Year 4 and the rest of the school have had a fantastic time with Jeff Rich (previous drummer of the famous band Status Quo). Jeff lead a masterclass for the school teaching the history of percussion instruments as well as techniques on how to play them. Here are some snap shots of our rocking morning.
Jupiter went to Jungle today! They used the ‘Fantastics’ sheet to talk about their experience.
We have been creating presentations including lots of facts about The Victorians using PowerPoint, we used the Internet and books to research Queen Victoria, Victorian Schools, toys and homes. We have learnt to create slides including subheadings, bullet points, images and animations! We then presented them to the rest if the class!
This term in P.E we have been learning how to dance. We have been learning different dance techniques such as: isolations, levels and spins. This is how our dance is looking so far.
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 can recycle their rubbish. We filled in a questionnaire which told us which parts of being an eco-friendly school we do well, and which parts 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 we have some very competitive Oaks… including the members of staff in the room!
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 sort the shapes and find totals. Please comment on how well we are doing in Year 1 Oaks and we will read them out Read more…
Year 5 have been busy planning and carrying out an experiment all about water resistance 😃
As part of our Africa topic we designed then created our own African masks. We will be using these in our class assembly.