Oak Tree Class Blog
Oak Tree Class Blog
Week 7, ending 19 July
Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Violet
Special Mention: Isabel
A super week for these children!
Psychedelic music has greeted the children each morning as they’ve come in to school – most seem quite bemused by this genre!
We have finally finished our maths work – phew! So no homework this weekend!
And our Ancient Greek myth has been completely retold. I have been so proud of this final publication of work and am going to send it up to their new class teacher, so they can see what your child is capable of by the end of Y5.
We took part in quite an exciting STEM workshop on Wednesday afternoon – we listened to a scientist explain about her work, which was using powerful telescopes to look into space (particularly at exo-planets). All by the power of Zoom! Oak Tree Class was very excited when they got a name check and several of their insightful questions were answered by Sofia, too. That’s two STEM workshops we have participated in this year and I really hope it’s opened up this area even more for the children. They have certainly revelled in the most recent science topic – Earth and Space.
Only two more school days to go. But don’t forget we have our ‘Uke Gig’ on Monday morning. Coffee will be served from 8.50, so do just pop into the hall after school drop off and we look forward to having you as our audience.
Have a great weekend,
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos
Week 7, ending 12 July
Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Henry S
Special Mention: Ezmae
A special well done to these children!
Each morning, the children have come into class listening to Grime music – all radio edits, I can assure you! Stormzy seemed to get the best reaction of the week.
Work continues, as normal – we still need to get our Greek myths finished and do some more maths before Y5 ends! Hoping to have some fun next week...maybe our final Oak Tree’s Got Talent show??
In art, the children used chalk pastels and created images of shells, as part of our unit entitled The Seaside – the results were stunning! In science, we have completed work on Earth and Space - hopefully many of the class can recall all eight names of the planets in our solar system by now.
As well as practising hard for our ukulele gig (next Monday, 22 July, at 9.15am!) the most important event this week has definitely been visiting our new teachers and classrooms for Y6. I am pleased to report that both Y6 teachers said that the children were superbly behaved – which made me very proud to hear!
Please continue to read with your child until the end of term - I have really tried to cultivate a 'reading for pleasure' ethos in Oak Tree Class this year, so I hope it is not such a hard work to encourage them to read at home, too!
Have a lovely weekend – just 7 more ‘get ups’ to go!!
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos
Week 5, ending 5 July
Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Callum
Special Mention: Ruby
A special well done to these children!
One Hit Wonders have been the music of the week – Jo Dolce gained the most positive feedback from the children, with Shaddup ya face! (although Miss Sanderson and I did enjoy singing along to Anita Ward’s ‘Ring My Bell’ during Tuesday morning’s Early Bird Maths!)
Our decimals unit continues in maths; we are developing the retelling of the story of Perseus and Medusa in English sessions.
In Art, we spent a little more time researching the Victorian artist, Alfred Wallis – many members of the class have now finished fantastic artist studies in their Art/Sketch book. Next week, we are going to draw shells, so if you have any shells your child can bring in to school, that would be very helpful.
Our highlight was taking a trip across to Benton Park High School on Wednesday, to watch the dress rehearsal of School of Rock. It was a super show to watch, and the children definitely enjoyed it! Some even called it inspirational! But, for many, the best part of the afternoon was visiting an ‘actual high school’ and spending some time inside it. All good preparation for decisions to be made next year.
In RE, Miss Sanderson continues to teach the children all about Rites of Passage’ across different faiths. This week, the children have been exploring how and why Christians include baptism.
And finally for this week, much practising is being done for our ‘Uke Gig’ in ukulele lessons, so please do clear your diary for this little showing assembly, which will happen on Monday, 22 July at around 9.15am. We will be serving coffee/tea etc, so should be a lovely half hour, celebrating all we have learned with Mr Jennings in Y5. Hopefully, this notice will also go out on the newsletter this week.
Have a lovely weekend!
Mrs Adrienne Amos
Week 4, ending 28 June
Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Amber
Special Mention: Tom
A super well done to these children!
Grunge music has greeted the children each morning as they have arrived this week – many children have mentioned how their parents have liked certain songs! They themselves did not seem too keen though…..!
In English, we are making good progress in planning how to retell the Ancient Greek myth, Medusa and Perseus. This is likely to be our final major piece of writing, so we are aiming to write to impress! It is hoped that all the children will try their hardest to include all that they’ve learned about writing in Y5. Watch this space!
More work on decimals in maths for Oak Tree Class. Again, this mathematical concept will be more of a focus in Y6, but it’s good to get the children familiar with decimals at this stage. Some have a great grasp of it already! Lucky y6 teachers!
In our Ancient Greek topic session (history), the children focused on the subject of ‘Legacy’ this week. In groups, they researched key elements of Greek legacy (Architecture, Olympics, Philosophy, Language and Democracy) and then we ended our session (in true Ancient Greek style) with a debate about which element is the greatest legacy. They did very well indeed!
In PSHE, we talked about how stereotypes can lead to unkind behaviour – how you don’t have to be a girl to like pink, or be a boy to play football. In pairs, the children created STOP and START signs, where they talked to each other about behaviour that needs to stop in society (eg teasing someone for their gender expression) and also behaviour that needs to be started (eg being friendly to children who appear ‘different’, using only kind words). This was a great session and I was very proud of their mature responses.
I hope you have a lovely weekend – we are heading to Benton Park High School next Wednesday afternoon to see their school show, ‘School of Rock’. This should be fun! And is also a chance for our Y5s to look inside a high school, if they haven’t already done so.
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos
PS you might like to know that the New Parent Packs went out this week - and each one included a fabulous persuasive leaflet about RPPS, written by one of the children from Oak Tree Class. Proud Teacher Moment #3921
Week 3, ending 21 June
Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Phoebe
Special Mention: Niamh
A super week for these children!
We have been listening to Prog Rock all week, as we have completed our Early Bird Maths tasks.
Two key events have dominated our work in Week 3: Sports Day and the ALPT Art Exhibition.
Practising and assigning races are always exciting aspects of a primary school’s sports’ day – and that has definitely been the case this year in Oak Tree Class. All the children were very keen to be assigned to the sports’ day activities and our athletics sessions leading up to this momentous event certainly prepared the children well for their interhouse competitions! It is also glorious to note that, for once, the sun shone!!
The theme for this year’s ALPT (Aireborough Learning Partnership Trust) Art Exhibition was Marine Conservation, so we have honed our pen work and created a marvellous ‘shoal of fish’, which look really effective. Please see image below.
It has also been assessment week this week – the children have behaved superbly throughout the tests and have also demonstrated, by their secure tests results, how much progress they have made this year. Well done, Oak Tree!
I have you have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Adrienne Amos
