Music on the (Really BIG) Map!

Year 3's Music on the Map journey is nearly over and what a way to finish!

They have spent all year, learning to read music, look after their instruments, work together as a team, follow direction and perform to an audience... and, of course, they have learned to play their instrument!

In Oakwood, they have learned clarinet, glockenspiel, trombone and trumpet.

Today, in a brilliant final concert at Central Hall in Southampton, they met up with their peers from a number of other schools to play in an orchestra of over 400. A fantastic event!



The concert bill also had young musicians from Oasis Academy Lordshill and a star performance from professional string trio, Cordelectra - but our primary school musicians were the real stars of the show!

Huge thanks to Alex and everyone at Showcase for an superbly enjoyable opportunity.

Outside Maths Day

On Wednesday Year 5 and Year 3 joined forces to experience maths outside. Children worked together to use their maths skills in a fun way - they might not see Maths the same way ever again!

Out of this world homework!

Oak class were inspired by our current 'Beegu' topic and have built some lovely 3D rocket ships and UFOs for their homework!

Maths Day in Year R!

We found lots of active ways to practise maths skills during our 'Explore and Discover' time!

What a great way to spend a sunny afternoon!

Outdoor maths day in Year 2

Yesterday in Year 2 we had a fabulous outdoor maths afternoon with a focus on 'time'.

The children had fun timing themselves doing different activities such as obstacle courses and races.
We had a giant clock in the playground and the children sorted out a programme of events and TV schedules.

The importance of water...

Chris Davies and the team from the Southampton City Mission visited Y4 on Tuesday for a day all about the importance of water both in our daily lives and for some groups of Christians.

Have a look at some of the things we did.

The maths committee enjoyed a visit from representatives of HSBC bank. They spoke to the children about savings and borrowings and the children took part in some exercises to help understand money. They children enjoyed the visit and we would like to thank Joanne and Holly for their time.

Year 3 Munch Back Through Time

Yesterday, Year 3 were learning about Tudor food and how it is different to the food we eat today. As part of this we looked at some game meat (partridge), we then cooked it and children were given the opportunity to taste some too!

Using what they found out about Tudors and their food the children are in the process of creating a piece of drama to represent a typical Tudor meal from either a rich or poor family.

Year R- The message we got from Beegu!

This is the message we got from Beegu:

(We listened to her story on youtube, perhaps you could do the same at home!)

Beegu in Year R!

It all started when Mrs Donnachie came into Year R Monday morning and said, “There’s some sort of spacecraft that has crashed in the front playground. Mr Taylor is busy in the big field because it’s Sports Day. Can you go and check it out?” We said, “YES!” We crept outside to the front field and spotted something odd in the bushes. Miss Shore checked it out first, to make sure it was safe. When she was sure it was safe, two children went for a closer look and found… a ‘top secret’ box inside the crashed rocket ship! We looked in the box and discovered some sort of memory chip inside. Luckily, our computer could read the message and….there was a message from a lovely little alien named ‘Beegu’! She wants to visit earth but her mummy and daddy said she only has time to visit one school. She doesn't know which school to choose!!

We’ve decided to help convince her to visit us by writing letters! We each wrote a letter to Beegu to tell her why Oakwood is the best! We then chose the correct size envelope, wrote her space address on the front and went to the office to ask for it to please be posted. We estimated that, because it was going so far, it would need 20 stamps!

We designed our own rocket ships using a plan and then used the plan to construct it using any kind of construction we liked.

We explored ‘moon dust’ and used it to help us learn about capacity and weight. We practised filling-up different sized containers and predicted which would hold the most and which would be the heaviest.

We used ‘splotches’ of paint and straws to make funny aliens pictures which then we hung in the role-play.

We did funny alien dances to the song, ‘Men in Black’. We recorded them and watched them back in class!

What a fun week!

We hope to see Beegu very soon at Oakwood!