House building in Year 2

Year 2 were investigating different materials to build "houses" with after reading The Three Little pigs.
They built houses out of straw, lolly sticks and lego bricks.

Working as a team they reached their own conclusions.

No pens day in year 2!

In year 2 we had a day without using our pencils and pens.

The children solved some maths challenges and investigations which linked to our Twisted Tales topic. The children were creative with how they worked their answers out and how they showed their answers.

Year 2 Rocket Science!

Today our rocket science seeds were sown!

Year 2 at Oakwood are part of a national science experiment whereby we have two packets of rocket seeds, one packet has travelled to The International Space Station and back to Earth and the other packet has stayed on Earth. We will be growing the seeds over 35 days and we will be recording all of the results on a chart to find out how much the seeds have grown and how many leaves are produced.

The aim of this experiment is to find out if life could survive on another planet.

 We will update the blog to let you know the progress of the seeds.

Fun with forces in Year 5!

Year 5 kick started the summer term with some Science days. We have been busy learning and experimenting with different forces including: friction, air resistance, water resistance and gravity.

As part of this we designed and carried out a friction investigation. This allowed us to put our mathematical skills to the test as we had to create a table to collect our data and a graph to present our results. In addition, we had to answer several mathematical questions interpreting our data to find the answer.

Year 1 Learning about length and measuring

The children in Year 1 have been exploring measures and learning about length.

Initially working practically around the classroom and playground environment to investigate the length of various items using their hands or pencils and recording their findings in a table. They have also investigated measuring items using cubes and rulers.

Working practically the children have also shown they can compare and order items including different lengths of string and have created play dough "worms" which were longer or shorter than one previously made.

Busy Term Continues in Year 3.

The Spring term continues to be a busy and productive one in Year 3. As well as learning more about the Anglo-Saxons, we started our new DT sewing unit. After threading our needles and tying a secure knot in  our thread we practised our running and back stitches. We had the challenge of joining up dots on a piece of cardboard-pulling the thread so that the stitches were taut but not too tight that it made holes in the card. We think we did a great job for our first time-take a look.



Our science works on magnets continues, This week we have been carrying out an investigation to find out which magnets are the strongest. We are learning to carry out investigations like scientists-making sure they are fair tests, taking accurate measurements and recording and evaluating results.



In English we have been learning to recite the story of Beowolf, whilst in maths we have been making up our own times tables raps and songs to help us learn our tables more easily (videos to follow shortly.) In our reading sessions this week, we were treated to a very special storytelling when one of our Year 3 children from the Czech Republic shared some very special stories-reading them in her native language and then translating into English. Here's a brief snippet-as you can hear it was a great story and made us laugh.

Dan's Skittles experiment

We get all sorts of questions first thing in the morning in Y6. But the question: do you know what happens if you sit 4 skittles in a bowl of water? Doesn't get asked very often.

Well, do you know what happens when you sit 4 skittles in a bowl of water?