Oak - Mrs Mitchelmore and Mrs BackhouseWelcome to Oak Class - Year 3 and 4
We are very excited to be your teachers this year and we are sure we will have lots of fun together as we share our learning journeys. This year we welcome some new teachers who will be helping us in different ways on our learning journeys: Mrs Riach will usually teach Year 4s on alternate Thursdays when we shall be doing Science, and Mrs - or Madame- Tallet (a language expert) will be teaching us French on Wednesday mornings. Mrs Backhouse will teach in Oak class on Thursday afternoon and Fridays, and at other times during the week. Happy New Year! A very warm welcome to two newcomers to Oak class. They have settled well in a very short space of time. Thank you to Oak class for showing values of kindness and friendship. We began the Spring Term with an amazing WOW day, where KS2 became ingenious inventors, creating new creations out of recycled materials. Oak Class worked in groups to present a pitch for their product. It was great fun and helped to develop some creative thinking and collaborative work. Great job, everyone! In English, we have just begun reading and studying an adventure story: The Power of Three, based on code breaking, and linking to our theme: Inspirational and Ingenious, and our forthcoming visit to Bletchley Park. We are practising our reading skills, using deduction, inference and prediction to help us understand more fully what we are reading. We thoroughly enjoyed performing our end of term ukelele concert, just before Christmas. We continue our music learning using Charanga, furthering our skills, based on the song 'Three Little Birds' and look forward to accompanying our performances with glockenspiels. |
Termly Curriculum mapsAutumn: Our Elemental Earth
Click here for termly curriculum map. Spring: Inspirational and Ingenious Click here for termly curriculum map. Summer: Click here for termly curriculum map. Science topics this term: Spring: States of Matter; Animals including Humans- nutrition and skeletons/muscles
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Learning Journal Task:
Click here for the latest Tasks linked to our Spring term theme: Inspirational and Inspiring.
Use these tasks/activities as further Home Learning opportunities during this period of school closure.
Click here for the latest Tasks linked to our Spring term theme: Inspirational and Inspiring.
Use these tasks/activities as further Home Learning opportunities during this period of school closure.
Home Learning Support
Reading support
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Online resources from Central Bedfordshire Libraries .
Maths support
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We hope you enjoy practising at home, earning and spending lots of coins!!
Click here to login to MyBookBlog.
Click here for the latest MyBook Blog reading list.
Online resources from Central Bedfordshire Libraries .
Maths support
Click here to login to TTRockStars.
We hope you enjoy practising at home, earning and spending lots of coins!!
Useful information
Monday: Spellings and Times tables home
Tuesday: am Swimming/Class PE; Lunchtime Sports Club
Wednesday: am Class PE
Friday: Spelling and Times Table tests
Water! Please remind your child to bring their water bottle to school every day, filled with cool fresh water for them to drink freely throughout the day. We encourage the children to drink whenever they feel thirsty and their water bottle may be kept where they are working as long as it has an ‘unspillable’ drinking spout.
Fruit snacks: Please provide a break time snack of fruit or vegetables , making sure any pots are named please. (The free fruit and veg. scheme is for EYFS/KS1 only)
PE kit – please make sure your child has both an indoor PE kit (t-shirt, shorts, socks, plimsolls that fit!) and outdoor PE kit (trainers and tracksuit) in school every day, especially as the weather becomes colder and wetter. We aim to fit in as much PE as possible, and may go outside at times other than those on the timetable. Kit must be named!
Remember swim kit for Tuesdays: costume/trunks/swim shorts, towel, hat, bag big enough to hold all your belongings (coat, shoes, uniform etc.), goggles, if absolutely necessary and advised.
Please remember that earrings, watches and jewellery may NOT be worn in PE, and that long hair should be tied back. If your child cannot remove their own earrings, then please ensure that they are NOT worn on PE days (Tuesdays and Wednesdays). Thank you.
Spellings and Phonics – our new spelling words will be set on a Monday and tested on a Friday. Your child will bring home a spelling sheet home each week to help children learn their spellings.
Times Tables: End of year 3 expectation: To know 2,3,4,5,8 and 10 times tables. Keep practising!!
End of Year 4 expectations: To know multiplication and division facts for ALL times tables up to 12 x.
Monday: Spellings and Times tables home
Tuesday: am Swimming/Class PE; Lunchtime Sports Club
Wednesday: am Class PE
Friday: Spelling and Times Table tests
Water! Please remind your child to bring their water bottle to school every day, filled with cool fresh water for them to drink freely throughout the day. We encourage the children to drink whenever they feel thirsty and their water bottle may be kept where they are working as long as it has an ‘unspillable’ drinking spout.
Fruit snacks: Please provide a break time snack of fruit or vegetables , making sure any pots are named please. (The free fruit and veg. scheme is for EYFS/KS1 only)
PE kit – please make sure your child has both an indoor PE kit (t-shirt, shorts, socks, plimsolls that fit!) and outdoor PE kit (trainers and tracksuit) in school every day, especially as the weather becomes colder and wetter. We aim to fit in as much PE as possible, and may go outside at times other than those on the timetable. Kit must be named!
Remember swim kit for Tuesdays: costume/trunks/swim shorts, towel, hat, bag big enough to hold all your belongings (coat, shoes, uniform etc.), goggles, if absolutely necessary and advised.
Please remember that earrings, watches and jewellery may NOT be worn in PE, and that long hair should be tied back. If your child cannot remove their own earrings, then please ensure that they are NOT worn on PE days (Tuesdays and Wednesdays). Thank you.
Spellings and Phonics – our new spelling words will be set on a Monday and tested on a Friday. Your child will bring home a spelling sheet home each week to help children learn their spellings.
Times Tables: End of year 3 expectation: To know 2,3,4,5,8 and 10 times tables. Keep practising!!
End of Year 4 expectations: To know multiplication and division facts for ALL times tables up to 12 x.
