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….
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….
Year 1s – phase 5 revision
Week Beginning 27th February
This week Oak class have been….
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….
Year 1s – au and aw eg. August and lawn
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….
Year 1s – revising all the split digraph eg. rice, complete, cube, cake, smoke.
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….
Year 1s – ‘u-e’ slit digraph eg. rice.
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….
Year 1s – ‘i-e’ slit digraph eg. rice.
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….
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….
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….
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….
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….
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!
This week Oak class have been….
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?