We have been so pleased to welcome back the familiar faces from last year and also meet and get to know all our new classmates. The children have all settled in so well and are enjoying exploring the indoor and outdoor environments 🙂
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Our first week in Year 1!
Our new year 1’s have been busy exploring their new classroom, discussing our rules and taking part in celebrating the 70th birthday of Greenfields School. We celebrated with a class party and disco and enjoyed spending time at the fair winning prizes!
Troll Jelly
Reception read ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’ and have been doing a variety of activities to do with the story. They have absolutely loved retelling the story in our story tray and have been enjoying being the different characters. They have loved being the troll and especially the Big Billy Goat Gruff. We made troll …
Easter in Year 1
We had an amazing time in Year 1 during Easter and got really busy! We created our own Easter eggs using Paper Mache. We buttered our own hot cross buns and took part in our Easter Bonnet parade!
Cooking a Malaysian noodle dish.
In Geography we have been comparing South Oxhey to different places in the world. We wanted to create a Malaysian inspired noodle dish. In preparation we discussed the importance of hygiene and the safety needed to successfully use knives. We had to adapt our noodles to ensure they were edible for all children including those …
We love coding!
We started off following two step instructions and then built up to four steps. Some of us managed to find glitches too!
Science Investigators
In science today, we were investigating ‘Thermal Conductors’ as part of our Properties of Materials topic. We used three different materials (wood, plastic, metal) to investigate which material conducted heat the best. We worked this out by observing which spoon allowed the butter to melt the fastest! Metal won the race! Which one do you …
First Week Back
We had a fantastic first week back in the classroom and played a lot of strategy/maths games with our classmates! Year 5 are really enjoying getting stuck into the whole class text ‘Tuesday’ where mysterious events happen every Tuesday.
World Book Week
Last week was World Book Week and we had a great time doing a range of activities and lots of reading! We read the book ‘Tin Forest’ and we worked in small groups to produce a wonderful whole-class poem about two contrasting scenes in the book. We also made pictures based on these scenes using …
Year 4 Circus
Year 4 created a wonderful circus event for everyone to enjoy!