As part of our ‘Know Yourself, Grow Yourself’ Children’s Mental Health Week. Lower Kindergarten designed their own pots ready to plant watercress seeds to grow their ‘hair’. They decorated their pot by painting it in the colour of their choice. Once dry we screwed up some blue paper towels into…
Year One went on a trip into London to ride on the London Eye, as part of their Humanities topic. It was a bit of grey and chilly day, but everyone loved spotting all the famous landmarks of London they had been learning about in class, such as The Houses…
Key stage 1 and 2 attended the Safer Internet Day assembly. This year’s theme is ‘Too good to be True? Protecting yourself and others from scams online’. Louis, Bryony, Safaa and Alyssia explained how to identify online scams, they shared their top tips for staying safe whilst on the internet….
Our Kindergarten pupils were thrilled to welcome a real Police Officer to their classroom! She spoke about her important job, the equipment she uses daily, and how she helps keep everyone safe. The children got to sit inside a real police car, switch the blue lights on and…
Lower Kindergarten came to school dressed with a number on their clothes to support NSPCC Number Day. In class they participated in a number of activities, including rolling a large dice and finding the correct number on the chair and for Expressive Arts they used different size circles and dipped…
Oaklands took 18 very excited pupils along to the annual Oak-Tree U11 Tag-Rugby competition at Eton Manor RFC on Tuesday 4 February. It is always a very fun and exciting day out, and it didn’t disappoint once again. Oaklands eventually came out winners in the Boys and Girls competitions, and…
Pupils from Years 5 and 6 represented Oaklands at the Oak-Tree U11 Indoor Athletics competition at the Peter May Centre in Walthamstow on Friday 31 January. The girls team and boys team ran, threw, and jumped their socks off to storm to a well deserved win for team Oaklands, demonstrating…
Year 1 have been learning about the seasons and our weather, this included them looking for signs that certain weather is coming, such as a storm. To help with our weather watching skills, the classes made Breeze Buddies, who will wave around to show us that the wind is picking…
It has been a few years since Oaklands School took part in a Hockey fixture, and they certainly didn’t disappoint! We took 27 very eager and excited pupils, armed with their mouthguards and hockey sticks for a fixture against Howe Green House School at Essex and Herts Sports Centre in…
Pupils from The Oak-Tree Group of Schools had an amazing time at ‘Young Voices’ at the o2 last night!! The atmosphere was electric and we couldn’t be prouder of their incredible performance. They loved every moment of singing in a choir of over 8000 children! Their hard work practising the…
