Welcome to Oak Class
Welcome to Oak Class. There are 25 Year 4, 5 and 6 pupils in our class. Mr Pollard is the class teacher and our teaching assistants are Mrs Podro and Mrs Smith.
This term we are looking at Africa and a link to our curriculum map is below:
Summer Term 2016
This term our topic is Africa and we will be focusing on areas such as Africa is a continent and not a country, the landscapes of Africa, Nelson Mandela and the children's rights in Africa
Science this term will allow us the investigate the classification of animals. The children will be growing their very own micro-organisms.
In Literacy, we continue to focus on handwriting, spelling and grammar. We will be looking in greater detail the book Eye Of The Wolf. Whilst in RE we will look at Buddhism and their beliefs. We will also continue to work with Liz, our music teacher on a variety of Wednesday afternoons.
In Computing we will be developing our very own blogs to put onto the school blogging page. The children will be using their interests to blog and hopefully will attract attention from passing readers to leave comments and possibly trend world wide!
Our math’s continues to have a big focus on mental calculation skills and applying our mathematical knowledge to solve real life problems. The children are currently exploring to use written and mental multiplication and division. With many groups looking to improve their times tables.
Spring Term 2016
This term our topic is Romans and we have been focusing on areas such as how the legend of Romulus and Remus founded Rome, the types of entertainment the Romans enjoyed, what did the Romans do for Britain and what artefacts did the Romans leave behind. With a link to Roman Mosaics, in art we will be designing and creating our own Roman artefacts.
Science this term takes us in the direction of life cycles. We will be exploring different life cycles and recording data from our on-going broad bean experiment.
In Literacy, we are focusing on handwriting, spelling and grammar. Whilst in RE (with Miss Verney) we will look at Sikhism and their beliefs whilst putting our spelling and grammar skills into practice with some extended writing. We will also continue to work with Liz, our music teacher on a variety of Wednesday afternoons. With some of the children practicing an Easter song.
In Computing we will be developing our very own educational games through coding and creating our games on Scratch. This will lead into a Dragon’s Den style pitch to see who will get the investment!
Our math’s continues to have a big focus on mental calculation skills and applying our mathematical knowledge to solve real life problems. The children are currently exploring to use written and mental subtraction. With many groups looking to improve their multiplications and times tables
Autumn Term 2015
This term our topic is World War 2 and we have been focusing on areas such as the reasons why World War 2 started and more recently the events that led up to the Battle of Britain. The children have taken it upon themselves to research around the topic and we have had some fantastic show and tells. We are currently building our own British and German war planes and photos will soon follow this post.
In Literacy, we are focusing on spelling and grammar. Whilst in RE we will look at Judaism and their beliefs and putting our spelling and grammar skills into practice with some extended writing. We will also continue to work with Liz, our music teacher on a variety of Wednesday afternoons. With some of the children practicing for a drumming performance.
French will be taught this term by Mrs Gibbin, whilst Mr Pollard works with Chestnut Class on their computing and app skills.
Our maths continues to have a big focus on mental calculation skills and applying our mathematical knowledge to solve real life problems. The children are currently exploring to use written and mental subtraction.
Unfortunately not the ones with chocolate chips.
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