Year 2 have had a great day today celebrating all of their learning about Myths and Legends!
The children were asked to bring in a home project all about a mythical creature or legend. They did a brilliant job and were very brave standing in front of the class for their presentations.
We are so proud of everything Year 2 have achieved this half term and for having such a brilliant topic day!
Our second group had their turn in the kitchen today to create smoothies! Leading up to this we have been busy learning about how fruit and vegetables grow, the differences between them, tasting them and then creating ingredients lists. The children had great fun and will be rating their smoothies out of five stars!
We have been learning to play the trumpet and clarinet in our music lessons. It can test our resilience when we don't quite get it right but we have strength and we will never give up :)
Today half the classes went into the kitchen armed with their aprons and their ingredients lists. They worked together as a team to chop and prepare the fruit and then took turns using the blenders. Taste testing then commenced and most were deemed to be delicious! A few (mainly the ones that had carrot in) were given mediocre reviews as they were a bit chewy! Next Friday the other children will be having their turns, too.
Year 6 have had a wonderful day today, recreating a Victorian school!
The morning began with a 'drill' (PE for Victorians!), followed by the children entering their Victorian classroom for the morning. They learned so much about how school worked in the Victorian era: fingernail inspections, arithmetic, handwriting and posture lessons. They even discovered the fascinating history of the potato! Why not ask a Year 6 what they learned today?
The children were brilliant at getting into character - we were very proud of them!
Y4 are going to be constructing and designing temples for one of the Greek Gods. As part of our journey we explored creating different shapes for our structures and the best way to keep them stable. We used sweets and cocktail sticks for this activity. We had lots of fun!
Today children all across the school from EYFS to Y6 competed in an Intra-House Cross Country Competition. Pupils were awarded points depending on their position in the competition all added into their house box. Points will be counted and revealed in our celebration assembly on Friday. We are so proud of everyone who participated in the competition today. A big thank you to the Testlands team for helping us have such a safe and fun day! Well done. Go Team Oakwood!
The library is open weekly on these days:
Mondays - Years R, 1 and 2
Tuesdays - Years 3 and 4
Thursdays - Years 5 and 6
There will be a member of staff from the year groups present at each session, who can be on hand to chat to about books, help you navigate the library and sign books in and out.
Today as a 'hook' for our new Science unit about human bodies we had a crash landing in our playground! An alien that looked like broccoli left a secret message for us asking us to draw and label human bodies, as their bodies were very different compared to our human bodies! For example, the broccoli aliens used their eyes to TASTE their food! After all the excitement we explained that it was actually just Mrs Brooke-Shore pretending to be a broccoli alien, and if you'd like to rewatch the video message they left (to make sure your child didn't find it at all scary) you can watch it at home here by copying and pasting this link: https://youtu.be/C2GaSvw4FgY Over the coming weeks we will be learning more about how our bodies work and our senses.
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