During Art week, we chose to do Australia to focus on. We did a number of different activities… Children made art work based on the artist Clifford Possum Tjapaltijarri. We worked hard to create his dotted patterns using cotton buds. We also made Fairy Bread and this is Read more…
For our early morning work, children were challenged to find ‘oi’ and ‘oy’ words in their word searches today. We found it lots of fun and managed to find lots of words within the letters!
Children have been counting in 10’s and 1’s to find the total. We were able to switch from counting in 10’s to 1’s after some practise! Please comment below and we will look at them in class.
Oaks have been Artists today! We have drawn pictures of our houses from memory. We used various media such as pencils, crayons, pencil crayons and pastels. We voted as to which media we preferred to use and the pastels won! The reasons behind this was because “we Read more…
Children worked hard today to make 2D and 3D shapes with Jelly Tots and cocktail sticks! They made squares, triangles, hexagons, octagons, pentagons as well as some 3D shapes like cubes and square based pyramids. They were asked “Can you make a circle out of the Jelly Tots and Read more…
Oaks had so much fun planting beans last week! We planted 2 types: runner beans and broad beans. They added soil into their plant pot and then popped their chosen bean into the soil and covered it up. They brought it home to water and look after. Whose beanstalk Read more…
Meet the new Eco – Committee! We are here to make sure our school is tidy, recycling waste appropriately and eco-friendly. Last half term we went round school, checking for certain things such as lights turned off, rubbish on the ground and if we have ways that children and adults Read more…
Children have been participating in races during their P.E. lessons. Skills they are learning during P.E. Building up confidence to try things independently Learning that sometimes we win and sometimes we don’t win… and that’s ok! Listening to instructions Learning the rules of the games We can honestly say that Read more…
Children in Year 1 Oaks have been working extra hard this week, solving tricky problems! They used cubes to help them split a whole number into 2 parts, using a special diagram to help them. They also used a ‘ten frame’, which is a frame of 10 squares, to Read more…
Music in Oaks We have been learning all about different musical instruments in Oaks this half term. We have been looking at different artists such as Take That and we have been watching some very talented orchestra’s on YouTube to see the variety of instruments that are out there. Read more…