Owl Class

Welcome to Owl Class!

We are Owl class, we are year 5 and 6 and our teacher is Mrs Heath. We hope you enjoy our class page.

Welcome back everyone to Term 6, we have reached our final term already and it feels like it has gone so quickly! I hope everyone had a lovely half term break and enjoyed the sunshine :)

This term we are going to be having our PE lessons on a WEDNESDAY so please make sure you wear your PE kit on this day.

Our new topic this term is North America - please do have a look at the planning for this term over on the Curriculum by Class page of the website.

We will be doing lots of rehearsals ready for our summer production that we can't wait to perform to everyone, you should have received the letter about which part the children are playing and their lines, please ensure they are practicing their lines to ensure rehearsals run smoothly - any questions please get in touch via the office.

Owl Homelearning

Owl Homelearning - 25th June 2021.pdf

Topic related books to read at home

Blue Sky White Stars - by Sarvinder Naberhaus

North America : The Third Largest Continent - Geography Facts Book

Mapping North America (Close-up Continents) by Paul Rockett

This is us in our lovely classroom!

Creative Curriculum Day!

Year 6 dawn till dusk day at Oxenwood!

Creating our beautiful mosaic to be displayed in our spiritual garden.

Year 6 having breakfast!

This week, the Year 6 children sat their SATs tests to experience what it feels like and to celebrate all of the learning they have done at primary school. To ensure they were ready, they enjoyed a tasty breakfast that they all devoured very quickly! Well done to everyone, they all did so well and enjoyed the experience :)

Athletics in the sun!

This term we are doing Athletics in PE and today some of the children led their peers and set up a carousel of activities. These helped the children to practice their throwing, catching, aiming, running and team skills. We also made sure we had lots of water and time in the shade too!

Before and after!

We have been busy gardening this week! A massive thanks to Porton Pets and Mrs Maher for donating all the wonderful plants! We have planted strawberries, tomatoes, sweet peas, and lots of lovely flowers that will attract all the bees and butterflies!

Doing our bit for the Blue Peter Pledge!

Is a Viking Longship hull the most effective shape for buoyancy?

During our History and Geography lessons this year, we have been doing lots of learning about The Vikings! This term in our Science lessons, we are learning how The Vikings used to make things with the natural resources they had. Take a look at the pictures below of the children making butter using only cream and arm power and making glue using milk and vinegar.

Making Glue....Viking style!

Making butter...Viking style!

Shake, shake, shake!

Separating the butter and butter milk...

William Blake

In our English lessons, we have been learning the William Shakespeare play 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. For our art lesson this week, we learnt about the artist and poet William Blake and focused on his interpretation of the play through his art work. We then had a go at recreating his painting and used water colours to bring it to life! Take a look at the pictures above :)

Terms 3 and 4

WELCOME BACK!

It is so lovely to see everyone, we've missed you!

Affirmation Jars :)

Today, we wrote positive affirmations (Word Of The Day) about each other to remind us how special and unique we are. We then wrote all the lovely comments around our affirmation jars so that we can look at them anytime we need a little 'pick me up'. We hope you like them! You could play this game around the dinner table at home, it is a great way to encourage others :)

Happy Easter everyone!

Fernand Leger - Art and Design

This term we were inspired by Fernand Leger and used his style to create our own sculptures. Have a look at the pictures below to see us making them out of clay and then painting them - don't they look amazing :)

Our finished sculptures

Our Journey Sticks

This afternoon we went on a journey and tied things to our journey sticks - we then came back into the classroom and sketched them - have a look at our fantastic drawings above!

The Big Bang Theory

The Big Bang theory states that the Universe is expanding so today, in Science, we partially blew up a balloon and measured 4 different points. We then blew up the balloon to its full capacity and measured the points again. We could then imagine what is happening in the Universe according to The Big Bang theory. It was great fun!

World Book Day!

We had a lovely day celebrating World Book Day on Thursday 4th Match with our theme being Roald Dahl :) All the children at home and at school joined in the fun and took part in some exciting activities. Above, you can see some children dressed up and their amazing drawings which were inspired by Sir Quentin Blake.

Viking sketching

Look how incredible the children's art work is! We used a grid to help us sketch this Viking warrior and used shading techniques that we learnt to bring him to life!

Art - Viking symbols

As part of our art lesson we learnt about the different symbols that surround The Vikings and the Norse gods. We then thought of our own Viking symbols and drew them so they had meaning to them. Have a look at some of ours from the lesson, brilliant aren't they!

Amazing poetry!

We were inspired by Walter De La Mare's poem 'The Listeners' and have produced some amazing narrative poems with rhyming words! Take at look at the brilliant writing in the pictures above.

Terms 1 and 2

Design Technology - Making our draw-string bags

Closing our bags!

How lovely are they?

Christmas Cards!

Experimenting with Friction!

Our Science learning this term is all about Forces! We have learnt about Sir Isaac Newton and created a fact file about him. Above you can see us experimenting with friction. We used a weighted object, put in on different surfaces and used a Newton force meter to measure how the friction changes the weight on the object we were dragging. We found out that the smoother the surface the easier it was to pull meaning the reading was lower on the force meter.

Feel the Force.....of air!

This week in science, we experimented with air resistance and made our very own parachutes! (see above). We used multi-link as our parachuter and explored how different parachutes fall to the ground. We found that the bigger the surface area of the parachute, the more air resistance and therefore a slower descend to the ground!

We also found out that objects with the same mass and shape fall to the ground at the same time! If you drop a tennis ball and a cricket ball (the cricket ball is 3 TIMES heavier then the tennis ball) at the same time, they will land on the ground at the same time regardless of its mass! This is because there is the same amount of air resistance acting against them as they are the same shape - mind boggling!!

Going down!

Down!

Have a look at the blended learning that is planned by clicking the link below

Owl Class

Questions to ask your children when they read

KS2 reading questions.pdf

SATS sample papers 2017, 2018 and 2019

Bitesize SATs Revision Practise for your SATs with these activities in English, Maths and Science.