Oak Class
Welcome to Oak’s Class Page
Oak Class is taught by Miss Wilkie and is supported by Mrs Rossall.
We have children who are in Year 5 and Year 6 within the class.
We had a fantastic year of learning and experiences last year and look forward to sharing many more in this coming year. Have a look at our class newsletter for information on our learning this half term.
The children thoroughly enjoyed their DT unit during Spring 2 where they taste tested different soups and then made their own. There were lots of comments about the delicious smells coming from the classroom. They took part in lots of mini investigations of forces in science, including testing air resistance with paper aeroplanes, testing the friction of different shoes, and testing water resistance with plasticine. We also celebrated World Book Day with a Wizard of Oz theme.
During Spring 1 the children discovered all about the Romans in Britain and made their own Roman shields (which we practised formations with) and their own aqueducts. They studied still life in art and produced some beautiful artwork which we now have displayed in the classroom, and worked really hard on some writing pieces based around the Romans in English. Some children have also started guitar lessons which they are thoroughly enjoying!
The children have been very creative during Autumn 2 making their own fabric advent calendars in DT and creating Rangoli sand art and sculpting clay Diya lamps for Diwali in RE. Science topic was all about living things and their habitats where we looked at how to classify plants and animals and investigated if yeast was a living thing.
Oak class had an amazing first half term. The children thoroughly enjoyed learning all about Ancient Egypt; we looked at the mummification process by mummifying dolls and re-enacted Howard Carter entering Tutankhamun’s tomb to discover what artefacts were found there. The children also produced some beautiful writing in English based on our Ancient Egypt topic. In science, we learned about Earth and space and compared the relative sizes of planets with different fruits, and in art we transformed 2-D drawings into 3-D sculptures using negative space and the grid method to enlarge a picture, then making frames so they could stand up.
