Krypton Factor Federation Maths event

Some of our able mathematicians from year 2 and 3 had the great opportunity of attending our Federation Krypton Factor maths event this week.

Redbridge Primary School hosted. Newlands Primary, Shirley Warren Primary, Mansel Park Primary and Fairisle Junior schools were also represented there.

Our Oakwood pupils were fantastic ambassadors for the school; they enjoyed working alongside the others and persevered with the maths activities, games and puzzles all afternoon.

The first activity was the Numberphile Brussel Sprouts game which they all loved!
Next the children were given time to explore seven different maths activities.

Well done everyone! It was so lovely to see all the children enjoying maths and meeting new friends.

Year 2 basketball festival

Today 8 children were chosen to go to Solent university to take part in a basketball festival. The children took part in six activities with other schools. They practised and learned how to dribble the ball, catch and pass the ball, they even had a go at shooting!

The children had lots of fun and showed brilliant enthusiasm. Well done to all of those who participated, you represented Oakwood very well.

Have you heard about the Road 2 Rio?

The Road 2 Rio committee have been working hard in school. We hope you have heard about our Road 2 Rio challenge?

Meet the Travel Team

These are the children who will be encouraging us all to travel to school without using the car. They will also be helping lead the school in staying safe when we are travelling around by being seen when it is dark, and learning the green cross code.

At our first meeting they designed posters to encourage healthy travel to school, which everyone can see in the ICT suite.

Roald Dahl in Year R

Year R had a wonderful time dressing-up as characters from their favourite Roald Dahl books! Children and parents were very creative when thinking of costume and prop ideas!!

Oakwood v Fairisle

Despite the horrendous weather the football team still took to the field to take on Fairisle Junior School in their 3rd game of the season.

The team did exactly what was needed in the driving rain and produced an excellent performance. There were goals for Rhys and Reece whilst both Sam and Robbie bagged 2 goals each. Well done to Man of the Match - Sam.

Final Score
Oakwood 6 - 0 Fairisle

(PS. Good luck to all parents cleaning the rather wet and muddy kit!)

Cross Country 1st League meet

On Friday after school whilst most children were already thinking about their weekend the Y5/6 cross country team were racing around the Sports Centre!

The team of 17 children children took part in the 1st league meeting (there are 3 more before half term) of the Southampton Sainsbury's School Games cross country league.

There were separate races for the boys and the girls, but both raced over the same course which was just under 2km in length.

The team have been training hard at school and it showed in the results which were excellent considering it was our first attempt at racing long distance.

Boys Results:
Owen - 9th
Ethan - 11th
Alex - 13th
Reece - 22nd
Dan - 23rd
Rhys - 44th
Marcus - 69th
Jola - 115th

Girls Results:
Amy - 4th
Katie - 31st
Libby - 33rd
Sophia - 44th
Monique - 48th
Shannon - 52nd
Kayla - 99th
Renae - 101st
Ellie - 118th

Some amazing results, especially when there were over 150 children in each race!!

Magical Multiplication

Year 6 children have been very busy during the last 3 weeks as they have started working in their maths sets for the first time. Over the last week the sets have been focusing on multiplication.

Mr Ackland's set were given some rather tricky 3 box challenges to solve. It's true 6 questions took us a whole hour but you'll never believe how many pages of jottings and calculations we went through!

Take a look at the pictures, can you solve them?

A Visitor from the Synagogue

In Year 3 we are finding out about Sacred Places, so Martyn Rose came in from the Southampton Synagogue to tell about Jewish sacred places. He also shared with us how modern Jews practice their faith and celebrate harvest at Sukkot.

Year 4 On the Road to Rio

Today, Year 4 took their first steps towards achieving their Road to Rio awards. Each child earned two stamps for their enthusiastic participation in trampolining and street dancing at Oasis Academy. We all had a great morning, as you can see from our photographs.