Owls

Welcome to Owls Class!

Owl class is taught by Mrs Love and Mr Dennis. Learning is supported by Mrs Carruthers and Miss Wilson.

Spring Term 2025

Topic

Our topic this term is Barcelona. We look at Barcelona as a Settlement and compare it's physical and human geographical features to our own here in Cumbria. This unit links really closely to our international partnerships in Valencia and Argentina. The children have the opportunity to really expand their cultural understanding of Spain and South America. As we consider settlements, we think about the themes of belonging and acceptance along with migration. 

Science

Our topics in science this term is Electricity. Our learners will learn more about circuits and how to control and harness electricity. They will think about how our in class experiments relate to the wider world and solve 'real world problems' within investigations. We also touch upon electricity's role in our future and renewable energy. 

Art

During this term we will be focusing on Collage and Sculpture. The children will explore sculpture with a professional artist- developing an understanding of clay. 

Our Class Blog

We are excited to begin another term of learning together and one of our learners will post here a guest Blog in the coming weeks. Watch this space! 

Weekly Routines

We have PE on a Tuesday and Thursday. Please ensure that PE kits are weather appropriate and are worn on PE days. 

Home learning is primarily key-skill based, with Spellings coming home on Friday or a Monday (Friday for our No Nonsense Spelling Learners and Monday for those accessing Phase 6 Phonics). We will also send home a times-table task and weekly consolidation task for completion beginning the end of January. We ask that learners Read and/or are Read to each day, to support them in the journey to fluency and to develop a sense of themselves as a reader. 

Rewards

Each class in school uses an online platform called Class Dojo. Dojo is a points system that allows us to reward effort, consistency, demonstration of our core values, growth mindset and kindness. As well as collecting points individually, the children are also collecting points for their newly allocated School House. The House with the most points at the end of the year will win the House Cup. 

The Houses, and House Leaders are: 

Learners also have the opportunity to earn individual rewards including: 'special mentions' in our Joy and Gratitude Worship, Learner of the Week awards and Polite Slip allocation.