Netball development day

A small group of children from Oak class attended a netball development day at Shrewsbury sports village. During the morning, children completed a number of bee netball activities and enjoyed some friendly match play in the afternoon.

Oak Spellings 28.11.2025

Homophones and other words that are often confused

advice
advise
device
devise
licence
license
practice
practise
prophecy
prophesy

Skipping workshop

Oak class participated in the whole school skipping workshop where we were taught skipping techniques and rhymes.
It took a lot of perseverance to complete a long rope rhyme but it was great fun!
Hopefully the children will enjoy putting their new skipping skills into practice on the playground.

STFC- Black History Month Workshop

Last Thursday, the year 6s were luckily enough to be invited to join the black history month workshop at Shrewsbury Town Football club. We completed team building activities, learnt about famous black sportsmen and women and even got to meet some of the players.

Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings school trip

Oak class have had a great day at Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings! We have learnt about the building, also known as ‘The Grandfather of Skyscrapers’, and how its purpose has changed since it was built in 1797. The children have heard what life would have been like for children their age, who were employed as apprentices by Mr Marshall. 

Spellings 17.10.25

Year 5/6 Word List

especially
excellent
exaggerate
existence
explanation
familiar
foreign
forty
frequently

Spellings 10.10.25

Year 5/6 Word List

curiosity
definite
desperate
determined
develop
dictionary
disastrous
embarrass
environment

Spellings 03.10.25

fought
ought
wrought
slough
trough
dough
(break)through
plough

Spellings 26.09.25

Letter string -ough

bought
thought
enough
rough
tough
cough
although
though
through
drought