Welcome to Oak’s Class Page
Our teacher is Chloe Graham.
Please explore the pages below to help further support your child at home and to find out what learning and fun we are having.
VISITING THE HOXTON MUSEUM OF THE HOME
To support our learning on Toys and our next topic of Houses and Homes, we visited the Hoxton Museum of the Home.
We started our workshop exploring different homes from around the world and set in different times of history.
This helped support our learning on chronology, comparing similarities and differences and using the language of past and present.
Afterwards we created our own cardboard collage home and presented them to make our own street.
We have a lot of fun designing different floors, a range of rooms. Isla even made a pet house!
TRIP TO THE UNICORN THEATRE
We visited The Unicorn Theatre to watch The Three Little Pigs.
Holly Class came with us. It was a lot of fun getting the train, walking through London Bridge and then having front row seats at the theatre!
Our favourite parts were…
‘The Big Bad Wolf!’
‘When his hand came out of the bin…’
‘When he fell down the chimney!’
WE ARE READING… MILO IMAGINES THE WORLD
We are reading Milo Imagines the World by Matt de la Peña.
To help us sequence the story and help us remember the events, we created freeze frames in groups.
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Each group was given a key event in the story. Our teacher then narrated the story whilst we acted out each event.
We did a great job at acting out the different characters and objects. Check out our break dancing and our royal carriage!
TAKE ONE PICTURE 2025
As part of the National Gallery’s ‘Take one Picture’, we studied the painting by Canaletto, 'A Regatta on the Grand Canal'.
Oak took inspiration from the banners lining the streets and decided to collaborate to create coat of arms banners. We learnt what coat of arms were used for and then drew own designs of what we felt best represented ourselves. We drew our designs onto polystyrene and used block painting to print onto brightly coloured fabric.
VISIT TO THE LOCAL LIBRARY
We visited Forest Hill Library and took books out to return to school. We have been reading and sharing books and identifying which are fiction and which are non-fiction.
EXPLORING AND LEARNING ABOUT PLACE VALUE TO 10
We have been busy using a range of manipulatives, doing our maths lessons outside using natural materials and working in partners to help aid our understanding of place value.
We have learnt so far…
Different ways to sort and group objects
Recognising numbers as words
Counting one more and one less
Counting forwards and counting backwards
Using language like greater than, less than, fewer, more and the same as
Welcome to Year 1!
Welcome to Year 1!
Pirates of Oak Class!
Shiver me timbers! Oak Class took PE and story tellling to the seven seas!
Aarrgh you ready?!
Oak hatched 5 little ducklings in the Summer term. We watched them sleeping under the heat pad and learning how to swim! We loved having Bunny, Eggy, Rosie, Sparkle and Jack.
Christmas 2024
Christmas was a wonderful time of year in Oak Class!
We made hats for our Christmas dinner, wore our Christmas jumpers and ate one too many roast potatoes!
The children performed brilliantly in the Christmas Nativity and they acted perfectly as the little angels they are!
S P A C E
Things got out of the world in Oak class this week! We read ‘Look Up’ and ‘Astro Girl’ and we learnt the song ‘Zoom, Zoom, Zoom’. Have a look at some of the astronomical work we have done!
We used 2D shapes to build rockets - some were little and some were long!
We kept our finger’s busy, using the elastic boards to create rocket, stars and all kind of space images!
Diwali
To learn about and celebrate Diwali, Oak Class made dome Diya lamps. We designed them, made them and decorated them. We learnt how people place Diya lamps around their house, and light candles in them when they celebrate Diwali.
Take One Picture 2024
For Arts Week this year, Oak took inspiration from ‘The Courtyard of a House in Delft’ by Pieter de Hooch.
We were exploring pattern rubbings in our environment. Oak loved discovering the different patterns inside our classroom and outside.
Autumn
Oak Class settled into Horniman by learning about Autumn. We learnt about the changes that we see in nature, we loved finding golden and crunchy leaves!
We investigated different vegetables that are harvested in Autumn. Gardening club gave us a huge Marrow! we loved smelling the insides and see the large seeds. We investigated the insides of a pumpkin and even labelled what we could see.
