Enjoying Learning, Achieving Success
Welcome to The Outstanding Owls class!
This page will give you some key information about our class and show you some of the amazing learning that takes place. You will also find useful information and links to help support your child at home.
Our Outstanding Owls are taught by Mrs Panting & Mrs Short.
Our class owl mascot is called Twoodle Tweeterson.
P.E. Lessons
We have our P.E. lessons on Tuesdays. Please come to school in your PE kit on these days.
Homework
Spellings
We write new spellings into our Homework books on Mondays (and I will post them on this page) for you to practise at home for a spelling test the following Monday.
Children are to choose 5 of the new spellings and put these into sentences in their homework book.
The children must write their own sentences and not copy from an adult. Please use a pencil and concentrate on neat handwriting, capital letters and full stops. Please bring the books into school every Monday.
Times Tables
We have a times tables test every Monday alongside the spelling test. Please practice the 2 x, 5 x and 10 x tables with your child. This now also includes division of 2’s 5’s and 10’s.
Reading
It is really important to read for pleasure regularly at home. Please read the book that you take home from school as well as the books you have at home too. Try to read for a few minutes every day.
Terms 3 and 4 - Movers and Shakers
In the Movers and Shakers project, your child will learn five statements from Dawson's model that will help them identify people who are historically significant and use the words year, decade and century to describe dates and times. They will study the life and impact of a significant person in the locality and of 10 significant individuals from around the world. They will complete in-depth studies of significant explorers Christopher Columbus and Neil Armstrong, and significant activists Emmeline Pankhurst and Rosa Parks and think carefully about the impact of their actions. The children will also carry out an independent study of a significant person from the past and learn about people who are significant today. They will also learn how significant people are commemorated and design a memorial for a person they have studied.
Term 1 2024-2025
Magnificent Monarchs.
This project teaches your child about the English and British monarchy from AD 871 to the present day. Using timelines, information about royal palaces, portraits and other historical sources, they will build up an understanding of the monarchs and then research six of the most significant sovereigns.
Term 1 - 2023-2024
Towers, Tunnels and Turrets.
See the castle ahead? Get ready to invade its mighty walls. Shoot a projectile with an archer’s aim. Head across the drawbridge, over the moat and up to the top of the tower. Meet Rapunzel who lives in a tall, tall tower. Let’s build a brand new one. Whose is the tallest? Can you measure it? Then dig deep, deep down, making burrows and tunnels, just like the animals who live underground. What’s that sound? I hear little hooves going trip, trap, trip, trap, over the rickety bridge. Watch out for the angry troll underneath. He likes to gobble up little girls and boys. Make sure your bridge is sturdy enough to take our weight and get us safely to the other side. And finally, meet three little pigs who need your help to build a strong fortress. Inside its strong walls, they’ll be safe from the big, bad wolf. No huffing and puffing will blow your fortress down.
Spellings Week
Commencing Monday 18th September 2023
Where
when
who
what
why
dolphin
graph
photo
last
past
Spellings - Week Commencing Monday 25th September 2023
edge
hedge
badge
bridge
change
large
orange
challenge
bought
favourite
Spellings - Week Commencing Monday 2nd October 2023
bubble
middle
little
puddle
giggle
cuddle
table
apple
world
work
Spellings - Week commencing Monday 9th October 2023
knight
knee
knot
knife
knock
know
knapsack
knowledge
other
does
Spellings - Week Commencing Monday16th October 2023
patch
batch
match
crutch
clutch
catch
ditch
hutch
fetch
because
Term 2 2023-2024
Mud, Mess and Mixtures
Let’s get messy. Muck and mess are good. In fact, they're marvellous. Dive in and get your hands and feet all sticky and covered in paint. Play with liquids, squish some dough and check out the slushiest and mushiest foods. Pour, mix, stir, splat. How does it feel to get your hands covered in goo? Make a wobbly jelly and draw with wibbly clay. Write recipes, instructions, riddles and poems – there are loads of scrummy words to describe messy mixtures. Work with paint and other squelchy stuff to create a new gallery space. What will you make? How will you arrange it? How will the gallery make you and your visitors feel? Don’t worry about the mess – it’ll always wash.
Spellings - Week Commencing Monday 13th November
chopped
clapped
blotted
rubbed
pinned
dotted
nodded
padded
clotted
beautiful
Spellings Week Commencing Monday 20th November 2023
stars
stairs
start
angels
acorns
apples
cubes
circles
squares
because
Spellings Week Commencing Monday 27th November 2023
dresses
grasses
glasses
misses
crosses
messes
boxes
foxes
hoaxes
Christmas
Spellings - Week Commencing Monday 4th December 2023
patch
batch
match
crutch
clutch
catch
ditch
hutch
fetch
because
Spellings - Week Commencing Monday 11th December 2023
reuse
reset
restart
replace
reboot
repack
retake
rename
rebuild
Christmas
Spring Term 2024
Movers and Shakers
This project teaches children about historically significant people who have had a major impact on the world. They will learn to use timelines, stories and historical sources to find out about the people featured and use historical models to explore their significance.
Term 4 - Week 1 Spellings
Megan's
Ravi's
girl's
child's
man's
boy's
bike's
computer's
school's
parent's
Week 2 - Spellings
copied
copier
happier
happiest
cried
replied
copying
crying
replying
relied
Week 3 - Spellings
hiking
hiked
hiker
nicer
nicest
shiny
describing
described
wiring
tiled
Week 4 - Spellings
patting
patted
humming
hummed
dropping
dropped
sadder
saddest
fatter
fattest
Week 5 - Spellings
every
everybody
even
great
break
from
pretty
beautiful
after
fast
asked
Week 6 - Spellings
him
them
down
child's
replying
describing
patted
dropped
everybody
after
Term 5 - Coastlines.
In the Coastline project, your child will use maps to learn about the location of the world’s seas and oceans and keys to learn about map symbols. They will also find out about the directions on a compass. They will learn about the human and physical features of a coastline, including the effects of erosion and how to stay safe when visiting the coast. They will have the opportunity to learn about the work of the RNLI, what happened to the SS Rohilla and about the coastal town of Whitby, including how Captain Cook is linked to the town. They will research the tourism industry and consider what features make a place a successful tourist destination.
Spellings - Summer Term
Week 1
write, written, wrote, wrong, wrap, wrist, wriggle, wreck, wrinkle, wrestle
Week 2
cry, fly, dry, try, reply, July, spy, fry, supply, magnify
Week 3
flies, tries, replies, copies, babies, carries, cries, spies, supplies, magnifies
Week 4
all, ball, call, walk, talk, always, mall, fall, tall, natural
Week 5
last, past, father, class, grass, dad, plant, path, bath, hour, make
Week 6
this, have, try, wrong, supply, replies, carries, always, natural, plant
Term 1 - 2022-2023
Towers, Tunnels and Turrets.
See the castle ahead? Get ready to invade its mighty walls. Shoot a projectile with an archer’s aim. Head across the drawbridge, over the moat and up to the top of the tower. Meet Rapunzel who lives in a tall, tall tower. Let’s build a brand new one. Whose is the tallest? Can you measure it? Then dig deep, deep down, making burrows and tunnels, just like the animals who live underground. What’s that sound? I hear little hooves going trip, trap, trip, trap, over the rickety bridge. Watch out for the angry troll underneath. He likes to gobble up little girls and boys. Make sure your bridge is sturdy enough to take our weight and get us safely to the other side. And finally, meet three little pigs who need your help to build a strong fortress. Inside its strong walls, they’ll be safe from the big, bad wolf. No huffing and puffing will blow your fortress down.
Week Commencing Monday 12th September 2022
Spellings:
where
when
who
what
why
dolphin
graph
photo
last
past
Please remember to send into school cardboard boxes and tubes to make castles by Thursday.
Please send your child a large t-shirt for art work that will remain in school for the year.
Week Commencing Monday 19th September 2022
Spellings
plane
spade
spray
trays
weigh
sleigh
eight
they
because
after
Week Commencing Monday 26th September 2022
Spellings
edge
hedge
badge
bridge
change
large
orange
challenge
bought
favourite
Week Commencing Monday 3rd October 2022
Spellings
bubble
middle
table
apple
little
puddle
giggle
cuddle
world
work
Week Commencing Monday 10th October 2022
Spellings
wreck
wren
write
wrong
wrist
wrap
wrote
wring
four
eight
We have now started to learn the 2x tables and we will have a small test on these also on a Monday morning.
Please remember to send your child into school on Thursday wearing their forest school clothes.
Term 2
Muck, Mess and Mixtures
Let’s get messy. Muck and mess are good. In fact, they're marvellous. Dive in and get your hands and feet all sticky and covered in paint. Play with liquids, squish some dough and check out the slushiest and mushiest foods. Pour, mix, stir, splat. How does it feel to get your hands covered in goo? Make a wobbly jelly and draw with wibbly clay. Write recipes, instructions, riddles and poems – there are loads of scrummy words to describe messy mixtures. Work with paint and other squelchy stuff to create a new gallery space. What will you make? How will you arrange it? How will the gallery make you and your visitors feel? Don’t worry about the mess – it’ll always wash
Week Commencing - Monday 31st October 2022
Spellings:
baked
baking
hiked
hiking
timed
timing
jumped
jumping
whole
listen
2X Tables
WHAT A FANTASTIC WOW DAY WE HAD!!!!
The children had a wonderful time making lava lamps, erupting volcanoes, slime, boom bags, rainbow rain, exploding coke and mentoes, playing in the mud pie kitchen and then finishing off cooking smores on the campfire.
Week Commencing Monday 7th November 2022
Spellings
bunches
wishes
arches
ditches
brushes
splashes
lunches
watches
great
water
2X Tables
Week Commencing Monday 14th November 2022
Spellings:
rejoin
reset
replace
retry
replay
renew
recall
return
would
could
2x Table and 10x Table
Week Commencing Monday 21st November 2022
Spellings:
unfair
uneven
unhappy
unlucky
unwell
unsafe
unclean
undress
beautiful
break
2x and 10x Tables
Week commencing 28th November 2022
Spellings
travel
camel
chisel
squirrel
tunnel
funnel
towel
tinsel
break
steak
x2 and x10 tables
Term 3
Street Detectives
This way or that way? Where should we go? Up to the local shops or down to the playing fields? Let’s learn about our local community, looking at houses old and new and finding out how our streets have changed since our mums and dads were young. Perhaps your granny or grandpa went to your school or maybe they worked in the baker’s shop? Make maps and plans of the streets around us, planning our routes. What can you see? What can we find? Whereabouts do you live? Do you know your address? Find out how to write instructions, directions, adverts and learn rhymes all about our community from different times. When the Lord Mayor writes and asks us to help make our street a better place, it’s time to get your thinking caps on and paintbrushes at the ready. Ready to roll, Street Detectives? Get your clipboards and cameras – it’s time to start investigating.
Spellings
Week Commencing Monday 9th January 2023
happier
happiest
easier
easiest
funnier
funniest
luckier
luckiest
poor
great
Spellings
Week Commencing Monday 16th January
festival
total
pupil
April
medal
local
pencil
nostril
busy
clothes
Spellings
Week Commencing Monday 23rd January 2023
future
picture
sculpture
nature
vulture
adventure
creature
capture
delicious
fruit
Spellings
Week Commencing Monday 30th January 2023
cheer
steer
volunteer
peer
sheer
meerkat
deer
career
build
earth
Spellings
Week Commencing Monday 6th February 2023
flies
spies
babies
teddies
carries
hurries
replies
cries
autumn
gone
Spellings
Week Commencing Monday 20th February 2023
nicest
bravest
finest
largest
shiny
sparkly
noisy
slimy
learn
search
Term 4
Wriggle and Crawl
Grab your coat and pooter – we’re going out and about on a minibeast hunt. Sweep your nets in ponds and lift up logs to see who’s home. Then set up a minibeast laboratory and observe their every move. Add notes and labels and ask research questions, just like a real entomologist. Learn about bees and worms and butterflies too. Can you make a food chain to show who eats who? Carry out investigations to find out more, like how far a snail travels in a day and how a spider catches its prey. Then animate to show how your favourite bug transforms from one form to another, perhaps a caterpillar to a butterfly or a maggot to a fly. On your belly, legs at the ready, it’s time to wriggle and crawl.
Spellings
Week Commencing Monday 27th February 2023
wonder
worry
above
month
brother
cover
son
glove
group
country
Spellings - Week Commencing Monday 6th March 2023
key
monkey
donkey
honey
money
chimney
valley
turkey
heart
dangerous
Spellings - Week Commencing Monday 13th March 2023
longer
warmer
colder
wetter
hottest
funny
windy
sunny
special
enough
Spellings Week commencing Monday 20th March 2023
can't
we'd
I've
you'll
didn't
couldn't
should've
could've
aunt
father
Spellings - Week Commencing Monday 27th March 2023
war
ward
warm
towards
world
worst
work
worth
prove
improve
Term 5
Scented Garden
Tiptoe through the tulips as your senses discover the blooming foliage and enchanting fragrances of flowers and herbs. Round and round the mulberry bush we go, planting bulbs and seeds, and then watch them grow beneath sunshine and showers. Explore the astounding world of the scented garden, but be careful, there are some wild and dangerous plants out there that do astonishing things. Don't touch them. Use the marvellous properties of plants, flowers and herbs to make an exceptional gift for somebody special. Everything is coming up roses. Why not grow your own?
Spellings - Week Commencing Monday 24th April 2023
enjoyment
payment
excitement
movement
fairness
kindness
tidiness
happiness
hour
move
Spellings - Week Commencing Monday 1st May 2023
usual
treasure
measure
visual
casual
pleasure
Asia
closure
sure
sugar
Term 6
Land Ahoy!
Yo ho, yo ho, it’s a sailor’s life for me. Get your sea legs on, it’s time to sail the salty seas. Navigate, investigate and explore the world, just like Captain Cook. Make a boat, sink a ship, fly a pirate flag. Speak like a pirate, write like a poet, then weigh and measure a pirate’s booty. How do rescues happen at sea? Find out about brave volunteers and young Miss Darling, rowing her boat across stormy seas. Sing a sea shanty whilst cleaning the poop deck, then search the school grounds for Captain Longbeard’s hidden treasure. There’s land ahead. Let’s get this ship to port.
Term 1 - 2023-2024
Towers, Tunnels and Turrets.
See the castle ahead? Get ready to invade its mighty walls. Shoot a projectile with an archer’s aim. Head across the drawbridge, over the moat and up to the top of the tower. Meet Rapunzel who lives in a tall, tall tower. Let’s build a brand new one. Whose is the tallest? Can you measure it? Then dig deep, deep down, making burrows and tunnels, just like the animals who live underground. What’s that sound? I hear little hooves going trip, trap, trip, trap, over the rickety bridge. Watch out for the angry troll underneath. He likes to gobble up little girls and boys. Make sure your bridge is sturdy enough to take our weight and get us safely to the other side. And finally, meet three little pigs who need your help to build a strong fortress. Inside its strong walls, they’ll be safe from the big, bad wolf. No huffing and puffing will blow your fortress down.