Oak Class is home to our Year 3 and 4 children and is taught by Miss Cameron with support from Mrs Head (Monday to Wednesday) and Mrs Murdoch (Thursday and Friday).
This half term, our whole school topic is Rulers and Society. In Oak Class, we will be learning about the changing power of British monarchs in our Riotous Royalty history unit.
We will explore what William the Conqueror was like as a ruler, why Henry VIII had so many wives, how Queen Anne helped to form Great Britain and who is in the modern Royal Family.
As we start a new school year, in RE we will be thinking about beginnings and endings. We will also link this to our English lessons in which we will be reading If All The World Were… by Joseph Coelho and Allison Colpoys.
A moving, lyrical picture book about a young girl’s love for her granddad and how she copes when he’s gone, written by multi-award winning poet and Waterstones Children’s Laureate.
With Allison Colpoys’ gorgeous artwork spilling from each page, accompany a girl and her grandad over spring, summer and autumn. See how he teaches her to imagine, to create, and to enjoy the small things in life, and how, when winter comes, he lives on in her heart.
Oak Class PE is on a Wednesday morning. Children should come to school dressed in their PE kit each Wednesday. We also have additional PE sessions with our sports specialists on the following dates:
Thursday 4th September
Thursday 18th September
Thursday 2nd October
Thursday 16th October
Spelling tests are on a Monday morning. Children should ensure they have their red spelling book with them each Monday. Spelling practice activities can be found here: spelling activity ideas or accessed online the Purple Mash website.
Spelling lists for Autumn term can be found below:
Yellow Group Spelling List Autumn Term
Green Group Spelling List Autumn Term
Blue Group Spelling List Autumn Term
Red Group Spelling List Autumn Term
Paper copies of these have been handed out to children. Please check their bags for these. Each week, children will also be given a paper copy of the Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check worksheet to help them to practise their spellings at home.
Children should also be familiar with the Year 1 and 2 Common Exception Word List (words which are used frequently but do not necessarily follow the spelling patterns which they have already learnt) and the Year 3 and 4 Statutory Spelling List (a mixture of words which children use frequently in their writing and those which are often misspelt).
Reading books can be changed every day, as long as a comment is recorded in reading records by the child or their adult at home.
Children can practise their times tables at home by accessing the Times Tables Rockstars website.
More information about home learning can be found here: Home learning ideas
Light and Sound
We loved our visit to the National Science and Media Museum, Bradford in the summer term. We explored how sound and light travel in different ways.
