Art & Design
Australian Art and Food
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
Phonics
Phonics Wordsearches
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!
Mathematics
10’s and 1’s
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.
Year 2 - Ash
KS1 Easter Egg Hunt
Everybody in Key Stage 1 had lots of fun this morning taking part in our annual Easter Egg Hunt. Well done to the winners from each class who collected the most eggs.
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