Today Year 3 had lots of fun making 'shrinkies'. We drew our design onto the magical paper and then used the oven in the KS2 kitchen to create the heat that makes them shrink. We had great fun watching them getting smaller right before our eyes.
Year 3 started their Christmas Craft week with a little bit of scratch art. Take a look at the results:-
Here are the final performances of our pan-African Lion King dance, our New Zealand Haka and our Christmas Crazy Dance.
Year 4 have completed their survey of the animals in their local habitat - the temperate woodland. They classified the animals they encountered and had fun exploring the woods.
On Friday last week, Year 1 came to school dressed as one of their favourite toys! Take a look at our photos...
It was a momentous day yesterday, as the Chair of the OSA Gill Handley-Garland, the Treasurer Gary Chafe and a long standing committee member Charmaine Wilson were presented with a leaving gift from the other members of the committee. They have been responsible for raising thousands of pounds for the school through holding highly successful events such as the Christmas and Summer fayres. Thank you for all your hard work and dedication to Oakwood.
Armed with maps and compasses, Year 3 set off into the woods of Lordswood. We used our equipment to not only locate our route but also North, South, East and West. We also took note of the different land uses surrounding our school. Here are a few pictures:-
Year 3 have been working hard on learning lots of different stiches in order to create homemade, bespoke Christmas decorations. They have designed, planned and practised and are now finally working on their final piece. Here are a few pictures to show you how we are getting on:-
This half term, Year 2 have began their coding journey. They have completed Level 1! They have learned how to give the computer instructions to make objects move around the screen and how to add 'start events' and 'click events'. This means some objects will start to move automatically when they run the program or they will move or disappear when they are clicked on. The children also learned how to change the scene and the objects they wanted to use. It's safe to say, they have really enjoyed learning how to code.
Year 3 have been working hard on their latest writing journey producing a piece of writing which focused on bringing the setting to life-helping the reader to visualise the scene. We were inspired by this great short film The Lighthouse. After studying great examples, learning some new writing techniques and vocabulary we produced our final pieces. As it is difficult to share our work at the moment, we decided our audience would be our Oakwood community and with that in mind we will be sharing some of our finished work this week on the blog. We hope you enjoy.
LKS2 have joined Joe Wicks this morning for the end of his epic 24hour PE challenge. We have star jumped, kicked and sweated....lots. What a lot of fun. Well done LKS2 and well done Joe.
Last week Year 6 worked so hard and had great fun with investigating electrical circuits! So much Science chat and discussion - brilliant!
We have been learning that art is in the eye of the beholder. Drawing should be fun, there is no right or wrong and everyone will do it differently. We chose to all follow the same steps to draw poppies for Remembrance Day. We compared eachothers and all agreed that they all look beautiful. What do you think?
Y5 boarded the Titanic this morning and set sail for their new life in the USA. All the children looked brilliant in their costumes! (Well done mums and dads!) The children completed a range of titanic themed activities and had a great day aboard.
It was a great way to finish off our Titanic Topic!
(Ps. Sorry for the late posting!)
Year 3 started their new ICT coding unit by exploring algorithms. After watching a video to help us learn what an algorithm is we watched a dance routine and tried to work out what the algorithm was. After we worked it out we went and had a go to see if we could follow the algorithm. We then had a go at creating our own algorithms. Take a look:-
Year 6 had a brilliant DT day yesterday, creating their own electrical steady hand games. They worked so hard on them and should be very proud of their finished games! Please see the photos below to see their fantastic DT work, which is now on display in school.
Elm Class came back to school with a bit of a problem. We were lost in the forest and had to solve a number of maths challenges to unlock the code to the phone with the map on. It really tested all of our maths skills and knowledge! We had a lot of fun working out each clue to find the 8 digit passcode, we got out of the forest just in time for play time.
This morning the children participated in a fitness morning to encourage focus, fitness and fun!
For our final art piece this half term, Year 3 was inspired by the Cave of Hands. We had a lot of messy fun creating our own positive and negative hand prints on large material-working together to create our cave art. Take a look:-
We have been looking at propeties of materials in Science this half term, we designed our own experiment to investiagte thermal insulators, looking at which material made the ice melt the slowest. Here are some photos of the fun we had!
In Year 3 we have been learning about forces and magnets, last week we created our own experiment to work out which was the strongest magnet. Have a look at our photos to see what we got up to.
Year 3 have now added a circle element into their dance routine. Take a look at our first practice:-
Year 3 have worked hard to produce and finish their cave art. Take a look at our efforts:-
Year 6 discussed how we kept fit and healthy during lockdown. We used a drama technique based on being a sculpture to show how we did this.
Linked to the text we were reading in the first two weeks of school the children learned all about oil spills and how they are causing such problems to our environment.
We made it ... from having to reschedule the children's bikeablity to year 6, we are extremely proud to say that all the children that took part were superb!!
Well what a day year 6 had last week! They all looked fantastic in their outfits, thank you for all your efforts. Have a look at what they got up to.
Year 3 had lots of fun this afternoon trying to create paint of different shades with natural resources. We did some foraging around the school and at home and then tried to use the resources we had collected to see if we could produce some colour. We then had a try at making our own paint with flour, water and a variety of spices. Have a look at how we got on and why not have a go at home yourself?
Year 3 started their African Tribal Dance on Friday. Firstly, they watched and enjoyed a performance We noticed lots of rhythm, strong body movements and isolation performed in unison. We also noticed they performed their motif in lines or circles. Here is a look at our first attempts:-
In Year 4, we had fun designing our own Wonders of the World. First we used sweets and cocktail sticks to see what shapes were strong and stable enough to stand up. Then we had a go planning our own structure made from lollipops, built to honour one of the Greek gods.
We were investigating properties of materials - their permeability and magnetism. As part of this, we had to create our own fair test and discuss our findings.
As well as scaling up their animal drawings yesterday, Year 3 also experimented using charcoal. Not only were they drawing and blending with charcoal and chalk, they had a lot of fun crushing it up and smudging it with their hands to create that 'cave' effect. Take a look at their efforts:-
We have been looking at artists that create watery pieces and focused on Hokusai and Kate Bright. Both of these create wavy art and create texture in different ways. We have experimented using paint and different materials to create texture and then used these to paint our final wavy piece. What do you think?
Our task this week was to write and perform a collaborative poem on the theme of 'This is Us'. We looked at some more poetic devices like onomatopoeia and studied how poets perform their poems using voice and body language. Children worked together to come up with lines for the class poem. Take a look:-
Year 3 started their Prehistoric art work yesterday. They began by finding out about the incredible Lascaux's Prehistoric Cave Paintings They noticed the amazing animal drawings and then had a go at observing and sketching some British animals. Have a look:-
We have just begun our Year 2 journey into maths. We have looked at place value, adding, subtracting and reading numbers as words.
Year 5 have been very busy over the last two weeks. Lots of our classwork has been based around the Oliver Jeffers book - Here We Are.
Here's a few pictures of some of the things we've been up to.
This term Year 1 are learning about different seasons.
Last week, both classes had a lovely walk along Oakwood's beautiful nature trail. They observed the colours of the leaves, the different berries and toadstools growing as well as looking up high to appreciate the huge green canopy overhead.
They also learned about the difference between deciduous trees, that lose their leaves in autumn and evergreens.
Over time Year 1 will be observing and discussing the changes that take place during each season, recording through, drawing, photos and charts.
Inspired by the wonderful poems of poet Joseph Coelho Year 3 wrote their own poems entitled 'This is Me'. They thought about the things that are important to them and what makes them unique. Have a listen:-
Year 4 had fun day today organising exhibits for a museum. We looked at statuettes, house-hold items and artists impressions to think about how the way the Ancient Greeks lived was similar and different to how we live today.
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