Welcome to The Outstanding Owls Class!

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.

Class Information

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. All children also have books uploaded on Bug Club (Active Learn).

TTRockstars and Purple Mash

Times tables are also set each week on TTRockstars and there are also activities and tasks on Purple Mash, which we use for our Computing Curriculum.

Term 1

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