Oak Class

What a week! We've been incredibly focused so that we could put in 100% effort during our SATS tests. Now that they're over, we've had a day of celebration today before we resume normal timetable on Monday.

Despite the lack of sunshine, we spent this morning at the beach (getting very wet) and…

It's the final week before Easter but that doesn't mean we've worked any less than usual! Highlights of this week have included an Easter Egg Hunt (made for us by our pupil reps, Georgie and Neve) and the Quad Kids Competition at Caedmon.

The weather was beautiful for our egg…

This week, we've taken part in our debate regarding whether or not a theme park built on High Stakesby would be a good idea. Everyone did an absolutely fantastic job of arguing for and against the proposed plans. Our audience (Ash Class) were suitably impressed and voted in favour of the park NOT…

This week, Oak Class has been busy cleaning up our local parks as part of the Great British Spring Clean campaign. We designed posters which we laminated so that we could display them in prominent areas to encourage people not to drop litter, but to put it in the bins instead. 

We started out…

We started the week off in energetic fashion: visiting all of the famous Whitby landmarks on foot. As part of our geography and literacy work, we're writing a guide on our town, so we decided to get up close and personal with what Whitby has to offer.

We set off from school and walked to the…

French update from Mr Messenger

Oak class has been very enthusiastic to develop their French skills. They have shown off a wide vocabulary and they are keen to learn new words. We have been learning words to prepare portraits of people. Everyone is keen to participate in class competitions. I…

Happy New Year!

Oak class have really settled back in to school life after the Christmas break, and it's been great to see everyone ready and raring to go!

This week, we've been fortunate enough to work with Chris Evans (Josh's dad) who taught us all about the art of photography.

Once…

Ever wondered how our digestive system works? Well Oak Class has been finding out all about it...and it's not pretty!

We chartered the journey of a banana sandwich all the way from ther mouth to the toilet (in re-enacted form of course!) 

We used a sharp knife to represent the front teeth,…

On your marks, get set....BAKE! 

This week, Oak Class has smelled wonderful because we've been baking to raise money for Macmillan. In threes, we designed and baked 12 cupcakes based on a basic recipe before selling them at our parents' evenings to raise money. We made over £73!

There were…

Over the past fortnight, we've been working on poetry. We combined our history topic with literacy and wrote some fantastic Black Death poetry using the most impressive figurative language we could. in addition to this, Mrs Mason worked with us to produce some fantastic artwork using just black…

Well, it's been three weeks since we started Year 6 and already, everybody is working incredibly hard.

Last week, we took part in the Tag Rugby Festival and we've enjoyed swimming and dance sessions each week too.

In literacy, we have been writing holiday brochures for island destinations we…