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2024-2025
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7.2.25 Hooray for Number Day. After parading in our number outfits the children learnt a mindreading trick with a dice which they were keen to demonstrate around the school and completed a series of number challenges and games.
Wearing scarfs for Mental Health week
Over the last few weeks we have been working as sculptors and used different materials to create 3D pieces of Art. The wire sculpture built on their work on continual line drawings and is an item, the mouldable hessian pieces are representing feelings.
Our Science is Electricity. We were all able to make our lightbulb light up
3.12 Today we were treated to a visit from Courtney Tulloch, British Olympic gymnast. After a great assembly he put the children through a series of activities for their Circuit workshop
As part of our art sessions we focused on creating light and dark using charcoal and a rubber.
8.10.24 Thank you to all the parents that joined us for our class Maths workshop today, it was fantastic to see so many of you. Hopefully the information was useful. The children really enjoyed playing the games with you.
27.9.24. It certainly was a muddy walk but the children enjoyed the day. It was lovely to be out in the fresh air and have time to chat together while spotting the wildlife and so many different trees.
18.9.24 Part of our work on numberlines involved being outside with chalk this morning, to plot numbers on different numberlines with varying intervals.
18.9.24 We celebrated Fairtrade Fortnight this week. We watched a video all about Fairtrade food and even Fairtrade footballs. Using the atlases we located where some of the Fairtrade communities are.
19.9 We have started to paint our sheep for the David Jones' Art project.
17.9 It was a beautiful sunny morning for their morning exercise today.
13.9.24 Harvest. The children did brilliantly at the Harvest festival this morning having had a couple of days to learn the poem and the word order. The performance was better in church without battling against the sunshine and visiting wasps. Click the link below the photo to hear our poem.
6.9.24 We have had a great start to the new school year and the children have been very busy. In English we read and learned the Greek myth 'Theseus and the Minotaur' and in groups they created freeze frames for parts of the story. In Science, they have started with investigations looking at vibration and understanding soundwaves and in Art they have started some portrait work inspired by the artist Frida Kahlo.
Welcome to Oaks
2023-2024
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Rio Carnival time
Our first class photo of 2023
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23.5.24 In Science today the children made their own Top Trump cards with animals from the Amazon rainforest. The categories were Population, Height or length, weight and life expectancy. Hopefully, they have shared them with you and played the game..
The weather was perfect for a Samba dance session with Mrs Bailey this afternoon.
17.5.24 ,We have been working on their skipping skills over the last 2 weeks for our morning exercise. Their skills are really coming on.
We travelled to South America this afternoon to try different South American fruits. Pomegranate, physalis, lime, passionfruit, mango and pineapple. Some were more popular than others,
As part of our science work on minibeasts and their habitats, we have been looking around different areas of school finding and classifying insects.
8.5.24 The children were brilliant today taking part in their level 1 bikeabillity.
25.3.24 Last week we started to learn about the 350 jobs that are part of the NHS. We were treated to a fun afternoon visit from Lou, Anita and James who all have highly skilled jobs in hospitals. We learnt about some aspects of their jobs as an ED consultant, a surgeon and an anesthetist. The children had the opportunity to have a go at using steri-strips to help an orange heal, use key hole surgery equipment and learn about the many bones in our body.
22.3 Luckily the sun came out today in time for the children to get out and do some measuring which they used to help work out the perimeter of different areas of the garden.
Roman Sandal project. We started by looking at different sandals and how they stay on our feet. Knowing that Roman soldiers had adjustable sandals because they sometimes wore woollen socks when it was cold, we needed to make our sandals adjustable. The children had an hour to make a prototype before our fashion show. Then after discussing the aspects that worked and how they could improve their design they made a final design.
23.2.24 The class thoroughly enjoyed the cricket session with Martin and Ann Marie today. They practiced bowling and fielding skills before taking part in a high-energy game. .
12.2 If you went down to a Roman market today what do you think you would see? Our freeze frames show daily life from fishing, trading in the market, children playing knucklebones, speakers talking to crowds and people enjoying themselves practising acting and singing.
2.2.24 NSPCC Number Day. We had a great day today playing dice games, learning to read each others minds with a dice trick, solving number puzzles and creating our own Number hats for lunchtime.
8.2. As the final piece of work for their art unit on line, they have been producing printing tiles. The first print was a single colour then they worked on 2 prints that used 2 colours.
As part of our learning about Romans in Britain we focused on the Celts today. They would certainly have made an impression on invading Romans.
The children have been building on their understanding of electricity by creating different circuits.
We joined other schools this afternoon for a Tag rugby festival at Holsworthy College. They took part 8 different activities that linked to Tag rugby skills. Everyone participated with great enthusiasm and represented the school brilliantly showing supportive attitudes to all involved. We clearly have some budding rugby stars.
19.10.23 Part of their RE work today was drawing Rangoli patterns. It was great to get out in the playground and have the chance for large scale artwork.
Hooke Court was amazing. Our 3 day stay in Dorset really supported the children's History learning, giving them a really in-depth experience. The children were busy with pottery making, jewelery making, learning Greek Writing, cooking Greek food and much more.
10.10 Mental Health Day. To mark Mental health day we all thought about how we like to relax and keep ourself in a good place mentally. Do you like to count in your head, do something sporty, be creative and draw or make something or sit and read quietly?
5.10 In Science we continued to investigate Sound.
4.10 PSHE today followed our SCARF scheme and focused on collaboration. Being robot machines they had to mime making something, with each child playing an important part. It was fun trying to guess what they were making.
4.10 The children who are part of Brownies showed us their badges today and sung us a few Brownies songs.
29.9.23. Whole School Walk. The children did incredibly well for our long walk today, made even more fun by plenty of puddles and mud.
22.10 We had our Harvest workshop this afternoon. The children thoroughly the visiting the van and seeing and weighing the different vegetables.
19.9.23. The children met my Quiet Critters today. We talked about good learning behaviours and what qualities we like in a work partner. Everyone illustrated and signed our 'contract banner.'
19.9 Learning about expanded noun phrases this morning, our 2 volunteers got stickered. 'Black socks with a sparkly heart' ,'clean yellow shirt with a school logo.' 'black shoes with a Nike logo', 'blonde brown hair with white strands' . These were a few examples. Hopefully they could explain to you what they were and if they cover the fridge or you with post-its I apologise.
18.9 . The weather was awful this morning so our morning exercise was chair aerobics with sit-ups, chair burpees, tricep dips and press ups.
14.9.23 Mrs Hill continued their work on sound by setting up experiments for them to do which demonstrated the vibrations caused by sound waves.
12.9. Our PE focus was balance and movement. They started by creating balances on different parts of their body then played a version of Stuck in the Mud, but to be freed they had to match the person's balance.
This week we have been learning the story of Theseus and the Minotaur. The children acted out the story which was a lot of fun. Each group created freeze frames to show part of the story.
7.9.23 Creative Thursday. The Minotaur was half man and half bull. They have created their own creature to go in the labyrinth, in their own story next week. Can you work out which 2 animals their creatures are made of?
6.9.23 What wonderful weather we have had to start the term. We were able to use the field first thing this morning for our Early exercise.
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13.7.23 NOT the sports day that we hoped for but we went out on the field for vortex and hammer throws, sprints and then for those still standing, a long distance run. Great team spirit and encouragement for each other.
4.7.23 French day. Part of the morning was spent with the children taking on my challenge. Given 5 sheets of newspaper, 1 sheet of sugar paper, a limited amount of masking tape and scissors, which group could build the tallest most stable Eiffel Tower. They demonstrated great cooperation and a few groups actually managed to produce something that stood up by itself.
4.7.23 Having told them that I couldn't get snails or frogs legs but that I had sourced French worms instead, we couldn't believe how many were keen to try them.
7.6.23. Today, as part of the Gods Acre churchyard nature survey, where churches throughout the country have a census of nature in their grounds we had a session looking at the different flowers and insects around the church. Organized by Mrs Gibb we went equipped with identifying sheets and clipboards. Jo Pullin led the insect and bug hunt, helping the children to identify what they found. As a class we found 27 different types of bugs, beetles, spiders, caterpillars, flies,etc.
6.6.23 Hunting for angles. Having learnt about acute, obtuse, reflex angles and right angles we went out side to see how many we could find.
To finish our topic on South America, we talked about fruits that grow in England and fruits that come from warmer countries. They tasted mango, papaya, pineapple, passionfruit, lime, dragon fruit and figs. They were all brave enough to eat most of them or at least have the tiniest of tastes or lick. As you can see from their faces some fruits were a bigger hit than others.
22.5.23 We had a fantastic morning learning about Samba instruments and rhythms.
The weather was perfect, so we were able to do our Samba parade out on the field.
Click the links to watch a few clips.
Samba 2
Samba Parade 1
17.5.23 With headdresses all finished it was time to Samba.
Samba time
5.5.23 Happy Coronation Friday everyone
28.4.23. Well done to the children who were chosen to play in the football matches this afternoon against Winkleigh school.
26.4.23 Our English lessons have focused around the book The Great Kapok Tree. After learning about the harmful affects of destroying the rainforest they created a poster style story to share these facts. These are their first drafts and the focus was then on performing their story for an audience. Their recordings will follow.
24.4.23 Today we took advantage of the dry weather and had our Maths lesson outside. Using different equipment they measured and worked out the perimeter of different things around the playground. Back in class we converted the measurements from cm and m.
21.4.23 We finished our mosaic tiles today. Definitely a messy job.
Our Spring term portfolio task was colour mixing to paint these beautiful roses. The children did a great job.
24.3.23. Our Roman mosaics are coming along well.
22.3.23 It was lovely and sunny this morning for our morning exercise. The children continued to work on their skipping skills and stamina.
22.3.23 The children used their Science skills and knowledge of electric circuits and their History knowledge of Romans to create their Roman Electric matching board. Some of them showed Mrs Jacob (our History lead) and explained how they had made them.
16.3.23 I'm not sure what the Romans and Boudicca would have made of Oaks class today.... they certainly looked scary.
10.3.23. We have had a creative week. The children have continued to work on their roman sandals for their DT and their Roman mosaic designs.
2.3.23 World Book Day
27.2.23 We had a really enjoyable afternoon at Holsworthy College for the Tag Rugby festival. There were 6 different activities to help us learn the skills before playing a game.
21.2.23 Cakes were a perfect way to develop our understanding of fractions smaller and greater than 1.
As part of our work for Children's Mental Health day, lots of us wore a scarf to school and we designed and printed a scarf.
8.2.23 Children's mental Health Week.
3.2.23 Our text for English is linked to our Rome topic. The Character has been transported back in time to Ancient Rome. We worked on retrieving information that showed the differences between the 2 worlds.
The children took on the characters of Joe and Lucy and roleplayed a conversation that could have happened between the two. They used what they had heard in the story so far. Click the link below.
Taking on the role of Joe and Lucy
After creating different Roman inspired line drawings, the children created a polystyrene printing tile. We had some amazing results.
26.1.23 Our Creative Thursday unit on 'line' continued with the children creating a string picture using 1 piece of wool. It was a very sticky afternoon.
The children have been investigating how to make a light bulb light and which materials electricity can travel through.
6.1.23. What an interesting myth Romulus and Remus is!. The children enjoyed acting it out to help them remember what happened. They created a freeze frame to show the main characters in the myth.
5.1.22 Creative Thursday . We started our unit on line drawing this afternoon and enjoyed 'taking a line for a walk.'
4.1.23 We tried out a new Talk technique today 'Pay to Say'. I was interesting to see who used their tokens in group discussions. It was great fun too, ask your child to explain how it works.
Christmas party
25.11.22 Friday afternoon Tag rugby with Craig to finish off a very busy week. The children practiced their passing skills, dodging and enjoyed games collecting their opposing teams tags.
This week we have continued writing newspaper reports, with our inspiration coming from the World Cup. You might have missed some of these events in the matches played so far.
14.11.22 Odd Sock Day Monday as part of Anti-bullying week, Road Safety Week and Children in Need. What a week! They created role plays with different scenarios for how to cross the road safely.
10.11.22 Using their skills they have worked on this term with shading pencils the children did an amazing job shading in a poppy, ahead of Remembrance Day tomorrow.
3.11.22 Carnival Crepe papering has arrived at school. Having lived in Hatherleigh for 13 years I have never crepe papered so this was a brand new experience for me too. The children did an amazing job with their pieces of bunting.
17th to 19th October. What a fabulous 3 days the children had at Hooke Court.
18th. The children learnt about how women were treated during these times and differences between Spartans and Athenians.
18th The children's artistic skills were evident when decorating their plates with Greek patterns and their names written in the Greek alphabet.
18th. The children had fun doing Greek cooking. It was a very messy task for several groups making the savoury and sweet bread and the hummus, mixing it by hand. The sweats were a big hit made with dates, sultanas and cinnamon. Authentic ancient scissors were used for snipping the onion, leek and rosemary..
17th. The evening activity was to learn about Greek vases and pottery and make their own clay vase.
Team building activities were the first task.
17.10.22 All left with the right kit, packed lunch and massive smiles.
'Don't Worry.....Be happy.' Oaks version.
This is Oaks' version of 'Don't Worry..Be Happy' written by the children and Mr Curran.
(Click the link below to hear it)
Don't Worry..Be Happy. by Oaks
14.10.22. As part of our Addition and Subtraction unit we will be working on speed and fluency of numberbonds. We used dice to add 2 or 3 numbers looking for doubles, near doubles and pairs making 10.It was fun even if it was really noisy.
Some of our PTFA Christmas card designs.
6.10.22 In Science this week, the children investigated how sound travels by making string telephones. They could feel the vibrations on the string when the string was tight..
30.9.22 Despite the wet weather, we enjoyed the whole school walk today. Plenty of puddles, beautiful surroundings and we even spotted a deer, The children walked with lots of smiles, so much chat and still had energy for games after lunch.
29.9.22 They continued their learning about Hinduism today by matching up pictures and information about Hindu Gods.
23.9.22
What an enthusiastic group of singers they were on Friday afternoon. Next week they are going to start to learn one of Mr Curran's own songs that he has written.
23.9.22. It's not all singing, Art and roleplay in Oaks. The children have worked hard using their knowledge of number to estimate the position of 3 digit numbers on number lines and written their own version of Theseus and the Minotaur.
Click on the photograph to read their stories. We have worked on different ways of making our writing descriptive for the reader. These are first drafts and most written completely independently, using their plan. we will edit the spelling and punctuation errors next week.
22.9.22 As part of our learning about Ancient Greek markets, known as an agora, we found out what you would have seen if you had visited. The children took on different roles from fishmonger and cobbler, to children playing and socialising as well as coming together to listen to an important spokesman.
21.9.22 Harvest festival. As a class we write our own harvest song. We weren't going to be able to video in the church so here is one of our rehearsals
A popular choice by Mr Curran for our Friday sing.
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14.9.22 We took advantage of the sunshine and went outside for PE.
9.9.22 It has been a long but enjoyable first week back. After all their hard work and the sad news of the Queen we finished with a positive message in a class song, taught and led by Mr Curran.
Fantastic, after just half an hour practise.
6.9.22. Inspired by the story of Theseus, the children painted what they thought the Minotaur might have looked like.
5.9.22. What a busy first day we have had. We started our History unit on Ancient Greeks by looking at the Greek myth Theseus and the Minotaur. We used actions to help remember the sequence of the story, acted out the story and created excellent freeze frames.
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18.7.22. Trying our best to keep cool while finishing their South American topic work
18.7.22 The children chopped and thought about the presentation of their quinoa salad.
15.7.21 As part of our South American topic and in preparation for cooking on Monday the children 'enjoyed' an afternoon of food tasting.
12.7.22 Sports Day
6th July. It was a lovely sunny afternoon for our Sports Day practice. We had different running races including the popular/much-hated long distance laps, standing jump and this year's new event, the hammer throw.
1st July . Rio Carnival has come to Hatherleigh. Our DT work linked to our Geography topic this week. We have designed and created our own Rio inspired headdress.
23.6.22 Mrs Bragg taught us some really important first aid today. We now know how to deal with incidents including nose bleeds, grazes, head bumps and how to put someone into the recovery position.
23.6.22 To start our DT project of designing and making a Rio Carnival inspired headdress, we watched clips from the 2019 Rio carnival and used Kleki to design their creation.
Jubilee celebrations. After making our class mosaic, under the guidance of Mrs Emery, the children all made their own '70' mosaic. The last day of term was finished off brilliantly with the whole school Tea Party.
29.4.22 We have been incredibly impressed with the quality of writing in English this week. Our text is Beowulf and the chldren were using prepositional phrases, fronted adverbials and thinking about the vocabulary to describe Grendel's approach towards Heorot. These are our redrafted versions.
Click below to read more amazing pieces of writing. Can you picture Grendel approaching the Great Hall of Heorot?
THE DAY THE CELTS INVADED HATHERLEIGH. As part of our Roman topic we learnt about Boudicca, the Iceni Tribe and the Celts efforts to make the Romans return to Rome.
After seeing photographs of these puppies since they were born it was so lovely to have them visit and to get a puppy cuddle.
Focusing on melting, I gave them the challenge to see how quickly they could melt an icecube. We also couldn't discuss reversible and irreversible changes without using chocolate.
Solid, liquid and gas. We were all so surprised to find out how we could change the weight of a fizzy drink by stirring it to get the gas out.
Red nose day
Fractions using playing cards, was an interesting way to work with identifying improper and mixed fractions and spot equivalent fractions.
Fractions. What better way to learn about improper fractions than with cupcakes.
Happy Christmas from everyone in Oaks.
Christmas performance. We were so proud of all the children today, they performed their socks off.
8.12.21 A surprise visit from Santa, Christmas Jumper Day and Christmas dinner.
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December. Our class elves are back.
Anti bullying week with Odd Sock Day and Children in Need.
Hooke Court October 2021. The children had a fantastic time at Hooke Court learning so much about the Ancient Greeks. Their teamwork and listening skills were complimented by the staff running the activities. A huge thank you to Mrs Orbell, Mrs Emery and Mrs Monger who spent the 3 days, and 2 nights, with them.
The children's finished pieces of work that they brought home.
Wednesday 20th. The morning's activity was to design a flag, make their boat and see whose boat actually managed to stay afloat on the moat.
Monday 18th October. After arriving and settling into rooms, they enjoyed their afternoon team building activities and an evening making Greek urns.
1.10.21 Kyan String Quartet visit. As part of the Two Moors festival year 4 and 6 were treated to a string workshop today. We enjoyed different pieces from Haydn and Benjamin Britton as well as a few pieces the children recognised.
15.9.21 Greek myths are great to roleplay. A real mix of love, revenge, Gods swallowing babies and then vomiting them up alive years later after being tricked into drinking potions. I'm sure you can imagine which character they were all keen to be!
10.9.21 Decorating our vases on Friday afternoon after looking at different patterns and designs on real Greek vases.
9.9.21. We made a start on our Greek vases today in Creative Thursday. Be ready to be impressed tomorrow, the designs are looking great.
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The children really enjoyed dressing up and sharing their books.