Oak Class

Oak Class Information

Welcome to Oak Class (Year 3 and 4)! We hope you find the information here useful. Staff in our class are: Miss Howick (Class Teacher, Monday-Friday); Mrs Hird (TA, Monday-Wednesday); Mrs Allen (TA, Thursday-Friday).

Class expectations:

Please ensure your child:

Brings their reading book and home-school communication book into school everyday;
Reads at least 3 times a week with a signature in communication books;
Wears PE kit on Wednesdays and Fridays;
Wears the correct uniform;
Brings their knowledge organiser folder (blue folder) into school each day;
Completes their 15 minutes of TT Rockstars practice outside of school each week.

Please refer to school policies or ask about any of the above if you are unsure.

Home learning

Please continue to support and encourage your child to read daily at home. By the time they are on the purple book band they should be capable of enjoying a book independently, although they always love to read to an adult! We ask that an adult signs their child’s reading record at least 3 times per week to confirm that they are reading regularly at home, and we will continue to celebrate and reward those who have 3 signatures in their book at the end of each week.

Times Tables Rockstars logins are kept in the children’s reading records, but please don’t hesitate to be in touch if your child is having trouble getting online. A 'session' (required home learning) of 15 minutes per week will be set, and certificates are given out weekly in Celebration Assembly to celebrate excellent effort on TT Rockstars.

What are we doing in class?

Term 1

It has been wonderful to see Oak Class return to school with such a wonderful, positive attitude and ready to learn! Thank you to everyone for making the effort with book bags, PE kit and reading records – it is making a huge difference already to our routines each day.

Once we have settled back into the routines and expectations, we have lots of exciting learning to tackle. In our writing lessons, we have started exploring the beautiful picture book ‘Leon and the Place Between’ and talking about what it would be like to visit the circus. We will be recapping some of the most important skills involved in writing, leading us to create our own advert for a circus act and to write our own ‘portal’ stories. Our whole-class reading lessons will see us explore the poetry of Carol-Ann Duffy, focusing on fluency in reading aloud and exploring new vocabulary.

In Maths, we will build our understanding of increasingly large numbers, beginning with 3-digit numbers and building up to 4-digit numbers. We will spend a good amount of time looking at different ways to represent and work with these numbers as they form the foundation of much of our learning this year. We will then move onto mental and written strategies for addition and subtraction. Alongside this work, we will have daily times tables sessions, aiming to build fluency in all of our times tables to 12x12 by the end of Year 4.

In Geography, we are asking ‘What are the unique features of the UK?’, which will see us exploring the counties of the UK, the different words we use to describe the country we live in, and comparing rural and urban locations. In Science, our big question is ‘What happens to the food we eat?’. We will start off by looking at the five food groups and discussing different human and animal diets, before looking at the impact on our world of food waste. Later in the term, we will explore the human digestive system and carry out an investigation into the impact of our food choices on our teeth.

In our PE lessons on Wednesdays with Mrs Hobbs, we will be learning handball, whilst on Fridays with Miss Howick we will learn the rules and skills involved in playing cricket. In PSHE, we are exploring our place within our class and school communities as we think about ‘being me in my world’. In Music, we will learn to sing and play a range of songs as we think about musical structures, and at the end of term we will develop our sketching skills in Art.

Fantastic Learning

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