Sunday 24 December 2017

The Final Oakwood Advent Book!: December 24th

Here is the final instalment of our 24 Advent books. The Night before Christmas read by Erynne, Brooke, Hannah and Gemma.

I hope you have enjoyed taking part in our Advent book countdown this year. Merry Christmas!





If you'd like to read any of the books again, you can find them in the school library. Here is the full list of book:


Saturday 23 December 2017

Oakwood Advent Book: December 23rd

Here is today's advent book - How the Grinch stole Christmas, read by Ms Patchett and Mr Ackland.



Friday 22 December 2017

Oakwood Advent Book: December 22

Here's today's advent book - The Lighthouse Keeper's Christmas. Read by Hayden, Will and Keira




Thursday 21 December 2017

Year 1 and 2 Christmas Performance Straw and Order

Year 1 and 2 treated us to their performance of Straw and Order. We enjoyed super singing, wonderful acting and plenty of smiling faces!



Animals Home Learning Exhibition


Teachers and parents were blown away by the projects produced by the children in Year 4. They shared their expert knowledge enthusiastically and behaved exceptionally well through-out the afternoon. Well done!


Year 1 Maths

Year 1 have been learning about place value. We have been writing, making and drawing numbers!






Wednesday 20 December 2017

Y5 have been testing their separating skills

Year 5 have been investigating in Science what solids and liquids can be separated, and what's the best way to do it.

Sunday 17 December 2017

Saturday 16 December 2017

Oakwood Advent Book: 16th December

Today's Advent book - The Dinosaur that pooped Christmas



Friday 15 December 2017

Y6 Homework

Y6 have been looking at poetry in English recently, so for their homework this week they were asked to look at the poem 'Twas the Night Before Christmas'. Then, in class, they performed part or all of the poem in small groups.

The Great Oakwood Poetry off, The Poetry Factor, Oakwood's got Poems - call it what ever you like, the poem performances were brilliant! Each English set nominated groups to represent them in a poetry reading final. Well done to the winning group - a great performance.



Year R's Nativity

Tuesday 12 December 2017

Y4 Quentin Blake Art

In English this half term, Year 4 have been reading Quentin Blake's 'The Green Ship'. After reading Quentin Blake's work we created our own ship stories. As Quentin Blake is an illustrator as well as an author we decided to look at his illustrations and create illustrations for our own stories using the same techniques as him. Once we had sketched our pictures out we watercoloured them before using dip pens to add ink. Have a look at our fantastic illustrations!

Monday 11 December 2017

Southampton Schools 5-a-side Competition

The girls' football team did very well in the round robin stages of the Indoor 5-a-side competition today.
Six minute match are notoriously difficult to produce your best football in and results can go either way, so it was great to see Team Oakwood perform so well in their 4 games.

Their results were:
Oakwood 5-0 Hollybrook
Oakwood 2-1 St Monica
Oakwood 6-0 Townhill
Oakwood 3-0 Blackfield.

Well done to our scorers: Praise (3), Cailtin (5), Mia (5), Angel (1) and Summer (2) and special mention to our player of the day, Caitlin.

Year 1 - Nathan Sawaya

During our 'Toys' topic we have been learning about Nathan Sawaya. He creates sculptures out of Lego. We planned our own Lego robots and then had a go at making them!







Sunday 10 December 2017

Advent Books: 10th December

Today's book is Grumpy Badger's Christmas. Read by Mrs Petley.


Saturday 9 December 2017

Oakwood's Advent Books: December 9th

Today's book is 'The Snowman' by Raymond Briggs.


Wednesday 6 December 2017

Year 5 have a mountainous afternoon

Last week year 5 spent the afternoon learning about different types of mountains. They also conducted experiments support their learning.

Monday 4 December 2017

Year 2 Homework

There has been a variety of home learning activities that has been shared and celebrated in class today following our "Fire of London" topic.

The children presented their work to their peers. Each one was different and unique.

Well done Year 2, some fabulous work.

Friday 1 December 2017

Finishing off our topic in style!


Oakwood's Advent Books

It was a very exciting morning today at Oakwood.

It's the 1st of December and during whole school assembly this morning we launched our Advent Books. This is a traditional countdown to Christmas with a twist. Each day we will open the next door on the calendar and a new book is revealed to read.

Today's book was 'Santa is coming to Southampton' which Mr Taylor shared with us in assembly. Over the next 23 days we will reveal and read a new book each day - we will even be doing it at weekends! Pre-recorded videos will be posted on the school blog and on Twitter on the school website for the books over the weekend.

We'd love families to get involved and share the books again at home if you have them! We won't be revealing the books in advance but you can see each book on display in the school reception once it has been revealed.






Year 3 Giacometti Artwork part 2