Learning in Oak Class
About our class
Welcome to Oak Class! Mrs Lancaster is the class teacher Tuesday to Friday and Mr Lewis teaches the class on a Monday. Our TAs are Mrs Davis, Miss Green and Miss La Monica.
We are encouraged to always be kind and to respect each other, as well as to always have a positive approach to our learning and do our very best.
Homework is given out on a Thursday and due in the following Thursday. It consists of Reading, Spelling, Times Tables and Maths, linking in to our learning in class.
We follow the Twinkl Spelling scheme and learn a different rule each week. Our spelling tests are on a Thursday.
Oak Class will be going to Forest School for a few sessions in the second half of this term, led by Mr Lewis on a Monday afternoon.
PE is on a Thursday afternoon and is taught by Mr Cox. This term's focus will be on Tag Rugby and Cricket.
Information for Summer Term 2025
English
Our class texts for this term are Voyage of the Sparrowhawk by Natasha Farrant and Boy, Roald Dahl’s autobiography. Much of our writing will be linked to our texts and topics for the term. We will be covering several genres including narratives, descriptive writing, non-fiction writing, book reviews and newspaper report writing.
Children are regularly taught punctuation and grammar skills and are encouraged to use these skills accurately in their written work.
Reading is so important. Children are given the opportunity to read at school daily, both individually and with reading buddies. In addition, Mrs Lancaster reads to the children every day.
Comprehension work is completed every week with Mr Lewis. Children read and analyse a range of texts and answer questions, further developing their deduction and inferential skills.
Maths
We follow the Hamilton Trust scheme of work for Maths.
This term we will be focussing on consolidation and revision of all topics in Maths covered so far this year, as well as lots of fun maths investigations and practical maths such as money and measuring.
Quick recall of times tables facts is so important and children are encouraged to practise regularly at home.
Science
Our main topic for this term is Forces. We will learn about different forces through fun and engaging experiments by firstly hypothesising, then experimenting, and finally discussing our results and drawing conclusions.
Humanities
Our History topic this term is Castles. We will begin by looking at the Battle of Hastings and the Norman Conquest before moving onto exploring about life in castles, features of different types of castles, the feudal system and defence weapons. We will be linking our studies to Art and DT and the children will also be given an opportunity to complete a project at home linked to our studies. Later in the term, we will visit Croft Castle.
In Geography, we will be improving our mapping skills including on Ordnance Survey maps, using the eight points of a compass and using four and six-figure grid references. We will continue to improve locating countries and describing their features.
In RE, we will be following the RE Syllabus and be studying the topics “What would Jesus Do?” and “Humanists and Christians”.
Art and DT
In Art, we will be focussing on Still Life.
In DT we will be designing and creating a shield linked to our studies of Castles before taking part in a re-enactment of the Battle of Hastings.
Computing
This term's topics are Vector Graphics 3D Modelling and Introduction to Spreadsheets which will be taught by Mr Lewis on a Monday afternoon.
French
We will begin the term with the topic of “Going Shopping” and then move on to the topic of “What’s the Time?”.
Included in our PSHE lessons is our Values Education. The Values for this term are:
April - Kindness
May - Honesty
June - Determination
July - Modesty
Please see below for the topic plans for Oak Class for the whole academic year.
Oak Class Plans
Expectations in Mathematics for Year 5