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Week 5, ending 6 December

Posted: Dec 5, 2024 by: Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog

Reader: Ted M

Special Mention: Ella

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!

It has been assessment week across the school, so much of our morning timetable has been carrying out our tests. More information on how these have gone will come out soon.

After weeks of researching, planning, writing and editing, the children have nearly finished publishing their non chronological reports on The Role of Women during WW2. The work so far really is astonishing! I am so pleased with all their efforts. Hopefully, you will have a copy of their publications very shortly - you will then 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 netball lessons have been great fun this week – including learning how to pass in differing ways and to score!

Homework this weekend will be to learn the words for our Christmas songs and to try their hardest to memorise and recite from memory the two WW2-themed poems we have been studying this term.

Finally, as part of our PSHE topic, where we are exploring ‘how we may put others’ needs before our own’, 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 around £4. Gifts should be brought into school by Monday 16^th December (wrapped, please!) and we will have fun opening them on our last day of term. I personally think the challenge will be to keep this a secret! (But if this task is a challenge for you financially, 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 maybe?

Yours,

Mrs Adrienne Amos