Year 6 Leavers' Party

What a great evening we had! Check out the pictures from our Year 6 Leavers' Party. We wish our Year 6 leavers all the best for their futures at secondary school - don't forget to stay in touch!

Robotic Vehicles

 Four Crumble robotic vehicles - Alpha, Bravo, Charlie and Echo - have been assembled ready for Year 6 new robotics unit in Computing next half-term. Welcome to the team!

Y6 Osmington Bay 2021 - Part 2

 Part 2 of the Osmington Bay experience! 

Year 6's Victorian Day

 Year 6 have had a wonderful day today, recreating a Victorian school! 

The morning began with a 'drill' (PE for Victorians!), followed by the children entering their Victorian classroom for the morning. They learned so much about how school worked in the Victorian era: fingernail inspections, arithmetic, handwriting and posture lessons. They even discovered the fascinating history of the potato! Why not ask a Year 6 what they learned today?

The children were brilliant at getting into character - we were very proud of them!

Year 6 Design and Build the Perfect Playground!

Year 6 have been working today, creating their perfect playgrounds. They looked at examples of real life playgrounds, created a design criteria and made their playgrounds in teams. Check out their brilliant hard work! Well done Year 6!

Dress to Express

Last Week was Children's Mental Health Week and to support this Oakwood had a 'Dress to Express' Day in each year group. We can all express ourselves in the way we dress, showing everyone who we are and what we like. We accompanied that by expressing ourselves in other ways and being creative. Can you spot any of these in the photos?

6FL investigate electrical circuits

Last week Year 6 worked so hard and had great fun with investigating electrical circuits! So much Science chat and discussion - brilliant!

Year 6's Electrical Steady Hand Games

Year 6 had a brilliant DT day yesterday, creating their own electrical steady hand games. They worked so hard on them and should be very proud of their finished games! Please see the photos below to see their fantastic DT work, which is now on display in school.

Leavers' Photos

We hope you enjoyed our Virtual Leavers' Service! If you missed it, or wanted to watch again, here is the Leavers' Photos video.

Y6 'come Dine with Me' challenge

Last week, Y6 were set the challenge of researching, cooking, presenting (and eating) a 3 course meal in small groups.

Each course had to be based on a particular main ingredient (starter - peppers, main - salmon and dessert - pineapple) and should be a meal enough for two. The groups divided in to pairs and worked together to produce some excellent cooking. They then tested and scored each of the course their group had cooked.

We had a wonderful range of culinary delights including: Stuffed peppers, Asian steamed salmon, salmon pasta, pan fried salmon with lemon and rosemary drizzle, pineapple cheesecake and pineapple upside down cake.

Whilst not cooking, children learned about the journey that food goes on as it travels from 'farm to fork' and produced a recipe book of Y6 family favourites which are now on display in the library.

Oakwood Teacher Swap

Reading Competition Winners!

Well done to everyone who has been working hard to read 4 times a week with an adult. It's great to see so many parents/carers filling in the reading journals. 

But now, the moment we have been waiting for... 

The winners of this week's reading competition are...

Maple and 6JP !!

Congratulations to those two classes! Enjoy your class treat this week. Don't forget you will also be choosing a class book from Waterstones, so start thinking about which book you would like. 

And the winners are...

The winners of this week's reading competition are...

Elm and 6JP!

Congratulations to those two classes! Enjoy your class treats this week. Don't forget you will also be choosing a class book from Waterstones, so start thinking about which book you would like. 

Remember to read 4 times a week with an adult at home and ask them to record it in your reading journals. It's the only way to win!

Good luck everyone!

This week's reading winners are...

Well done to everyone who has been working hard to read 4 times a week with an adult.

The winners of this week's reading competition are...

Elm and 6JP!

Congratulations to those two classes! Enjoy your class treats this week. Don't forget you will also be choosing a class book from Waterstones, so start thinking about which book you would like. 

We are all looking forward to finding out which classes will win next... 

Good luck everyone!

Whole School Intra House Cross Country Event 2020

What a brilliant competition this was today! So many children took part and had great fun running for their house. Thanks to TMC and to all our lovely staff for helping make this event so successful today.

Y6 and the Ancient Greeks

This half term, Y6 are learning about Ancient Greece.
They have already looked at where the Greeks fall on their History timeline and explored the roles of women during the this time (nearly 3500 years ago). But yesterday, the children investigated the clothing that would have been worn and modelled it in a portrait competition. Wealthy families during the Greek era celebrated and showed off their wealth by commissioning pieces of artwork to adorn their homes.
Have a look at the pictures below to see how they got on...

Oakwood's Advent Books 2019: 15th December - Paddington and the Christmas Surprise

Here is today's Advent Book - Paddington and the Christmas Surprise.

Oakwood's Advent Books 2019: 14th December: One Snowy Night

Here is the Advent book for today...One Snowy Night by Christina Butler

Oakwood Advent Books 2019: 8th December - Grumpy Badger's Christmas

Today's Advent book is Read by Mrs Petley. Grumpy Badger's Christmas is one of her favourite Christmas stories.

Oakwood Advent Book 2019: 7th December - The Stick Man

A little later than planned (few technical issues!) but still just as good!