Our Year 6 Pupils say their first goodbye to Oakwood, remembering and celebrating some of their favourite events.
A brilliant production, with emotional songs ("When I Grow Up" made Mr Taylor cry!) and excellent acting!
Thank you for entertaining us, and a really big Thank You to all the ex "Mr Taylors" who turned up to reprise their role from previous years! (That made the real Mr Taylor cry as well!)
You will see from some of our other recent blog posts, that Oakwood had a great 'Plastic Free Day' this week.
All children got involved with learning about single-use plastic and its effect on our environment. Key Stage 2 were lucky enough to have a visit from a group from King's Church who told us all about their ecobricking project, Year 6 did a local community litter pick and two of our Pupil Councillors were lucky enough to have a slot on local breakfast radio!
Across the school children also completed their own pledges to reduce plastic, wrote letters and emails to local companies to ask them to reduce their plastic use, they found inventive ways to re-use plastic in school, to name but a few!
Have a look at Year 3's top tips for reducing plastic:
Top Tips for families to reduce plastic use!
These are some of the ways our class have thought of to reduce our plastic usage and help the environment.
1. When you buy an ice-cream, ask for a cone instead of a cup as you get given a plastic spoon too – too much plastic!
2. Ditch single-use plastic items
3. Always take your litter home, wherever you are!
4. Re-think your birthday bag! Ditch the rubbish plastic toys you only use once. Include just a cake or something home-made.
5. Take a cloth bag/re-usable bag to the shops.
6. Always use paper straws instead of plastic straws.
7. Use re-usable tubs in a lunchbox not food wrapped in plastic.
8. Use metal cutlery.
9. Drink from a re-usable bottle at school and when you’re out.
Please think about using these tips at home. These tips will help our planet!
Last week, we had a focus on our Rights Respecting School learning.
As a Rights Respecting School, the Unicef Convention on the Rights of the Child is threaded through all of our learning at Oakwood. We have whole school, class, playground and restaurant charters which remind us of our rights and how we can respect them. We learn about our rights in assemblies and in our lessons. Our whole school PSHE theme for this half term is 'This is Me', and we are learning about ourselves, and how our words and actions portray our character.
Last week, we learned more about the rights of children in other countries, particularly those children who, for one reason or another, are forced to leave their homes. We also took part in the Send My Friend to School Campaign. This year, the focus for this is 'Let's Unlock Education for Everyone'.
Our learning included reading books, completing research, drama and freeze frames - to name but a few. Every child has also written to our MP as part of the Send My Friend to School campaign, and we will be sending off our letters very soon.
We had a fantastic day completing our non-stop 15 minutes of activity for our Groundforce Move-a-Thon. Thank you to everyone who managed to collect sponsorship money - all of this will go towards our plans for improving our school grounds!
A big thank you to TMC who supported us with the day and made it lots of fun!
It's been a busy few days in Year 3.
We have been working hard making WW2 oat cakes and other goodies ready for our VE celebration that we held this afternoon. We have also been writing Remembrance poems which some of us read this morning at Hollybrook cemetery, as we gathered to remember all the brave men and women who have sacrificed their lives in War.
A big thank you to all the parents who walked up to the cemetery with us and for all the generous donations for the celebration. There was not only enough for all the parents and children twice over, but the many cakes and biscuits that were left over were gratefully taken by Mrs Mattack to donate to a local homeless shelter.
We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who planned, prepared, helped, came along, spent money, had a burger or an ice cream, played a game, had a flutter on a raffle, picked a tombola ticket, sang, danced, won a coconut, golfed, kicked a goal, nerfed a target, had their nails or face painted, designed a mask, had a cuppa and a cake, climbed or jumped over obstacles, or, in Ms Patchett's case, got gunged!
The OSA Summer Fete was a massive success and a lovely community event - a wonderful day for the Oakwood Family!
Thank you!
What a FANTASTIC first day for the new Year 3 children! Not only did they impress their new teachers with how BRILLIANT they were, they also produced some terrific artwork. This work was done to reflect the discussions and stories they heard today, to help them think about changes and expectations in Year 3.
Firstly, we thought about any worries we might have about our new class and we shared a short film and story. We then made worry dolls to share our worries with-inspired by our story 'Silly Billy' by Anthony Browne. Later, in the afternoon, we thought about what it means to be a superhero and how we could be superheroes in Year 3. We drew pictures of our-self as superheroes. Take a look:-
As part of our Science, Year 4 have been thinking about the environmental and human impact on habitats. Following in the footsteps of Marwell Zoo, we made our own rhinos out of clay and painted them with vibrant colours and patterns, in order to raise awareness of the plight of the rhino. We are in good company as Prince William is also currently campaigning to save the rhino.
As Part of Y4's PSHE we have been thinking about our Growth mindset and Going for Goals. These are some half and half pictures we produced to remind our Phase of our can do attitude:
'Success comes in a can, not a cannot. Give it a try! This is a can do Phase! You can do it!'
Oakwood was really privileged to be involved in Southampton City Council's Imagine the Future event today...!
Our pupil representatives boarded the Red Funnel Isle of Wight Ferry this morning (thanks to our friends at Fairisle and their minibus!) and spent the day being involved in workshops about the future of the city of Southampton.
We talked about how we could improve the lives of young people in the city and what would be the best use of the city's money...
Thanks to the City Council, Red Funnel, Bitterne Park Sixth Form, Richard Taunton College, St Anne's Sixth Form and City College for a brilliant day!
Have a look at our Twitter storyboard below to see how the day unfolded!
Tweets about ImagineTheFuture
We have been really excited to be working on Send My Friend to School.
This is a project to raise awareness and send help to the millions of children in the world who don't get an education as a matter of course.
Pupils in more than 4000 schools have been saying what they would do if they were a World Leader... and have been designing their own Minecraft-style world leaders to tell the story.
Oakwood presented our mini-world leaders to Dr Alan Whitehead MP and he promised to take them, and their messages, up to Westminster to persuade the government to support the right of all children in the world to an education.
Today was a busy afternoon for the winners of the Year 5 Jude's Ice-Cream Challenge. They had to cut, glue and stick their labels to the ice-cream pots ready for the ice-cream to be added! The ice - cream will be made tomorrow!!! Watch out for the next blog when the ice-cream is collected from the factory.
Last term Year 5 made their very own baby books (linked to our changes topic). It was a fabulous home learning project and the children loved sharing them too!
On Wednesday 26 November, Oakwood were proud to host a special Federation of schools event for able, gifted and talented mathematicians: Krypton Factor.
The following schools attended with six pupils from years 3 to 5:
Oakwood Primary
Redbridge Primary
Mansel Park Primary
Fairisle Juniors
Tanners Brook Primary
Newlands Primary
The children worked with those from others schools on a range of fun and exciting maths activities and investigations. The Brussel Sprouts two player game from the Numberphile website was particularly popular!
All children were fully engaged in the tasks given, enjoyed themselves and said that they would love to take part again.
Watch this space for future Krypton Factor events!
A very personal blogpost from me, on behalf of all the pupils and staff at Oakwood...
This morning we tried something a little bit daunting - Oakwood's Biggest Ever Coffee Morning for Macmillan Cancer Support...
We've done this very successfully three times before, (see how we did in 2009 and in 2012), but this morning was the first time we have done it as a primary school.
This meant:
Article 12 of the UNICEF Rights of the Child Charter, which is one of our focus articles on our Whole School Charter, says that we all have a right to say what we think and be listened to.
Well, we certainly got a chance to do that today!
Every pupil in the school had a chance to vote for their House Captain for 2014 - 2015. The role of House Captain is very prestigious and the chosen pupils will be expected to be exemplary role models. Everyone who voted has had to think carefully about their decision and vote for the person who they think will represent their house the best.
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