Oak Blog
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Friday 24 June 2022 Oak Class Blog - 24th June 2022 This week, has been 'Writing Week' in Oak Class. The children explored three different genres: balanced arguments, instructional writing and narrative writing. They were all really engaged, enthusiastic and imaginative in their writing, producing some wonderful pieces of work. Well done Oak Class for your dedication to writing!
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Friday 17 June 2022 Oak Class Blog - 17th June 2022 This week, Oak Class have been going full steam ahead with our end of year production. It has been great to see how many of the class have already learnt their lines and are getting into the performance aspects of the script.
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Friday 10 June 2022 Oak Class Blog - 10th June 2022 Today, Oak Class went to Wymondham High School to experience Science and Art learning, in a high school environment. In Science, the class enjoyed exploring the PH values of different liquids, learning all about acidic, alkaline and neural substances. As you can see from the photos below, all the children really enjoyed being able to carry out investigations in a proper science laboratory.
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Friday 27 May 2022 Oak Class Blog - 27th May 2022 During Design and Technology week, Oak Class explored the structure and function of buildings and then designed and created their own. Their brief was to create a bridge which would go across a river and could be opened to let tall boats through as well as closed to let pedestrians and vehicles across.
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Friday 13 May 2022 Oak Class Blog - 15th May 2022 This week has been assessment week in Oak Class, with Year 6 carrying out their SATs tests and Year 5 their PIXL assessments. All the children should be congratulation on the positive attitude and great effort they showed this week. They were all resilient, hard-working and absolutely tried their best. I know that myself and all the staff at Spooner Row couldn't be prouder of them all. Well done Oak Class!
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Friday 6 May 2022 Oak Class Blog - 6th May 2022 This week in Oak Class, the Year 6 children have completed their preparation for next weeks KS2 SATs and the whole class have been exploring countries, capitals and continents in our 'Extreme Planet' Geography learning.
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Friday 29 April 2022 Oak Class Blog - 29th April 2022 This week, Oak Class enjoyed using a short animation film as their input to writing, continued with their cricket sessions and started to explore the language for our new topic 'Extreme Planet'.
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Friday 22 April 2022 Oak Class Blog - 22nd April 2022 Welcome to the summer term in Oak Class. As usual, the children have come back to school with enthusiasm, ready to learn. During this short week, we have started our new class text - 'The boy who sailed the world in an armchair' and looked at separating materials in Science. In Maths, Year 5 have focused on rectilinear shapes, while Year 6 have been exploring the area of triangles. For the next 6 weeks, Oak Class have a cricket coach to teach them cricket skills and they all really enjoyed their first session today.
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Friday 25 March 2022 Oak Class Blog - 25th March 2022 This week, Oak Class have enjoyed writing persuasive letters in English, creating ball-skills rallies and games in PE and converting measures in Maths.
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Friday 18 March 2022 Oak Class Blog - 18th March 2022 This week, has been Science Week at Spooner Row and the children of Oak class carried out a week of science activities with enthusiasm, curiosity and commitment. They worked in teams all week, showing brilliant communication and team-work skills, producing some great learning. Throughout Science week, the children explored:
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Friday 11 March 2022 Oak Class Blog - 11th March 2022 This week, Oak Class have continued to follow the life of evacuee Willie in 'Goodnight Mr Tom', consolidated their decimals learning in Maths and looked at how propaganda was used in World War II.
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Friday 4 March 2022 Oak Class Blog - 4th March 2022 This week Oak Class have enjoyed creating their evacuee suitcases, writing letters in the persona of Willie from Goodnight Mr Tom and of course dressing up for World Book Day.
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Friday 25 February 2022 Oak Class Blog - 25th February 2022 Welcome back, after the half-term holidays! Meanwhile, Oak Class have continued to show enthusiasm in all their learning, as we enter this half term.
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Friday 11 February 2022 Oak Class Blog -11th February 2022 We have reached half term already! Oak Class spoke about their highlights of this half term, which included swimming for Year 5, SATs Confidence Club for Year 6, our World War II topic, creating Blitz art work and producing newspaper reports about the Blitz in English. They have all worked extremely hard this term and should be very proud of their efforts.
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Friday 4 February 2022 Oak Class Blog - 4th February 2022 This week, Oak Class have looked into the events of the Blitz in more detail and also the lives of evacuees in World War II. They have also embraced the new laptops we have in Oak Class. Each child now has access to a laptop and they are a wonderful extra learning tool to have in the class. You can see from the photographs below how happy the children are to have these new resources.
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Friday 28 January 2022 Oak Class Blog - 28th January 2022 This week's blog is a little shorter than usual, due to the fact that this has been assessment week in Oak Class. The children showed great perseverance and resilience throughout the week and producing some wonderful results. They should all be very proud of their efforts. Our gallery below shows some of the fantastic learning that the children have produced so far this term, which is on display in our classroom.
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Friday 21 January 2022 Oak Class Blog - 21st January 2022 This week, Oak Class have continued with their learning around World War II, including reading our class text, Goodnight Mr Tom. They also enjoyed an art activity linked to our English work on The Blitz. This wonderful work will be on display in Oak Classroom.
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Friday 14 January 2022 Oak Class Blog - 14th January 2022 Happy New Year and welcome to Term 2 in Oak Class. The children have all come back from the holidays enthusiastic and ready for the new learning this term will bring.
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Friday 17 December 2021 Oak Class Blog - 17th December 2021 I can't believe we have reached the end of the first term already. Oak Class have all worked brilliantly this term, showing enthusiasm, engagement and resilience in all activities. They should all be very proud of themselves.
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Friday 10 December 2021 Oak Class Blog - 10th December 2021 This week, Oak Class have enjoyed creating their own Greek myth, continuing to explore fractions in Maths and delved into the history of the Olympics in History.
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Thursday 2 December 2021 Oak Class Blog - 03.12.21 This week, Oak Class have continued with their myth writing in English, carrying out fun ways to learn fractions in Maths and exploring the legacy of Ancient Greek architecture in History.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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