Welcome to Oak Class
This is where the journey through Broadhempston reaches its finale. In this class, our aim is to equip the children with the skills they need to succeed as they take those first steps away from Broadhempston onto the next part of their educational journey. There is lots of work to be done but lots of fun to be had too! The class is taught by Miss Heike supported by Mr Tanner on a Tuesday afternoon and Miss Steer throughout the week. We are all looking forward to an exciting year including a residential and lots of adventures and opportunities along the way.
This is where the journey through Broadhempston reaches its finale. In this class, our aim is to equip the children with the skills they need to succeed as they take those first steps away from Broadhempston onto the next part of their educational journey. There is lots of work to be done but lots of fun to be had too! The class is taught by Miss Heike supported by Mr Tanner on a Tuesday afternoon and Miss Steer throughout the week. We are all looking forward to an exciting year including a residential and lots of adventures and opportunities along the way.
What a fantastic couple of days we have had in Oak class. Here is a snapshot of what we have been up to. It’s been a real mix of reading, spelling, letter writing, maths, history, art and crafts. We have had upset household items writing letters of complaint, readings of both classic and modern fiction and designs of our school learning powers mascots. There are so many reasons to be thankful for one another as we come together as a team.
While Oak Class parents were meeting with Miss Heike this afternoon, the children visited Birch Class to spend some time with their buddies, old and new, and enjoy a story or two together.
On Friday in Art, Oak class took a wander through Broadhempston Churchyard. We are studying the famous textiles designer William Morris and used our viewfinders and Ipads to capture some natural inspiration. We then came back to the classroom and sketched what we found, before using the photocopier to replicate our designs and create a pattern.
We have been working scientifically, as we explore the difference between mass and weight. We used the Newton metres to measure the force on a variety of classroom objects. We recorded our findings in a table and found links between the weight and mass of an object. We then wrote up our results and considered any variables, which may have affected the accuracy of our results.
Thank you to everyone who participated in our first Macmillan Coffee Morning of the year! Thanks to your generosity, we were able to raise over £120 for this worthy cause, which affects every one of us. It was lovely to see the children attend to their family and friends and see so many of you turn out to support our school. The cakes were absolutely delicious as you can see; thank you for your kind contributions. Birch class made some fantastic fruity flapjacks too. We are looking forward to our next charity event. Love from Oak Class x
We are always proud of the sportsmanship shown by our lovely Broadhempston students when we get together with the other Link Academy schools. Today we went to Stover school for our annual cross-country event! Everyone tried their best with a smile on their faces and although the competition was fierce, the resilience shown by all was outstanding.
The children's author Simon James seriously inspired Oak class, who created their own children's stories and covers, following his visit. The children had the freedom to write about whatever they wanted and we have seen a beautiful range of stories and illustrations consequently! A few of the children even shared their stories with Birch class today, who thought they were "amazing." Super work as always and a big well done to the artistic and imaginative Oak students!
Last week Oak class were lucky enough to attend a printing workshop with the lovely local artist, Courtney Arnold. We used the famous textiles designer Orla Kiely as inspiration for our nature themed patterns, carving out simple designs on lino before printing onto paper with a variety of bold colours. This was a huge success and allowed our students to experiment with a new medium in Art, ink!
Oak class have been experimenting with air resistance in Science. We made some spinners from paper and experimented with a range of variables, such as: the size of the paper used, adding a paper clip or trimming the wings. This allowed us to work as a team, log our results in a table, exercise our maths skills and draw a conclusion. We discovered that air resistance affects gravity due to the surface area of an object and its weight! Super job Oak!
This week marks the end of our Squashed Tomato Challenge in Oak class. We have been designing ways to help farmers in Nepal transport tomatoes down the mountain. This allowed the children to practise a variety of skills across the curriculum (Geography, IT, DT and Maths to name a few) and it yielded some excellent results. Well done Oak class, we loved hearing your ideas on sustainability and welfare.
Day 1 of Bikeability for our Year 6 students kicked off today with plenty of smiles and laughter. Our students will enjoy four days of fun, as they follow the national cycle training programme, which includes practical skills and understanding about cycling on today’s roads. Well done Oak class!
Today, we took an enthralling trip back in time to the Victorian village, Morwellham Quay. Our 5/6 students enjoyed a fully interactive experience extracting copper with iron tools. The students toiled for all of 10 minutes, as opposed to the 11 hour days endured by the Victorian children! We even experienced a traditional Victorian classroom, where our: handwriting, behaviour and posture were scrutinised by the '14 year old' teacher! The children loved trying out the slate boards and waited in anticipation for dunce hats to be given out! We finished off with a trip through the George and Charlotte Mine, with a lights out highlight, which thrilled all! Thank you to our wonderful PTFA for subsidising this educational and entertaining trip! Super job Oak, your enthusiasm was infectious as always!
Oak Class have been studying The Borrowers in Guided Reading. Here you can see our students confidently sharing their knowledge of the text in a mini presentation. They have been working on a variety of skills, retrieving evidence from the text and explaining the meaning in their own words. Super job Oak!