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

Thursday 30 November 2017

Great Fire of London in Y2

Year 2 have been learning all about the Great Fire London of 1666. They have created fantastic pictures and have written newspaper reports.


Year 2 Question of Faith Day

Southampton City Mission came into work with Year 2 and explore the Christmas Story through the concept of Journeys.

The children role played the story, played games, as well as created their own "Journey Games."

Thank you Southampton City Mission for a fun creative day.

Wednesday 29 November 2017

Year 3 Ninja Fun!

In order to have a little more practice working with wire and consider the placement of joints, Year 3 had a little Ninja fun today. They used pipe cleaners, straws and beads to create their own Ninja figures. Take a look:-

Indoor Athletics Finals

Following a successful qualifying campaign, the Oakwood Indoor Athletics team took part in the Indoor Athletics Finals after school on Monday.

The separate Girls and Boys teams competed in both 'track' and 'field' events with points being awarded in each discipline.

The team did really well, winning a number of events in both the track and field, and with their scores  combined Tam Oakwood managed 3rd place! Well done everyone.

BOYS - Top Final
GIRLS - Top Final
COMBINED - Top Final
School
Track Events
Field Events
OVERALL
Position
School
Track Events
Field Events
OVERALL
Position
School
Track Events
Field Events
OVERALL
Position
Springhill
24
49
73
1
Springhill
17
39
56
3
Springhill
41
88
129
2
Bitterne CE
17
44
61
2
Bitterne CE
25
46
71
1
Bitterne CE
42
90
132
1
Townhill
14
37
51
4
Townhill
8
33
41
4
Townhill
22
70
92
5
Ludlow
26
31
57
3
Ludlow
9
31
40
5
Ludlow
35
62
97
4
Oakwood
9
33
42
5
Oakwood
27
36
63
2
Oakwood
36
69
105
3


Monday 27 November 2017

Year 3 Alberto Giacometti Art Study Part 1

As part of our study on artists who were influenced by what they witnessed in WW2, Year 3 have been studying the incredible artwork of  the Swiss painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti. Take a look at what we have produced so far.

Sketchbook



Pipe Cleaner Body Positions



Glue and Chalk drawings



Friday 24 November 2017

Superhero Vehicles

Year R have been busy designing and making superhero vehicles from junk materials.

Wednesday 22 November 2017

Beech Class Workshare

The children in Beech Class really enjoyed sharing their learning with their parents today. Everyone looked like they had lots of fun.

Tuesday 21 November 2017

Children in Need!

On Friday we had a fantastic day creating our very own coin Pudsey. Thanks to all of your fantastic donations, we managed to collect an amazing £361.68 . Well done Oakwood!

Monday 20 November 2017

Victorian Fayre Year 6

Our Victorian Fayre on Friday!! What a fantastic and amazing success. Year 6 raised over £700 - a record breaking figure! We are so proud of them all for all the hard work. But importantly - a massive thank you to everyone who supported the event.

Thursday 16 November 2017

Year 5 and Year 6 Indoor Athletics

Wow! We are so lucky at Oakwood to have such amazing athletes! Have a look at some of them in action at the City Indoor Athletics.

Monday 13 November 2017

Wednesday 8 November 2017

Speed Limit Checkers

This week, the two classes responsible for improving school travel investigated the speed of cars around our school (4NM and Willow). We measured them on Sandpiper Road and Woburn Road to check whether they kept to the speed limit.

4NM found that while most cars kept to the speed limit on Sandpiper Road, Woburn Road was much more dangerous to cross because some cars travelled above 30 mph. It is very important to keep looking both ways when crossing the road.

Friday 3 November 2017

Y4 take on Broadway!

To link with our 'Welcome to Planet Earth' topic Year 4 spent their PE lesson this week learning part of the choreography from the Broadway production to the Lion King. While some children were taking part in interhouse, the rest of us spent a bit of time perfecting our performance!

Friday 20 October 2017

Happy Half Term! Year 6 are proud to display an awesome few weeks of Art, English and History. This has been a real hard-working term and the work produced has been phenomenal! Well done Year 6....you deserve your break!

Autumn in Year R

Thursday 19 October 2017

Making Links, Oakwood Actions Team Meeting

The 'Making Links' Oakwood Action Team met for the first time today to get to know each other. The Year 2's (Elm class) came to look at 5BW's Titanic home learning exhibition, with them they brought a piece of work that they were proud to share. Both classes really enjoyed seeing what each other had been up to and getting to know each other. We are looking forward to working together throughout the rest of the school year.





Thank you Mr Wiseman!

We are so lucky to have received a very special Titanic gift from Mr Wiseman. Thank you so much!

Year 5 get musical Titanic Style

Such a fun afternoon last week had by year 5 performing their own music related to the Titanic.

Year 5 Titanic Home Learning Exhibition

Wow what an exhibition Year 5 put on this afternoon! Such a display of talent and creativity in their Titanic Home Leanring Projects. Thank you so much to friends and family for coming!

Wednesday 18 October 2017

Football Team - City Cup

As runners up last year, Oakwood had a bye through the previous round of the City Cup. This meant that this evening's game was for a place in the quarter finals.

After a delayed start, Oakwood began the match in confident fashion - creating several promising attacks. However, from an Oakwood corner, Mount Pleasant broke and after a mazy run, managed to find the bottom corner of the net. Oakwood pushed but could not find their passing rhythm before half time.

Three changes at half time seemed to jolt Oakwood back to life and the passing started to improve despite some rugged tackles from Mount Pleasant. Oakwood drew level after a neat shot was saved by the Mount Pleasant 'keeper when the rebound was bundled in. Finding a new gear during the final 5 minutes, Oakwood moved the ball quickly and finally made their domination show - scoring 3 more goals before the final whistle blew.

Well done to Player of the Match - Tom - for a fantastic second half performance.
Goal scorers: Tom (1), Sonny (2) & Caitlin (1).

Sport For All!

Year 5 had a great morning with TMC working on there hockey skills!





RNLI visitor

Today Oakwood were luckily to have a visit from Brian at the RNLI. He spoke to everyone in assembly then Year 5 received a workshops learning more about water safety, linking with our Titanic work.

A HUGE thank you to Brian and the RNLI for coming to see us.


Tuesday 17 October 2017

All Aboard!

To conclude Year 5's Titanic project they have had an action packed day as Titanic passagengers! Cooking cheese straws, a fashion show and lots of craft activities to decorate our hall. Followed by some dancing and a meal on board the Titanic this afternoon.

We had lots of fun and have loved learning about the Titanic this half term!

Please have a look at the gallery below to see some of the exciting things we did today.



Monday 16 October 2017

Here's looking at the first Oakwood Action Team for the Environment! 6TS got together with their partners in Cedar class for an afternoon of Gardening Fun last Friday. An hour or so later and the Pond and Quad areas are looking SO much better. Looking forward to our next meeting!

Welcome to the Victorian Classroom. What a day we've had! A strict and serious start to our day! But... our playground Victorian games were awesome. Check out our day!

Friday 13 October 2017

School Football Team Match Night 3

Match night 3 saw Oakwood play two games. The first was against local rivals Fairisle, who have recently won the Hampshire U10 cup.

The game was exciting with plenty of goal mouth action for both teams and some excellent football on display. Fairisle took a 0-1 lead before half time but an Oakwood equaliser, making it 1-1, after the re-start made it a very interesting game. Towards the end of the game Fairisle capitalised on an Oakwood mistake and moved 1-2 ahead and then held strong for the remaining few minutes. Oakwood could count themselves unlucky with the 1-2 defeat.

The second game was also fast paced, but the good football Oakwood had shown during the first game only made fleeting appearances. Although Oakwood were forced to come from behind again, this time Will scoring the equaliser, more mistakes were punished and Foundry Lane condemned Oakwood to a second 1-2 defeat.

Well done to our scorers: Sonny (1) and Will (1), but our clear man of the match was 'Keeper Bradley.

Thursday 12 October 2017

Cross Country Week 1 and 2 Results

We are so impressed with the turn out for the Cross Country running. Results for week 1 and 2 are recorded below.

All About Me

Year R have completed their first ever topic.

We have learned all about ourselves from our bodies to germs, growing up to families.

Have a look at all the fun we have had in our first 3 weeks of full time school.

Y2 Fairy Tale Day

As a celebration of the end of a topic the children in Year 2 have had a fun day. Many had dressed up in characters from their favourite traditional tales.

During the day the children participated in various story related activities, which included:
* Den building
* Origami wolves
* Cooking jam tarts
* Maths problem solving

Y2 Personal Best Day

This week Year 2 had their Personal Best day and had the opportunity to practise various ball skills.
Thank you to our TMC coaches for a fun session.

Monday 9 October 2017

Year 6 Benchball Tournament

Members of Year 6 took part in the Southampton School Games Year 5/6 Benchball Tournament. 11 schools took part in this thrilling and highly competitive event. Oakwood worked well as a team and finished in third place. Below are the results of each game. Oakwood 2 - Townhill 0 Oakwood 2 - Basset Green 0 Oakwood 2 - Kanes Hill 0 Oakwood 0 - St Monica 2 Oakwood 2 - Valentine 0 Semi – final Oakwood 1 - Springhill 2 Play off for 3/4 place Oakwood 2 - St Monica 1

Year 3 World War 2 Day


Evacuees



Village Hall



Super Spies

Friday 6 October 2017

Girls' Football Team represent Southampton

Following their success at the Southampton Girls' 6-a-side Football Tournament two weeks ago, Team Oakwood represented Southampton in the Hampshire round. Nine of the best teams from across Hampshire gathered at Wide Lane for a winner takes all league.

Oakwood got off to a slow start but did pick up some excellent results. With a bit more luck Oakwood would have had an outstanding day, but we are very proud of the team for finishing 3rd! A fantastic achievement.

Results:
Oakwood 0-0 St Mary's
Oakwood 2-0 Castle School
Oakwood 0-1 Grange
Oakwood 1-2 Herne
Oakwood 1-0 Fair Oak
Oakwood 2-1 Newchurch
Oakwood 0-1 Velmead

Well done to our goal scorers: Summer (3), Caitlin (1), Mia (1) and Praise (2). Special mention to our player of the tournament - Praise.


Thursday 5 October 2017

Year 5 have a visitor

Year 5 were extremely lucky today to have a visit from one of our Grandparents. He was friends with the son of a gentleman who was part of the crew aboard the Titanic. He shows us two beautiful paintings of the Titanic both signed by survivors of the unsinkable ship. The paintings told such a story of history. He also told us an actual true story that was recorded by the crew member himself. So lovely to have this special treat today. So much learned and many new facts and information for us all to take in. Thank you so much Mr Wiseman!

Wednesday 4 October 2017

Mr Potato Head

We have been learning about our senses. We listened to a story about Mr Potato Head and then created our own ones!







Tuesday 3 October 2017

Paper Planes

Year 2 have been looking at examples of instructions. Today they followed instructions on how to make a paper plane and then took them for a test flight.

Year 2 Basketball Festival

Ten children from Year 2 represented Oakwood at Cantell School's Basketball Festival. They were involved in various activities to develop their skills. What a fantastic shot they had!

House building in Year 2

Year 2 were investigating different materials to build "houses" with after reading The Three Little pigs.
They built houses out of straw, lolly sticks and lego bricks.

Working as a team they reached their own conclusions.



Friday 29 September 2017

Year 1 Senses Poems

We have been reading, performing and writing poems about our senses!







Year Four's Fantastic Fishbourne trip

Yesterday, Year 4 had a great time visiting Fishbourne Roman Palace. We got to find out all about the history of the Palace and see first hand some of the amazing mosaics and other artifacts. We had great fun during our workshop where we got to try out lots of different Roman activities including: writing on wax tablets using the Roman alphabet; spinning wool; creating mosaic patterns using stones and playing some Roman games.

Y6's Romsey Visitors

It seems only a little while since they left, but a number of ex-Oakwood pupils came back today with their teacher, Mr Bettis, to tell our Y6 children all about life in secondary school at Romsey. Romsey School Open Evening is next Thursday - look out for their prospectus which comes out next week.

We couldn't resist one final Blog picture!


School Football Team Match Night 1

Yesterday was the first first of the football team's new 'Match Nights'. 3 teams gathered at Oakwood for a set of three matches, Oakwood, Tanner Brook and Shirley Junior.

Oakwood played Tanners Brook in the first game. Oakwood created some very good chances, often 1-1 with the 'keeper, but failed to capitalise and were eventually punished by Tanners Brook who took a 0-1 lead. Oakwood continued to create chances but were unable to find the back of the net meaning the final whistle blew with Oakwood losing 0-1.

In their second game, Oakwood were quick off the mark and dominated the opening 10 minutes but their finishing was wayward and they failed to beat the 'keeper from a string of shots. Shirley actually took the lead against the run of play but were unable to sustain it. Will and Sonny scoring to put Oakwood in the lead. After Shirley equalised to make it 2-2, Oakwood finished with a flourish as both Sonny and Leo scored excellent goals making the final score 4-2.

Well done to the scorers, Sonny(2), Will (1) and Leo (1) as well as Man of the Match, on his debut, Sonny.

Tuesday 26 September 2017

Sunny Side Up!

A group of KS2 able scientists visited West Solent Solar Farm in Lymington last week as part of the charity's community programme.

Even though it was a dull day, the solar farm was still busy making electricity and feeding it into the national grid.

At full capacity, the farm can generate 2000kW and can boil 700 kettles simultaneously, which means that fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas are not being burned instead.

The farm cost over £2.6 million to build and it was funded by over 500 members of the local community.

We learned how the electrons from silicon are released into the circuits embedded into the panels by photons arriving in sunlight. These are then collected and pushed through technology called inverters, which then flow through the site's transformer and substation into the grid.

Have a look at the photos (click below!) as we represent the school out in the community, learning science at the same time!


Monday 25 September 2017

U11 Wide Lane 6-A-sides

Following the fantastic success of the Girls' team on Friday, the U11 team were keen to do well today. Things did get off to a good start, a 1-0 win over Shirley - Sonny grabbing the important goal. Oakwood battled to a well deserved 1-1 draw in their second game against Bitterne Manor. Unfortunately, successive 0-1 defeats to Ludlow and Hollybrook ended the team's hopes of qualifying for the semi-finals and a final 0-0 draw with Portswood rounded off the results.

Oakwood played well throughout the tournament and things look promising for the team's league campaign which gets underway on Thursday after school.

Well done to our Player of the Day, Josh! And to our two goalscorers: Sonny (1) and Caitlin (1).




Friday 22 September 2017

Girls 6-a-side Football

This afternoon Team Oakwood took part in the Southampton 6-A-Side Girls football tournament at Wide Lane.

The 8 girls performed magnificently in their eight matches, scoring 31 goals and conceding only 1!

During their group games Oakwood played some excellent football and scored some amazing goals in their 6 games.
Oakwood 5-0 Foundry Lane
Oakwood 5-0 Bassett Green A
Oakwood 7-0 Bassett Green B
Oakwood 1-0 Abbotswood
Oakwood 2-1 Foxhills
Oakwood 6-0 Townhill

Oakwood were just as dominant during the semi-final against Springhill, winning 4-0. Meaning Oakwood progressed to the final in high spirits.

The final was to be played against Bartley, who had also progressed to the final with a 4-0 win in the other semi-final. The Oakwood defence ensured they kept the Bartley attackers at bay with a disciplined display and the midfield battled for every tackle. After 10 minutes the game was still 0-0 and extra time was needed. Then, following a fantastic run by defender, Angel, and a smart one-two on the edge of the box, Angel slotted the ball into the bottom corner - Oakwood taking a 1-0 lead. Oakwood held their nerve for the final minute and were victorious!

City Champions!

Well done to all the players. It was impossible to pick a player of the day so well done to the whole team! Goal scorers: Mia (7), Praise (7), Caitlin (7), Summer (7) and Angel (2).

Wednesday 20 September 2017

U10 Wide Lane Football Tournament

The school football season got underway on Monday with the yearly U10 Wide Lane tournament.

Oakwood were drawn in group 'C' which meant they had 6 games to play during the group stages.
Things got off to a solid start with a 0-0 draw against Sholing which was then followed by a 3-0 win over St Mary's. Unfortunately two 0-2 losses and a 0-3 defeat to Bitterne Park, Calmore and Foxhills respectively meant the final 0-0 draw with Townhill was in vain as Oakwood were unable to qualify as group winners or runners up.

Well done to all the players, but special mention to player of the day - Dylan. Goalscorers Vinny (2) and Summer (1)


Tuesday 19 September 2017

Y4 Roman Day

On Friday Year 4 had a busy day exploring more about Romans. We started the day off by learning about the Roman invasion. We spent the morning designing shields, cooking up a Roman feasts and designing menus for Oakwood's very own Roman Restaurant. After lunch we ate the food (lying down as the Romans did) we had spent the morning preparing. We even had our very own taste tester, just like Roman Emperors often did, in the form of Mr Taylor who checked our food hadn't been poisoned! Once we had feasted, we then went outside to practice some Roman marching drills using our shields to protect us. What a busy day in the life of a Roman!

Year 5 visit SeaCity Museum AND the Southampton Boat Show... in one day!

Wow! What a busy day we had yesterday in Year 5! We managed to squeeze in a trip to the fantastic SeaCity Museum, where we learned more about our current topic: the Titanic and had a great time also visiting the Southampton Boat Show. The children were superstars made all of us very proud. Have a look at some of the photos from our great day!





Friday 15 September 2017

Tuesday 12 September 2017

Wacky Races in Y6

Year six children got their year off to a flying start last week (well, most of them - some just went in circles!) during their Wacky Races Science and DT project.

Groups were tasked with designing and building a racer to compete in the end of week 'Wacky Race'. Well done to all the children whose cars made it off the start line under their own speed but congratulations to our winning cars!


Photos here

A day in the life of a Y4 Celt

Today Year 4 have got into role as Celts. We spent the morning in role as the Celts and found out lots of fascinating facts about their lives in the process! We woke up in our round houses, which we shared with several families before washing ourselves using soap in the river. Once we had got ourselves dressed in our woven fabrics we spent the day grinding grains to make flour; hunting and building fires. After a busy day we learnt all about the religion of the day- including sacrifices!

Y4 Celt morning

Thursday 7 September 2017

Casting off our Titanic topic!

Year 5 have had an action packed day with their Titanic hook day. They started by writing boat related poetry and performing it in an entertaining way to their peers. They then were set the challenge of designing a boat that would float and hold weight. They then put them to the test by putting them on the water. Finally we finished the day with some boat art work.





Wednesday 6 September 2017

Oliver Twist Comes to Oakwood


The amazing M & M Productions visited yesterday and treated the school to Oliver Twist. Super acting, singing and costumes brought the story to life.
Take a look for yourself...


Sunday 3 September 2017

SAM on holiday

Having been on his travels in the Summer Holiday SAM is looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow.

Wednesday 26 July 2017

Year 6 Prom

The morning after the night before...!

Thanks so much to all parents, staff and, of course, our leaving Y6 pupils for making the prom a truly memorable evening.

We've tried to make the photos a bit easier to look at this year, so click on the image below for the slideshow! (Use the cursor keys on your keyboard, or swipe left to move through the photos!)


Friday 21 July 2017

Year 1 Space Day

Year 1 have had a fun day by dressing up in anything "space" related. The children looked fantastic!

Activities included cooking, space games, solving maths problems and having a disco.



Thursday 20 July 2017

Oakwood's The Word! Y6 Perform one last time...

Year 6 told a story of intrigue and sabotage for their final performance to Oakwood today.

In a story within a story, as they prepared to put on their production of Grease, their plans were thrown into disarray by a rival local headteacher who hid the vital USB stick!

Without the photos of them when they were younger, how would they make their parents emotional at the show?

Well, as you might expect, all was well (and no-one from Fairisle was harmed during the making of this musical!)



(Here's the unrehearsed cool-down at the end of the afternoon performance! Nice moves, Mrs Hennen!)



And here's the CarPool Karaoke in Mrs McDonald's Picanto... (on the way to Fairisle!)



And the T-Birds workshop...!

Wednesday 19 July 2017

Y4 Carousels

Over the past few weeks Year 4 have been working hard making their very own moving carousels. There have been many stages to complete before actually making the finished product. Carousels and the history of the fairground, then electricity and circuit building. A design and theme also needed to be considered, then the finished article needed to be evaluated. They have all done an amazing job!

Tuesday 18 July 2017

Year 2 and 3LD Meet for the afternoon

3LD came to Year 2 this afternoon for some PDR.







Y1 Observational Drawing of the School

Year 1 spent this afternoon outside drawing the school. They had to count the windows and doors, look at the shape of the roof and think about the colours they needed. 


Year 6 Water Antics!

Water Antics on the field! Year 6 are cooling down after a long hard year. Spot the big boys rather wet!

Oakwood's Got Talent

Today we had our final show of Oakwood's Got Talent. The finalists in Key Satge 1 performed a variety of acts in front of an audience and panel of judges.

We saw dances, a comedy act, a magic show and singing. The judges were so impressed with all of the acts and had a very difficult decision to choose the winners.

Year 4 Working Hard On Their Carousels

Year 4 are doing a fantastic job at the moment working on their carousels. They are showing a very positive growth mindset as it is very tricky to complete the circuit and get their carousels to spin! Have a look at our 'work in progress' gallery and check back soon to see the finished carousels in all their glory!

Monday 17 July 2017

Y1 Papier Mâché Rockets

Year one have created their own rockets. They started with a tube and then attached a card nose to one end. After that they used newspaper and papier mâché paste to cover the rocket. The rockets were left over the weekend to dry and the children were surprised to see that their rockets were then hard. Finally the rockets were painted and windows, doors and flames were added. Don't they look fantastic!

Personal Best Day

Every half term the children in year R, 1 and 2 have enjoyed Personal Best Days which are run by our TMC coaches.

This was the last one for the year and the children got to practise all the skills that they had learned throughout the year.


Friday 14 July 2017

Teddies and Cushions

Y6 children haven't stopped this year!

Since SATs they've created and run a business and raised a fantastic amount of money! But most recently they have been working on their DT project - Teddies or cushions.

The children have been working exceptionally hard on them: designing, re-designing and producing a selection of brilliant products which they will soon be able to take away and keep forever.

Thursday 13 July 2017

Federation Sports Day

Earlier this week, Team Oakwood competed in the annual Redbridge and Lordshill Federation Sports Day held at Fairisle Junior School.

Oakwood took 18 children from across the school which were split into three teams, Y2, Y4, Y6. Each team then competed against 3/4 other schools at a range of events (very similar to our own School Sports Day) with teams earning points at each station for and overall Team Oakwood.

Oakwood did very well, picking up plenty of wins on the way round the stations and were 'trading blows' with both Newlands (last years winners) and Fairisle in the battle for 1st. When all the events were complete and the points counted it was a Newlands, Oakwood, Fairisle - 1st, 2nd, 3rd.

In addition to the 'multi-skilled' events there were 6 sprint races - Girls and Boys, Y2, Y4 and Y6. This is where Team Oakwood showed their talent winning 5 out of the 6 races and coming 2nd in the 6th! A fantastic achievement.

Well done to everyone who represented the school so well and did Oakwood proud.

Monkey Milkshake Mayhem

This is Mrs Vanes

Wednesday 12 July 2017

Morph-Year 3 Style


Year 3 Animations-Part 2


Year 1 Space Homework

Willow Class have created some fantastic homework for our Space topic. We had such a variety of work including poems, collages, stories, facts and even model rockets and satellites.

Azura Win Sports Day

This year's Sports Day winners.... AZURA!

Tuesday 11 July 2017

Year 2 Microhabitats

During Science week, Year 2 had fun designing and making some microhabitats! They worked in pairs and then wrote a riddle about their microhabitat or the minibeast that might live there.








Year 2 swimming

Year 2 children have enjoyed 5 weeks of swimming lessons at Oaklands pool. They have learned new skills and they really enjoyed the fun free time on the last lesson.

Well done to all the Year 2 children! 

Year 3 Animations


Monday 10 July 2017

YR, Y1 and Y2 sprint races

Luckily it wasn't raining and the sun was shining for our sprint races!

It was a close call for some of our runners but they did really well and we're cheered on by their friends.



Friday 7 July 2017

Transfer Day-New Year 3



A.M




P.M



Science adventure at the university

Year 5 were extremely lucky to be invited to Southampton University to take part in some exciting science experiments and watch a science show. We had lots of fun and learnt lots!


Thursday 6 July 2017

Welcome the New Year 5!

The new year 5 spent their transfer day taking part in their very own Mini - Olympics! Their first job was to invent their own country as a group. Then to represent their country in the Olympics.

Y6 on Transfer Day

The new Y6 classes had a bubblrilliant time as they met their new Y6 teachers and classmates on Wednesday.
The day was all about having fun, and working together.

The children began the day by practicing lying (not normally encouraged!) in a class game of 'Would I Lie to to you?'.They then explored the world of bubbles large and small before working together to solve our Y6 team challenges.

All the children had a great day and are looking forward to their first 'Real' day in Y6 in September.

Tuesday 4 July 2017

Sports Day 2017

What a day Sports Day 2017 was!

KS2 had their Sports Day activities first thing in the morning and completed all of their 13 sporting activities, earning points for their house at every station.
Year 3 did well at their first 'House Relays' whilst years 5/6 (now experts in Sports Day) led with way with some very close and exciting races.

Year group Sprint Champions were crowned and new records were set in the Y4 boys 60m and both the boys and girls 80m in Y6. So well done, Ethan, Marcus an Amy!

Our KS1 activities didn't go quite so smoothly - the rain hampering our Sports Day spirit. We did try and go for as long as we could, but eventually we were beaten by the weather. We did, however, manage to complete 8 out of the 10 different activities. KS1 Sprint Champion races will be run on a date TBA.

Well done to everyone who represented their house but this years winners are....Azura!!

Y5 Scientists

As part of Oakwood's Science week Y5 were treated to a science workshop with some scientists from Southampton University. We learnt about biodiversity and then got to explore the biodiversity in the Oakwood grounds.

Summer Science in Year R

Thursday 29 June 2017

Hampshire School Games

The Hampshire School Games is a Level 3 sports competition between schools across Hampshire and the IOW. Schools qualify through being successful in their local (Level 2) events. It is a celebration of sport for primary and secondary school children.

Oakwood have already competed in one Level three event this year (Our Indoor Athletics team competed in the Hampshire competition in April) but we also qualified to represent the Southampton School Games area the the Hampshire Games in Tag-Rugby.

Although the RFU - who were running the event today did so as a festival - (meaning there would be no winners and losers - meaning no medals and trophies etc) Team Oakwood were very successful, finishing a hypothetical 2nd!

The morning group stages were drawn geographically ensuring schools faced other Hampshire areas. Oakwood had excellent results and finished the morning games with a 100% record and topped the group results.
Oakwood's results:
Oakwood 4 - 2 Binstead
Oakwood 4 - 3 Park Gate
Oakwood 3 - 2 Stamore Primary
Oakwood 4 - 3 Park View

During the afternoon, the groups were re-sorted with schools playing other schools with similar results. Oakwood continued to play excellent rugby and again did well against some tough opposition. Oakwood were finally beaten in their last game, but this was their only defeat of the day. By our calculations, this meant Team Oakwood finished the -not a competition- in 2nd place.

Well done to all our players for their performance and behaviour on the day especially our player of the day, Alan!
Try scorers: Jenson (3), Marcus (7), Alan (7), Joe (3), Praise (2), Sonny (3) and Nathaniel (3)