Ormskirk West End Primary School
Oak
Welcome to Oak! (Y6)
Class Teacher - Mrs L-J Horton, Mrs Forrest (HLTA)
and Miss Caunce
Mrs Horton has worked at OWE for 17 years and is our Deputy Head Teacher. She is the Subject Champion for Maths, English and Art & Design and leads these subjects across school. She is DDSL and EVC.
Mrs Forrest is Forest School Leader.
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Welcome to Oak!
2025-2026 Mighty Oaks!
In geography we are learning about rivers. We have learned the parts of rivers, identified rivers of England and located some of the world's largest rivers using an atlas. We are now moving onto investigating our local book-Hurlston Brook. #Resilience
In science we are learning about forces, today we are investigating if the size of a canopy on a parachute increases the effect of air resistance. #Resilience
We are celebrating Michael Rosen Day 2025, we love his poetry-especially chocolate cake! It was a great way to develop a love of reading. #Aspiration
To complete our Typography unit we designed our own maps of Forest School using typography to make the maps unique. We decided they looked effective monochrome and they are on display in class. #Resilience
In History we have been looking at how the lives of artisans and labourers differed in Ancient Egypt. We sorted facts about their daily lives, their freedom, their homes and working conditions then talked about who were more respected as workers. #Respect
In RE we focussed on the celebration of Diwali revisiting the story of Rama and Sita. We then designed our own natural tealight holders in Forest School. #Respect
We've started a new unit in Literacy- exploring magazines ready to make magazines for each class.
Making the elements- Earth, Fire, Water and Air
It's Black History Month and we are learning about Martin Luther King Jr. we have learned how he had a significant impact in civil rights across the USA and we were astounded by his resilience in never giving up. His 'I Have a Dream' speech is very powerful. We could see how much life has improved how equality is so important. #Respect #Resilience #Aspiration
In Science, we are learning about life cycles of types of animals. Today we explored and identified parts of eggs. We discussed that these were unfertilised eggs and so no chicks would be growing inside! #Aspiration
Today we went on an educational visit to Liverpool Museum and handled Ancient Egyptian artefacts- it was fantastic seeing real objects from thousands of years ago! Although we are focussing on Queen Nerfertari, we also found treasures linked to Akenhaten and Thutmose- two of the characters in our book we are studying in reading. #Respect
In Art we are focussing on typography, in Forest School we created a natural alphabet, see what you think! #WeAreArtists #Respect #Resilience. #Aspiration
Developing our oracy with a first read aloud of our poems we created about play in Forest School. These will be sent to the Shares Poetry competition this month. #Aspiration
Another fantastic Forest School session for our Mighty Oaks. The team work and imagination was superb and all of our Oaks were proud to show what they had created. It is wonderful seeing how they respect the environment. #Respect #Resilience #Aspiration
Time to work out factors in maths! Ayla and Thomas changed their answers too #Resilience
What a great Buddies session, we have started making 'leaf Buddies' and created clay hedgehogs as Autumn approaches. It was a great collaborative activity with lots of talking prompts from our Mighty Oaks. #Resilience
It's International Dot Day and in art we are celebrating as a whole school 'making our mark' it was such good fun! #Resilience #Aspiration
In PE we are playing invasion games, today we were playing a game with one defender and five attackers. Great fun! #Resilience
Our first Buddies session took place this afternoon, it was great watching our Mighty Oaks encouraging our Tiny Acorns to play and tidy up correctly. #Respect #Aspiration
2024-2025
In our final DT project this year we designed and made bread rolls, we had fun tasting breads for our research element and then had savoury flavour choices to choose from to make our own. We learned the art of kneading, discussed the purpose of yeast and how salt can kill it and made some pretty tasty buns which didn't last long! Miss just forgot to take pictures!
Experiencing cacao in true Maya style! Chilli or vanilla... which did you prefer?
Year 6 Residential 2025- what a fantastic adventure!
A yellow spotted lizard (named Stanley!) came to visit... don't let it bite you Oak!
A fantastic skateboarding session for Oak this afternoon! Great Teamwork! #resilience
Our Brave Colour unit is exciting exploration of colour. We've used watercolour, oil pastels and created colour mood boards in preparation for our end of unit project.
In science we have been learning about electricity circuits and tested comparing the brightness of bulbs. We found out that the bulbs become dimmer as each component creates more resistance to the current.
Continuing British Science Week, in Oak we are taking part in a 'Tech She Can' lesson focussing on how we can use AI to make life on Earth more sustainable. We have designed simple AI tools to help prevent food waste. #Aspiration #Respect #Resilience
Focusing on our value of Resilience, in Oak we are taking part in Bounce Forward, a Lancashire program, to help us build resilience strategies.
In science we are learning about electricity, today we have been exploring circuit components and building circuits using an app. We found out that bulbs can blow if resistors are not included in circuits.
What a fantastic day working on our STEM Road to RIAT challenge! We designed and built rockets to test which would be most aerodynamic in the morning. In the afternoon we designed sustainable aircraft of the future! It was incredible #Aspiration #Resilience
In art we are creating moving shadow puppets, we used what we learned in science to make our shadows appear darker. #Resilience
In science we have been exploring how shadows change when objects are close to or further from a light source ��
Today we had a visit from The Anthony Walker Foundation to learn about how to challenge racism and discrimination. It is so important that everybody is included, valued and welcome no matter what their skin colour, background or culture. Everybody deserves to feel safe. We have to put a stop to racism. #Respect
Today we have used Now Press Play to develop our understanding of WW2 with an audio experience. It was great fun! #Respect
Ava and Lily represented our school in Pupil Parliament discussing holiday clubs and what children want. Well done girls! #aspiration
In RE we are learning about Islamic beliefs and we started by recapping the 5 Pillars of Islam. Next week we will focus on Hajj. #Respect
Oak showing their great gymnastics skills!
In our WW2 topic, we have an in depth focus on evacuation. We started by exploring the kinds of items an evacuee would take in 1939 and made comparisons with what we would take with us today. #Respect
Our fantastic carousels! Our Mighty Oaks worked so well in teams and their carousels turned out amazing ��
Christmas party time for Oak!
Another great example in the process of being finished ��
A great example from Erin and Esther!
Brilliant day designing and making carousels for our DT. It can be very fiddly and there are lots of issues to fix but when that product comes to life it's definitely worth it! So proud of our Mighty Oaks! #resilience
This morning we had a lovely visit from a therapy dog ��
Just a couple of our fabulous designs ��
We have loved our computing unit about vector drawings, we learned about the shape tool, how to enlarge and shrink. We explored the outline tool and learned how to layer shapes to create pictures. It was great fun and we are using what we have learned to make our Christmas card designs. Excellent work Oak! #resilience #aspiration
Consolidating our knowledge with a quiz abut the Circulatory System. It was fun to test each other on what we have learned. #resilience
Pig Heart Boy by Malorie Blackman has risen as a favourite book in class. We created scrapbooks books after reading it and they were beautiful �� #respect
Another installment of our Maths Reasoning Club- we are getting really good at it now! ��
Wow! Oak took part in a superb trip to the Williamson Tunnels in Edge Lane and learned all about the hidden history beneath our feet! It was an incredible day. Thank you to our guides who lead us around. #respect
Our new unit of Activism in Art allowed us to explore how art can be used for expression. We learned about Faith Ringgold and her impact in her fight for equality of black female artists during the 60s and 70s. She was an incredible lady who made a difference to so many lives! #respect # resilience #aspiration
Maths challenge today- identifying prime numbers to find possibilities for a problem. It really got us thinking! #resilience
Starting our new Geography topic about North America by locating the different countries. We used atlases to help us label accurately. We then looked at climate zones and compared with the UK #resilience
Oak Timetable Autumn 2
Our history topic about the Ancient Greeks is coming to an end, we have been creating information texts to show what we have learned. They were so advanced and left a great legacy. #aspiration #respect
In science we have been investigating the best conditions for growing mould. Our results showed that dark and damp created the best conditions for mould growth- it was great to observe! #aspiration
We are really enjoying our art project- 2D to 3D sculpture, we've spent time focusing on positive and negative space, enlarged drawings and created our 3D fish sculptures ready to be mounted. #resilience
Today we visited Ormskirk High to watch their performance of The Addams Family. You can see how much effort had gone into it and the show was fantastic! #aspiration
Mighty Oaks Maths Reasoning Club. Hattie and Matilda challenged themselves today and were amazing ambassadors for our school. Great work! #resilience
This morning, as part of Black History Month, we learned all about the impact of Dame Floella Benjamin who moved to the UK when she was 10 years old from Trinidad in the Caribbean. She found it difficult when she first moved here but has had such a positive impact on all people! We made posters about her positive impact. #respect #resilience #aspiration
In Oak, our Pupil Council representatives have been selected. Well done Alfie, Thomas & Lucy we can't wait to see how you improve our school. #aspiration #respect #resilience
In science we have been learning about Carl Linnaeus and his classification system of taxonomy, here we are classifying animals with their Latin names ��������
Today we were enlarging images using a grid- we were impressed with our results �� #resilience
Learning times table is so important, it helps with so much. We were playing a game to learn them today. ��
This afternoon we have been exploring Crumble Kits in computing, this was our first ever time using this equipment and we were challenged to make the bulbs light up. It was difficult but we managed it, we were very proud! #resilience
In maths we used place value counters to tackle a reasoning problem to start the lesson. Hattie found all the possibilities herself- well done ��
In art we have been exploring positive and negative space today. We will eventually be creating 3D sculptures based on drawings we make.
In science we are studying classification and this afternoon we had a go at classifying biscuits! (Mrs Currie was not shocked that Mrs Horton was using biscuits to teach!) We thought about questions we could ask to sort their characteristics and classify each type individually.
A great start to the year already in Oak class.
Today in maths we were making Roman Numerals using lolly sticks, it was a good way to get practical with number. Mrs Horton forgot to take a picture- sorry!
2023-2024
We are extremely proud of our children in Oak this week. For the past few weeks, they have been learning about the Shakespearean tragedy Macbeth. On Thursday, they took part in a court trial to determine whether Macbeth was a tragic hero or an evil villain. The children took on roles such as clerk of the court, judge, defense barrister, prosecuting barrister, crime scene witnesses and jury. Well done for an amazing court hearing Oak!
To round off our Judaism unit in RE, we had the joy of Anne Kletz who visited our class to talk with the children about Jewish laws and how they have been adapted to suit the needs of modern society. It was a great way to support our understanding, #Respect
Science! It's time to try out mummification! We have created our own Natron from bicarb and salt, prepared the fruity corpses and are about to observe change over time! We hope the fruits will mummify beyond recognition! Wish our fruity samples good luck on their mummification journey. #resilience
Art - Typography Maps
It's World Food Day! In Oak we celebrated by baking some Egyptian biscuits. We worked in two teams, followed the recipe and the results were delicious. We love to taste foods from other cultures. #Respect
In music we are learning about different time signatures- 3/4 and 4/4 in particular. We have been practising this song which mixes both time signatures together- you can see the concentration on our faces as we try to master it! Adding percussion next to keep the beat! #Resilience
Music and PE combined!
What a session- Oak were trying to get fit and use their musical knowledge of beat counting to successfully move across the hoops without bumping, it was very challenging but we got there! Well Done Mighty Oaks! #Resilience
In science, we have been investigating the parts of eggs- it was fascinating identifying the different parts! #resilience
Local Police and our community
Yoga Session
In PE we are honing our hockey skills- today we were dribbling and developing accuracy of passing. #Resilience
In Oak, our art sessions are off with a bang! We are learning all about typography and today we created our own typography using natural materials. We then had a go at sketching using ink pens. Super results from our Mighty Oaks!
We've been having fun with factors in maths today! Games are great to consolidate knowledge. #Resilience
What an incredible opportunity we have had this week at school. We had had the chance to explore lunar samples (yes real moon rocks from NASA!). It was strange to feel how heavy the meteorite was and strange how the different samples were all different colours and textures. Maybe we have just inspired our next generation of astronauts?! #Aspiration
We are scientists! In Oak we are looking at plant reproduction and life cycles. It has been amazing to learn about the different stages of life cycles. We were particularly fascinated by the metamorphosis which takes place during the pupa stage. #Respect
Exploring Forest School with Acorns
Year 6 had a fabulous night at their Mario themed Leavers Party! Mario Karts, pasta challenges and a Mario bouncy for extra fun!
For DT, Oak have been weaving recycled bags inspired by the Maya. We created them for all sorts of purposes and the best bit- they work!
Daresbury Laboratory visit
What an afternoon in Oak! Mrs Horton asked us to find out about the Maya diet... by exploring coprolites! We found out they ate: cacao, chilli pepper, squash and a variety of fruits! It was disgustingly great fun!
Revising is fun... when you can write on the tables!
Evolution Project with Liverpool University
In PE we created a WW2 themed dance to The Dambusters theme. It was fantastic- well done!
After learning about rationing in WW2 we designed and made our own delicious soup (carrot, potato and leek) and a tasty apple and honey crumble for afters. Hands on learning is the best!
Absolute times tables superstars! In a national competition, Oak came 8th out of 1000 schools! Amazing!
Computing- creating vector drawings!
A great DT topic using pulleys to make carousels! It was a challenge but we did it! It was amazing to watch them working.
Buddies! We met up with Acorns to help them make sandwiches for British Food Week. We then heard them read as this is so important! It was so lovely watching relationships begin to blossom!
What better way is there to learn about the components of blood than making a blood model? Great fun!
In Science, it's all about circulation! We have been exploring the journey of the blood with a huge heart model in the hall. This week we investigated our pulse rates counting our BPM after exercise.
We are at the start of our artistic journey to create food sculptures. We have been experimenting making shapes from toilet paper!
