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Spring 2 2024

A great spring term has come to an end. The whole class has worked hard throughout our Coastline topic and have produced some lovely work which they were able to share in the final week with the whole school.  They have really enjoyed learning about Captain James Cook, a bit about the life of a pirate and how to sing sea shanties. 


Oaks won the attendance award for the third time this year for having the highest attendance this half term. So we got to spend our reward time down in the park which happened to have a pirate ship. Oaks chose to sing sea shanties while roleplaying as a pirate crew!


We have  been looking at construction and developing the skills to make their own beach hut in DT. Most recently, they learnt how to strengthen and join card using only lolly sticks and masking tape. They worked in trios building a 3 walled structure which they got to decorate. 


We ended the term with our Easter church service and traditional pasta hunt. Well done to the winners who managed to get the closest to the 50g pasta goal. 

Spring 1 2024

Oaks have done great work this half term and seem to have really enjoyed learning about the RNLI. We’ve ended the half term writing a fact file about the brave volunteers. 

We had a lovely couple of days working through our DT project all about food, where it comes from and how to prepare this and we used all our new food preparation skills to create a vegetable stew and shared a meal at the end of the day. 

In Art, we have been exploring the different key elements of art through flowers. We used clay to explore the shape and form of flowers, finishing the unit by making a Yayoi Kusama inspired 3D flower sculpture. 

Autumn 2 2023

Well done Oaks for a great second half of the Autumn term. We have finished our Movers and Shakers topic with some brilliant presentations about Rosa Parks and Neil Armstrong - just two of the inspirational people we have learnt about throughout this topic.  We have also collaborated with other classes on a number of occasions - perhaps providing inspiration to them !

Working with Acorns, we had an amazing time practising for and performing our Christmas play - Baarmy Bethlehem. The children worked very hard learning their lines and cues and we hope all the adults who came to watch enjoyed the show!

Oaks also did some lovely Still Life sketching this half term and got to visit ‘Bow Brickhill Art Gallery’ to discuss different artists. At the end of the term, we invited Cedars for a Christmas themed sketching session to show off what we had learnt and we hope that they enjoyed sharing in our achievements and perhaps picked up a few sketching tips themselves.

 

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