Blog Author: Miss Cross

Last Monday, Mr Darbyshire led our assembly and we learned about the traditional Hindu festival ‘The Holi Festival’. Some of us got to have a turn using powder paint to create colour clouds. 

Back in Oak class we explored colour through lots of activities. Miss Cross did an Attention…

Last Friday, Oak had their belated Rainbow Day and celebrated how we are all different. 

First we read the story ‘We Are All Different’. We took turns using mirrors to talk about how we all look and what we had that was the same or different. Oscar told us he had glasses and Tig said he…

What a fantastic day we had celebrating World Book Day. We had a wonderful, busy, fun-filled day!

In Oak we had lots of wonderful characters walk through the door! We had a unicorn, sonic, dinosaurs, Mary Popins, a Cat, a Lion, a Princess, Shine, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Hulk and…

Tomorrow is Amir’s birthday so today he brought a very yummy chocolate cake to share with his friends. 

Amir loved his friends all singing happy birthday to him and his friends and staff really enjoyed the cake!

Happy Birthday Amir! 

Today Oak enjoyed their last swimming lesson of the spring term. 

They had lots of fun playing in the pool celebrating all their hard work practicing and developing their swimming skills and confidence in the pool over that last 6 weeks.

When we got back to class we had a very special treat!…

Last week Oak Class celebrated Children’s World Mental Health Week through various activities learning about our emotions, our friendships and how it is good to be us!

Miss Cross did different Attention Autism activities, were we named different emotions we might feel, some of us had turns…

Yesterday was our first history day of the year and we got to learn all about the Victorians.

Oak class got busy finding out that; 

• A lot of victorian people were poor.
• Children would work in the factories.
• Some Victorian people were very clever and invented things that we still…

Today Chorley Schools Sports Partnership came to work with Oak class.
 

We warmed up our bodies playing a game and then we got busy with the bikes. We did some walking with our bikes and then we got to ride them! We learnt that we must wear helmets on our bikes to keep us…

Last week Oak Class enjoyed learning about Chinese New Year.

We learnt that there are different animals to celebrate the different years and this year, is the year of the Rat. We found out that dragons are used in the parades and do lots of dancing. Miss Woods even told us what animal we…

Last week in celebration of World Religion Week, Oak got busy learning about Judaism ✡️.

On Monday, Miss Curry read ‘The Creation Story’ in our class assembly and we all said what we could see in the pictures. 

On Tuesday, we learnt that Jewish people worship God in a Synagogue, like…

In our World About Me lessons, Oak class have been exploring different plants and materials from our environment.

To continue our learning about Supertato and the Evil Pea and to help us learn the importance of plants getting water to help them grow, we have made our very own Supertato grass…

Today Oak have been busy in the food-tech room decorating and designing our own ‘evil pea’ biscuits. 

Josh told us that the first thing we needed to do was wash our hands because ‘we don’t want dirty germs on our food’. After we washed our hands we followed through the steps to decorate our…