Writing for pleasure

Year 4 have spent this morning writing for pleasure.

They were given the option of a choice of structured adult supported writing ideas, or writing independently on a free write. Lots of children chose to write independently, writing about a whole range of things from Minecraft to mermaids. Whilst others focused on our recent visitors, chicks, writing in role as a chicken as it hatched and was looked after by horrible giants! (Children).
The final groups wrote fairy tales and newspaper reports.

All the children worked really hard to produce an excellent piece of writing, but most of all - they all had fun and are looking forward to next Friday when we will be doing it again.

Writing for Pleasure Year 3

Today Year 3 have had the opportunity to write whatever they like, wherever they like! Many of them were inspired by the great outdoors! We saw lots of creativity and a real passion to write for pleasure (and not just because the teacher said so)!

'Free Write' in Year 3

Year 3 have been enjoying taking part in a 'Free Write' session. They  have had lots of opportunity to use their creativity and write for pleasure.What fun we had!

Krypton Factor

On Wednesday 26 November, Oakwood were proud to host a special Federation of schools event for able, gifted and talented mathematicians: Krypton Factor.

The following schools attended with six pupils from years 3 to 5:
Oakwood Primary
Redbridge Primary
Mansel Park Primary
Fairisle Juniors
Tanners Brook Primary
Newlands Primary

The children worked with those from others schools on a range of fun and exciting maths activities and investigations. The Brussel Sprouts two player game from the Numberphile website was particularly popular!

All children were fully engaged in the tasks given, enjoyed themselves and said that they would love to take part again.



Watch this space for future Krypton Factor events!

Book Week Fun in Upper KS2.

Book swap and bedtime stories- shared by parents, teachers and each other-were only part of the fun that Years 5 and 6 had as part of our whole school celebration of book week. Here are a few highlights of the week:-

'Vicious, Malicious, Delicious' spellings under attack from Year 6!

As part of Year 6's ongoing work towards our new whole school curricular writing target, they explored different ways of learning to spell tricky words. Take a look:-