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Week 4, ending 31 January
Posted: Jan 31, 2025 by: Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Katie
Special Mention: Matthew
Well done to these children this week!
Attendance raffle winner:
Still it’s January!! Another busy busy week in Oak Tree Class, but we really seem to be motoring through the Y5 curriculum and I’m seeing some great progress!
Our music genre this week has been Disco – and even though YMCA probably received the largest response, the Bee Gees ‘Stayin’ Alive’ had lots of heads bopping to the beat!
We have finally completed our rainforest poems and each child has produced a fantastic published version. We hope to display all of these soon.
Methods for short division have dominated in maths this week. Homework this week reflects this learning – please do support your child in these questions and encourage them to show all their working out. Spellings and Grammar homework, too.
We have continued learning the skills for Handball in PE and next week, there is hopefully going to be an intra-school Handball competition, which is very exciting! [Pray for good weather!!]
On Monday, as it was Holocaust Memorial Day across the world, we commemorated it in Oak Tree Class by learning a little about what ‘Holocaust’ means and how it related to our topic last term on WW2. The children then spent time considering the theme for this year: For a better Future. After creating a card butterfly, they all added key areas they though the world could do to create a better future. Some of their ideas were quite poignant: to end racism; for more to stand up for injustice; to take greater care of our planet; to learn from mistakes made in the past.
All of these butterflies will be displayed in our corridor.
Bugsy Malone rehearsals have really started to take off now! I hope the children are spending time learning their lines – all need to be memorised by the first week of next half term.
I hope you all enjoy your weekends – do remember that next Friday (14 Feb) is a Training Day at RPPS.
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos