Oak Class returned from the Easter holidays ready and raring to go. We have immersed ourselves in all things farming to get ready for our BIG school trip to Godstone.

 We  designed our own small world  farms, sorted and counted all the animals.

Various Oak class farmers have been  in charge of driving our tractor around the classroom farm delivering livestock to barns and collecting hay bails.

Our class cow known as ‘ Spotty’ or sometimes ‘ Smudge’ has been producing litres and litres of milk all week!

Everybody made a list of things they would need to take to the farm.

By the time we were on our way to Godstone, everyone was au fait with life and work on a farm and excited to put their farm knowledge to the test.

Our trip was great fun, we packed lots in and met some unexpected members of Godstone farm including Bruce the albino hedghog and Georgina the tortoise. Farmer Helena took us on a tractor ride, introduced us to the goats, cows and sheep in the big barn, gave us all the opportunity to handle some of the farms smaller members, told us all about the farm ducks , took us on a mini- beast hunt and introduced us to some piglets who had a race to their lunch!

Here are a selection of photos from our trip:

 As always the rest of our week was filled with tonnes of reading, writing and number work.

All in all it was a busy return to school after the Easter holiday – the trials of farm life are now water off a ducks back to Oak Class…!

By the end of the week, we all needed a good sleep! 

Oak Class Lenten Project. 

In the lead up to the Easter holidays the children of Oak Class delved into the world of Rosie’s Walk, a simple story, with so much to offer, by Pat Hutchin’s.

In our recycling centre we made windmills, rakes and beehives. We used small world play to help us order the sequence of events in Rosie’s Walk. We did lots of positional work relating to where Rosie’s was and where that cunning fox was in comparison.

A highlight was our ‘ talk for writing’. The whole class learnt the story with actions and spent free writing time drawing story maps and actually re-writing the whole story! Amazing work Oak Class!

We culiminated our Rosie’s Walk week by taking part in Rosie’s Walk for our sponsored Lenten Project. We all achieved our goal of 5 turns around Rosie’s Walk. 

Under the bee- hives…

In other news our school role play area has been a super success with the boys taking it upon themsleves to write, write, write and write some more! Go the boys!

In number work we have been concentrating on ordinal numbers – we looked at our birthday dates. We remembered what month we were born in. We ordered months and then dates … quite tricky!

I hope everyone has enjoyed a happy Easter and good break from the daily routine.

Check back next week to see some of the hightlights from Reception Oak Class.