Hello All!
I hope you are enjoying your holidays! After spending a year in Australia, it's very different being back home in England... or am I???
I will post a few photos over the next few days - see if you can work out where I am!
PS Who is Barnaby again?
In partnership with the Lordshill and Lordswood Schools Cluster, Southampton YMCA is providing Summer workshops and activities.
They will take place at the different school sites - give them a quick call to find out what's happening at Oakwood!
There's lots on offer, including:
SAM says:
I met up with an old friend again the other day when Mrs Hamilton came into assembly to tell everyone about her trip to Mexico last summer - and to tell us why she's going again this year...
I spent last summer working on the dumps on the outskirts of Mexico City - for me, it was just a couple of weeks, but for many families and children, it's their home.
They live on the dump, with no access to clean running water, education or doctors.
I went out to Mexico with a charity which takes health workers, dentists and other care workers out to the dumps and provides check ups to the families who live there.
You can see some of the conditions and the help we provided in the photos below...
Mrs Hamilton and her family are there again this summer with the charity, so next time you turn on your tap, or think about school, or go to the doctor or dentist, please spare a thought for the families they are helping.
Year 6 had a very busy end of term and everyone went on one of the Big Ships in Southampton Docks. The cruise ships are basically floating hotels, but the WhitChallenger gave us a better idea of what a life at sea is really like!
We had to follow very important health and safety rules, including wearing yellow hi-viz jackets, and we toured every part of the refuelling tanker, learning about navigation, safety, food and accommodation on board - and even knots! (Some things never change at sea!)
We also learned a lot about what goes on behind the Dock Gates in the city and how important the maritime industry is to Southampton.
Some of us were shown around by 2nd Officer Tom Barkley, who has recently been awarded the Maritime and Coastguard Agency's Officer Trainee of the Year Award, so we couldn't have had a better guide!
Thanks to Tom, the rest of the crew and to Ashley Jenkins, a director of the Whitaker Group for giving us this great opportunity!
Year 6 have had an amazing afternoon celebrating their Land Ho! home learning projects. We have read stories of desert islands, facts about distant lands and have seen some outstanding 3-D islands - some were even made out of cement and had exploding volcanoes!
All the parents and visitors thought that the work had been completed to a very high standard. Also the children recieved a certificate, which they can be very proud of!
Congratulations year 6 on all your hard work!
Year 4 have worked incredibly hard to create their own innovative popcorn holders over the past few days. They have then worked in their groups to create a persuasive poster and a detailed accounts (and profits) analysis so that they could persuade the Dragons to invest in their product.
On Tuesday, the day had come! Each group had to enter the Dragons' Den and pitch their product. The Dragons then had to make a decision about whether to invest in the popcorn holder or not. The companies that offered a higher percentage of their profits to the Dragons were the most successful!
Well done to all of Year 4! Your teachers are very proud of you.
As the first year in junior school draws to a close, Year 3 travelled en masse to the Sports Centre to celebrate their many successes this year. They were joined by parents and friends for a picnic lunch, before every child was presented with a certificate to celebrate their star achievements in Year 3.
Thank you to children and parents for making it such a fun-filled, happy occasion.
Keeping a sketchbook is a great way of keeping track of creative ideas and getting in the habit of regular drawing.
All week Year 3 will be looking at examples of how real artists (specialising in both 2D and 3D artwork) use their sketch books to record and trial their ideas. They will also add to their own sketchbooks-recording their own innovative ideas from several fun projects.
They started today with some crazy collage, where they used pictures or words from magazines as well as sketching to produce a finished picture. As you can see from the photos lots of merriment was had by all and some amusing and clever pictures produced.
For their second task they were given the job of rewriting a paragraph of text. Their challenge was to replace as many of the words as possible with pictures instead. Look carefully at the pictures-can you work out the missing text?
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