Oaks International School Cambridge

End of term picnic in the park today and end of a great year at Oaks International School!

Open classrooms this afternoon at Oaks for children to share their learning with parents.

Wonderful music performance this morning! The children's level of enjoyment and confidence was amazing and their skill development fantastic!

Great visit to Cherry Hinton Chalk Pits today as part of Art Week - being curious about where materials for sculpture come from!

Badger Class had a fantastic time at Grafham Water last week and worked hard on their team work skills and resilience!

We had a visit today from Sports for Schools with Sean Rose, ParaOlympic skier. What an inspiration he was!

Platinum Jubilee Cream Tea at Oaks International School!!

Brilliant print making today in Art Club!

Baking cinnamon buns at Chef Club yesterday!

Mrs Ibn Tahaikt organised some brilliant activities to celebrate Eid today! The children made henna hands, mosaics, Eid boxes to put dates into and learned how to write their name in Arabic!

Our new Art club started yesterday with plaster casting and the begininnings of sculpture!

We visited the Cambridg Mosque on Monday. What a beautiful building with amazing architecture!

We had a brilliant Easter Egg scavenger hunt in the park today!
Happy Easter everyone!!

Visit to St Andrews Church in Cherry Hinton to learn about Easter and music played in church. The children loved listening to the organ!

Beautiful day at Forest School this afternoon!

We met up with the residents of Cherry Hinton Care home in the park this week! Lovely to see our friends again on a lovely sunny day!

Lovely Mother's Day gathering in Ducking Nursery Class today.

We had a fantastic talent show and bake sale to raise money for Comic Relief today!!

Badger Class had a lovely time visiting the Sedgwick Museum in Cambridge today. Highlights included handling fossils, choosing our favourite minerals in the crystal room and sketching different objects around the museum.

World Book Day today celebrating a love of reading. We had some great costumes and fantastic photos submitted to our 'Extreme Reading' competition!

We celebrated International Mother Language Day today! Our Mother Tongue teachers and their children presented some information about their different languages and cultures. Here are some of our Japanese children teaching us about Spring flowers and how to say their colours.

Getting creative at Forest School today!

Happy Chinese New Year 2022, year of the tiger!

Badger Class have been learning about the Ancient Sumer. We had a very exciting lesson today with our Sumerian expert Ms Besiner, acting as archeologists. We touched and inspected real, 6000 year old pottery shards and used observations skills to decide if they were shards from cooking ware, dinner ware, or storage vessels. Grace spotted burn marks on the cookware, Yusif figured out the size of a pot by the angle of its lid and Thomas identified which shards had interior decorations, deducing they were probably dinner plates.

Badger class are learning about matter, materials and chemical and physical changes. Today, they looked at melting and cooling, by attempting to melt chocolate using varying temperatures of water. They discovered that 40 degrees is best, and that sometimes tinfoil boats let the water in! They also attempted to melt chocolate on their tongue. They had to hold a piece of chocolate on in their mouth without chewing for 3 minutes - it was tough! They also tried melting it in their hands, and found only Miss Pauley’s were warm enough to do so in 3 minutes!

First Forest School session of 2022!

Diwali morning learning about Hinduism and the festival of Diwali!

October is Black History Month and this week we have a Black History focus. here are some books that have helped us explore the achievements and experiences of black people around the world with the children

Badger Class had an excellent trip to the Musuem of Classical Archeology last Thursday. We heard the story of Pelops and the deadly chariot races, practiced our sketching skills, used our knowledge of Greek Gods and Goddesses to identify statues and enjoyed posing as statues!

Afterwards, we enjoyed some class bonding time at the Lammas Land playpark.

Badger class have been exploring Greek Theatre. We researched the traditions and innovations of the theatre and completed a Greek Theatre Quiz. Now, the children have started sculpting their own Greek Masks from clay, trying to carefully show a Greek mythological figure, and a specific emotion.

Can you guess who they’re sculpting?

In Art club, we have been exploring clay as a medium. Today, the children made ‘monster pinch pots’. We had to use score and slip to attach features, rolling, pinning and twisting to create shapes and creativity to decide on our shapes. Next week we will paint them!