Oak Blog

• Friday 21 July 2023 Oak Class Blog - 21st July 2023 I can't believe we have reached the end of the school year! It has been a year filled with fun, learning, adventures and hard work by all the children in Oak Class. Every single member of the class, should be very proud of all they have achieved and the great role models they are for the younger years. When I asked the class, they said their highlights have been the residential to Thorpe Woodlands, Science Week, Art Weeks, Sports Day Computing Week and the end of year production 'Shakespeare Rocks'. They have also really enjoyed being together as Oak Class this year and I know the Year 5 children will miss the Year 6 children as they move onto their next adventures at secondary school.
• Friday 23 June 2023 Oak Class Blog - 23rd June 2023 This week, Oak Class completed their learning on balanced arguments by debating 'School aged children should be banned from using devices'. Initially they all thought they shouldn't be but by the end of this unit they all agreed that there were pros and cons to device use. They have also been engaged and enthusiastic in our production rehearsals, which we started in the village hall this week.
• Friday 16 June 2023 Oak Class Blog - 16th June 2023 This week has been Computing Week in Oak Class. The learning has been around the theme 'Creating Media- Vector Drawings'. The children have been using the google draw program and have learnt what vector drawings are, how to create shapes and objects and duplicate, move and resize objects. They have also been using the draw tools to make an exact copy of different animal pictures and the zoom in and out tool to draw things in detail. This learning has taken great patience and care from the children and it has been great to see the children using these attributes in their computing work this week. As you can see from the photos below, the children really enjoyed their computing week and created some wonderful work.
• Friday 19 May 2023 Oak Class Blog - 19th May 2023 This week, Oak Class explored balanced arguments in English, carried out number challenges in Maths and experienced their first Capoeira session.
• Friday 12 May 2023 Oak Class Blog - 12th May 2023 This week has been assessment week in Oak Class, with Year 6 carrying out their KS2 SATs assessments and Year 5 their end of year tests. The whole class approached these assessments with a positive attitude, trying their best and should be congratulated on their great efforts. They all enjoyed their movie and popcorn afternoon as a treat for all their hard work.
• Friday 28 April 2023 Oak Class Blog - 28th April 2023 Welcome back to Term 3 in Oak Class. All the children have returned full of enthusiasm for this term's learning and are working really hard. The Year 6 children are preparing for their up coming SATs, while Year 5 will be having some end of year assessments at the same time.
• Friday 31 March 2023 Oak Class Blog - 31st March 2023 I can't believe that we are already to the end of term two. It has been another brilliant term in Oak Class, with all the children working really hard, showing enthusiasm and engagement in all their learning. We always end each week sharing our highlights of the week and today the children shared their highlights of this term. Here are just some of them:
• Friday 17 March 2023 Oak Class Blog - 17th March 2023 This week, Oak Class celebrated Science Week carrying out lots of interesting investigations. The theme was connections and the children carried out activities linked to this theme. They carried out a variety of investigations to answer the following questions:
• Friday 10 March 2023 Oak Class Blog - 10th March 2023 As part of their Earth and Space learning, Oak Class took part in National Mars Day on Tuesday. The day started with a live talk about travelling to space by scientists and astronauts, where the class learnt about what is needed for a successful space mission. They also enjoyed seeing a dog explore Mars!
• Thursday 2 March 2023 Oak Class Blog - 3rd March 2023 On Thursday 2nd March, Spooner Row Primary School celebrated World Book Day and Oak Class enjoyed lots of book themed activities including:
• Friday 10 February 2023 Oak Class Blog - 10th February 2023 This week, Oak Class focused on Internet Safety, especially on Tuesday which was Safer Internet Day. They explored the great things about the internet but also the risk. Through looking at different scenarios, the class discussed the importance of what personal information you post online, the importance of secure passwords and also being able to spot a scam message/email/pop up. They also learnt about the age restrictions on games/apps.
• Friday 3 February 2023 Oak Class Blog - 3rd February 2023 This week, Oak Class have continued learning about fractions in Maths, looked at the use of alliteration, adverbials and dialogue in English and started to explore the break with the Catholic Church during the reign of Henry VIII.
• Friday 27 January 2023 Oak Class Blog - 27th January 2023 This week, Oak Class have continued with fraction work in Maths, exploring the book 'Zoo' in English and getting to grips with the phases of the moon in Science.
• Friday 20 January 2023 Oak Class Blog - 20th January 2023 This week, Oak Class have continued to explore the book 'Zoo' by Anthony Browne in English, problem solve with fractions in Maths and continue learning about the life of The Tudors in History.
• Thursday 12 January 2023 Oak Class Blog - 13th January 2023 This week has been Art Week in Oak Class, where the children have been exploring the work of the expressionist movement. They started with creating their own version of an expressionist portrait, using pictures of their own 'shocked' expressions as a starting point.
• Friday 16 December 2022 Oak Class Blog - 16th December 2022 I can't believe we are at the end of term already! It has been a wonderful term, with lots of highlights including the residential, Pudsey Day activities, active advent, science and art weeks and learning the Fresh Prince of Bel Air in music.
• Friday 9 December 2022 Oak Class Blog - 9th December 2022 Since the 1st December, Oak Class have been carrying out an active advent calendar. Each day they have taken part in a Christmas themed activity which have included:
• Friday 2 December 2022 Oak Class Blog - 2nd December 2022 This week, Oak Class have studied the speeches of Greta Thunberg, explored multiples and factors and started our active advent calendar.
• Friday 25 November 2022 Oak Class Blog - 25th November 2022 This week, Oak Class have enjoyed reading to the end of our thrilling class book 'Clockwork'. The Year 5 children produced their own games to test our knowledge of 'Clockwork', which the Year 6 enjoyed playing. They have also been securing their division knowledge using the chunking method in maths and started looking at the speeches of Greta Thunberg in English. In PE, they have been challenging themselves with different fitness tests, trying to improve their results each time.
• Friday 18 November 2022 Oak Class Blog - 18th November 2022 This week has been all about 'Children in Need Day' in Oak Class. The children have been working in house groups to create some amazing activities for the younger children to experience, during our Children in Need Activity afternoon. As you can see from the photos below, the class did a brilliant job of devising, making and running their activities and the younger children loved taking part in them.
• Friday 11 November 2022 Oak Class Blog - 11th November 2022 This week, Oak Class continued their English learning based on the book 'Clockwork' with a focus on writing a conversation between two of the characters. It has been multiplication week in Maths, where the children have reviewed and extended their knowledge of grid, extended and column multiplication.
• Friday 4 November 2022 Oak Class Blog - 4th November 2022 This week, Oak class have focused much of their learning on Science and English. They also started their leadership duties as 'Dining room Deputies' much to the delight of the younger children.
• Friday 21 October 2022 Oak Class Blog - 21st October 2022 I cannot believe it is half term already. It has been a jammed packed start to the year, with many highlights, in particular the residential. This week, Oak Class have been continuing to read 'The Nowhere Emporium' in English, exploring negative numbers in Maths and carrying out Sports Hall Athletics in PE.
• Tuesday 18 October 2022 Anti-Bullying Ambassador Training Day On Wednesday 12th October, some Year 4, 5 and 6 children attended a days training to start their journey to becoming anti-bullying ambassadors for the school. The training was run by The Diana Award team and developed the children's understanding of what bullying behaviour is, the different types of bullying behaviour and how they can support someone who might be experiencing bullying.
• Friday 7 October 2022 Oak Class Blog - 7th October 2022 This week in Oak Class, we have been working hard on sentence stacking, place value to 10 million and creating Christmas cards in October!
• Friday 30 September 2022 Oak Class Blog - 30th September 2022 This week has been all about our residential to Thorpe Woodlands. All the children had an amazing time and I know have many highlights from the trip. The children showed brilliant team work skills, great resilience and courage in stepping out of their comfort zone on some of the activities. I think we would all agree that the food was delicious too.
• Thursday 22 September 2022 Oak Class Blog - 23rd September 2022 This week, Oak Class have explored place value in Maths and sentence level work linked to the book 'The Nowhere Emporium'. They are really enjoying the drama aspect of English this term and we definitely have some budding thespians in our class.
• Friday 16 September 2022 Oak Class Blog - 16th September 2022 Welcome to the first Oak Class blog of the new school year. All the children have come back to school enthusiastic and ready to learn. They have all settled into this new Oak Class very well and are embracing all the learning challenges.
• Friday 22 July 2022 Oak Class Blog - 22nd July 2022 I can't believe it is the end of the school year already and what a wonderful year it has been for the staff and children in Oak Class. We all agree that they have been a friendly, hardworking and enthusiastic class, who have also been brilliant student leaders. There have been so many highlights from this school year, too many to mention them all but the ones that spring to mind are the residential, Children in Need Day, Science Week, DT Week, sports day and our trip to High Altitude this week.
• Friday 8 July 2022 Oak Class Blog - 8th July 2022 It has been a busy couple of weeks for Oak Class, with the main focus being our end of year production. In between rehearsals, the class have been enjoying a variety of sporting and STEM activities.
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