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!

LKS2 join Joe Wick for Children in Need PE challenge

 LKS2 have joined Joe Wicks this morning for the end of his epic 24hour PE challenge. We have star jumped, kicked and sweated....lots. What a lot of fun. Well done LKS2 and well done Joe. 

Y4 Build a river

As part of Rivers topic Year 4 spent yesterday afternoon constructing a river on the playground. We thought about all the different parts of the river and watched as the water made its way down the river course.

Oakthorne Day 2-Woodmill

Oakthorne Thursday PM

Year 3 Anglo Saxon Day Part 2

Groundforce Move-a-Thon!

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!

Year 5's World Book Day Word Art

On World Book Day, Year 5 were inspired to create a piece of Word Art, based on their favourite book. Have a look at the gallery below - the children were very proud of what they created!

World Book Day 2019

Year 1 Mad Hatter's Tea Party

Year 1 had a fantastic afternoon at their Mad Hatter's Tea Party.  As part of Year 1's history they had been learning about Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland.  The children were asked to make a 'mad' hat for their home learning project and brought them in to wear at their very own tea party inspired by the book.  The children decorated cakes they had made and enjoyed eating them whilst watching the film version of the story of Alice in Wonderland.

OSA Christmas Fair

The OSA Christmas Fair was a brilliant community event once again! Of course we want it to be a successful fundraiser (we'll let you know how much we raised soon!), but the most important things was that it was so well attended, and it was a reminder of just how lovely our community of children, parents and staff is. Everyone had a smile on their face! (Spot yourself in the video!)



Thanks to every one of you for the part you played in making it so. Special thanks as usual to the OSA Committee, particularly Gill and Gary, who go out of their way to make sure the whole thing comes together, Julie and Kelly in the kitchen, and to Martyn and the cleaning team for getting everything spick and span again.

(Thank you to Lidl for providing the food!)

Oakwood from the Air!

Many thanks to Steve Trent, one of our parents, who came to take a whole school photo with his drone on Friday!



While he was up there, he took some amazing video! (We hope he'll be able to come back in the summer when the weather's better!)

Children In Need

We've had a very busy term, and we've put on a lot of events already...

(Our Macmillan Coffee Morning raised £1132 and Year 6's Victorian Fayre raised £665...)

...so we decided to keep things a little more low key for Children in Need this year.




Nonetheless, our small bits of loose change managed to raise £245.48, so thank you very much...

The BBC Children in Need appeal raised over £50 million on Friday evening, with more to come in, and has raised over £1 billion since it first started in 1980.

Oakwood is proud to have played its part. Thank You!

National Fitness Day

We had such a great turn out across the school last week to mark 'National Fitness Day'. Thanks so much to all the children who came to join in and the staff!

We promised, you delivered...Ms Dowle gets gunged!

Year 3 and 4 were challenged to get 40 logs in the final few weeks of term with the promise of gunging Ms Dowle if they were successful. Well done Year 3 and 4 you smashed the target and achieved over 50 logs! Unfortunately for Ms Dowle this meant being covered with a rather smelly gunge...

An Egg-cellent Year 4 Diary

4JH decided to document each day they chicks spent with us, filming little clips of what the chicks were up to. We loved having the chicks- and updating the video on their progress!

Oakthorne Day 2

Sport Relief Oakwood!

Congratulations Oakwood for raising an amazing £355 for Sport Relief! We are so proud of you all for taking part in the activities today:flash dance, flash aerobics and runs! A huge thank you from the Charity Committee...

Year 4 Question of Faith

Year 4 have had a fantastic Question of Faith day led by Southampton City Mission. We have learnt all about Paschal candles and rituals. After an exciting morning, including a treasure hunt, we got to work designing and creating our own candles. What a busy day- thank you Southampton City Mission!

Superhero Day in Year 2

The children all dressed up for superhero day and did various activities.

They had walked down a "runway" to show off their costumes and had a special superhero photo shoot.