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Tuesday 1 April 2025 Oak - Signs of Spring Oak Class were detectives last week. The children got into pairs and went on a treasure hunt to spot signs of spring. They found buds, nests, minibeasts and spring flowers, and even watched birds building nests - one of them in a house roof!
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Tuesday 11 March 2025 Oak - British Science Week 2025 Oak Class had a great start to British Science Week yesterday. We took part in a live online lesson from Willowbrook Farm. We learnt how we can become Change Champions by saving energy and reducing waste as well as seeing the sheep, goats and chickens on the farm.
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Tuesday 11 February 2025 Oak - Our Pirate Ships are Finished! Our final stage in making our perfect pirate ships was to make the ships themselves. We cut out a boat shape and masts from our prepared wood effect paper, and arranged them onto our stormy sea. We then added sails, portholes and windows and the all important Jolly Roger and we were finished. The children are very proud of their creations and they look wonderful on our classroom wall. Well done Oak Class! Amazing job!
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Tuesday 11 February 2025 Oak Class - Pirate Ships Continued The next stage in making our pirate ships was to create the sky. We did this using sponges and black and white paint, which the children combined brilliantly to make a grey and stormy sky. The children were very surprised when I suggested we rip up our sea! We tore our textured sea paper into strips and used the white edges to create waves. Our pictures are starting to come together!
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Tuesday 28 January 2025 Oak - Painting Pirate Ships Oak Class have begun creating pirate ship paintings that need a number of stages in order to get them finished. So far, we have blended different coloured paints together and scratched into the surface to make textured papers. We will use these textured papers to make the stormy sea and the wood for the ships hull and masts. Our next step will be to blend black and white paint using sponges to create stormy sky. These paintings are going to be amazing.... watch this space!
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Thursday 12 December 2024 Hadorable hedgehogs And here are the finished hedgehogs.... very cute I'm sure you'd agree.
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Thursday 12 December 2024 Hedgehog Making Oak Class have been thinking about the changing seasons and looked for signs of Autumn in the garden. They learnt how the changes in weather affects animals and how some animals hibernate and migrate to avoid the cold weather. They made printed hedgehogs and sculpted hedgehogs from clay.
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Sunday 3 November 2024 Oak Palaeontolgists Last Thursday, Oak Class learnt about the work of palaeontologists. We watched a video of a palaeontologist at work and then used tools to painstakingly uncover hidden bones in our sandpit, piece together dinosaur skeletons and Year One thought about what tools might be useful for someone who discovers fossils. We had a lot of fun.
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Tuesday 15 October 2024 Reception - 'Three' Walk Reception went on a 'three' walk last week to find as many representations of the number three as they could. Here are some of the threes they found. I think you'll agree that they did an amazing job!
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Saturday 12 October 2024 Oak Class Meet Harold the Giraffe Oak Class had a great time in the Life Education tent on Thursday afternoon. They learnt about how to stay healthy, what's hiding underneath our skin and got to meet Harold the Giraffe and give him advice about what to do if he feels sad.
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Sunday 29 September 2024 Oak Class - Exploring the Garden We had a wonderful science afternoon exploring our garden. Year One really enjoyed showing the new Reception children around, and pointing out the features. To top it all, it wasn't raining!!