NURSERY

Our theme this week is exploring and investigating colour. We have linked this to a story called ‘Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?’ and read other bear stories too.

UPPER FOUNDATION

Dear Parents/Carers,

This week in Upper Foundation we have been focusing on the story of The Three Little Pigs.

We have been making story maps and sequencing the story of the Three Little Pigs using picture cards. We loved seeing so many children acting out the story with siblings, using fabulous masks and houses!

In EAD the children have explored and designed the 3 Little Pig houses using various materials. Are they wolf proof? What was the strongest house?

We have also been problem solving in Maths and the children were introduced the concept of 'sharing'. It is so lovely to see the children having practical experience in Maths this week!

The teachers in Upper Foundation are super proud of the following children who completed learning all 13 levels on Magic 300 and look forward to more in the upcoming weeks: Well done to Isaac, Freya, Alex and Alyssa!!!!

Next week we will focus on Little Red Riding Hood and encouraging children to go for walks in parks acting out the story.

All Upper Foundation would like to say a huge congratulations to Mr Griggs and Ms Galloway and of course big brother Archie on the birth of Ayla Griggs; she is gorgeous. We all look forward to cuddles very soon!

Another huge well done to Harry who took part in the 2.6 challenge to help raise money for Neuroblastoma UK Charity. His challenge was to throw 26 toys into a basket in one minute, and he raised over £200!! We are super proud of you Harry!

We are so impressed with all the uploads onto Tapestry, please continue to do so and well done to all the Mummys and Daddys on the home schooling this week.

Enjoy your lovely long bank holiday weekend in the sun!

See you all on Tapestry for next week’s fun videos!

Best wishes to you all

Upper Foundation Team

Upper Foundation Teachers

Year 1

It has been another busy week for our Yr 1 children.

Thank you so much for continuing to send in photographs and work of all the learning and fun activities the children are doing. Although we are not with them, by sharing your photographs and news it makes us feel part of what they are doing!

We can certainly see many of Oakfield’s 6 C’s taking place across homes.

It has been great to hear how many children are enjoying this term’s Roald Dahl theme in English. The children shared some wonderful Dream Jars on Teams with their class. We have had dream jars about space, swimming with dolphins, achievements and family memories.

We can see how hard the children are working by the standard of work that continues to come to us via the portal. It is lovely to see that many of the children are tackling the wider curriculum activities too.

Microsoft Teams meeting week beginning 11th May:

• Wednesday 13th May 11.15am
• Friday 15th May 11.15am

Look at these great #OakfieldAtHome examples below:

YEAR 3

Please find attached Kubrick's (3CM) persuasive advert. The children were asked to create an advert to try and persuade people to hire the animals from ’The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me’ to clean their windows. He included a rhetorical question, adjectives and bossy verbs and presented his work amazingly using ICT.

Year 3 have been also busy in Maths this week learning about capacity! Their task was to find different containers from around their home and then estimate before carefully measuring the capacity. It looks like they had lots of fun! Well done for all your hard work Year 3!

SPANISH

" Tortilla Making Challenge" for Years 2-6

Children will receive the recipe of the Spanish dish and the challenge is to prepare the tortilla at home. Please read the assignment in week 4 for more details.

I am looking forward to see your creations. Olé!

Below is Alexander from Year 5's penpal letter which he wrote this week. Muchas gracias Alexander!

ART: Sketching Challenge

Thank you for all the film poster that have been sent in this week - that's my weekend of movie watching planned! Have a look at a selection of some of the great sketches below - we will add these to our official Flickr gallery too!

Next week, the sketch challenge is 'Transport'!

With so much traffic standing idly by the kerb side, it isn't difficult to spot a car or van or motorbike but perhaps you want to try something a bit different. Maybe you could sketch your bicycle or scooter or even your roller skates! Or maybe you're thinking of a form of transport that could travel further; a helicopter, a train, an airplane or even a space shuttle. Perhaps you could find an interesting angle and zoom in on one part of the 'transport', a wheel, a turbine or an engine. Remember to 'place' your object in the composition and include lots of shading.

Have fun!

Mrs Fidler