Oakwood 1 - 0 Holy Family

With the school football season now in full flow the school team had a chance to right the wrongs from the U11 Wide Lane league on Monday.

Playing against a strong Holy Family team Oakwood produced the perfect team performance. The win was however due largely to the excellent defending of both the defence and midfield.

Although the team did create several late chances the Holy Family goalkeeper kept the score to 1-0, Robbie stabbing home a great goal at the near post. For his all running and tackling Robbie also picked up the Man of the Match award.

Well done Oakwood. A maximum 6 points so far!

Rights Respecting School Committee

Our Rights Respecting School committee met today and had lots to consider.

We started by thinking about how we respect rights in school, and where we see those rights - we thought of the School Charter, Class Charters, Playground Charters, displays... We also talked about how we can respect those rights everyday, by being kind and thoughtful to people around us.

This year, we will be focusing on the 'Global Goals'. We talked about what some of the goals mean for us, and how we sometimes take them for granted in our everyday lives.

The committee will be sharing the Global Goals introduction video with their classes, and next time, we will think about which goals we can campaign for!

First meeting of Reading Champions Committee (previously known as the Library Committee)

The Library Committee met for the first time today. Our first decision was to rename our committee 'The Reading Champions Committee'. We decided that we preferred this name because ultimately we wanted to champion a love of reading.

After getting to know one another with a game of 'Find someone who' (which involved finding out Mr Taylor's favourite author - do you know?) we talked about our ideas for the coming year. We decided we wanted to promote the library opening times; ensure that a range of genres - poetry and non fiction amongst others - are also read for pleasure with, and to, classes and visit other libraries to establish links and magpie some good ideas from them.

We finished with a couple of poems from a great poetry book in our terrific library. A productive first meeting!

Year 5 Sport for all at Oasis Academy

Yesterday Year 5 had an action packed day at Oasis Academy trying out some different sport activities. The activities were: trampolining, just dance and the fitness studio. On the trampoline we challenged ourselves to try different routines- even the teachers had a go!

Wide Lane U11 Football Tournament

Following the near success of the U10 team lat week, who reached the final, the U11 team were keen to do well.

And it got off to a great start as Oakwood put 4 goals past Bitterne Manor, but from there on in things didn't go Oakwood's way as the results trailed off. Despite playing well and dominating possession in several matches the team failed to score in the final four games, meaning the team exited at the group stage.

Results:
Oakwood 4 - 0 Bitterne Manor
Oakwood 0 - 1 St Monica
Oakwood 0 - 1 Abbotswood
Oakwood 2 - 0 Calmore
Oakwood 0 - 1 Ludlow
Oakwood 0 - 1 Valentine

Dahlicious dress up day

To celebrate Dahlicious dress up day in Year 2, the children came to school dressed as different characters from Road Dahl's books. We were impressed by the effort the children (and grown ups!) went to with their costumes and props!

In PE the children created dances along to the music from the film's Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Enormous Crocodile and The BFG. We saw some scary Miss Trunchbull moves stomping around and some excited faces as the children entered the chocolate factory. 

School Football Team kick off the new league season

The School Football team played their first game of the new season after school today. As defending league champions Team Oakwood had big boots to fill, but with lots of players who featured in the title winning team last year the boys made sure they got off to the right start.

Foundry Lane were the visiting team and showed that they would be no pushovers with some strong tackles in the opening minutes. However a goal in each half, the 1st from Sam and the 2nd an own goal ensured Oakwood bagged three points in the 2-1 victory.

Well done to school team debutants Ollie and Jola. But it was new team captain Reece who picked up the Man of the Match award.

Titanic exploring at Sea City

Today Year 5 went to Sea City to investigate the sinking of the Titanic. We participated in a discovery session and a workshop where we completed: a science experiment, learnt Morse code, looked at some Titanic artifacts and learnt about who went in the lifeboats.

 In the afternoon we then explored the museum, completing a question challenge set by our teachers. We learnt lots of new things about the Titanic and are looking forward to bringing these back to the classroom!

Wide Lane U10 Football Tournament

On Monday, 8 Y4 & Y5 children represented Oakwood in the Wide Lane U10 Football tournament. In some horrendous weather the team secured some excellent results as they made their way all the way to the final.

Results;
Hollybrook 0 - 1 Oakwood
Mt Pleasant 0 - 1 Oakwood
Bitterne Park 1 - 0 Oakwood
Townhill 0 - 2 Oakwood
Blackfield 0 - 2 Oakwood

Semi-final:
Oakwood 2 - 0 Hollybrook

Final:
Holy Family 1 - 0 Oakwood

The team did fantastically well and conceded only 2 goals in their 7 games!

Well done!

Light Laboratory

Controlling light was of life or death importance during WW2, so in our Long Way From Home topic Y3 began to discuss our understanding of light and explore how light is changed by reflectors, filters, prisms.