Oak Class
Welcome to Oak’s Class Page
Oak Class is taught by Miss Wilkie and is supported by Miss Elderton and Miss Govier.
We have children who are in Year 5 and Year 6 within the class.
In Summer 1 we will be exploring North America in Geography, studying and creating portraits in Art, developing our programming skills in Computing, discovering Christianity in RE and we will be learning about the blues in music. In Science we are going to be studying Electricity this half term.
Our class novels will be inspired by writers from North America. In English we will be looking at detective and crime fiction, we will explore imagery poetry and then later in the half term we will be looking at magazine articles.
In Maths we are going to be working on our key calculation skills at the start of the term. Later on we will be exploring fractions, position and direction and measures.
This is our newsletter for the half term:
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In Spring Term 2 we will be exploring Romans In Britain in History, joining materials to make catapults in DT, developing our Video Creation skills in Computing, discovering Christianity in RE and continuing to work on Looping and Mixing in Music to create our own instrumental tracks. In Science we are going to be studying Earth and Space this half term.
Each week we have a Picture News session where we talk about and learn from an incident, issue or interesting topic in the news that week.
Our class novel will be History Hackers: Roman Rescue. In English we will be looking at historical narrative writing inspired by our history topic. Later in the half term we will be learning to write recounts, focusing on autobiographies and biographies.
In Maths we will be be working on our key calculation skills at the start of the term. Later on we will be exploring fractions, decimals, geometry and time.
This is our newsletter for the half term:
We went on a school visit and explored the life of a Roman soldier in a brilliant workshop at Lancaster City Museum.
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Spring Term 1 Update:
In PSHE we made blood! We learnt basic first aid skills in PSHE and in one of our sessions focused on Bleeding. We learnt about what makes up the blood: plasma (yellow water), red blood cells (cherries dyed red), platelets (mini pom poms) and white blood cells (mini marshmallows).
In Maths we joined the rest of the school celebrating Number Day 2023. We made some amazing mathematical art work and took on a very funny challenge set by Miss Meacham.
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In Spring Term 1 we will be exploring Rivers (from Source to Sea) in Geography, learning about Digital Art in Art, developing our Data Handling skills in Computing, discovering Buddhism in RE and working on Looping and Mixing in Music to create our own instrumental tracks. In Science we are going to be studying Living Things and Their Habitats this half term.
Each week we have a Picture News session where we talk about and learn from an incident, issue or interesting topic in the news that week. Click the link below for an overview of the sessions we’ve had this half term.
Primary Picture News Coverage Document England – Spring 1 2023
Our class novel will be The Legend of Robin Hood. In English we will be looking at narrative writing inspired by the themes of Robin Hood. Later in the half term we will be learning to write explanation texts, using our geography topic as a focus.
This is our newsletter for the half term:
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In Autumn Term 2 our topic was The Industrial Revolution. We focused on how significant the Lancashire Cotton Industry was for the people of Lancashire and Beyond. We continued to work on a range of music skills with our weekly lesson with Rick from More Music.
We read King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table by Marcia Williams and Arthur and the Always King by Kevin Crossley Holland. We created narrative writing inspired by the Legend of King Arthur.
This was our newsletter for the half term:
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We started our weekly music lessons with Rick from More Music in Autumn 1.
Use the Twitter link below to check out a fabulous recording of Oak Class standing up and performing free verse poetry in front of the class. Cracking example of our Stepping Stones can do attitude!
Oak Class were amazing last week, standing up and performing free verse poetry in front of the class. Cracking example of our Stepping Stones can do attitude!
In Autumn Term 1 our topic was The Future of Our Planet. During this topic we learnt about the effect of air pollution and climate change on our planet. In Science, we explored the properties and changes of materials. In Art we focussed on developing skills in stencilling and closely studied the art work of Banksy. We started to develop our swimming skills in our weekly lesson. Our class novel was Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.
This was our newsletter for the half term.
