Oak Class is home to our Year 2,3 and 4 children and is taught by Miss Cameron with support from Miss Henry, Mrs Pickard and Mrs Murdoch.
This half term our topic is Stone Age to Iron Age!
This unit of work will focus on the significant changes that took place across this vast period of time and the impact that they had on subsequent human history. We will learn about what life was like in Stone Age Britain, how tools were first made and what they were made from and how changes in technology had an impact on life in Britain and around the world.
We will enhance our learning in History by exploring high quality texts in English, including The First Drawing by Mordecai Gernstein:
Imagine you were born before the invention of drawing, more than thirty thousand years ago.
You would live with your whole family in a cave and see woolly mammoths walk by!
You might even see images of animals hidden in the shapes of clouds and rocks.
You would want to share these pictures with your family, but wouldn’t know how.
Who would have made the world’s first drawing? Would it have been you?
In The First Drawing, Caldecott Medal winner Mordicai Gerstein imagines the discovery of drawing…and inspires the young dreamers and artists of today.
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 16th January
Thursday 30th January
Thursday 13th February
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 Spring term can be found below:
Yellow Group Spelling List Spring Term
Blue Group Spelling List Spring Term
Green Group Spelling List Spring Term
Red Group Spelling List Spring 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
Our Local Area
We have been exploring our local area more this year, by visiting Brimham Rocks to take part in exploration and writing activities. We worked with staff from Word Up North, the organisation who runs the Ilkley Literature Festival, and staff from the National Trust to create nature poems within the landscape at Brimham, inspired by our journey through the rocks.
