Good Luck Year 6 for secondary school.
Just a little message to say Good Luck to everyone who has just left Oakfield. We wish you all the best for the next stage of your education and beyond. Have a fantastic future and be happy!
Enjoy the summer holidays.
Miss Graham & Mrs McCormack xx

Thank you to Year 6 for a fab time last week at our residential. All the teachers had a super time and that's thanks to all of you - for your hilarious moments, laughter and smiling faces. You gave every activity 100% effort, overcame fears (particularly of heights - well done Miss Batey) and just had a really good time! You were all a pleasure to take away.
Here are some of the photos that we took.....

Miss Graham what a super model you would make - I hear you have been head hunted!!!

And Daniel won, what a softie Mrs McCormack!!!!

All of us together on our last day.

Year 6 have been studying a variety of poems about feelings and emotions. We have written a short anthology based on the sounds we could hear in the playground. We were not only thinking about the different sounds, but thinking about the feelings and emotions the sounds reminded us of. We wrote our poems in groups and used metaphors, personification and similes to help describe how the sounds made us feel. We hope you enjoy it as much as Miss Graham did!

The Sound of the Play Ground

In the haven of the peaceful playground,
The gentle wind carries an array of sounds…

An anthology of poems from Year 6

The wind enveloped me in its whistling way.
Footsteps were mice creeping up on me.
The grass crunched as people waded through the long stalks.
Trees swayed gently while bushes rustled,
And the air suffocated me in the smooth majestic sky.

The peaceful sounds enveloped me and soothed my ears,
As I strolled on to the yard.
The wind whistled calmly,
As it raced like a bullet through the elegant trees deeply agitating them.
The birds chirped tunefully,
As they glided elegantly through the air just skimming the leaves.
The relaxing silence was broken by the screeching of cars.
They were a raging storm, roaring down the road
With their clattering engines shouting loudly.

The mournful wind sighed amongst the shaky trees,
I heard distant humming like evil honey bees.
Blackbirds were cheeping, dogs were yapping and leaping around,
The playground was bursting with a variety of sounds!
The footsteps were mice squeaking round the flower pots,
The stones were clattered, darting like little live dots.
It was relaxing, it wasn’t loud,
The playground was bursting with a variety of sound.

The swaying grass rocked and rolled like an 80’s rock star.
The bees buzzed in the warm sunshine.
Drowned out footsteps stomped past my ear.
The tweeting birds were a beautiful symphony waiting for me to dance.

I lay still and peaceful on the grass, listening quietly.
Tranquil wind weaved through my fragile fingers.
Whispering trees swaying in the breeze were a choir of children.
Lush green leaves pirouetted like professional ballerinas.
I lay still and peaceful on the grass, listening quietly.

I sat still and calmly on the bench, listening silently.
High in the leaves feathery companions sing like a high pitched orchestra,
Church bells fade into the busy streets.
The gentle traffic is a comforting envelope.
I sat still and calmly on the bench, listening silently.

Year 6 had a fabulous day at Eden Camp on Wednesday. The ex-prisoner of war camp in Malton, North Yorkshire, has lots of huts, all dedicated to different aspects of the 2nd World War. These ranged from how Hitler rose to power, what a typical street looked liked during the early 40s, if it had just been bombed and what it looked like during a black out.

All of the children's behaviour was exemplary and their enthusiasm was outstanding - a credit to Oakfield. Just to make the day even better, the sun was out so we all sunbathed over lunch then had an ice cream!

A massive thank you to Mrs Leonard, Mrs Ibbetson and Mrs Russell who came with us and helped enormously.

Inside the Bomb Shelters

In front of two of the many tanks on display

In the American submarine

In the last week of term, Show Racism the Red Card came into year 6 to do some workshops and raise awareness. We discussed the term racism, watched a DVD and had a quiz. In the 2nd workshop we played football.

"It was good, I liked playing football the best!" - Liam Stipetic.

"I enjoyed the day, the football got us all motivated." - Caitlin Taylor

Green and Yellow

Blue vs Red

Relay shuttles

6G had a brilliant week before half term - PE every day! We made dance routenes based on football moves to the Match of the Day theme tune, we played football, rounders, parachute games and even had our own Olympics competition. Check out our photos!

6M really enjoyed their PE week. We did athletics (long jump, shot, relay, javelin) badminton, volleyball, rounders, football, gymnastics - I am sure the list could go on further! We had a great time.

Thank you to you all for making the week so enjoyable!
Pictures of this week will follow after half term.

This week in DT we have been tasting, designing, making and evaluating biscuits. Here are some pictures of us having fun and our final products. Some are tastier and more colourful than others!!!!

Thankyou for all of your hard work. We know revision is hard, you're all doing so well. Keep going, only a few more weeks left! Keep smiling!

From Miss Graham and Mrs McCormack :)

The sky was as bright as the shimmering sun, the clouds flowed by – every thing was perfect. We were taking our dog Max, our chocolate brown Labrador, for a walk, along the top of the sunny beach. “I want to hold the lead!” I shouted.
“No you’re too young!” exclaimed Josh, my older brother.
“Please,” I yelled.
“No!” Josh answer back.
The clouds turned black; the rain poured down. I dropped my teddy bear; I went to see where he fell – then, all of a sudden…..

“Help me!” I screamed as loud as I could.
“I’ve got you!” Josh shouted as he held tightly onto my arm.
The mighty waves climbed the daring cliff .The jagged rocks dug into my back.

Max began to run as fast as lighting – where was he going? “Max come back,” Josh yelled, but Max slowly faded into the fog. “I’m scared of heights,” I said tearfully.

“Look over there, there’s Max,” screamed Josh with joy.! Max was with some people; there were about 50 years old, both with no hair. What were they doing? “One, two, three, pull!” they exclaimed. They started pulling me up from the awkward position. “Let’s call your dad to come and collect you,” said one of the men.
By Rachel Senior

It was a gloomy day with dark clouds hanging from the misty sky. As we slowly walked down the narrow path, we could see the edge of the cliff. My senses tickled me, maybe something was going to happen, was it going to happen to me or my sister?
As my dog was pulling hard on the lead, my sister decided she wanted to have the lead. I knew if I gave her the lead she wouldn’t have enough strength to hold on to it, so I said no. Of course, my annoying younger sister wasn’t happy. So she started to shout at me ragefully. In anger my sister threw her beloved teddy near the edge of the cliff .She ran crying towards the teddy. I ran as quickly as I could towards her, but got slowed down by the winds getting stronger and stronger. As my sister picked up the dampened teddy she slipped; luckily she grabbed on to a rock. I wanted to help her but ungovernable terror gripped me and stuck me to the ground. Thoughts ran wildly in my head. Could this be the disaster I could sense?

I sprinted back home with the dog to our house and told mum. When we got back my mum cuddled my petrified sister. After that we promised we would never argue again, I also told her there would be a nice surprise when she got back.
By Matthew Smith

It was a cloudy, stuffy day as we strolled along the magnificent landscape; the cliffs were as white as chalk as the wind propelled the sea against the cliffs. The sun sang a soft melody as it hung in the sky – it shone straight through the soft, thin layer of water and to the depths, where life was hard to spot. We were there walking our dog, Jacob, on that summers morning. We were just tiptoeing along the cliff tops when my sister Jenny, decided she wanted to hold Jacobs long, black lead. I didn’t like this so we almost started playing tug of war over it. So, for fun I let go, her sweaty hands slipped off the lead and she was left hanging, yes hanging on the cliff edge …

She was screaming like an old train tooting its horn, it nearly burst my ear drums. Why was the weather changing? The sky was going a light reddish colour like a devil in the sky, and then the rain came. Jacob ran off, we didn’t know where but my muscles had to be strong to hold her. I felt exhausted just thinking about it. Then I saw Jacob coming back with, what looked like a women. Before we knew it, they were upon us. Next thing we knew a lifeguard in a speed boat was below Jenny, she climbed down the rocks and clambered into the boat. She was taken to hospital.

On the way to visit her I looked at my arm it looked twice the size it was. I gave some flowers to her, and she said “you can hold the lead in future!” The doctor told me she’d be fine in about two weeks, we promised we’d never fight again, but did I mean it…
By Luke Cuthbertson

We saw the big old tree, it swayed in the wind, the smell of burnt wood hung in the air. My heart was pounding as I eased myself around the tree, and there it was .Silence struck me and covered me like a blanket . The Things illuminous eyes struck me then small green snakes as thin as a pen flung out of the Things mouth, one at a time .It glistened like wet leather , ungovernable terror gripped me as the Thing came out of the perfectly black bush.

The Thing grew bigger and bigger until it came to a stop. I tried to run, but it was too late….

By Andrew Todd

We saw the big old tree. There was an illuminous green glow coming from behind the tree, as I slowly glanced up to the top of the tree I couldn’t believe it. I could hear a mumbling sound getting louder and louder. There was a burnt smell drifting across the garden from next door. I felt scared.

As I glanced up the top of the tree again, I gasped, there it was. A green rounded sort of thing. What did it want with us? It had something in its’ hands, it looked like a person. We were all stood there, silent, and then it spoke….

I pushed myself back. Even my little sister was silent. It jumped. It hit the ground with a ringing concussion. It slowly but steadily came towards us. What had we done?

By Emily Robinson

What the children say...
Mrs McCormack has long blonde hair. She is a cheerful, caring, friendly and funny person. Mrs McCormack is a really nice teacher to have because she always smiles. She is absolutely monkey mad and has toy monkeys in the classroom. Mrs McCormack works us hard but it’s always for a good reason and always helps us if we are stuck. She is firm and keeps us on the right track and if we do, she gives out lots of stamps and merits. She is fast on the computer and knows everything about them. Mrs McCormack is known as the best teacher that ever lived, by her class.

In RE we have been looking at making choices and what beliefs and values we base our choices on. We then looked at the 10 Commandments and tried to place them in order of importance, for what we believe. We then turned them into modern day language and used poetic verse as a way to help us remember them.

Do not covet,
Do not lie,
Respect your parents- Stop your sigh,
Don't idolise,
Don't dare roll them eyes,
Only worship me,
Remember to keep the sabbath holy,
Never misuse my name,
Adultery is not a game,
Do not steal,
Murdering is not the deal.
By Louis, Thomas and Emily

Never murder it's against the law,
Don't steal, swear or do adultery so.
Treat your parents with respect,
God's name you must protect.
Follow my rules one to ten,
Listen while I read again.
Remember to always be true,
Remember I'm the God for you.
Do not commit jealously,
Relax on Sundays, keep them free.
By Bethany Simpson, Izaak Scott-Briggs and Hannah Cairns

Do not murder steal or lie, it will make you sigh and cry,
Honour your mother and father to the very last,
Make jeolousy a thing of the past,
Please do not abuse the name of God,
I am the one and only, remember to worship me.
by Kate Glasgow,Emma Graham and Abby Winship.

In Art this week we have been looking at sunsets. We researched the different colours and experimented with different techniques when using chalk pastels to blend and contrast the colours. We then used black paper to create a bridge in the background.

Please have a look at the photographs of us working on our art work and the final master piece.

Thank you everyone for working so hard on these, they all look fantastic and very effective.

Miss Graham is a funny and kind teacher. She describes our work very clearly. Miss Graham always wears a smile whatever she does. She is really fun when it comes to PE and always makes her lessons enjoyable.

In Science this week we carried out an investigation to see if water provides an upward force on objects. We looked at the forces acting on floating and sinking objects. Also we suspended objects in the air and weighed them using a forcemeter, then we weighed the same object whilst it was submerged in water and found that objects weigh less in water.

Here are some pictures of us carrying out our investigation.

Thank you again to the BP Magnus Platform (oil rig) for the children's reflective badges. Every child in Year 6 recieved one of these to help advertise the importance of safety in school and at home. As the Magnus Safety Representative said, "We felt this would be a good opportunity to involve families and friends in promoting safety during the winter months."

Here are some pictures of us on the last day before we broke up for Christmas holding up the badges.

6G have written some poems and songs for Christmas (look out Leon Jackson, here we come!).

Songs:

Christmas song
(To the tune of All I Want For Christmas Is You)

By Hannah Roe and Georgia Pirelli

Hope Santa knows what you are wanting,
You’ve sent your letter nice ‘n’ early.
(And iiiiiiiiiiiii)
Made angles in the deep snow,
With my friends and family.
Go to bed with eyes shut tight,
Sleeping early just this night.
Make my wish come true,
Santa pleeeeeease can I see… YOU!!

Christmas is coming

By Dominic Gowland, Joseph Vaughan and Luke Cuthbertson

Christmas is coming
Christmas is coming
Christmas is coming today
But it seems so far away
Christmas is coming today

Have a Christmas jiggy, buh, buh, buh
Every body’s happy, buh, buh, buh
Let’s have a Christmas party, buh, buh, buh

Santa is coming down the chimney tonight
Christmas pie and candle light
Making people happy
And being right
He is coming tonight, ho, ho, ho

Have a Christmas jiggy, buh, buh, buh
Every body’s happy, buh, buh, buh
Let’s have a Christmas party, buh, buh, buh

Have a Christmas jiggy, buh, buh, buh
Every body’s happy, buh, buh, buh
Let’s have a Christmas party, buh, buh, buh

You are the Christmas in me(To the tune of you are the music in me - high school musical 2)

By Louisa Preece

Na Na Na Na
Na Na Na Na
Na Na Na

You are the Christmas in me

Na Na Na Na
Na Na Na Na
Na Na Na

You are the Christmas in me

You know the words once upon a time
When you listen it’s CHRISTMAS!
And when you dream there’s a chance you’ll find
Some presents in your fantasy (heeeee)
Your sleigh bells ring
Makes my heart ping

Santa’s on his sleigh tonight
A single toy
With lots of joy

Christmas song
By Robyn Leonard 6G

Christmas is coming
Christmas is coming
The time for joy and laughter
So put up your tree
Through on the lights
And get in the Christmas spirit

Pull the crackers
Eat the turkey
And the stuffing too
So much to do
In so little time
La la la

If your good
If your good
Santa will visit
Sleigh bells ring
Snow falls covering the ground
So remember
Santa is watching
All the time

And some poems...

Count down to Christmas!
By Christopher Taylor, Raees Khan, Oliver Davis

The countdown to Christmas has already begun,
Come and share the joy of Christmas fun,
Come and share the Christmas tradition
Every year Santa’s on a wonderful mission,
Delivering presents for girls and boys
Their parcels are filled with wonderful toys.

Christmas time

By Caitlin Taylor, Emily Senior and Tia Lindsay

Christmas time is coming near,
Full of laughter, full of cheer.
Christmas presents, stockings too,
Wrapped with love for me and you.
Families laughing having fun,
Christmas time has just begun.

Christmas is here
By Keira Scope

Christmas is here,
Children cheer,
For presents and joy all year.
We ask for pet bears and cute baby hares,
We are happy and eating our Christmas dinner,
We play cool games and every one is a winner.
Yes Santa is coming,
Yes Santa is coming,
Yes Santa is coming tonight,
So you better turn off your light.

Christmas Poem Time

By Rachel MacKenzie

C hristmas joy
H oliday fun
R obins flying
I gloos making in the night
S anta is coming to town
T oys are being wrapped
M aking snowmen
A nd jumping in the sun
S now falling

P resents being opened
O ddly shaped presents
E very day is fun
M ums going mad!

T insel covering the room
I ce falling from roofs
M ad children screaming
E nd of Christmas

Christmas Joy

By Sam Wadey, Raees Khan, Oliver Davis and Scott Dewing

C ome to share the birth of gods son
H elp God give the gift
R ejoice the birth of the lord
I llness and sickness shall be no more
S hare your gifts with the less fortunate
T ell the story of Jesus to the world
M ake all sadness become history
A ll shall rejoice the holy birth
S it and rest the end of the year is near

J oin in the prayer of the Lord
O n the 25th of December you shall rejoice
Y ellow star guides you to Bethlehem

Christmas
By Victoria Sanson

C arols
H olly
R obins
I ce
S now
T insel
M erry day
A ntlers
S anta

Year 6 made marizpan fruits this afternoon as a Christmas present for their parents. They then wrapped them in tissue paper and put them in decorated boxes, which they had made the day before. Here are some pictures of 6M making their fruits, they had fun using the food colouring!!

Thank you for a fantastic party, the children looked fab and the food was gorgeous. A special thank you to Mrs Robinson for organising all the food, we couldn't have managed without you.
We played party games, had a dance competition and danced the party away!!!
Daniel Martin busted some John Travolta moves while Connor showed us how to break dance and Dominic wowed us all with his disco dance moves. As for the girls we had Georgia and Amber show us their dance routine, Keira and Victoria twirled while Bethany, Laura and Abby didn't stop moving.

Here are some photos for you to enjoy:

Clelland 4 Oakfield!

Yr 6 was learning about democracy as part of a citizenship program. They were given the opportunity to meet and interview the MP of Tyne Bridge, Mr David Clelland.

He answered many intriguing questions and explained the role of his exasperating job. He told us that democracy was the process whereby the nation makes decisions for themselves. Normally they go by the majority of the peoples’ votes, but sometimes the Government have to make the choice themselves because there might be a tie.

Yr 6 also noted that Mr Clelland travels to parliament Monday-Thursday to make important decisions with current Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
Yr 6 loved asking David Clelland about his job and what he does for a living.

By James Lawrence and Connor Reed.

Here are some pictures of us:

Our DT design brief was to design and build a bridge to cross the river, allowing the boat to sail underneath it, while holding a given weight.
We all worked in groups to complete this challenge, making sure we worked co-operatively and as a 'team.'
Mark Foggin said, "It was a fun week and it was good because you don't get the opportunity to use the saws and other tools every week."
As a whole 6M thoroughly enjoyed the week and can't wait for our next DT week, which will be in the Spring term.

Here are some pictures of the groups with their finished bridges after they evaluated them. Some are more stable than others!!

Fear That House

Shivering my arm reached out towards the mossy iron gate. As I clutched the handle tightly a trickle of fear ran down my spine. I felt so afraid and longed for her comforting hand to hold. How had it come to this? I had to get inside but how? What if I was seen? I pushed gently on the gate but harder than I should have done. All at once it scraped along the broken cobble path, singing a song of death. I quickly ran through and darted into a bush. Even though everything was silent now, the voice still rang in my head, her voice, I was almost sure it was her voice, but how?

The Haunted House

I stood shaking, staring at that freaky mansion. Should I go in? Yes, my feet were walking all by themselves. I slowly grabbed the iron gate and it screamed at me like Satin's child. Walking up the drive-way I felt like someone was following me. Was that just me? Getting nearer the mansion a smell suddenly hit my nose like a car hitting a small child,it was like an old dead body in a pathology lab. Why was I doing this? He could see me tripping, so why didn't he come and rescue me? Stumbling on the decking, then reaching for the unpainted door handle I.......

The Night of Death

Getting closer and closer to the huge,peculiar gates. I was scared for myself. What was that feeling? My force from my body pulled me on. I opened the gate praying it wouldn't make a noise. The gate screamed at me like a hurt child.

Death was surrounding me like an army of soldiers. Fear killed my heart. My soul dragged me down, dragged me down. Frozen with fear I bellowed out loud. Blood began to drip from a tree. My hand reached out to pull the handle open,the smell of dead bodies hit my nose . . .

By Luke Cuthbertson

Next week 6G will be studying France. If any one has got any French resources that they wouldn't mind bringing into school, it would be much appreciated! I think we should try eating snails and frogs legs....

On Friday 19th January Mike and Tanya, a calligrapher and artist, worked with Year 6 for the whole day. They began the day looking at the patterns you can make with words. They had lots of fun doing this and were amazed at the different ways they could present the same word. Next they made templates for the letters in their words and used different colours to make an interesting pattern. Then they stuck the letters onto transparent plastic. These are to be displayed on the school bridge and in the Shipley Art Gallery.

Year 6 can't wait to see their art work presented on the bridge for all to see!!

In 6C we have been studying about Spain. We have made a mood board representing what we think of when we talk about Spain. During our ICT lessons we have produced a fact file containing the main information about Spain, copying and pasting facts from the Internet.

We have been bringing into school resources and artefacts from home about Spain to make a class display.

We are all enjoying learning about Spain and wish it was One World Week all the time and we wish we were in Spain!!!

During the last week of this half term (WB October 16) 6C will be learning about Spain and 6L will be learning about Mexico.
Both classes will learn about their countries through: music, art, drama and ICT.