Oaks have had a fantastic end to the year. They have pulled all their School Days knowledge together and planned a great assembly which we invited all our adults to watch. The class planned everything from the music played at the beginning, to all the facts they shared and even wrote the poems read about Samuel Wilderspin.

There was a huge turn out of adults and Oaks performed beautifully. They presented their learning with loud confident voices. It was a lovely way to end our unit. 

Despite the heatwave, the whole school managed to participate in Sports Day. It was great to see all of the Oaks children take part in their races and try their absolute best. They were so proud of any sticker or medal they earnt. 

Congratulations to St Andrews who won overall that day!

We have a good end to the year planned. Our zoo trip to Whipsnade is coming and all the children are very excited to explore all the animals. Later in the week Year 2 will be having their graduation ceremony and Oaks have been hard at work making their graduation caps ready. We’ll end our final week with our Year 6 leavers assembly up at church. 

Here is to a great final week and a well deserved summer break!

This half term we have started our School Days topic which is all about what school was like in Victorian times. Oaks have done lots of roleplay as part of this topic to experience first hand how the schools are different from modern day schools. 

They’ve been very interested in the unique names Victorian children had as well as some of the unusual punishments they may have experienced. 

Oaks have investigated different Victorian school artefacts and created dioramas of what Victorian classrooms might have looked like. We were very lucky to have been able to share these with our adults on the last day of half term. 

Our art project has been Street View where Oaks have learnt about James Rizzi and his colourful urban collages. Oaks have learnt the features of James Rizzi’s art, such as bold colours and graphic lines, and how to create Rizzi inspired 3D elements using box springs. 

Year 2 were invited into a cricket event and travelled to Bletchley College to take part in a range of activities with sports leaders from the college. All of Year 2 were very excited to get to go on the train and had lots of fun honing their cricket skills.

We have had a fantastic start to our new Coastline topic, exploring the geography and history of a town called Whitby. Oaks have become experts at reading simple maps and their keys. Identifying both human and physical features from the maps. They’ve discovered what Whitby was like in the past, learning a little bit about whaling and the famous Whitby jet gemstone. 

In Art, Oaks have been exploring the natural shape, form and textures of flowers. They explored how different materials form different shapes and which materials make better natural shapes. Then looking at texture, Oaks created soft and wrinkly textures by using tissue paper and PVA glue. Oaks also created patterns in string and carefully laid then flattened tin foil over the top to create smooth and shiny textures. 

This half term we introduced our key text of the Snail and The Whale by Julia Donaldson. Oaks have done amazingly in their new VIPERS lessons and are developing a great understanding of the story. They have created wanted posters for sneaky sharks and written post cards from far off lands in our Curious Quests lessons with Professor Klunk.