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What a busy end to term in Parakeet class @FP! Our class have been working away hard on our final Art and DT project of a Gaudi inspired 3D lizard. This week we finished writing our instructions, come and check them out!

“We built and glued the wooden frames for our lizard over two weeks” – Raziyah.

“Everyone cut and stuck down their mosaics using felt.” – Daniel.

Keep practising times table rock stars. Have a wonderful half term!

In Nightingale class @FP, We have had lots of fun in Nightingale Class. We have been working on our listening and attention skills with games such as “What’s in the Bag?” and “Kim’s Game”. We take part in these games every day to help us improve our focus and attention.

Some of the children in Year 1 and Year 2 went along to the Unicorn Theatre in London on Friday to see the production “The Princess and the Pea”. It was a great performance. We loved going on the train and also eating our lunch at Tower Bridge!

We bake every week in Nightingale Class and this week we made chocolate chip shortbread. They were delicious! We made them ourselves and then went on to write instructions for the recipe so that others could make them too.

We have been working on our ICT skills and love visiting the ICT suite once a week. We have been learning how to log on and off independently and also we have been learning how to use and control a mouse.

Last week we loved learning all about Space in both Nightingale classes. We learnt about the solar system and all of the planets. We went on to make Solar system posters. We played a Space Quiz in teams and new all of the answers!

We have been learning what plants need to grow and have planted our own seeds which will turn into bulbs. We spoke about where would be best to plant them and why and gave them lots of water as it has been so hot!

We are deep into Summer Term One and the children are really enjoying our non-core curriculum subjects. Islamic Empire, mountains, mosaics, tag-rugby, wooden frame structures, Judaism, athletics and steel pans! 

“Tag-rugby is great as you can spin and leave your opponent on the floor.” – Ipek

“We created a frame to put our mosaics lizards on.” – Stephanie

“If you pump your arms you can run faster.” – Reggie

This half term the Year 6 children @ FP were only thinking about SATs and it was a constant round of lessons about maths, reading and grammar. The children did really well and worked so hard. They should be very proud of themselves.

As a reward for all their hard work, we went to the park and had a great time letting off some steam.

Well done to all the students and a big thank you to the staff and parents who have supported the children’s progress all year.

Macaw class @FP have been working hard in maths looking at angles and using a protractor to measure angles accurately. In English, we have been learning about explanation texts and we are in the process of planning and writing our own.

This half term in DT we have been learning all about the construction of bridges. We have learnt about the different types of bridge designs such as arch, beam and cantilever. During our sessions we then had a go at designing our own bridge using the knowledge we have learnt, followed by making our product. We used carboard, lolly sticks, glue and pipe cleaners to construct our designs. Take a look at our carefully designed bridges.

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The children, in Hummingbird class @FP, really enjoyed looking after the chicks and watching them develop from egg to chick.  We noticed their changes and used this to support our information writing.

We have also been growing seeds and talking about the seasons. We have been learning about the different parts of a plant and have drawn a diagram to show their different parts.  

In Dove class @FP, we have been observing our seeds and bulbs to see how much they have changed and grown since we planted them. They are beginning to grow quite quickly now.

We also recently had the chicks to look after. Seeing the eggs hatching, looking after the chicks and holding them was very exciting for all the children, though they were very jumpy.

We have also been retelling the story of ‘The Little Red Hen’ and we performed it, with actions to the Reception children.

Once upon a time at Oakbridge Nursery all the children began to build houses, one little child built their house out of see through shapes, another child built their house out of construction toys, & the last little child built their house out of waffle shapes. The children decorated their houses using Duplo blocks to print. The big bad wolves came along and huffed and puffed and tried to blow their houses down but the nursery children had built their houses so they were big & strong. All the nursery children lived happily ever after.