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.

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!

Intra-House Cross Country Competition

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!

Year 1- Our first morning of school

Hello year 1 parents! We know you're probably keen to see your children's new classroom and what they've been up to these first 2 days so we'll try and post regularly. Today and tomorrow we will be exploring our new base, reminding ourselves of routines, doing our 'Class Charter' and playing lots of team-building games.

Year R Jungle topic week 2

This week we have been making some African savanna artwork using pastels and stencils. We have also been busy learning and writing facts about giraffes after being inspired by the book, ‘Giraffes Can’t Dance’. We have really enjoyed playing parachute games together to build teamwork and communication. As always, we’ve loved getting a bit messy outside and have been using bubbles and slime today!

Static Electricity DT Challenge

Today we explored static electricity using lots of experiments. Then using our findings we were set the challenge of designing a game for our classmates to play, that had to use static electrictity. See what we got up to!

Ferris Wheels in Year 2

Year 2 have had a fun first day back after half term with their DT Day, which involved designing and making ferris wheels. First we learned all about the inventor George Ferris who created the very first wheel back in 1893. We were then given a design brief for the wheel we needed to make, as well as learning about how an axle and wheel mechanism works. We had great fun working in teams to make our wheels. Do you like them?

Y4 Empathy Superhero Comic Strips

We have been learning about empathy. We created a new empathy superhero to join our 'RESPECTERS' and we wrote some comic strips about how they save the day using empathy. We are going to continue looking at empathy and practise using it in our daily lives.

YR Playing Rounders

Year R enjoyed being introduced to the game of rounders. They were keen to have a go and had fun too.

Year R Athletics

Year R have been very busy up on the field practising athletics skills! They have shown fantastic focus, determination and teamwork!

Y6 Collage

Y6 pupils have been working hard this half term on their collage skills. They have been working in groups to create a collage of the jungle - having been inspired by the work of Henri Rousseau.
We think they've done a great job...what do you think?

Year 6 Wacky Races!

Year 6 had an exciting first week back taking part in a Design Technology and Science week - Wacky Races! The children worked in small groups to design, make and power their 'wacky' racing cars. They put them to the test in several races and competed for three winners' awards - fastest car, best design and best teamwork. Well done all Year 6 for a fantastic effort!

Year 6 Leavers' Service

A really emotional moment as Year R children present their specially made candle holders to Year 6.

Year 6 reprised "When I Grow Up" and made Mr Taylor cry again!

Thank you to Mrs Larder for your beautiful words blessing the candles.

We will miss you Year 6 - one more day!

Year 4 Spinning Around

This term Year 4 (and some fantastic parent helpers) worked hard to design and create their own carousels.

Y2 Willow Weaving

Y2 have been very creative working with willow. Everyone made a petal which was then put together to create a larger class flower.

Great team work showing how everyone can contribute to the bigger picture making it something beautiful.

Flower Surgery in 5BW

As part of our Science life cycles unit, we have been learning how flowering plants reproduce. To identify the role of parts of the flower in the reproduction process we dissected flowers.

We had loads of fun, sorry flowers! See some pictures of our flower surgeons below.

Oak House Day 3

Today we had fun playing benchball, vaulting, taking part in a tug of war challenge and doing a highest tower challenge with newspaper.

Oak House Day 2

We managed to dodge the rain. We went to Testlands Hub and took part in fun activities including: dodgeball, indoor rounders, penalty shootout and badminton.

Mask making in Y4

As part of our History topic, Year 4 have started to create our own Maya inspired masks. This week we have started to paper mache our masks.