Earn Your Stripes
As local lockdown prevented us from taking our avid runners out into Whalley we decided to create some In house running challenges. The first one “Earn your Stripes” was a [...]
Student Council Competition
The Student Council ‘Film Night’ hamper was won by Jensen in Year 7. He can now enjoy his favourite film whilst eating snacks and drinking pop and know he has [...]
BioArtAttack
Well done to Year 11 pupil Lily and Year 7 whose entries have been submitted to the Royal Society of Biology’s BioArtAttack Competition. Lily produced an excellent model of the [...]
Year 4 Are On The Phone!
Year Four are not allowed to bring mobile phones into school. So being an inventive bunch... they decided to make them instead! All in the name of scientific learning of [...]
Fly To The Moon
Isabel from Reception followed the instructions from her reading book to make an amazing rocket. Isabel obviously has her brother, Spencer’s artistic flair!!
Science Sounds
Year Four are studying Sound as a science topic. As part of their studies they are investigating Pitch.. how low or high a sound is. Last week they were each [...]
Year 4 Science
Year Four are investigating Sound as a science topic. As part of their studies they have been experimenting with a ukulele to find out the highest and lowest pitch possible. [...]
Year 4 Maths
Year Four have been looking at different types of fractions as part of their maths studies. Annabel and Stanley got themselves into a bit of a STICKY situation trying to [...]
The Annunciation
As part of their RE lessons, Year 3 pupils have been learning about The Annunciation. They were interested to learn how God chose Mary to be Jesus' mother as she [...]
Clara la Cabeza
Pupils in Years 1 and 2 have had a lot of fun learning how to talk about body parts in Spanish. They have impressed Señora Crook with their pronunciation and [...]
Parable of the Talents
Year 6 pupils have been learning about parables and the Parable of the Talents inspired them to share their very own talents with the class. They confidently presented about an [...]
Visitation
Year Four invited the Principal of Oakhill, Mrs Buttery, to their classroom to listen to the stories they had written on the themes of Ancient Egyptian Pharoahs and an adventure [...]
Year 5’s Planet Trail
Making the most of some rare autumn sunshine to enjoy some lessons outside, Year 5 went on a fact-finding mission in science this week. As part of their topic on [...]
Remembering…
Year 5 have been finding out why we wear a poppy at this time of year. They were particularly interested to learn about the different colours of poppy which can [...]
Bonfire Night Biscuit Baking
After learning about some of the different Bonfire Night food traditions, Year 5 decided to bake some firework-inspired biscuits to jazz up their own celebrations. They smelled delicious while they [...]
The Oakhill Tree Of Hope
Before the first lockdown year three (as they were then) were thinking very much about recycling. After researching different ideas they voted to use recycled toilet roll tubes to create [...]
UK Parliament Week
Year 7 debated in Geography whether the UK should remain united and put forward excellent reasoning on both sides. They called each other, “Honourable Friend” and showed great respect for [...]
House Challenge 2 – Code Breaking
It’s All about Taking Part was the message that was revealed when the code was broken, and lots of the pupils got involved and took part. In particular, very well [...]
