Shrewsbury Cathedral Catholic Primary School & Nursery
Oak Class Year 6
Welcome to Oak Class
Teacher - Mrs Breeze
Here you will find everything you need to know about our class, our expectations and updates on what we've been learning about.
For more information about the curriculum, please head over to our dedicated Curriculum page.
Science in action - Exploring Natural Selection in action - which beak is best?
History, D&T and Science - Creating a prototype Fairground
English & History - A Shrewsbury Ghost Walk to find Scrooge's grave
D&T, History, Geography and English - Visit to the Flaxmill
English, History and Geography - Visit to the Library
Class of 24/25
Citizenship, Geography, History and English - We presented weather reports from Doggerland 8200 years ago.
Celebrating Success! A fantastic week demonstrating our SPAG, Maths and Reading skills as well as our resilience and determination.
History, Maths and D&T - Calculating and creating Maya temples and
RE and Art - Creating art inspired by Francis Bacon's Crucifixion that all people can connect with
English - Being newspaper editors - have they got all the key features?
PE and Art - Creating human sculptures
ARTHOG
Useful Website for each Curriculum Subject
Learning we are proud of
Autumn Term 2024-25
RSHE, Citizenship and Science - Exploring the emotion disgust, including disgust at littering and sharing our ideas for creating a better world with Year 2
History and English - Imagining life in the workhouse, from laundry to oakum picking, to inspire our diary writing
Science and Technology - Building circuits and solving problems
Citizenship, Geography and RE - Reflecting on the plight of refugees and what we can do to support justice
Art and History - Exploring emotion in colour inspired by Jean-Michel Basquiat
Science (and sweets) - we classified our sweet population into individual species... then ate them all!
RE and Drama - Creating silent movie style retellings of the Good Samaritan
English and Science - Beginning our English unit by drawing on the tables!
Class of 23/24
History, Geography and RE - Exploring Ancient Faiths by building our own biscuit henges
Art, Citizenship and Science - Sharing our Climate message through sculpture
End of Assessments - We are so proud of ourselves!
Forest School Friday - English, RE and Science: Finishing our term with myths around the campfire and telling the story of Easter using puppets.
D&T, Geography and History - Creating woven samples inspired by traditional weaving and the work of fashion designer Jonathan Cohen
History, Geography and Maths - Planning and building Maya temples (and trying not to eat the sugar!)
Dance and Geography - Creating our own dances, inspired by the Haka, to intimidate and show strength
History and Geography - Exploring Victorian Shrewsbury at the Archives
RE and Science - Increasing our biodiversity inspired by St Therese's 'little ways' of showing love
Geography, History and Citizenship - How have events through history affected trade?
Art, Geography and History - We created art inspired by Jean-Michel Basquiat then we each chose a word to describe either that art or how they think the art is supposed to make us feel.
RE and Computing - The Parable of the Prodigal Son
Class of 22/23
RSHE - Positive Affirmations
D&T and Science - Observing the effect of lever arm length and pivot position on the flight of an object.
RE - Year 6 Leaver's Mass
Citizenship, Art and Science - Recycled Human Impact Structures
We made 10 pints of blood using different objects to represent the different components. This included cotton balls for white blood cells and rice crispies for platelets! Can you guess what the cereal hoops were?
Science and Design Technology - Can we see around corners?
World Book Day - The Borrowers and recycling
PE and Science - Planning and completing circuits with circuit diagrams
Maths, Geography and D&T - Baking South American inspired cupcakes
History and Reading - Our visit to Shrewsbury Library
Class of 21/22
Computing and RE - Creating stop motion to explain Confirmation
Surviving SATs - We completed our KS2 assessments
Science and Light - You're never too old for bubbles!
History and D&T - Making Miniature Looms
