Year 6 Leavers' Party

What a great evening we had! Check out the pictures from our Year 6 Leavers' Party. We wish our Year 6 leavers all the best for their futures at secondary school - don't forget to stay in touch!

Year 1 DT Windmills

Making Windmills! Year 1 have been learning about windmills from the pat and present, including what purpose they had here in the UK throughout the years. We then met ‘Mr Tiddles’, a mouse who was looking to have a windmill designed and built to live in. We listened to his ‘preferences’ and then set about designing the 2D ‘nets’ which would later become the ‘structures’ and ‘turbines’. After assembling our structures we then punctured holes and began to assemble the ‘sails’ of the turbine by connecting them to the ‘axle’. Finally, it was time to test them and evaluate them!

Butterflies

Year 2 have been learning about life cycles and have had some caterpillars to look after. After a few weeks they turned into butterflies and today we were able to release Julie, Julia, Juliette, Julian and Julius Caesar into the wild.

YR Visit to Lepe Country Park

The children in Year R have had a fabulous day, travelling on a coach to Lepe County Park. While they were there they had a minibeast hunt in the woodland, looked at what they found under microscopes, swept nets through the long grass to find other creatures. They also had a seashore scavenger hunt and safari which included creating some beach art. After lunch the children had the opportunity to explore the sensory garden and had a play on the park. Lots of fun was had!

Year 2 Fire Service Visit

Today, Year 2 were lucky enough to have a visit from Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service. We learned about what you do if you ever have to phone 999 and how to test a smoke alarm. We also learned about what Firefighters wear to keep them safe.  Have a look at how we got on!

Year 1 DT- Designing and Creating Royal Puppets

Our process: 1. First we learned about ways to attach fabric together, such as stapling or safety pinning. We assessed the advantages and disadvantages to each and decided to use staples for our puppets. 2. We designed the puppets by labelling the parts and embellishments that will make them look like Kings or Queens. 3. Next we assembled our puppets. We used ‘templates’ to cut out our material and attached them together using staples, making sure they are ‘alligned’. 4. We then embellished our puppets by carefully selecting materials and sing our design as a guide. 5. Finally we evaluated our puppets against the design criteria and thought about how we could possibly improve them next time.

Year 1- Best. Day.Ever.

Today we celebrated the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. It was a fun-packed day to say the least! We started off by designing some decorative bunting and preparing flags to bring along to our lunch. We then had a look at our Jubilee art collection which was created by the whole school, it was VERY impressive!! In the KS2 hall we then had a go on the bouncey castles which were great fun! We then carried our lunches and flags outside to sit together as a school when who should arrive…..THE QUEEN! We couldn’t believe it! We waved our flags and sang, ‘God Save the Queen’. Our wonderful day was topped off with a dognut in class and then a disco! Phew! I think we’re all ready for half-term! Today was full of wonderful memories!

Year 2 Geography Day!

Yesterday, Year 2 spent the day learning about two locations. The first was the city of Southampton. We found out all about the city and we even conducted a traffic survey outside of school. We found that there were more vehicles during school drop off times than during the school day.

We also looked at Jinja in Uganda. We learned that it is the source of the River Nile. Jinja has many similarities to Southampton, including that they are both ports and have rivers running through them.

In the afternoon we had a very special visitor on the computer! We had a video call with a man called Baker who lives in Jinja, Uganda. He answered all of our questions and told us all about what it is like to live there.

We had a great day!

Year 1 Church Visit

On Tuesday, Year 1 went to visit Lordshill Church to learn about why water is 'precious' to Chrisitans and how it is used in Baptism. We were lucky enough to see baby Bella, the doll, being Baptised and to learn about how the special water is blessed and then put into the font on the altar. We then put a little bit of water onto Bella's head and helped to perform a real Baptism! We also had a look at a gown that a baby may wear during their baptism and also the candle that the church gives each baby to keep. We then listened to the story of how Jesus was Baptised by John the Baptist in the River Jordan!

Year R Making Mr Greenhead

This week the children have enjoyed making their own "Mr Greenhead" having been inspired by reading the book. They worked carefully, following instructions to make their seed filled heads.

Year 1 Manor Farm 2 of 2

Year 1 - Manor Farm post 1 of 2

Today Year 1 visited Manor Farm to learn about the ‘Victorian Age’ and experience what it would have been like attending a Victorian school, living in a house without ‘modern conveniences’ and working on a traditional farm. The children were all a bit shocked at how strict the school teacher was (or at least pretended to be) and how little freedom children had back then. The teacher inspected our fingernails, made us stand to attention and even threatened to make us wear a ‘dunce cap’ if we were being silly! We all agreed that we much prefer present schools as children have much more freedom and can enjoy learning! We also had a look around a home that was over 600 years old and noticed how different things were that far back in the past. For example, there was no electricity and so modern household items like washing machines were of course not available. We had a go at doing some laundry by hand and found it to be very hard work! Phew, time for a break! Cue the picnics! Photos to follow of us pond dipping and bug hunting.

Maya Portals to the Past Visitor

 Our children loved learning about the Ancient Maya from our expert visitor. They learned about Hunting, Trade, Religion, Sacrifice, Sport and Games, Weapons and Warfare, Everyday Life, Technology, Writing, Maths. They even sacrificed one of their teachers! 

We have also included photos of them presenting their understanding of Mayan artefacts earlier in the week. 

Minstead

Getting stuck in at Minstead!

Year 2 Nurses Home Learning Projects

We have been learning about Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole. We have also be comparing hospitals today with hospitals from the past (Crimean War). We asked children to produce a piece of work about our topic and present it to the class.

Year 2 Easter

Year 2 have made some amazing Easter Bonnets at Home and had an Easter Egg Hunt at school!

Year 1 - Willow Class- Junk Modelling

We have been busy collecting old boxes and other bits to reuse for our junk-modelling project! We carefully designed our animals first in our art sketch books and then got to work! We used scissors to cut pieces to the right size and then masking tape to attach.

Year 1 - Cedar class junk-modelling

We have been busy planning and creating animals using old boxes! We carefully planned our animals in our art sketch books and then got to work! We used masking tape to attach the pieces together and scissors to cut.

6FL Forest School

Here are a few photos from our last two weeks of Forest School.

Year 2 Art - The Human Form

Year 2 have come to the end of their Human Form art topic where we have learned lots of new skills and techniques. We strated with digital art and creating letter body shapes, then we designed skulls like Damien Hirst, then we moved onto collaging faces. After that we looked at Julian Opie and Edwina Bridgeman's creations and recreated their work. Take a look and see which human form creation you like the best!

Hampshire Cricket Comes to Oakwood

We have been extrememly lucky this week to have Hampshire Cricket running a cricket taster session to all children in KS1 and KS2. This has been our 'Sports for all' event this term.

Year 2 Royal Victoria Country Park Trip

Year 2 had a fantastic day on Friday at Royal Victoria Country Park. 

During the day we learnt to:

• Describe conditions at the barrack hospital in Scutari before Florence Nightingale.

• Name different jobs carried out by the staff at the hospital.

• Suggest how people’s feelings about the hospital changed as a result.

• Know that the Royal Victoria Hospital was built to treat sick and wounded soldiers.

• Understand some of Florence Nightingale’s reasons for criticising the hospital design.

• Know some of the ways Florence Nightingale changed how soldiers were cared for.

Take a look and see how we got on!

Year 1 World Book Day

We had lots of fun strutting our stuff and striking a pose on the Book Character runway today! It was so lovely to see the children all dressed up as their favourite characters and so full of joy for reading! We had a lovely afternoon in the library choosing new books, listening to stories and even making up our own stories as a class! Thank-you to all of the adults at home who put so much effort into the costumes today!

Y4 Visit Fishbourne Roman Palace

 Y4 enjoyed learning about the archeological evidence for everyday Roman life at Fishbourne Palace. 

Geography- Year 1 Local Walk

In Geography we have been leaning about our local area. We have been leanring to identify features as either 'human' (man-made) or 'physical' (natural) and label accordingly. We really enjoyed going on a walk through the Lordswood area and saw lots of great features that we could later add to our maps!

Year 2 DT DAY

Today Year 2 had a really fun DT day. We were given the job to design and make a model of a ferris wheel. First we had to learn all about wheels and axles in order to get our model to work. We really enjoyed thinking about the design criteria, creating our designs and then working as a team to build a model of what our wheel might look like. Do you like our designs and models? All of our wheels worked in the end.

Whole School Intra House Basketball event

Last week the whole school took part in a 'Intra House Basektball competition'. The idea was to get as many baskets for your house as possible, working as a team. It was great fun and the weather wasn't to bad either. Thanks to all the children who took part for their house, Testlands coaches and the teachers and teaching assistants.

PSHE in Year 2

In Year 2 we have been learning about keeping healthy. First we looked at exercise and being active and then we moved on to thinking about a healthy diet. We learned a healthy diet is a balanced diet. We explored food packaging and the traffic lights on different items and then we helped design a balanced meal for Lola after reading the story 'I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato'.

Year 2 DT - Making Baby Bear's Chair

Our DT this half term has been making a chair for Baby Bear. We have learned about stability, strength and stiffness. We have tested strength and stability in various ways before going ahead a making our chairs. We then tested and evaluated our models based on the design criteria.

Robotic Vehicles

 Four Crumble robotic vehicles - Alpha, Bravo, Charlie and Echo - have been assembled ready for Year 6 new robotics unit in Computing next half-term. Welcome to the team!

Year 2 Learning How to Divide

Year 2 have been learning what division means. We have worked in teams to practise 2 different strategies, grouping and sharing. Can you work out from our photos which is which?

Year 2 Question of Faith Day

Yesterday in Year 2, we had our Question of Faith Day with Southampton City Mission. The theme of the day was authority. Take a look at what we did!

Year 2 Learning Multiplication

We have been learning how to multiply using arrays. This week we worked in teams to match arrays to their answers. We then wrote both of the mulitplication number sentences that would match that array and answer.