Oak Tree Class Blog
Oak Tree Class Blog
Week 3, ending 3 May
Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Destiny
Special Mention: Luke
A super week for these children!
We have enjoyed listening to ‘Power Ballads’ all week – a lot of confusion occurred around the name of Meatloaf though! Miss Sanderson and I enjoyed a trip down Memory Lane when listening to Seal on Thursday!
In Maths, we have moved from calculating the perimeter of shapes to calculating their area. This week’s homework is on the concept of perimeter, so any adult support would be gratefully received, I am sure. On the whole, the children have become very responsible about completing and handing in homework on time – this is a really great way to be prepared for life further up the school.
In English, our leaflets about Rufford Park are coming along nicely – it is interesting to hear how focused the children are on their ‘audience’ for this piece of work. This has been very motivating for them. I think our prospective parents are in for a treat! In our Grammar lesson, we tried to get to grips with using commas to help keep the writing clear. There was much hilarity at: Let’s eat Grandma and At the weekend, Mrs Amos enjoys baking her children and her cat.
(Commas, it seems, can save lives…)
Have a lovely Bank Holiday weekend!
See you back here on Tuesday.
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos
Week 2, ending 26 April
Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Corey
Special Mention: Callum
A special well done to these children!
We have all really enjoyed listening to ‘funk’ music at the start of our day – Play that Funky Music, by Wild Cherry definitely got the best reaction!
As you know, we start our week in Oak Tree Class with a ukulele lesson. This half term we are being composers, which is turning out to be quite a challenge but a really fun unit. Mr Jennings has encouraged the children to find 4 chords that they can play and put some simple lyrics and a melody to it. It is early days so far, but the children’s enthusiasm has been through the roof!
In Maths, we have finished our unit on decimals and percentages and have also furthered our arithmetic skills, looking especially at a method for short division. I am hoping that your child is keeping you up to date with their recent arithmetic scores – each time we take a new test, we aim to improve our score by at least 1 more! All tests (at present) are out of 32 and it is pleasing how many children are reaching the late-twenties or early-thirties in their scores.
In English, we have begun a brand new theme of leaflets. To give the children a different ‘audience’, they are writing persuasive leaflets about our fantastic school for prospective parent to RPPS. It is likely to take a couple more weeks, but we hope to share some fabulous writing with your (*and our Reception Team too!) at the end of it.
Cricket continues in PE, our Science unit is learning about Space and in PSHE, we have been looking at Stereotyping.
I hope you have a lovely weekend – homework this weekend is Spellings and a sheet on converting fractions to percentages.
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos
Week 1, ending 19 April.
Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Tom
Special Mention: Amber
A fantastic start for these children!
Welcome back to school for Summer 1 – the countdown to your children moving up to Year 6! Every morning, the children have been listening to a little opera as they worked. (The song from Mr Bean most certainly gained the biggest reaction – O Mio Babbino Caro!)
In Maths, we have been learning all about percentages – and especially how they link with fractions and decimals. It has been a really good start to this topic – this week’s Maths homework is on this topic.
As the children seemed to enjoy last term’s class novel (King of the Cloud Forest by Michael Morpurgo), we have spent much of our English time planning and writing book reviews. It was pleasing to see how many children gave the book 4 or 5 stars in their reviews. This term’s class novel s by Maz Evans and is called ‘Who Let the Gods out?’ The children have looked at the cover, made predictions and read and discussed the blurb for it so far – we shall start reading it very soon. They seem to be looking forward to it.
PE this half term is Cricket – two fun lessons have happened already this week. We have been practising basic skills so to start off with, but we will soon move onto small games of cricket. We have also done a Daily Mile session and two mini Pilates slots.
While our Y6 peers have been on their exciting residential visit to Peat Rigg, the Year 5s have been spending time learning all about the artist, Romero Britto and have had a go at creating a spring-themed picture, using his very recognisable style.
As you can tell, it has been a busy start – and I haven’t even mentioned the fabulous songwriting project in our ukulele session with Mr Jennings – more about that next week!
Have a super weekend.
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos
Week 6, ending 28 March
Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Week 6, ending 28 March
Reader:
Special Mention:
None, due to Good Friday holiday
Phew! We made it – and in one piece!!
Jazz music has ended the term for us in Oak Tree Class – Ella Fitzgerald seemed to be the most preferred performer, I think.
In maths, we continue to work hard on understanding decimals and the children have been amazing at this particular unit! There is work on percentages next term and once this work is completed, it is hoped that all the children’s arithmetic test scores will improve – I spoke to many of you at the last Parents’ Evening about this. Hopefully a great score has been reached this week and that your child has shared it with you!
In English, we have covered some very important grammar, including how we do (and do NOT!) use commas in our sentences. I hope this will help to raise the standard of all written work moving into Y6.
Our school visit to St John’s Church was an adventure for RE this week. Rev Richard explained the Easter story very well and the children were engrossed throughout! Excellent behaviour from all involved too.
We are eagerly anticipating the Easter Egg Scramble here on the final day of term, along with our After Show Party! I hope the Easter Bunny is good to you all – and you have lots of goodies to feast on!
Have a super Easter,
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos
PS Just to say, PE for Oak Tree Class next term will be on Thursdays and Fridays.
Week 6, ending 22 March 2024
Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Phoebe
Special Mention: Blake
Well done to these children!
House music has accompanied all our Early Bird Maths work each morning – Basement Jaxx seemed to get most heads bobbing in time to the beat!
Although Oliver has certainly dominated our week, we have also managed to learn more about decimal numbers in maths, finished publishing our news reports about the sighting of a yeti in Yeadon and the children have learned even more about mountains and Western USA.
The three performances of Oliver this week have been incredible! I was so proud of each child and the important role they played – it seemed that everyone had a chance to shine. Many thanks, again, for your support with this show this term – from line learning and costume providing, from raffle ticket buying to attending the show – some of you even helping out with the FORP support. Wow! So amazing! I feel so lucky to be working with your children (and you!) – and many thanks for the flowers and gifts; I felt quite overwhelmed on Wednesday night. Mr Jennings also said how much he had enjoyed the shows, feeling especially proud of the seven or eight brave ukulele players. The Y5s did a splendid job today singing the most popular songs to the EYFS children, as they were not able to attend the dress rehearsal last week; they sang and danced with the gusto and enthusiasm I have come to expect from them! I know Mr Cooke has mentioned the show in his newsletter and that even more pics have been uploaded onto the RPPS and Nursery Facebook page. It has been well celebrated.
Just one more week to go until Easter – and in this week, we have the Scholastic Book Fair each evening, a Road Safety session, a trip to the local church, a ‘Wrap Party’ following Oliver and the children are again being asked to bring in an Easter egg and a £1 for the annual Easter Egg Tombola!
Homework this week is simply a spelling activity and I have also asked the children to complete the Book Fair activity: Why I am a Reading Ambassador. We have talked a lot about this, so they should come home brimming with ideas! It can be a poster, a letter, a leaflet, a speech – anything! BUT MUST BE HANDED IN (with their name clearly displayed) ON TUESDAY. (Not Wednesday. But Spellings are for Wednesday, as usual).
Have a super weekend,
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos