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.

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.