Christian Values
Easter Service at Church
Year 1 had lots of fun today performing our Easter song ‘Spring Chicken’ to the rest of the school and our mummies and daddies who came to watch.
Art & Design
Artist pencils, crayons, pencil crayons and pastels…
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…
Mathematics
Welcome my friends, welcome to the sweet factory.
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…
Year 2 - Elm
Phonics in Year 1
Miss Jones’ group in phonics have now learnt 3 graphemes that all make the same sound: ee ea e_e We have been writing lots of words with the sound, trying to work out which spelling choice we need to use – it was very tricky!
Science
Science fun… Planting!
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…
Physical Education
Wacky Races in P.E.
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…
Mathematics
Working hard… thinking about how to solve problems.
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…
Art & Design
Music Madness!
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…
English
Little Red Riding Hood – A journey through our learning so far…
Oaks have been working so hard… We have been piecing together the story of Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf! Sequencing the pictures to create the story was hard work but we managed to remember all the key parts to the story. Then we acted out Read more…
Mathematics
Magnificent Maths
Oaks worked hard splitting a whole number into two parts, preparing for addition work and number bonds to 10 later next week. Well done, everyone.