Southampton Festival of Music and Drama

Twenty six Oakwood pupils joined their peers from Fairisle Junior School and Shirley Warren Primary School on Sunday to play in the Lordshill Cluster Junior Orchestra at the Southampton Festival of Music and Drama at Thornden School.

This was the first time the full orchestra has played in public after only two rehearsals together. We were up in Class 103 against the well-established orchestras from Romsey Abbey Primary School and Princes Mead School.

Our programme comprised Wallace and Gromit, Pachelbel's Canon and the James Bond Theme.



Romsey Abbey won the class, but the Lordshill Cluster Orchestra came away with a very creditable 83 marks, which earned a merit.

Many thanks to Paul Ibbott at Oasis Academy Lordshill for his continued work with the orchestra!

One Way or Another...!

It looked like time to laze around on the sofa or have a little snooze at Oakwood today, as everyone came to school in their onesies or their pyjamas!

It was all in a good cause as we raised £350 for Comic Relief!



(We have a tradition of making great Red Nose Day videos!)

Thanks you to our Pupil Voice Charity Committee, who organised the whole day, and to Alex Pope, who led us in some drumming and dancing!



You can find out more about Comic Relief by watching the video below...

Our March 'Club of the Month'

March's 'Club of the Month' came to Oakwood in the back of a Van, with a little help from the Solent Sport Partnership run by Solent University.

Friday was Dance mat day! Instead of using one or two dance mats in the front room at home, each class had the opportunity to use the 15 full size portable mats attached to the main screen in the school hall. Where two students from Solent University guided the children through a selection of songs testing their dancing shoes and co-ordination to the max.

Take a look at our pictures and see if you can spot the next Fred Astaire or Diversity Dance Troop member!

Southampton Sharks - Wheelchair Rugby arrives!

Following on from the exposure which the London 2012 Paralympics gave to Wheelchair Rugby, Aaron Phipps came into school to tell us his story...

We're now really pleased to report that Southampton has its own wheelchair rugby team, set up in partnership with Southampton Solent University.

Aaron talked about this great new opportunity on the BBC - and see if you can spot Oakwood's very own wheelchair rugby star on the video too!

Weather Kid Jack!

Jack appeared on Wave105 on Thursday afternoon to tell everyone what the weather was like!

listen to ‘Weather Kid Jack’ on Audioboo

If you become a Radio Weather Kid, send us the mp3 file and we'll let everyone listen again...!

World Book Day

It was World Book Day on the 7th March. We had a fancy dress day. Well done to the all children who came to school dressed as thier favourite book character. We had some fantastic costumes!

Can you guess who these characters are....?

Team Oakwood!

It's nearing the end of the football season...

The Oakwood school football team have played twice in recent weeks picking up important 1-0 home victories against Table toppers St Marks Junior School and Hollybrook Junior School.

This means they have now won four out of five league games played and are still in with a chance of challenging St Marks for the league title!

Unfortunately the away match against Fairisle on Friday was cancelled due to a waterlogged pitch, but the team still has two games after school on Monday against Tanners Brook. We will try our hardest to re-arrange the Fairisle game before the league finishes on the 15th of March.

Hard working High 5 Netball teams

The Oakwood Netball teams have been working hard this term, playing many matches and training.

Our Oakwood A team are expected to come second in the Southampton league to Bassett Green A. An amazing result, well done.

Their results this term are as follows:
Oakwood A v Bassett Green B
9 v 0
Oakwood A v Oakwood B
8 v 1
Oakwood A v Thornhill
5 v 0
Oakwood A v Mount Pleasant (friendly match)
5 v 3

All players in Oakwood A and B team have really improved their netball skills since September and should be very proud of their achievements. Fantastic effort!

I Got Three Stars!

"I always thought I wasn't any good at maths, but I had fun and was able to answer more than I thought! I got 3 stars!"

Parents showed a real sense of enjoyment and achievement at our Maths Open Afternoon!

Over 120 parents, grandparents and family friends came to see how we teach maths and how children learn. We gave them number, algebra, data, logic, shapes, problem solving, practical challenges, games, "computer" maths to name but a few things!

Everyone worked hard, faced challenges, made their brains work and 100% of the comments we received were positive! Lots of parents also said what fun maths was! Who would have thought that?!



Our aim was to help families understand their children when they do maths homework, talk about methods and use different strategies and vocabulary to those they learned at school...

As one parent commented..."I wish I could have learned this way when I was at school!"

Year 5's trip to Pizza Hut

Year 5 went to Pizza Hut today to help us in our topic Biscuit Business. At Pizza Hut we learned  how to prepare food and even make our own pizzas. We also learned some interesting facts about how they make, cook and deliver their pizzas. 

A majority of 5TA said their favourite part was making the pizzas, everyone wanted to go back.We had the pizzas delivered to school and we ate them for lunch. Two pupils from 5TA said the most impressive piece of equipment was the large oven which can fit six normal ovens inside it!

This will help with our own businesses because we will be working in the kitchen making biscuits to the best quality possible.

By Billy and Bronte