Wise Owls Class
Welcome to Wise Owls!
Gallery - check out our work from the year so far!
Our spooky videos!
We planned these videos carefully before going to the woodland area for the shoot. After that, we used iPad editing techniques to make them darker and more atmospheric. We will be composing sound tracks to go with them too!
Our Learning
In Wise Owls, learning is carefully planned and designed to deliver the full breadth of the national curriculum, while at the same time meeting the needs of the class, both as individual learners and the whole group.
To do this, we work hard to activate pupil curiosity. This means that our lessons, sequences and topics are planned around
Big Ideas and Big Questions
Armed with these big ideas and questions, pupils are inspired to look for answers and know the purpose of their work.
We use a lot of mind-mapping and idea generating techniques in class, which give pupils real ownership of their work and allow them to track their ideas as well as their own progress.
Some of the Big Ideas and Big Questions for our year are:
- How hard was it for the Anglo-Saxons to Settle in Britain?
- How do we describe the music we are listening to?
- How can we create a spooky, exciting descriptive paragraph?
- What are the different ways I can use lines and marks with pencils and pastels?
- How are digital devices connected?
- How do we greet each other in French?
Email and website updates
Each half term, you will get an email that lets you know the Big Questions or Big Ideas that are coming up. This is so that you can have meaningful, detailed conversations at home. Try asking to see if your child can answer some of them!
As we complete work, I will post photos or videos of it here. This page will be updated termly.
Homework
Reading
We would like all children to read at home every day.
In Wise Owls, some children are working their way through the banded Rocket Phonics Readers. Once they have finished these, they move on to the rest of the banded colours, up to Black.
After this, they are free to choose books from the reading corner. I am always excited to make recommendations!
Times tables
From the second half of the autumn term, we will be spending one session each week on learning the times tables. This will take place on Thursday afternoon.
Spellings
Each week I set spellings, teaching the rule or rules for that week. They are tested on a Friday. Children can learn 3, 5 or all 10 of the spellings. We have a '100 Club' of children that have got all of their spellings correct.
My practice schedule:
Timetable
