Oakerwood Leisure by Year 6

This week year six went to Oakerwood Leisure and had an amazing week!

Our favourite activities were high ropes which included zipwire, quick jump, monkey climb and gladiator.

We also did many more fun activities including paintball, rafting, capture the flag, pizza making, crate stacking ,target shooting ,team building and woodland navigation.

The activities were great some were team challenges others individual. Crate stacking was very hard because it was on a bit of a slope! We all loved the zipwire which was very scary but as soon as we jumped off it was super fun Paintball was very hard, but we were determined to have a good time.

We all persevered and enjoyed all of the activities that required us to be a great team! We worked well together, had a of fun and loved doing something different together this week.

We all loved Oakerwood it was a great opportunity to be adventurous we hope we get another great opportunity to do something like this again.

Written by Elijah, Rufus, and Kyaara.

Last day residential adventures at OakerWood!

Compass skills, teamwork, crate stacking, shooting target practise to name a few! Busy day full of fun and outdoor adventure.

OakerWood day 3 highlights!

Last night was games night! Such a lot of fun, even when tired out from their busy day, they enjoyed team games together with bedtime snacks.

 

Today started with pizza making followed by a Borneo teamwork challenge. They did amazingly well, everyone made it up through the tunnel! Miss Darmanin said – what a team! Spectacular! Well done Team 6. Then it was on to rafting this afternoon, with every rafting team making it back to dry land safely and enjoying a dip – why not! Looks like wonderful fun.

 

Y6 day 2 adventures.

Paint balling, capture the flag and woodland tag. What a busy day!
Working together to share strategies, ensuring solid teamwork and skill – mixed in with a lot of fun!! 🤩

The adventure begins for Y6

Y6 are safely settled into camp and have set off for their first adventure on the High Ropes at OakerWood this afternoon.

We hope they have an amazing time and we look forward to hearing more about their journey throughout the week.

Minecraft for Education – lunchtime Club

Some of the Class 6 team have been busy setting up and running a Minecraft For Education lunchtime club. For this term, participants will just be children from Class 6, but we are hoping that once confident, our club leaders can then extend the club to younger children. The club has met several times and decided on a theme. They have been enjoying our writing unit so much that they decided to incorporate this into their project. After much discussion, they have decided to built a world based on our Science fiction unit and the model text, Alien Landing.

unit based on our model text “Alien landing”. We can’t wait to see the results.

 

Class 6 take part in an attempt to set a new Guinness World Record.

Today, Class 6 have taken part in an event organised by the National Literacy Trust and the British Council   to set a new GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title for the most people reading online in 12 hours.

The record attempt is part of the Take 10 to Read campaign in the National Year of Reading 2026 – and the message is simple: whatever you’re into, take 10 to read into it.

Class 6 were very excited to part of this event and were fantastic throughout the ten minute read! How exciting to be part of a world record attempt!

Thomas Adams Music Event

On Tuesday some class 6 and class 5 children went to Thomas Adams School in Wem. We went to play in an orchestra of 107 people including us. We were the only school there!

We played 6 songs and it was quite hard but also fun! We practised all morning and after a short break we carried on. We played Star Wars, James Bond , Danger zone, Shake it off, Kaleidoscope and Don’t stop believing.

After we had lunch and did one final practise. At quarter past two the CEO of our trust as well as Deputy and Head Teacher of Thomas Adams came to listen to us play. James Bond sounded amazing!

I had the best time and enjoyed myself so much even though  I was tired. I would like to thank all of the staff who made it the best.

By Emily and Kyaara

 

Success with Bikeability

Many of our Year 6 pupil took part in Bikeability this week. They thoroughly enjoyed learning about safety when using their bikes and also when cycling on the road. All children who took part successfully completed both Stage 1 and Stage 2 bikeability. Now its time to get cycling!