Oakwood Avenue Y2

Today Year 2 have been evaluating and improving our pirate ships. We have finished our moving anchors, our bouncy planks and our movable wheels. We thought about using different materials to make our designs stronger and more effective!

Here is Mr Cunningham showing us how he twirls the Mace. We were very impressed when he threw it up in the air and caught it!

Y4 Catkins busy playing ‘stepping stones relay’ in PE! Look how hard we are working!

Y4 Catkins are learning about all things related to Sutton Hoo - we found out about amazing artefacts and are going to become reporters, creating a news report about the big find! To start, we imagined what would be left after 1500 years if we were buried here!

We recreated an historical scene with the help of Kane. He has a variety of school equipment around him and we discussed what an archaeologist in 1000 years would discover about Kane and school life from observing these items, just like they did with the famous dig at Sutton Hoo.

What do you think of our results? We have used chalk pastels and charcoals to add detail to our sketches. Isn’t our cave going to look fantastic!

Today in English we have been using pictures to help us generate new vocabulary to describe the riverbank in our Stone Age Boy book.

Observing, concentrating, using soft graphite pencils to sketch … be quiet, artists at work in Year 3

This week we are studying the evidence that Palaeolithic people lived in caves. We have begun our own Stone Age art. Did you know Stone Age people invented paint by using rocks, bones, plants ad other natural materials and mixed them with animal fat? How clever!

5 Saplings Special Mention this week goes to Sophie, our new starter! Well done for a fantastic first week at Oakwood!😄🌟

Partner work and catching skills! @PEOaky

We are so proud to say that Rayhaan is our special mention in 6 Oakies this week! Well done superstar!

6 Woodies enjoying some independent reading time. 📚

Today we have been exploring Stone Age cave paintings. We asked some interesting questions and used our knowledge to try and answer them. Where were they found? What did they show? Why did we think they were made? What did they use?

We discussed the different cave paintings evidence that has been found around the world and tried to think about why Stone Age people may have painted animals, hands, hunts and head dresses? Here are some of our ideas.

We are preparing our songs for Remembrance Week with @MedleyMusic1 ! What fantastic singers we have in Year 5 👏

CHOMP! STOMP! BIG ROAR HERE COMES JOE & HIS DINOSAURS! Last Thursday our very good friends @teach_rex came into school after receiving invitations written by the children. Year 1 had so much fun and were completely in awe - you would be too if you met Jam the T-Rex and his pals

learning new strategies can be tricky. What happens when we have too may ones in the ones column? We have been learning how to exchange ones for a ten and move it to the tens column.