Oakwood Advent Books 2019: 24th December - The Night Before Christmas

Here is the final Advent book of our countdown to Christmas 2019: The Night Before Christmas by Clement C Moore

Oakwood Advent Books 2019: 23rd December - The Lighthouse Keeper's Christmas

Here is today's Advent book - The lighthouse Keeper’s Christmas by Rhonda Armitage

Oakwood Advent Books 2019: 22nd December - How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Here is today's Advent Book - How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr Seuss.

Y4 Printing

This half term Year 4 have been busy experimenting with mono printing. Inspired by our under the sea topic, they created some fantastic prints to illustrate their calendars with.

Y6 Collage

Y6 pupils have been working hard this half term on their collage skills. They have been working in groups to create a collage of the jungle - having been inspired by the work of Henri Rousseau.
We think they've done a great job...what do you think?

Oakwood Advent Books 2019: 21st December - One Snowy Night

Here is today's Advent Book - One Snowy night - by Nick Butterworth.

Felt Book Jackets

Year 4 have been working hard designing and making their own book jackets. Here are a sample of the first ones finished.

Christmas Dinner

Once again, we were able to provide all children who wanted it, a free Christmas Dinner.

Thank you to City Catering, and especially Julie and her amazing team in our kitchen for another fabulous feast! The puddings this year were particularly impressive!

Year 5 and 6 Christmas Performance

Our final performances were yesterday and Years 5 and 6 gave us a fantastically Christmassy medley. It was a real showcase of talents, with musicians playing, beautiful modern and traditional songs being sung, a little bit of French and even the odd turkey thrown in!

Thank you Years 5 and 6 for entertaining us so professionally!

Year 3 and 4 Christmas Performance

Years 3 and 4 kicked off our Key Stage 2 Christmas performances on Monday, and what a way to start! Their theme was 'The Christmas Tardis' and they took us on a journey through time and space to learn about Christmas through time.

Thank you Years 3 and 4 for a fabulous show and for sharing lots of your amazing talents!

Y6 Use their time wisely

We've had quite a lot of wet lunch times recently, but a small group of Y6 pupils have been using their time wisely!
They have been working hard to create a Ferris Wheel out of K'nex. It measures 76cm tall! They have inspired others to try their hand at something - there's quite a few other things being made too now.

Year 2 Penguin Home Learning

Year 2 have been sharing their amazing penguin Home Learning projects. It was brilliant to see the hard work that everyone had put into their Home Learning. Well done Year 2!

 

Christmas Fair

All of the money has been counted, and we are now in a position to be able to announce that our Christmas Fair raised an astounding £4533!

Thank you all so much for your generosity, and more importantly, we hope you enjoyed what was another great Oakwood Family evening.

5FL have made some wonderfully Christmassy Cards that light up!

We had an amazing time last week making Christmas cards that light up!

Y4 Visit the Theatre

Year 4 were lucky enough to be able to go to the theatre to watch Cinderella. They loved seeing inside a real theatre and figuring out how everything works. We were amazed by the talented actors who sung, danced and played instruments as well as acting!

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

Year R Nativity Performance

The children in Year R all took part in a Nativity play. They entertained us by their beautiful singing, dancing and story telling and we are really proud of their performance. Well done to everyone involved who supported in organising costumes, props and learning lines to help make it such a success. A real Christmas treat.

Wind Poems

Inspired by 'The Sea' by James Reeves, the children in Year 4 wrote, memorised and performed their own poems based on the wind.

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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!

Oakwood Advent Books 2019: 1st December - The Snowman

This year, at Oakwood, we will once again be having an Advent of books in the countdown to Christmas. Each day at school we will be sharing a Christmas/Winter themed book (or part of a longer book) with all of our children. On Saturday and Sunday we will also be sharing books via video here on our blog and through our Twitter feed.

As well as providing the children with an exciting opportunity to share a book everyday with their teachers and friends, they will help children reflect on a wide range of themes that affect people all over the world during the Christmas holidays.

We will let you know each day what the day's book is and hope that you join in at home to share the joy of reading.

Today's book has no words but is one every adult will be familiar with... The Snowman by Raymond Briggs.