Oak Tree Class Blog
Oak Tree Class Blog
Week 2, ending 13 January
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So we have come to the end of Week 2! This week, we have welcomed Miss Smith into Oak Tree Class. She will be teaching alongside me, until Easter, so this is exciting for us all!
We have continued with Fractions in Maths – learning different methods for adding and subtracting fractions, as well as consolidating Subtraction in our Arithmetic session. Subtraction is one of the trickiest of the 4 number operations – and we need to try to have a secure method before Y6. Because of this, our Maths Homework this weekend is a sheet of Subtraction Calculations (along with our usual spellings). Many thanks for your support in both of these areas – due back on Wednesday, as always.
We have nearly completed our reports on the Layers of the Rainforest – once we have published these, they will look splendid! One area that has improved massively for the children in oak Tree Class is handwriting. Writing with a pen does not cause many issues for us now – cracked it!
PE sessions of Movement and Gymnastics have been fun; Ukulele lessons continue to be entertaining and in RE, the children have been learning about different values held by different people. A good lesson for us all to appreciate, I think!
In DT, the children are building up to making a moving model of an endangered animal. Could you possibly look out for and send in any cereal box-sized boxes this coming week?
Have a super weekend,
Yours,
Mrs Amos
Spring Week 1, ending 6 January
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Happy New Year to you all!
The children have been welcomed into class every morning by Metal music! Not everyone’s taste, it seems, but it has still been good to listen to another genre of music.
Our Rainforest topic has begun – starting with some research, along with special sound effects, and we are really looking forward to continuing this for the next half term.
(Please note: If you can look for 1.5 or 2 litre bottles for next week’s Biomes lesson, that would be super!)
We are very lucky to have Rainforest Movement sessions each week with Hannah from the Leeds Rhinos Team; our first lesson went fabulously this week! We can’t wait to continue with these.
In Maths, we have been continuing the long journey of fractions, so any time you can spend on recalling all the times tables facts with your child will certainly help this unit move forwards.
Our French this term is all about Les Legumes (vegetables!) and we have just finished an interesting PSHE unit on Stereotypes - always an enlightening discussion!
It’s been a very busy week – a bit of a shock to all our systems, so do have restful and relaxing weekends!
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos
Spring Term - a new term!
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Happy New Year to you all!
Here are a couple of things I forgot to add to my final blog in December:
1) PE days for Year 5 Oak Tree Class will be Wednesdays and Thursdays. And for the first half term, at least, both sessions are indoor sessions, so please wear PE kit for these two days (Not Tuesdays anymore).
2) If possible, could you collect any 1.5- or 2-litre pop bottles for a topic session in Week 2? Please wash out the residue of coke, lemonade, fanta etc, remove the label if possible and bring into school asap.
Many thanks!
See you all on Tuesday.
Mrs Amos
Week 7, ending 16 December
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Sorry - this has been lurking in Drafts....oops
Wow - what a week! And what a term! That’s a wrap for our first term in Y5 at Rufford Park (for all of us) and I am very proud of all the children have achieved.
As well as all the academic work over the past 14 weeks, including a fabulous Topic about World War 2, the children have begun to master the basics of ukulele playing, behaved impeccably on a school visit to Eden Camp, assisted our young buddies in Reception a couple of times, presented an end of term assembly to many parents and started to become excellent Upper Key Stage 2 role models to the younger pupils in school.
Unfortunately, we haven’t had chance to complete our DT unit on Seasonal Food – so if you get chance to cook chicken and vegetable kebabs and rice, I am certain the children can tell you all about the nutritional values etc of each ingredient.
Also, we are hoping that the children will be hunting around the house for any school reading or library books – we hope to replenish our book shelves with all the returned books at the beginning of next term.
This week has been full of Christmassy Maths and English, crafts and fun events, like our Movie Afternoon on Monday (see separate extraordinary blog post) and our Class Party on Wednesday. They have all made a lovely Christmas card, so if this hasn’t been given to you by Christmas Eve, please have a look in their school bag and retrieve it!
Thank you for all the £ donations for party food and it was lovely to see so many of you attend the WW2 Christmas Assembly on Wednesday (we were very amused to see how many Oak Tree Class family members had the misfortune of locating a ’12 Days of Christmas” card under their seat and had to stand up many times during that song. Thanks for being such good sports!)
Also, on a personal note, thank you for helping me to settle in so well to the Rufford Park community and for all my Christmas gifts, too! You are very kind.
With the warmest of wishes for a happy festive season!
See you in January.
Mrs Adrienne Amos
Extraordinary Blog - Class Treat
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This afternoon, Monday, the children in Oak Tree Class really enjoyed the Movie Afternoon/Trim Trail Interval, as their treat for donating the most items in KS2 for the Christmas Fayre.
Thank you very much to the Friends of Rufford Park for giving us this opportunity - we felt very special!
