look at before making any decisions: https://the1940sexperiment.com/100-wartime-recipes/
Continuing with the WW2 topic, on Monday, we will be walking to the Town Hall to begin our enquiry question of ‘Why we remember’. Hopefully, the children have had the opportunity to buy a poppy to wear on this day to help reflect this act of remembrance – it all seems very fitting for us this year, as we are learning about events in World War Two.
**Please make sure your child wears school uniform to school on Monday – not PE kit**
Have a splendid weekend,
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos