They were budding artists in a portrait printing workshop and aspiring art critics on a tour of the gallery.
They learned how to draw faces, as well as how artists communicate their ideas through their work. They also learned a thing or two about mono-printing.
A great time was had by all!
(The Art Gallery is open every day apart from Monday and is free to get in!)
Oakwood was planet mad for our Everybody Writes Day on Friday 16 October.
Every year group had a planet to work with and used Holst's Planet Suite as musical inspiration. They then used lots of imagination and creativity to come up with some exciting writing about their planet.
Year 3 made rockets to travel to Saturn in. The flames held poetic lines about their journey.
Year 4 wrote some free verse poems about their planet, Jupiter. They then presented them on paper planets.
(Listen to Jupiter - The Bringing of Jollity!)
Different writing tools were the order of the day in Year 5. They wrote alien messages using tin foil, chocolate, sand and even baked beans!
Year 6 sent cryptic message rocks down to Earth in their newly created Martian language.
(Listen to Mars - The Bringer of War!)
All year groups then exhibited their work in the hall for the afternoon for the rest of the children to see. As you can see from our photos, Everybody Writes Day at Oakwood was a lot of fun!
Great fun was had by all as the year 6's exhibited their fantastic Ancient Egyptian home learning projects!
Amidst a sea of pyramids, parents and friends were able to wander around and read Egyptian fact-files, ancient hieroglyphic manuscripts and even Egyptian newspapers!
Many of the children transformed themselves into Egyptians for the day - from slaves and priests to King Tut himself, the costumes were outstanding! Whilst we thought many of the fine linens worn by the Ancient Egyptians were beautiful, unsuprisingly, shaving our hair to make wigs (and to prevent nits!) or wearing perfumed fat, were less popular wardrobe additions!
The children put huge amounts of time and effort into their home learning exhibitions and it was lovely to have their work so widely celebrated by their peers, family, friends and school staff. Congratulations year 6! We look forward to the next home learning project in the spring term!
Titch came into school this morning to celebrate Harvest with us!
He told us how he thanked his Mum for his breakfast... ...and his Mum said to thank the Supermarket ...and the Supermarket said to thank the farmer ...and the farmer said to thank the cow ...and the cow said to thank the grass ...and the grass said to thank God!
He then told the story of a family who received some of the harvest food and Mum said "Now we can have breakfast..."
Everyone brought in food for the collection - a really excellent display of tins and packets and boxes which was collected by Basics Bank after the assembly! They will sort it and send it out to those who need it over the winter months.
(You might notice that Titch also bought Chris along! Chris brought his MBE to show us - Congratulations! - and he told us it was the last of 39 Harvest Assemblies he had done this year. You must be exhausted, Chris! Thanks for fitting us in!)
Not many people know this, but Mrs Di Maiolo, who works in our office, also works for Southampton City Council when they have council elections!
SO... she was the perfect person to organise the elections for our House Captains!
Firstly, she and Mrs Worley told us in assembly about how elections work.
On election day, she made sure everything ran smoothly and then counted the votes...
...and today, she announced the results and the Mayor of Southampton, The Right Worshipful Councillor Elizabeth Mizon, met our newly elected House Captains!
In Year 2 our topic has been SUPERHEROES! We have made superhero puppets, clay models and superhero sidekicks.
Look at our puppets. Some of us decided that sewing the pieces of felt together was the best idea. This took us quite a long time but we got the hang of it.
