We hope to do a little more podcasting in future, so we're starting today with a quick recording of three of our flautists performing a piece of music called Road Hogs.
What does it remind you of?
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Poetry performance, Garden growth, Skeleton Drawing, Street dance and curry tasting!
Four wonderful volunteers from 'The Coriander Lounge' came to teach Year 4 some Indian dance. Our thanks go to Miss Patchett for organising this free event.
Oakwood Junior School is one of only ten organisations worldwide - and the only one in the UK - which have won recognition from Google today for making the most of the Google Apps suite of programs.
We use Google Apps at Oakwood for email, calendaring, document storage, running our own intranet sites for staff and governors... and for running this blog!
We also use it to teach children about online safety, how to share documents with only specific people and how to use email sensibly.
Google provides these facilities free for educational establishments.
We don't get a prize, but we get a mention on the Google Apps blog and a free billboard twenty-four free billboards!
Tell us if you see them!
Our term dates for 2011-2012 are now available.
Please look at them carefully if you are planning holidays for next academic year.
Our INSET days are also marked. The final INSET day is 23 July 2012. In 2012, the City Council has decided the last day of term in the summer should be a Monday. Oakwood Infant and Junior Schools have agreed that term will finish at the end of a full week on Friday 20 July 2012 for pupils.
We finished off our two days of Oakwood's Got Music with Kev and Rob from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra...
They played the Trombone and the French Horn and entertained us with lots of tunes. They also taught us a bit of conducting and even let a few people try out the digeridoo.
Their talent even extended as far as a range of other more unorthodox instruments: the hosepipe and funnel, the watering can and the kettle...!
A great end to the week and a big thanks to Mrs Peregrine for organising!
We had a fantastic start to our two days of Oakwood's Got Music this morning when Noah led assembly and got us all into rhythms!
He played drums and xylophones (both at the same time) and showed us how he had made one of his xylophones out of B&Q fencing posts...
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