Science Week

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What a week! On Tuesday we started the week with a BANG! by joining the whole school on a trip to The Science Museum in London. Mrs Ryan and I were so proud of how well the children behaved, walking with their Chatter chums and listening to instructions. We spent the morning in The Pattern Pod and the afternoon in The Garden and managed to look around some of the exhibits too.

The rest of the week was all about Colour and exploring Patterns. We learnt about Primary Colours, how to mix colours, what colours taste like (jelly!) and on Friday we wrote a class story called “The Colour Story” which we illustrated and did The Skittles Experiment.

Thanks to all the parents who came to the Drop in this afternoon, we hope you enjoyed the displays and photos of our fabulous week!

 

Our Y6 buddies

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Our buddies in Y6 have really helped us settle in. On the very first day of school, they read their buddy books to us and we filled them in with them. Since then, we have also had buddy reading time. During the first week they took us to run the Daily Mile and they ate lunch with us, helping us with our trays. Now we are really independent but we often say hi to our buddies at playtime. Thank you Y6s!

Apple Pressing

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Oak class had a fantastic time apple pressing. Thank you to all the adults who helped us. We enjoyed drinking the delicious apple juice when we got back to school. This week we were also finding out about our senses and enjoyed tasting lots of different fruit. You have all worked so hard this term. Have a fantastic holiday. When we come back to school we are going to be thinking about the seasons. Have a look and see what signs of Autumn you can find when you are out and about.

Life in Oak Class

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Oak Class have all settled into school really well. We have been taking part in all sorts of activities and are having lots of fun making, and playing with, new friends. We all love our new weaving den and have lots of great discussions trying to work out how to set up our new ball/water run. We have been learning to share and take turns when playing different games. In Forest school we explored the area and thought about how we need to keep safe. We have also been out bulb planting and are looking forward to seeing the flowers grow in Spring.

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Oak Class Visit Cotswold Wildlife Park

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Oak Class trip to the Cotswold Wildlife Park We had a wonderful trip last week and the whole class enjoyed exploring the park and looking at the animals. Our favourites were the giraffes and the giant tortoises! After a lovely picnic lunch under a shady tree we had an exciting ride around the park on the train. Luckily we still had just enough time for our delicious icecreams before the coach journey back to school.

 

 

Teddy Bear Day and Picnic

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Oak Class held a Teddy Bear day and everyone brought in a special bear from home. We did lots of teddy bear activities including Peace At Last bingo, a teddy bear alphabet treasure hunt and listended to stories about bears. For our numeracy work we measured to see how many cubes tall our bears were. We also carefully measured out the ingredients to make a loaf of bread which we later ate along with honey and marmalade for our Teddy Bears Picnic. There were two types of honey to try – a runny honey from the supermarket and some local honey from a Ewen garden, which everyone agreed was delicious. Thank you to all the teddy bears who joined us for the day!

Reflection Day and Pizza Express

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Oak Class took part in lots of calm and thoughtful activities during our recent school Prayer and Reflection morning. With a little help from some parents, the children created some superb models from clay and playdoh, and beautifully colourful dragonflies. We listened to some soothing intrumental music during our activites and all felt thoroughly relaxed at the end of our session.

In contrast this week, we had a very exciting class trip to Pizza Express. Everyone put on aprons and hats and followed the instructions how to make a crust on our pizza dough, spread the tomato passata by ‘driving’ our pizza pans and sprinkle on chunks of creamy mozzarella cheese. While the Pizzaiolo cooked our pizzas, we got the opportunity to smell, touch and taste various toppings including olives, red onion, pepperoni and basil.

We had a fantastic trip and learned lots of interesting facts and, best of all, took our pizzas home for tea! A big thank you to Pizza Express in Cirencester for letting us visit.

 

An Amazing Week

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Oak Class have had an amazing week, packed full of exciting events.

Monday was our class trip to Butterfly World. We spent time outside examining and identifying some of the residents of the Bug Hotel and then filled small pots with fleece and hay to help complete the hotel with cosy bug hiding places. Then we had a very informative talk and walk around inside the butterfly house where we saw dozens of beautiful butterflies, big and small. We all learned lots of interesting facts. After lunch we had free time to explore the rest of the farm park – lots to see including the otters, meercats and Rigby the Racoon.

 On Tuesday afternoon we had our Ugly Bug Ball. We prepared some delicious ‘bug themed’ snacks including strawberry ladybirds, celery and grape caterpillars and dragonfly cupcakes. Parents came to see all our fabulous minibeast topic work and had fun joining in our craft sessions, making peg butterflies, minibeast pebbles, bug masks and finger puppets.

 As this week was our school Enterprise Week, Oak Class have also been very busy making lots of amazing crafts which we sold at the Enterprise Market on Thursday afternoon. We made beautiful dreamcatchers, fabulous fish tiles and decorated our own gift boxes. We sold these along with some surprise seed pops which we hope will all grow into beautiful flowers! We made a grand total of £105.15 from our sales, which is a wonderful achievement. A big thank you to everyone who came along and purchased from our stall.

 

Well done Oak Class for all your hard work, have a wonderful half term holiday.

 

Oak Class News

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Next week we will be having a very busy time. Just to remind you of what is happening.

Monday: Trip to Butterfly World. Please send your child with a waterproof coat / sun cream, depending on the weather. They will need to take a drink with them as well as their packed lunch, unless you have asked for one to be provided by Caterlink.

Tuesday: The children to come dressed as their favourite Minibeast. Parents are invited to join us in the classroom at 2.00pm. The children will share what they have been doing in our topic and you can participate in some activities/games with them.

Thursday: We will be selling the items we have made for Enterprise week. Please come along to support the children, see all the items they have made, and don’t forget your money so you can make some purchases!

Friday: The Life Education Bus is here. I know the children will love their visit.

End of Term

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Can you help?

We haven’t sent home Story sacks this week as many have got muddled and have items missing. We are hoping to resort them all before we send them out again. Please can you check if you have any items mistakenly left in your house? We are missing lots of books, soft toys and games. Thank you for your help.