GALLERY AUTUMN 2019

Christmas Dinner - Every year the whole school sit down together to share Christmas dinner.  We loved pulling crackers and sharing jokes!
Bikeability - Year 6 pupils had the opportunity to take part in Bikeability sessions during Road Safety Week.  They learnt how to ride safely.
West Stow Trip - As part of their History topic about the Anglo Saxons, Beech Class visited the Anglo Saxon Village and museum at West Stow.  They enjoyed going into recreated houses and looking at artefacts.  It really brought the topic to life.
Whole School Science Day - In December, we all had a visit from Professor Brainstorm, who showed us a variety of fun and interesting science experiments.  We also carried out our own investigations in class. As part of our home learning, we found scientific vocabulary that we wore during the day and learnt the definitions from each other. 
Year 3 had a special visitor from the Hitchin Museum, who brought along artefacts linked to their Stone Age topic. they had a go at building shelters and using bows and arrows to hunt food!
The whole school raised money for Children in Need.  We also had a special visitor earlier in the week!
EYFS Nativity, KS1 Performance and KS2 Carol Concert - All children have performed to their parents as part of our Christmas Celebrations.  All events were very popular!
Christmas Tree Festival - Every year, Oughton hold an annual Christmas Tree Festival where each class creates a tree.  This year's theme was Christmas Stories.  Families and friends attended after school to judge the trees and be entertained by our school choir.
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Year 6 visited RAF Hendon to learn more about planes and World War Two.
To finish their Hisotry topic about the Aztecs, Year 5 had a great day learning all about chocolate and its origins.  They even got to use their DT skills to design and make their own chocolates.
Our Year 6 Classes visited the local library.  They had a chance to join, take books out and learn about the library and how it is organised. 
As part of their Marvellous Me topic, Reception children had a fun Superhero Day to celebrate their own unique talents and skills.
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Herts Catering came in to visit Year 3 and teach them about the importance of vegetables in our diets. They tried different cakes and had to guess which vegetables were in them.  This helped support their science learning about Healthy Eating.
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Year 3 had a really fun day to enrich their Stone Age history topic.  They made necklaces, built Stone Henge, created cave paintings and dressed up!
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On 30th September we learnt about the Jewish festival of Rosh Hashana.  Back in our classrooms we tried apples dipped in honey, which is food from this festival to symbolise having a sweet New Year.
We have now achieved our Silver Travel Award for our efforts to promote active and safer travel!  Pictured are our Junior Travel Ambassadors who have worked very hard towards this.

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 Our annual Scarecrow Festival was held on 15th October.  We had a café, games, competitions and, of course, Scarecrows. Winners will be announced soon.

year 6 pgl trip

Year 1 art wow day
Year 6 recently returned from an excellent residential trip at a PGL centre.  They took part in a range of different outdoor activities that helped them to use their team building skills and develop resilience.  Everyone had a great time.
In October, Year 1 had a fun day learning about the sculptor Henry Moore.  They found out about the artist and created their own clay sculptures in his style.  In the afternoon, parents and carers came in to see the work and create large sculptures with recycled materials. They had a great day!
To celebrate National Poetry Day, we dressed up as words throughout the school. The children (and staff) enjoyed this and they learnt lots of new words to widen their vocabulary.
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On 8th October, Year 4 had a Science Wow day on the theme of habitats.  They went to the common to investigate the living things and worked in the allotment to create a bug hotel.  It was great fun and an opportunity to apply and recall our science learning from this unit of work.
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Years 2 and 3 had a scooter workshop, where they learnt how to scoot safely.  This was a really fun and valuable experience.  It also counts towards our travel plan for our next Modeshift award!
Year 4 created a Bug Hotel this week.  These are the pictures of Before and After.   Well done!