Welcome to Oak Class! 

Welcome to Oak Class. This year Mrs Few is teaching on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday each week and Mrs Cain teaches the class on Thursdays and Friday mornings. Mrs Borrett, Mrs Lockwood, Mrs Icke and Ms Knights work with us as TAs during the week - two work with the class in the mornings, and one in the afternoon. Miss Crockett helps at the end of the afternoon when Liam teaches P.E. on Wednesdays - don't forget to bring in your P.E kit!

You can learn more about what we are learning in the termly newsletters below and on the curriculum section of the website.

We are looking forward to an exciting year of learning!

Mrs Few and Mrs Cain

Learning at Home

Weekly spellings for this term

Please find below the half termly overviews for spellings for year 1 and year 2 for this term. We know that many parent/carers find these useful to use to help to support their child's learning. Thank you.

Our List of Books to Enjoy

Maths at home with Numbots

Your child will have their own personal log-in to numbots for use at home. Please read the document below for more information. Have fun!

Our Learning Spring Term 2026

We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas holiday and have settled back into the new term. 

Week Beginning 2nd February

This week Oak class have been….

• Working super hard on our maths assessments. The children all gave it their best effort and should be very proud of themselves! 
• Recapping the different parts that make a sentence
• Practicing writing sentences focusing on capital letters, full stops and finger spaces
• Writing sentences to describe a picture - most children did this independently which was fantastic! 
• Continuing our new topic in DT - moving pictures
• Learning about mechanisms 
• Creating our next mechanism - the lever! 

Week Beginning 26th January

This week Oak class have been….

• Practicing our 2 and 10 times tables and learning the inverse
• Practicing our subtraction skills 
• Learning about related fact families 
• Continuing to learn the value of coins 
• Adding different coins together making sure we get the right value! 
• Learning about commas and how they are used in sentences
• Starting our new topic in DT - moving pictures
• Learning about mechanisms 
• Creating our own mechanism - the slider! 

Week Beginning 12th January

This week Oak class have been….

• Practicing our 2 times tables and trying to get quicker at them
• Revisiting our number bonds to 20
• Practicing learning the value of coins 
• Adding different coins together making sure we get the right value! 
• Recapping what verbs are
• Learning what adverbs are and how they can make our sentences better
• Learning our weekly spellings/sounds.
• Logging into Purple Mash quicker as we become more familiar with the programme
• Continuing our learning using spreadsheets in computing by adding in images and using the tools to work out calculations

Our Learning Autumn Term 2025

Welcome back everyone!

We hope everyone had a wonderful summer holiday.

This year we not only welcome our new year 1 children but we also have a new teacher - Mrs Cain. We hope you all enjoy your first day and soon feel settled. There are lots of new routines to learn for our year 1 children but we are lucky to have such supportive and caring year 2 children ready to help make everyone feel welcome.

Week Beginning 13th October

This week Oak class have been….

• Practicing our number bonds
• Practicing our handwriting positions
• Practicing our listening skills in literacy to draw a picture
• Increasing our word banks of adjectives to describe a picture 
• Learning how to write sentences with capital letters at the start, full stops at the end and finger spaces between words.
• Learning the correct letter formations.
• Learning our weekly spellings/sounds.
• Exploring lines and curves in paint.

Week Beginning 6th October

This week Oak class have been….

• Adding to the next 10
• Adding across a 10
• Subtracting across a 10
• Writing fact families
• Practicing our number bonds
• Practicing our handwriting positions
• Creating word banks for a range of adjectives
• Learning how to write sentences with capital letters at the start, full stops at the end and finger spaces between words.
• Learning the correct letter formations.
• Learning our weekly spellings/sounds.
• Painting vegetables, fruit and leaves to make an Autumn wreath for the Harvest Festival.

Week Beginning 29th September

This week Oak class have been….

• Using hundred squares to find ten more and ten less.
• Finding related number facts.
• Making 8 in different ways.
• Listening to the story of Jesus welcoming the children and relating this to our work on christenings in R.E.
• Learning to write sentences in the past tense.
• Using our imaginations to create new stories based around the Three Little Pigs stories.
• Having fun acting out our new story ideas and adding actions to our retelling.
• Learning how to write sentences with capital letters at the start, full stops at the end and finger spaces between words.
• Learning the correct letter formations.
• Listening to our fiction book of the week – Dear Teacher.
• Learning our weekly spellings/sounds.

Week beginning 22nd September

This week Oak class have been….

• Comparing different quantities using <, > and =.
• Practicing our number bonds to 6. 
• Writing fact families for different number sentences.
• Adding multiples of 10 to 2 digit numbers. 
• Completed our first piece of independent writing! 
• Continuing to practice the use of "and" in our writing and how it joins two ideas together.
• Practicing our letter formations and understanding the importance of good posture to help with our handwriting. 
• Learning the importance of keeping our passwords private and not sharing them with anyone. 
• Logging onto laptops and Purple Mash and exploring what the programme has to offer.

Week beginning 15th September

This week Oak class have been….

• Using a number line to find missing numbers.
• Finding doubles and looking at patterns involving even numbers.
• Comparing numbers using <, > or =.
• Developing fluency with numbers to ten – finding 5 in the numbers 6-10.
• Learning about what different animals eat – using new vocabulary and sorting animals in a Venn diagram.
• Finding out about different animal groups (amphibians, reptiles and fish this week) and some of their similarities and differences.
• Writing sentences linked to our story, ‘The Three Little Pigs’.
• Learning how to write sentences with capital letters at the start, full stops at the end and finger spaces between words.
• Matching past tense verbs with their present tense form.
• Using time connectives to write interesting sentences.
• Listening to our fiction book of the week – Monkey Puzzle.
• Learning our weekly spellings and sounds.

Week Beginning 8th September

This week Oak class have been….

• Writing numbers to 20, using phrases such as ‘fewer than’ and 'more than'
• Understanding how to partition numbers into tens and ones
• Making 5 in different ways.
• Developing fluency with numbers to ten – finding 5 in the numbers 6-10.
• Writing sentences linked to our story, ‘The Three Little Pigs'.
• Learning how to write sentences with capital letters at the start, full stops at the end and finger spaces between words.
• Enjoying the story 'Elmer' and discussing why we should feel happy to be ourselves.
• Learning how to include adjectives in our sentences to make our story ideas more detailed and exciting.
• Listening to our story of the week – John Patrick Norman McHennessey.
• Finding out about different animals with a backbone. Sorting them, identifying their features and learning to recognise them.
• Talking about supporting others when they are in need  in our class assembly.
• Learning our weekly spellings and sounds.