Reception have been working hard for nature in our forest school sessions and have gained their bronze award for the RSPB wild challenge. They completed six activities including building a hedgehog house and a log pile habitat for beetles, making a compostarium and going on a minibeast hunt. They are [...]
We are very keen that our students do not miss out on the normal Christmas activities, and we will be keeping you up-to-date with all the festivities that are happening at Oakhill within the next few weeks on our Facebook page. We are also looking to share our videos with [...]
Isabel from Reception followed the instructions from her reading book to make an amazing rocket. Isabel obviously has her brother, Spencer’s artistic flair!!
In our latest forest school, we had our first outdoor cooking session of yummy chocolate bananas! We prepared them in the classroom, wrapped them in foil and cooked them around our campfire. They were delicious!
This weeks reception PE lesson was all focussed on the letter ‘B.’ Our pupils became little bunny rabbits. Taking part in bouncing challenges including hoop skipping, jump rope and rope ladders. Balancing on benches, beams and tightrope walking. Bouncing balls to enhance their catching skills from the previous week. Along [...]
This morning Reception had their first PE lesson with Mrs Smith. The lesson began with some ‘getting to know you challenges’ then moved on to bean bag skills. The pupils were asked to invent ways to travel and balance their bean bag. Mrs Smith focussed the lesson on the fundamental [...]
After a few weeks of extreme weather, forest school was back on this week and we were greeted with sunshine and birdsong on a beautiful spring day. Our den had been a casualty of the storms so everyone worked together to rebuild it then we rewarded ourselves with pancakes cooked [...]
Reception children have been learning the story of Handa’s Surprise in their Spanish lessons this week. They have been studying the vocabulary for the various fruits that appear in the story, playing games to aid their learning. They were able to confidently explain in Spanish which fruits they liked and [...]
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