Welcome to Owl Class

Welcome to Owl Class, where Mrs Vipond is our teacher. Our class page will be updated regularly to share our learning with you; we hope you enjoy it.

Our class topic web and maths medium term plan are located on the class learning page along with a yearly overview; please use the Owl Class Learning page link below. Homework spellings and grammar focus can now be found in your child's book (from w/c 26th Septemeber) and is due in every Thursday. In addition, please continue to access Professor Assessor for times table and weekly assignments.

Indoor PE will be on Tuesday afternoons (please remember to have a PE kit that remains in school; we will be having a professional dance teacher this term) and outdoor PE is on Friday afternoons - PE kit to be worn to school on Friday unless advised otherwise.  PE will commence from Tuesday 6th September.

Week 3

It's been a very busy and exciting week, especially for the Year 6 children who spent some time with the Badger children and formed new 'Badger Buddy' friendships.  What lovely role models we have in Owl Class and over the year the children will spend time in lots of different learning environments to support and encourage the younger children - have a look on the Badger Class page (Week 3 slide show).

Owl Class have been thoroughly embodying all that is friendship and skillfulness; from leading our indoor PE warm-up, sharing Harvest prayers and working together to plan and investigate a comparison of weight and mass. 

Week 2

We've been asking the question 'how do we know about The Shang Dynasty?' by thinking about history books and archaeological evidence.  As a precursor to our clay sculpture work, children designed their own oracle 'bones' using Chinese characters and then made them from clay.  I think they look very effective!

Week 1

It has been lovely welcoming the children back to our brand new classroom and we are gradually getting used to our new routines and back into the swing of learning.   Owl Class come together as a whole in the afternoons and on Tuesday we have a professional dance teacher who is teaching us some moves to help create our own 'Stomp' dance. 

Our afternoon history lessons are all about the Shang Dynasty. There are a selection of fiction and non-fiction books in school but if you would like to find out any more facts or read some related books, these are picked for you:

* Children's encyclopedia of Ancient World by John Haywood et al

* Ancient China by Dale Anderson

* Legacies from Ancient China by Anita Ganeri

Why did the Shang write on turtles? Tim Cooke

The Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean

Dragon Mountain by Katie and Kevin Tsang (Class Book)

* available for loan in Wiltshire libraries