Hooray for the High 5 Netball Team

After coming second in the Southampton High Five Netball League, the team were selected to compete in the Hampshire High Five Netball Tournament.

The tournament took place at the Sports Centre on Tuesday 27 April. The other teams taking part included the top two teams from Hamble, Toynbee, Mountbatten and the New Forest. The team played an exhausting 7 matches!

Overall they acheived a deserving 5th place out of 8. Congratulations!



Also well done to the team for winning 3 v 1 against Highfield (who won the Southampton League).

Congratulations to Aimee, Chloe, Emily, Megan, Lewis, Sean, Isaac and Samantha.

Year 5 Biscuit Survey

This survey has been produced by Year 5 as part of our biscuit business research. Please take the time to complete it, in order to help us produce the biscuits you like at a price you can afford. Please fill in the form as honestly as you can.

Click here, or on the cookies, to get to the survey!



You will need your Oakwoodlive ID to log in and complete your answers.

And where is Oscar?

SAM has been on holiday over Easter, but I have too!

I also have a £5 book voucher for anyone who can email me with the four places I have been! (One of them is really hard!)



Don't leave a comment on the blog because people will be able to see your answers - instead, email me at oscar@oakwoodlive.net!

Good luck!

Where is SAM?

Hello Everyone! SAM here!

I have been taking advantage of the school Easter holidays to have a few days away and here are a few picture "clues" to where I've been.

If you can tell me where all five places are, you can win a £5 Book Token to spend...

(Here's a clue - I didn't have to fly anywhere on an aeroplane to get to these places!)

If you know where all the places are, don't leave a comment on the blog, because everyone else will see your answers. Just send me an email at sam@oakwoodlive.net.

School opens at 8.50am on Tuesday 20 April - see you then!

Goodbye* Mrs Vaudin...

We wanted to make sure that we gave Mrs Vaudin a really good send off from Oakwood! In fact, so may people wanted to say goodbye, that we gave her two!

Firstly, we invited lots of people who have worked with her over 28 years to have a cup of tea and a bit of cake. We also surprised her with some of her family who turned up unexpectedly...

And on the very last day of term, all of the children and lots of parents came together for a special assembly, where we presented her with some special Memory Books.

Although it was a sad occasion, it was a very happy way of wishing Mrs Vaudin all the best for her retirement!

* We know it's not really goodbye - Mrs Vaudin will always be a very important part of the Oakwood family and we hope she'll soon be back as a governor!

A Look Back at Mrs Vaudin's Time at Oakwood!

As Mrs Vaudin starts her retirement tomorrow, we thought you would like to see some of the photos we've decorated the school with!

Mrs Vaudin thought some of these photos were lost forever, but...



...it's amazing what you can find if you look hard enough!

Science rocks!

Oakwood had an absolutely fantastic day exploring the world of Science yesterday. The day kicked off with a visit from 'The Mad Scientist' to show us some of his experiments.



The day continued with all classes completing a roundabout of spectacular science activities.

A Little bit of Persuasion Goes a Long way!!

Year 5 have been learning lots of persuasive letter writing techniques. Our first attempt was to try to persuade some of our favourite tv characters stop doing something.

Here are a few of our letters, do you think we have been successful?

Quick Links to our OFSTED Report

Thank you for your support during our recent OFSTED inspection.

The report confirms that Oakwood Junior School is a good school, with outstanding practice in a number of areas.



Here are some quick links to documents and pages about the inspection:

• Letter to parents and carers from Richard Wilson (Chair of Governors) and Ian Taylor (Headteacher)
• Full 2010 OFSTED Report for the school
• Our page on the OFSTED Website. The report will also be published here in due course.

Charmingly Situated with much Potential...

On Thursday and Friday Year 5 opened our own estate agent businesses. Currently learning about peruasive writing, we put our persuasive skills to the test as we tried to make the most money selling houses.



After a week of hard work preparing all our business literature including banners, business cards, leaflets, house information, questionaires etc, the big day finally arrived! We were visited by many esteemed clients -all the pupils at Oakwood and many parents. Every client was issued with a specially designed cheque to spend on a house that they had been persuaded to buy.

As you can see from the photos it was a brilliant day and gave us a great opportunity to use our persuasive speaking and listening skills in a formal setting. We definitely have some budding entrepreneurs in the making!

by Conor and Amie.