This half term, Year 6 have been writing ghost stories. To help imagine what it would be like for characters in different settings, we’ve been immersing ourselves in a range of settings such as graveyards, haunted mansions, basements and attics. The children had the chance to explore the settings, taking in all the sights and sounds to help inspire their writing. They used the FANTASTICs (9 lenses we can look through to help gather ideas Read more…
Over the last two weeks, Year 6 have started using TT Rock Stars to help improve our table knowledge and recall speed. The children have all improved their baseline speed, some over 2 seconds quicker per times table when recalling table facts. The children have really enjoyed the added competition as we look at the league tables to see our improvements, but also where we rank in class and in the school. Read more…
We had a lovely shared lunch today we our parents. Thank you for joining us, we hope you enjoyed it too!
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. Please take a look at our magnificent children who have all made musical instruments at home.
Bluebells had a big surprise today when they came in from dinner. Someone had been in our classroom and look what they had done… We asked everybody we know who could have done this, but no one knew. Someone had come into our classroom and held all of the vegetables hostage! We all worked together to free the vegetables that had been held hostage and Miss Longmire is going to take them all back to Read more…
We were all very busy last week as we needed to be superheroes and catch some villains! Super Daisy rang Miss Longmire to tell her that she had seen villains trying to get into school. Bluebells worked together to create traps and dens to make sure they didn’t get in. Bluebells used their writing skills, to write signs to tell the villains to stop and go away. Super Daisy rang Miss Longmire back the next Read more…
This week we have been using numicon to find the answer to addition number sentences.
During French week we studied the artist Van Gogh we created his ‘Starry Night’ painting by using pastels to create a background for our Carcassonne castle sketches which we put in the foreground. We hope you like them 😬😁😃
In Science lessons we have been investigating light and conducted an experiment to see how light reflects from both shiny and dull objects. We looked at objects in the dark, with a little bit of light and a tea light. We then evaluated and analysed our results to see which objects reflected the most light. We loved being Scientists 👏