Oakfield Academy

In geography , Year 1 have been learning about settlements. We learnt that there are different types; village, town and city. We looked at examples and explored the local area on google maps. We then had a go at creating our own map for our own settlement. 🗺️I

Congratulations! One of Totton and Eling Carnival Princesses. We are all so proud of you.

As another busy and exciting week comes to an end, we are delighted to share some of the wonderful learning experiences and special events that have taken place across the school. From welcoming our new Reception children and exploring wildlife at Marwell Zoo to exciting residential adventures at Little Canada, our pupils have continued to demonstrate enthusiasm, kindness and a love of learning. Thank you for your ongoing support, and we hope you enjoy reading about some of this week's highlights.

This week, our Year R children took part in the Teddy Bears’ Picnic for our new Reception children. They were fantastic role models throughout the event and did a brilliant job retelling the story of Supertato.
After a busy morning making delicious Rice Krispie cakes, the children proudly served them to our visitors and carefully poured drinks for everyone. I was incredibly impressed with the excellent manners, kindness and helpfulness shown throughout the day.
During independent learning time, some children chose to create signs for the picnic, demonstrating their fantastic writing skills. These were proudly displayed for everyone to see.
Well done, Year R!

Year 1 had a fantastic trip to Marwell Zoo today. The children enjoyed an exciting day exploring the zoo and learning about a wide variety of animals from around the world.
One of the highlights of the day was taking part in an Animal Expedition, where the children discovered fascinating facts about different species, their habitats and how they survive in the wild. They asked thoughtful questions, showed great enthusiasm and represented the school brilliantly. It was a fun-filled day packed with learning and adventure!

Year 2 have been busy developing their measuring skills by weighing objects using balance scales and pan scales. They have also been practising reading scales that increase in steps of 2, 5, 10 and 100.
Their learning about midpoints during Maths Mastery sessions proved very useful and helped them to apply their understanding confidently. Well done, Year 2!

In Science, Year 3 explored reflective materials. The children investigated a range of different materials and tested whether they reflected light. They enjoyed making predictions, carrying out investigations and discussing their findings like real scientists! 🔦

Year 4 as a special conclusion to last term’s Science topic on Grouping and Classifying, Mrs Marshall brought in her pet stick insects for the children to observe and hold.
Year 4 thoroughly enjoyed meeting the stick insects and were fascinated by their movements, especially when they appeared to ‘dance’! It was a wonderful hands-on learning experience that brought their Science learning to life.

Years 5 and 6 had an amazing time at Little Canada this week. The children took part in a wide range of exciting outdoor activities including canoeing, the giant swing, archery and laser tag.
Throughout the visit, the children demonstrated excellent teamwork, resilience and enthusiasm as they challenged themselves and tried new experiences. They created lasting memories, built confidence and, thankfully, enjoyed some wonderful weather too! It was a fantastic trip that everyone will remember for a long time.

Father's Day Breakfast
Today, we were delighted to host our Father’s Day Breakfast. Thank you to all the dads and special adults who joined us for the morning. The children worked incredibly hard to create beautiful cards, and it was lovely to see them shared and appreciated.
A huge thank you also goes to our staff for helping to make the event such a success and to our PTA for organising the Father’s Day Gift Room. We are also very grateful to everyone who has donated items for our upcoming Bottle Tombola.
Thank you for your continued support.

We look forward to another fun-filled week of learning and exciting experiences next week!

As another busy and exciting week comes to an end, we are delighted to share some of the wonderful learning experiences and special events that have taken place across the school. From welcoming our new Reception children and exploring wildlife at Marwell Zoo to exciting residential adventures at Little Canada, our pupils have continued to demonstrate enthusiasm, kindness and a love of learning. Thank you for your ongoing support, and we hope you enjoy reading about some of this week's highlights.

Year R
This week, our Year R children took part in the Teddy Bears’ Picnic for our new Reception children. They were fantastic role models throughout the event and did a brilliant job retelling the story of Supertato.
After a busy morning making delicious Rice Krispie cakes, the children proudly served them to our visitors and carefully poured drinks for everyone. I was incredibly impressed with the excellent manners, kindness and helpfulness shown throughout the day.
During independent learning time, some children chose to create signs for the picnic, demonstrating their fantastic writing skills. These were proudly displayed for everyone to see.
Well done, Year R!

Year 1
Year 1 had a fantastic trip to Marwell Zoo today. The children enjoyed an exciting day exploring the zoo and learning about a wide variety of animals from around the world.
One of the highlights of the day was taking part in an Animal Expedition, where the children discovered fascinating facts about different species, their habitats and how they survive in the wild. They asked thoughtful questions, showed great enthusiasm and represented the school brilliantly. It was a fun-filled day packed with learning and adventure!

Year 2
Year 2 have been busy developing their measuring skills by weighing objects using balance scales and pan scales. They have also been practising reading scales that increase in steps of 2, 5, 10 and 100.
Their learning about midpoints during Maths Mastery sessions proved very useful and helped them to apply their understanding confidently. Well done, Year 2!

Year 3
In Science, Year 3 explored reflective materials. The children investigated a range of different materials and tested whether they reflected light. They enjoyed making predictions, carrying out investigations and discussing their findings like real scientists! 🔦

Year 4
As a special conclusion to last term’s Science topic on Grouping and Classifying, Mrs Marshall brought in her pet stick insects for the children to observe and hold.
Year 4 thoroughly enjoyed meeting the stick insects and were fascinated by their movements, especially when they appeared to ‘dance’! It was a wonderful hands-on learning experience that brought their Science learning to life.

Years 5 and 6
Years 5 and 6 had an amazing time at Little Canada this week. The children took part in a wide range of exciting outdoor activities including canoeing, the giant swing, archery and laser tag.
Throughout the visit, the children demonstrated excellent teamwork, resilience and enthusiasm as they challenged themselves and tried new experiences. They created lasting memories, built confidence and, thankfully, enjoyed some wonderful weather too! It was a fantastic trip that everyone will remember for a long time.
Father's Day Breakfast

Today, we were delighted to host our Father’s Day Breakfast. Thank you to all the dads and special adults who joined us for the morning. The children worked incredibly hard to create beautiful cards, and it was lovely to see them shared and appreciated.
A huge thank you also goes to our staff for helping to make the event such a success and to our PTA for organising the Father’s Day Gift Room. We are also very grateful to everyone who has donated items for our upcoming Bottle Tombola.
Thank you for your continued support.
We look forward to another fun-filled week of learning and exciting experiences next week!

Weekly Round-Up – 12/06/2026

It has been another busy and exciting week across the school, with lots of fantastic learning taking place. The children have shown great enthusiasm and confidence in their activities, and we are very proud of their efforts.
Year R – This week, we explored odd and even numbers. We built our own Numberblocks and discussed the even tops and odd blocks we could see. We finished by sorting our Numberblocks into even and odd groups. The children did a fantastic job and were able to confidently explain why their number was odd or even – well done!

Year 1 – In computing, we have been learning how to use a keyboard. We began by finding the letters in our names, before opening Word and trying to type the alphabet. It was quite tricky to find all the letters, but everyone showed great determination!

Year 2 – We were very excited to welcome our caterpillars this week! We had a close look at them and noticed how tiny they are. Some of us even enjoy talking to them as we watch them grow.

Year 3 – In writing this week, we have been learning about contractions. Working in groups, we matched phrases to their correct contractions and built our understanding through teamwork.

Year 4 – To immerse ourselves in our new text The Flood, we acted out part of the story using a “freeze frame” at the moment when the characters decide to ignore the safety warning. There was some excellent acting, and great confidence shown when performing in front of the class.

Year 5 – This week, we have been learning how to compare continents using statistics such as life expectancy, population density and wealth. We also discussed how climate might influence the differences between continents. In addition, we used atlases and rulers to calculate distances using map scales (e.g. 1cm = 50km). Excellent work, Year 5! 🗺️📍

Some of our Year 5 and Year 6 pupils have headed off on their residential trip to Little Canada today. We are excited to hear all about their adventures and what they have been up to next week!

In science this week, year 3 learnt about shadows. We learnt that shadows form where light is blocked. We explored making our own shadows and then discovered how the colour of shadows can change when there is a different coloured light 💡🔦

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Yesterday Year R looked at odd and even numbers. We built our own Number blocks and discussed the even tops and odd blocks we could see.
We finished by sorting our Numberblocks into even and odd numbers. The children did a great job of sorting and were able to explain why their number was odd or even.
Well done!

Year 5 had a super first swimming lesson ! 🤿 Everyone put so much effort in and made great progress in such a short time 😊 You should all be very proud of yourselves!

We had a great first week back at school, take a look at what we learnt below!

Year R - This week we have been learning about doubles. We began by using our hands to show doubles and then progressed to representing them on the rekenreks. Well done Year R!

Year 1 - This week we have been learning about the Buddhist festival Esala Perahera. This is a special festival which takes place in Sri Lanka. This afternoon we learnt about the temple of the tooth. We found out that inside the temple is the tooth relic of Buddha.

Year 2 - The rain eased off yesterday and lots of fun and learning at OWL.
Tools, dens, climbing,teamwork,bug hunting and of course splashing.🤩

Year 3 - This week in RE we learnt about the 5th pillar of Islam, Hajj. We learnt that Hajj was a special journey (pilgrimage) to Mecca. Today we designed and researched our own special journey that we could take. ☪️🕋

Year 4 - In RE this week, we have been learning about Eid-ul-Adha, a Muslim celebration. We talked about the story of Ibrahim and Ismail and how Muslims remember the sacrifice Ibrahim was asked to make as a final test. We learned that Muslims share their food with others during the celebrations. To represent this, we split some money into thirds, one third for those less fortunate, one third for friends and one third for the table of children to share. We then did the same with some sweets. We discussed how it felt to sacrifice two thirds of what we started with and had responses from frustrated, angry, sad to good, happy and glad. Of course, at the end we were all able to have a couple of sweets too.

Year 5 - This week we completed several Stormbreak activities in class. These focussed on self worth and involved the children teaching each other an action, before passing it along the line. The class worked brilliantly to support each other and it was great to have a movement break after a few wet playtimes 🌧️☔️

Year 6 - have been doing some great practice of their 13x tables this week, applying their learning in different contexts.Practice at home with them and see what they can remember!

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We have had a fantastic term full of fun, learning, and achievements, and we are so proud of everything the children have accomplished. Thank you for all of your continued support — we are looking forward to another great term ahead! 🌟

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