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• Friday 26 November 2021 Oak Class Blog - 26th November 2021 This week, Oak Class have enjoyed being super sporty, with swimming sessions, rugby taster sessions and scorpion volleyball in PE. They have also continued to work hard in all other areas of the curriculum.
• Friday 19 November 2021 Oak Class Blog - 19th November 2021 This week, the student leadership team have started to carry out different roles around school. The House Captains helped organise and collect votes for our new school values and the whole of the student leadership team/Oak Class worked in house teams to organise activities for an afternoon of fun during Pudsey Day.
• Friday 12 November 2021 Oak Class Blog - 12th November 2021 This week, Oak Class have enjoyed hosting a cake sale, preparing activities for Pudsey Day next Friday and continuing to work hard and with enthusiasm in all areas of the curriculum. Thank you to all the parents/carers/children who contributed to the cake sale today and to all those who bought cakes.
• Friday 5 November 2021 Oak Class Blog - 5th November 2021 After the half term holiday, Oak Class returned to school enthusiastic to continue their learning this term. Year 6 started their swimming sessions and children from both Year 5 and Year 6 took part in a Cross Country Meet. Mrs Baker was very proud of not only how the children performed at the event (and Year 6 had to run a whole mile!) but how well they represented the school with their fantastic behaviour.
• Friday 22 October 2021 Oak Class Blog - 22nd October 2021 I can't believe we are at half term already - what a busy start of the year Oak class have experienced. I think they would all say that their highlight of this half term was our residential in September. Today Oak Class all looked 'spooktacular' as they dressed up for Halloween.
• Friday 15 October 2021 Oak Class Blog - 15.10.21 This week Oak Class enjoyed exploring artifacts in History, negative number games in Maths and continued with their fantastic diary entries in English. On Friday, the Year 6 members of Oak Class went to a Science/Library morning at Wymondham High School. The children will tell you that they really enjoyed carrying out the rainbow fizz experiment and the library bingo but I think they secretly liked the cheese panini and hot dogs they had for a snack best!
• Friday 8 October 2021 Oak Class Blog - 8th October 2021 This week Oak Class have continued to work hard and show enthusiasm for all areas of the curriculum. A highlight for them this week was wearing yellow for mental health today.
• Thursday 30 September 2021 Thorpe Woodlands Residential What an amazing week! I think the photos say it all! The children were an absolute credit to themselves and the school and we are so proud of each and every one of them. From tackling challenges and supporting each other to having fun and enjoying great experiences - they did it all! A huge thank you to all the incredible staff at Thorpe Woodlands especially Alex, Briony, James and Amber and to Mr Lemon, Mrs Colchester and Miss Curtis for organising such a fabulous trip.
• Wednesday 21 July 2021 Japan Day 2021 As a reward for being so amazing this year, Oak class had a 'Japan Day' on Monday where they had a go at lots of Japanese activities including:
• Wednesday 21 July 2021 Leavers' Assembly 2021 I cannot believe the time has come to say goodbye to our wonderful year 6 children.  They have been absolute superstars this year and I couldn't have asked for a nicer year group to be my first class to see through year 5 and 6. 
• Sunday 11 July 2021 School trip to Whitlingham Adventure Oak class had a wonderful time at Whitlingham on Friday and were all exceptionally well-behaved and got involved with both kayaking and stand up paddle boarding.  
• Wednesday 9 June 2021 End of summer 1 This week, Oak class had a lot of fun trying some different STEM activities including rocket balloons, windmills and catapults. 
• Friday 14 May 2021 Summer Term - Week 5 This week we were outside for maths learning about translating shapes:
• Friday 23 April 2021 Summer Term - week 2 We have made the most of the lovely weather this week and worked outside for topic where Oak class worked in groups to film adverts  to promote some of the inventions which revolutionalised agriculture in the 1700s. 
• Friday 23 April 2021 Summer Term - Week 1 First week back after Easter and it has been a busy one.  Oak class have been working on some lovely cityscapes in art using palette knives:
• Friday 26 March 2021 Science Week 2021 We have had a fantastic last week of term as it was science week. Throughout the week, Oak class have been working on lots of science and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and MAthematics) challenges.  I have been very impressed at their innovation and team work.  They had a go at the following challenges:
• Friday 19 March 2021 Spring Term - Week 10 We have had great fun celebrating St Patrick's Day this week.  The class decorated some bunting for the classroom and made their own Irish soda bread.  We also had a go at some Irish dancing and to celebrate the day, Oak class came into school wearing something Green.  It was a great effort from Oak class and we had a lovely day.
• Friday 12 March 2021 Spring Term - Week 9 It has been so wonderful to welcome Oak class back into the classroom this week and to be honest, it soon felt like we had never been away.  
• Saturday 6 March 2021 Spring term - week 8 At the end of last week, Oak Class took on the challenge to complete 100 'somethings' in memory of Captain Sir Tom Moore. The photos below show the huge array of activities they took part in:
• Friday 26 February 2021 Spring Term - week 7 This week, we received wonderful news from Boris Johnson that we will be returning to school in just two weeks! This has been the light at the end of the tunnel that we have all been waiting for and the countdown has begun to when we can all be together again. 
• Sunday 21 February 2021 HALF TERM EXTREME READING CHALLENGE I have loved looking through all your photo entries for this competition and must say, considering we are in lockdown, you have been very creative in your extreme reading places!  Well done to all of you who have entered.  The judges will be discussing your entries and the winner will be announced on Tuesday in the whole class zoom session.
• Friday 12 February 2021 Spring Term - Week 6
• Friday 5 February 2021 Spring Term - Week 5
• Friday 29 January 2021 Oak Class - Spring Week 4 Oak class have been working exceptionally hard this week and have produced some wonderful work.  We have been learning all about the phases of the moon in Science and created a flip book to show these.  We have also been learning about the process of making chocolate in preparation for writing an explanation text next week and in topic have been looking at 4 and 6 figure grid references.  In DT this week we have been designing our toys and look forward to making them next week.  As always, thank you all for sending your work in – we love seeing it!
• Friday 22 January 2021 Oak Class - Spring Week 3 Well done Oak Class for another week of fantastic learning at home! You have all been busy working out the area and perimeter of rooms in your house or objects around school and have worked out the costings of redecorating.  I have also seen some wonderful work on 3D shapes by year 6 who have been learning about the nets of 3D shapes.
• Friday 15 January 2021 Oak Class - Spring Week 2 Well it was our first full week of remote learning and I am so proud of each and every one of you for the hard work you have put in.  This week we have been learning about Greta Thunberg and she has inspired us to write letters to the government asking them to take action against various issues which are destroying our planet.
• Tuesday 15 December 2020 Older Oak Posts This is an archive of the Oak Blog posts from our old website.

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