We’ve had great fun making our masks using a wire base and layering it with paper mache. We learned about the different types of masks and designed our own. It was done in several stages and we had to work carefully at each stage to make sure our masks looked great. These are our masks […]
Category: Oak Class
National Anti-Bullying Week 2019
At our school, we chose the theme of ‘Celebrating Uniqueness’. Potato Challenge Each pair had their very own potato to look at closely and notice its unique qualities compared to all the other potatoes! We then created a character profile, maybe naming our potato and creating a life story for it. All the potatoes were […]
Osmington Bay
We’ve been extremely busy settling into new routines and organising ourselves for activities. There hasn’t been much time for blogging but… we’re having a GREAT time! The journey down was very relaxed with lunch and a stretch and play at Moors Valley Country Park. When we arrived yesterday afternoon, we put our cases in the […]
Oak Class – Autumn term 2019
Welcome back to the new school year! Please find a link to the newsletter that was emailed to you. It outlines the curriculum and expectations for Oak Class this term. Oak Autumn 2019
Anglo-Saxon Day
We had a great day with ‘Ed’ from Portals From The Past. We played some Anglo-Saxon strategy games and learned some old English. We also role-played a banquet hall, listened to the story of Beowulf and explored some battle moves. (No sharp weapons of course!) It will come as no surprise to know that ‘Ed’ […]
Bye bye butterflies!
We’ve taken great pleasure in observing our caterpillars morph into butterflies over the past couple of weeks. We learnt all about the butterfly life cycle and saw it happening first-hand. It was amazing to watch them form into a chrysalis and then see them emerge as a butterfly. Today we released our ‘Painted Lady’ butterflies […]
Netball News! Appleshaw does it again!
John Hanson Community School hosted the annual Rural School Netball Tournament yesterday. Appleshaw entered 3 teams out of the 15 teams that took part. We are so thrilled to announce that we came 5th, 3rd and 1st place with our teams. The communication between the players was excellent and all the children played really well. […]
Dare to be Different @ Thruxton
Our Year 6 girls enjoyed a fantastic day at Thruxton on Friday. We were invited by the ‘Dare to be different’ team which encourages girls to participate in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths activities. We met a Sky Sports presenter and role-played an interview with a racing driver. There were lots of games to play […]
Dissecting flowers
Today we have been dissecting flowers to see what parts they have inside. It was fun! We’ve learned some new vocabulary.