Welcome to Oak Class! 

Welcome to Oak Class. This year Mrs Few is teaching on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday each week and Miss Ashcroft teaches the class on Thursdays and Fridays. Mrs Borrett, Mrs Fuller, Mrs Lockwood, Mrs Douglas and Mrs Mitchell work with us as TAs during the week - two work with the class in the mornings, and one in the afternoon. Liam is teaching P.E. on Tuesdays - 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 Miss Ashcroft

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.

Spring Spelling Patterns

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 Summer Term 2023

Thursday 8th June

Today we've started our Design Technology unit - 'Sensational Salads'. We reminded ourselves about the different parts of the plant and have been thinking about roots, stems, flowers, fruit, leaves and seeds that we eat! As a class, we also followed a recipe to make a fruit salad so we know what they are like before we create our own recipes. Tasting was fun!

Friday 26th May

What an exciting day! We had fun at sports day and now the beds are made and ready for the sleepover. At the moment, the children are having lots of fun dancing and playing games.

Thursday 25th May

Today we finished our textiles art work. Lots of amazing printing - we hope that you treasure them when they come home.

Friday 19th May

Year 1 have been learning about quarters. They tried to break a breadstick into quarters. They know that there should have been 4 equal pieces but some of them ended up with lots of small pieces! It was fun eating the quarters!

Thursday 11th May

Today we started our textiles and printing work in art. Dip dying fabric was fun!

Week Beginning 1st May

Oak class continue to learn about the Amazon rainforest and have started to compare the area to the UK. The feathers arrived this week so we made parrot headdresses to jazz up our performance of 'Parrot' from the book Rainforest Animals by Paul Hess. 

Friday 5th May

A busy day today! The children looked great dressed in their red,white and blue and we celebrated the coronation making sandwiches and decorating cakes, making crowns, eating our special lunch with the whole school, doing a scavenger hunt to collect clues to find a mystery phrase and finally eating our red, white and blue snack. Enjoy your weekend!

Thursday 4th May

Today we enjoyed a session of cricket skills. Watch out for opportunities locally for the children to join 'chance to shine' sessions this summer.

Friday 28th April

In our writing lessons we have been writing 5 sentence stories. The children have also been using some amazing alliteration to add description. Perhaps you could have a go too!

The sentence starts are: 

Once upon a time.....

One day......

Unfortunately or Suddenly......

Luckily......

Finally.......

Year 2s could challenge themselves by writing 5 sections rather than sentences. 

Friday 21st April

In computing, we have been using blocks of code to create events and make objects move. Lots of fun and excitement when someone discovered how to make bubbles make sounds! Remember that you can access Purple Mash at home. 

Our Learning Spring Term 2023

Happy Easter!

The children were absolutely fantastic at our church Easter service today - well done everyone! 

We hope that you all have a lovely holiday and look forward to seeing everyone back in school after the holidays.

Happy Easter from all of the staff in Oak

Week Beginning 27th March

This week Oak class have been….

• Learning about some of our school values – Respect and Love. Each class moved around the school to take part in various activities including singing and dancing to songs, discussing books read, team building games, creating pictures and other craft activities.
• Finding ¾ of amounts.
• Using rekenreks to subtract.
• Planning, writing and improving instructions to help someone plant a seed successfully.
• Using our improving comprehension skills to answer questions about toys.
• Answering word problems involving weight and capacity.
• Year 1s continue to read and respond to simple comprehension exercises in guided reading.
• Continuing to practise our handwriting.
• Learning our weekly spellings.
• Listening to our fiction book of the week: The Enchanted Forest.

Thursday 30th March

In preparation for our visit to church tomorrow, we have made crosses by wrapping wool on cardboard tubes. They are amazing!

Thursday 23rd March

With our roly poly toys dry, we had fun testing them out in the hall and even had races to see which went the furthest. Enjoy some action shots!

Week Beginning 13th March

This week have been...

Using non-standard units to measure the weight of objects

Finding the whole and half of objects

Adding and subtracting 2 to even numbers and discussing the patterns

Identifying the features of a set of instructions

Sequencing a set of instructions

Planting seeds, changing one variable to investigate what seeds need to germinate successfully

Learning new vocabulary to describe the life cycle of a plant including germination, seedling, pollination and seed dispersal.

Continuing to practise our handwriting

Learning our new spellings - year 1 - ve and

'er' an 'or' sound spelt 'or' and 'ar' eg word and war

Friday 17th March

Today we had an enrichment PE session - learning some skills linked to lacrosse and playing some fun games. The coach complimented the class on their behaviour - well done everyone!

Thursday 16th March

After learning some skills last week and designing our roly poly toys, today we have started making them!

Friday 10th March

We had to squeeze this in while we had the opportunity!

Thursday 9th March

Today we started our new Design Technology unit which is based around making a roly poly toy. Today we learned three different ways of joining a cardboard tube to a piece of cardboard - using flaps, creating a bracket or dipping and sticking.

Week Beginning 6th March

This week Oak class have been….

• Using rekenreks to make 10 and 20
• Sorting 3D shapes, answering questions about edges and vertices on 3D shapes and making patterns with 3D shapes.
• Telling the time – o’clock and half past.
• Answering word problems using addition and subtraction.
• Practising our reading skills and discussing our top tips to answer questions.
• Observing seeds and bulbs closely, using magnifying glasses.
• Finding out the difference between seeds and bulbs.
• Thinking about how we could conduct an experiment to find out the conditions seeds need to germinate.
• Finding out what personal information is and why it is important not to share it with people we don’t know online.
• Talking about what we should do if someone asks for personal information whilst we are online.
• Year 2s have continued to read a non-fiction book about animals in guided reading and answer questions that require them to use their inference and deduction skills.
• Year 1s continue to read and respond to simple comprehension exercises in guided reading.
• Continuing to practise our handwriting.
• Learning our weekly spellings. (Year 2s – ‘o’ sound spelt ‘a’ eg. squash )

Year 1s – phase 5 revision

• Listening to our fiction book of the week: Harry and Hopper.

Week Beginning 27th February

This week Oak class have been….

• Making doubles and near doubles.
• Finding lines of symmetry and sorting 2D shapes
• Counting in 5s and solving word problems.
• Practising our reading skills and discussing our top tips to answer questions.
• Using sources about Mary Seacole to establish why she is important to remember.
• Using different scenario cards to discuss how to stay safe online.
• Year 2s have continued to read a non-fiction book about animals in guided reading and answer questions that require them to use their inference and deduction skills.
• Year 1s continue to read and respond to simple comprehension exercises in guided reading.
• Continuing to practise our handwriting.
• Learning our weekly spellings.
• Listening to our fiction book of the week: The Crow’s Tale.

Thursday 2nd March - World Book Day!

Hopefully you managed to pop into the hall today to see the amazing potatoes - decorated to reflect books. There were lots of amazing potatoes on our table - well done everyone! This afternoon, we enjoyed listening to Rob Buddulph read one of his books, Dog Gone, on the internet. After listening, we created a large copy of one his illustrations by everyone colouring in a small section and then joining them together. As always, everyone completed a reading activity this morning and we also used adjectives, with alliteration where we could, to describe Puss from Puss in Boots. Lots of learning linked to books!

Week Beginning 20th February

This week Oak class have been….

• Making doubles and near doubles.
• Comparing 3D and 2D shapes.
• Using rulers to accurately draw different 2D shapes.
• Comparing numbers, using <, > and =.
• Practising the CEWs.
• Reading and sequencing instructions.
• Following a set of instructions to make pancakes and eating them!
• Finding out about Mary Seacole and why she is famous.
• Looking at the different devices we use to access the internet.
• Discussing why the internet is helpful and what we use it for.
• Year 2s have continued to read a non-fiction book about animals in guided reading.
• Year 1s continue to read and respond to simple comprehension exercises in guided reading.
• Continuing to practise our handwriting.
• Learning our weekly spellings. (Year 2s – ‘-other, mother, Monday.)

Year 1s – au and aw  eg. August and lawn

• Listening to our fiction book of the week: Why Elephant has a Trunk.

Thursday 23rd February

Today we've started some work in literacy based on Puss in Boots. The children enjoyed reading, watching and sequencing the story.

Friday 10th February

Happy half term everyone! Its been a busy half term and the children have worked really hard - especially as lots of them have been fighting the many bugs that are around. We hope that everyone has a great break and comes back to school fit and healthy.

Week Beginning 6th February

This week Oak class have been….

• Making doubles and near doubles.
• Measuring lengths in cm and m and comparing lengths using <,>, =.
• Counting to 50 and comparing numbers.
• Practising the CEWs.
• Finding out about Islam.
• Learning about different types of weather and how weather is related to the UK seasons.
• Discussing how weather affects our daily lives eg, what we wear.
• Learning the months of the year and which months are part of which season.
• Locating hot and cold places on an Atlas.
• Comparing weather forecasts in Ipswich to Alice Springs in Australia.
• Year 2s have continued to read a non-fiction book about animals in guided reading.
• Year 1s continue to read and respond to simple comprehension exercises in guided reading.
• Continuing to practise our handwriting.
• Learning our weekly spellings. (Year 2s – ‘-patting, runner.)

Year 1s – revising all the split digraph eg. rice, complete, cube, cake, smoke.

• Listening to our fiction book of the week: My Amazing Grandad.

Friday 10th February

Today we read our Ugly Duckling stories to Ash Class. We practised reading fluently, loudly and with expression.

Friday 10th February

Today was dress down day with a theme of be bright, be seen. Here we all are!

Thursday 2nd February

We've moved onto art this week. Using clay, we've responded to a story shaping an 'ugly duckling'. It's really tricky, so well done everyone!

Week beginning 23rd January

This week Oak class have been….

• Making nine and ten in different ways.
• Creating pictograms and answering questions about them.
• Subtracting ones and then tens and ones.
• Learning how to use time connectives in sentences.
• Practising the CEWs.
• Listening to stories about the Prophet Muhammad.
• Learning about compassion in relation to our R.E topic.
• Writing facts about the 5 food groups.
• Discussing how our wants and needs impact on what we choose to spend our money on.
• Role playing shops to help us understand how we use money.
• Year 2s have continued to read a non-fiction book about animals in guided reading.
• Year 1s continue to read and respond to simple comprehension exercises in guided reading.
• Continuing to practise our handwriting.
• Learning our weekly spellings. (Year 2s – ‘-ing, -y.)

Year 1s – ‘u-e’ slit digraph eg. rice.

• Listening to our non-fiction book of the week: The History of Cats and Dogs

Thursday 26th January

Computing this week! We have been solving problems by giving instructions to move a character around different mazes.

Week beginning 16th January

This week Oak class have been….

• Making seven in different ways.
• Using reasoning and logic to answer division problems.
• Subtracting ones and then tens and ones.
• Learning how to use conjunctions in sentences.
• Editing and improving our explanation texts.
• Watching a clip to find out what chickens need to survive and grow.
• Using data about the growth of a chick to draw a bar chart.
• Learning about life cycles of different animals.
• Finding out about the 5 food groups, what they help our bodies do and sorting foods into these groups to create a food pyramid.
• Year 2s have continued to read a non-fiction book about animals in guided reading.
• Year 1s continue to read and respond to simple comprehension exercises in guided reading.
• Continuing to practise our handwriting.
• Learning our weekly spellings. (Year 2s – ‘ied,ier,iest’.)

Year 1s – ‘i-e’ slit digraph eg. rice.

• Listening to our fiction book of the week: Ada Twist, Scientist

Thursday 19th January

It's music this week. Lots of fun listening to music and feeling the pulse. We are also learning to play a glockenspiel accompaniment to a song called 'I am in the groove'.

Thursday 12th January

More collage work in Art this week! We've looked at some of the art by Bridget Riley - she creates optical illusions. We have explored line using drawing and collage.

Friday 6th January

What a careless teacher we have! She dropped all of our coins on the floor so to help her tidy them up Year 1 sorted them all out! 

The children needed to look really carefully to sort them out and found it quite tricky to recognise them all. Perhaps you could try sorting money at home.

Thursday 5th January

In art this afternoon, we have started our collage unit of work. We looked at Henri Matisse's 'The Snail' and created our own collages by tearing and placing primary and complementary coloured paper. Here are some of our collages displayed in our school library.

Our Learning Autumn Term 2022

Children's Poetry Archive Challenge 12 - Children's Poetry Archive

We love to read lots of different poems in class. Have a go at the quiz above and see if you can answer all the questions whilst enjoying some different poems. Which one will be your favourite poem?

Friday 16th December

We would like to thank everyone for their kind wishes, card and gifts - you have been very generous and it is much appreciated.

We hope that you have a lovely Christmas holiday and look forward to seeing everyone in the New Year.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the Oak Team!

Thursday 15th December

Party fun!

Wednesday 14th December

Lots of fun today enjoying Christmas lunch!

Thursday 8th December

Year 1 had some fun playing maths games today practising their addition and subtraction of single digit numbers.  Tomorrow, they are going to play time bingo - starting with o'clock.

Week Beginning 28th November

This week Oak class have been….

• Reading the Christmas story, sequencing the events, answering comprehension questions and the year 2s have been writing their own version of the nativity in readiness for our nativity show in the church.
• Finding out about advent, making advent wreaths and candles.
• Discussing how we prepare for Christmas and what Christians do to get ready for Christmas.
• Watching the story of Simeon and Ana and retelling the story in pictures.
• Learning about the numbers 8 and 9, remembering number facts.
• Finding out about equal and unequal groups, adding equal groups and beginning to understand that multiplication is the same as repeated addition.
• Partitioning numbers into tens and ones, finding 1 more or less and comparing amounts.
• Year 2s have been reading non-fiction fact files about hedgehogs in guided reading.
• Year 1s have begun to read and respond to simple comprehension exercises in guided reading.
• Continuing to practise our handwriting.
• Learning our weekly spellings. (Year 2s – ‘ies’. Year 1s – ‘au’ digraph eg. launch.
• Listening to our fiction book of the week: The Proudest Blue.

Friday 2nd December

The children have worked incredibly hard finishing off their Christmas baubles. They have learnt lots of skills, threading needles, joining fabric together by sewing and they had fun with the sequins! Well done everyone!

Week Beginning 21st November 2022

This week Oak class have been….

• Planning, writing and editing our diary entries written as Samuel Pepys.
• Learning how to make good choices that keep us healthy and safe.
• Discussing how we can respond to situations we cannot control in a positive or negative way.
• Counting amounts of money in coins, notes and mixed values, comparing amounts of money, finding totals and giving change.
• Learning about 2D and 3D shapes.
• Deepening our understanding of number bonds for 7, looking at how odd and even numbers generate odd number totals.
• Discussing times when people we know, or have seen on TV, needed rescuing or saving.
• Learning about the Christmas story and what the different people in the story were told about Jesus; Saviour, King of the Jews, Son of God.
• Year 2s have been reading non-fiction fact files about hedgehogs in guided reading.
• Year 1s have begun to read and respond to simple comprehension exercises in guided reading.
• Continuing to practise our handwriting.
• Learning our weekly spellings. (Year 2s – ‘i’ sound spelt ‘y’. Year 1s – ‘ph’ digraph eg. photo.
• Listening to our fiction book of the week: The Odd Egg.

Thursday 24th November

Today we started our DT project - hopefully the children will be bringing home their finished product in time for Christmas! Before we begin to sew, this afternoon we practised making stitches round the edge of these cards, really trying hard to make sure that we pulled the lace right through!

Friday 19th November

This week in computing, we have been using the 2Go app on Purple Mash to give instructions. There are several challenges to try - remember that you can have a go at home too! The challenges are saved in 2Dos - if you have lost your log-in, please let us know.

This week in literacy we have been exploring putting adverbs at the start of our sentences. Here is an example:

Luckily the Little Red Hen found some seeds.

Carefully she planted them.

Can you spot any adverbs when you are reading?

Thursday 10th November

In our computing lessons this week we are learning about algorithms. Today we all followed an algorithm to draw Fluffy. Next we created algorithms for a partner to draw Fluffy too. Are our pictures of Fluffy the same?

Week beginning 1st November

This week Oak class have been….

• Describing fireworks using a wide range of vocabulary, collaborating together to write a firework acrostic poem.
• Learning how to stay safe around fireworks, producing posters to help people remember the firework safety codes.
• Subtracting a 2-digit number from a two-digit number using number lines, tens and ones grids and column methods.
• Learning about related addition and subtraction facts.
• Developing fluency with numbers – with a focus on the number 8 – exploring how 8 can be made by adding two even numbers or two odd numbers but not by adding an even and an odd number.
• Practising our number formation, numbers 1-20.
• Using our enquiry skills to answer questions about the Great Fire of London using a variety of sources - When? Where? Why?
• Year 2s have finished reading a story called, ‘Don’t Hog the Hedge’ in guided reading.
• Continuing to practise our handwriting.
• Learning our weekly spellings. (Year 2s – ‘l’ sound spelt ‘le’. Year 1s – ‘ue’ digraph eg. blue and rescue.
• Listening to our fiction book of the week: Funny Bones.

Thursday 3rd and Friday 4th November

We've enjoyed reading, sequencing and performing different versions of the Little Red Hen story. We've also enjoyed learning a new song in music and learning about dynamics, pitch and pulse - having great fun moving like animals to the pulse of music!

Week Beginning 17th October

During our Literacy lessons we have been reading the poem, The Owl and the Pussy Cat. We followed instructions to make a 'beautiful pea green boat'. We have been looking for rhyming words and unscrambling sentences so that they make sense. We took turns using the puppets to act out the poem in our theatre and then listened and watched others have their turn.

Friday 21st October

Today is our Be Bright, Be Safe, Be Seen day. Look at all of our bright clothing. Please keep safe when the evenings are darker after half term.

Week beginning 10th October

This week we have spent lots of time outdoors being scientists. We found out what a habitat is and then went into our school grounds. We found worms, slugs, ladybirds, wasps, a butterfly, wood lice, flies and other minibeasts. We collected our data and presented it in a pictogram. 

Week beginning 3rd October

This week Oak class have been….

• Adding and subtracting tens.
• Using part/whole models to add and subtract.
• Comparing numbers using the <, > and = signs.
• Developing fluency with numbers to ten – finding 5 in the numbers 6-10.
• Learning about emotions and observing facial cues to identify how someone might feel.
• Listening to a story called ‘The Hardest Word’, discussing why we need to say sorry and linking this to our new R.E topic, Why do Jewish families talk about repentance at New Year?
• Recording what we have learnt about Christopher Columbus in different ways – writing a ship’s log and messages in a bottle.
• Celebrating Harvest festival in church.
• Year 2s have been reading a story called, ‘Don’t Hog the Hedge’ in guided reading.
• Continuing to practise our handwriting.
• Learning our weekly spellings. (Year 2s – ‘j’ sound spelt ‘j’ or ‘g’ eg. jacket and giraffe. Year 1s – ‘ou’ and ‘ay’.
• Listening to our non-fiction book of the week: Fire

Friday 7th October

Lots of fun in music this week - accompanying our song/rap 'Hey you!' on glockenspiels. Also, we found time to learn the sing 'London's burning' as a round in two parts.

Week Beginning 26th September

This week Oak class have been….

• Subitizing numbers between 5 and 10.
• Adding and subtracting ones and tens.
• Using part/whole models to add.
• Questioning the pirate visitor about their adventures, treasures, skills and worst habits.
• Writing descriptive sentences about treasure.
• Learning a poem all about Christopher Columbus.
• Writing harvest prayers in readiness for our Harvest festival in church next week.
• Talking about ways we can cope with our worries.
• Looking at various sources to discover more about the past in relation to our topic – Christopher Columbus.
• Comparing what life on board one of Christopher Columbus’ ships would have been like compared to sailing on board a ship today.
• Continuing to practise our handwriting.
• Learning our weekly spellings. (Year 2s – ‘j’ sound spelt ‘ge’ or ‘age’ and ‘dge’ eg. hedge, cage.
• Listening to our fiction book of the week: Fire Cat.

Friday 30th September

Our fire engines are finished. This afternoon the children cut, stuck and were even creative making paper mechanisms to add ladders, hoses, number plates, lights, doors, windows etc to them. 

Thursday 29th September

Great excitement today - our fire engines have wheels!

Week Beginning 19th September

This week Oak class have been….

• Enjoying a visit from a local author – James Campbell.
• Counting in 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s.
• Ordering numbers – first, second, third etc.
• Learning how to write sentences with capital letters and full stops.
• Continuing to practise our handwriting.
• Learning our weekly spellings. (Year 2s – ‘s’ sound spelt ‘c’ eg. city. Year 1s – ‘ay’ and ‘ou’.
• Listening to our fiction book of the week: Blown Away.
• Finding out about Christopher Columbus, asking questions about him and his life.
• Tracking the voyages Christopher Columbus made across the Atlantic Ocean on a map.
• Sharing our thoughts about what worries us and how we can cope.
• Playing with the pirate ship.

Friday 23rd September

Every child in the class today used a junior hacksaw safely to cut two pieces of wood to use as axles on their fire engine. Well done!

Thursday 22nd September

Today we have started making our fire engines! We have identified the different parts of fire engines and labelled a picture in our English work. We have covered our boxes with red paper and tomorrow will make our wheel mechanism - learning how to cut wood safely using junior hacksaws!

Friday 16th September

Every day, we still eat our lunch in the classroom. We enjoy watching video clips, singing or just chatting to our friends while we eat. Fish and chips is always a popular choice!

Friday 16th September

Year 2 have been revising place value work - understanding how numbers are made up of tens and ones. This morning they matched numbers with different ways of representing them.

Friday 9th September

Today every child rang the school bell at lunchtime to join the country in remembering Queen Elizabeth II.

Thursday 8th September

Working hard already! This afternoon the children have been exploring drawing different types of lines using different pens, pencils and crayons. What sort of line would you draw to match the word excited?