Before we broke up for the half term holidays, Beech and Maple Classes rounded off their pottery topic with a visit to the Perfectly Potty Pottery in Winchester.

This term the pupils in Beech and Maple classes have been learning about pottery through the ages.

Today Beech Class took part in a live storytelling workshop with rapper and storyteller, Alim Kamara, as part of National Storytelling Week. Based on the Soundtrack Your Story theme, the workshop aimed to inspire a love of story creation through music and rhythm.

Beech and Maple Classes made their own beautiful hand painted Christmas baubles when the visited The Ugly Duckling Pottery Studio in Newbury last Thursday (11th December).

Armistice Day, or Remembrance Day as it's also known, marks the very day that World War One ended in 1918. Oaklands School has been marking the occasion in a variety of ways.

Seven pupils from Beech and Maple classes had a marvellous time at the Autumn Harvest Celebration Day, on Wednesday 1st October at Newbury Showground, which was organised by the Newbury and District Agricultural Society.