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27 April 2026

Batting skills!

In PE, Oak class revisited their throwing, catching and bowling skills before learning how to bat effectively in cricket. The children learned about the position of their body, handling the bat and driving with their head and feet to ensure accuracy and power! Excellent skill development…

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23 April 2026

Our visit to Rosliston Forestry Centre

We had an amazing day full of learning at Rosliston! We were nature detectives and went to a variety of different habitats around the centre looking for minibeasts! We used nets, brushes and magnifiers to spot them and record our findings. We used our senses in the herb garden and made hedgehog…

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23 April 2026

Conservationist Stroke Artist

As we celebrat National Art week last week, Willow exploted the following artists: Mbongeni Buthelezi abd Konboye Ebipade Eugene. Their theme expanded on prior learning - conservationism and plastic pollution. They chose their marine animal to draw, paint and layer. We then went around the village…

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22 April 2026

Beowulf character descriptions

Oak Class applied their learning of expanded lists to independently describe the character of Beowulf,  based on what we have read in whole-class reading. The class did a fantastic job and have shown such growth in their writing abilities this year!

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22 April 2026

Fielding skills

In PE, Oak Class revisited their throwing and catching skills from last week’s lesson. The children showed super progress in their accuracy and were then ready to progress to learning how to bowl. By the end of the lesson, the children were accurately using a straight arm to bowl a ball in the…

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21 April 2026

My history

We have been trying to answer the question, how am I making history? We played “Guess Who” with our baby photographs and talked about how much we have changed. Then we made our own personal timelines. Many thanks to all our families for sharing their precious photographs! 

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21 April 2026

Advice for Pinocchio

Year 1 have been busy offering advice to Pinocchio! He wants to be a real boy but on his first day of school he was distracted and went to a puppet show instead! We wanted to help him make good choices! 

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17 April 2026

The Viking Period

Oak Class began their new unit of learning by creating Viking timelines. The children learned when the Vikings came to Britain and the main reasons believed as to why!

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16 April 2026

Grendel’s lair description

Oak Class developed their visualisation skills in reading this week. The children then used their imaginations and the information from the text, that we have learned about Grendel, to write vivid setting descriptions! The children included figurative language and relative clauses within their…

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15 April 2026

Close catch, deep catch!

In PE, Oak Class began their cricketing topic by establishing the ready position! The children learned how to do a successful close catch and deep catch and considered when each would be used. 

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27 March 2026

Double numbers

This week Reception have been exploring double numbers and looking at patterns. It always helps to learn new things in a practical way! 

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