The Oakwood Orchestra is coming on leaps and bounds!
All our Year 4 and 5 instrumentalists work with Paul Ibbott from Oasis Academy every Wednesday while the rest of the year groups have their music lessons.
We would like you to listen to how well they are progressing!
On Wednesday the 6th of April 2011, the OJS football team played in the Southampton City Cup final against Townhill Junior School. We had been expecting Fairisle Junior School, but Townhill had beaten them, coming back from 2-0 down in a thrilling semi-final.
We played at Staplewood (Southampton FC's training ground). We were 3-0 up by half-time and managed to hold that score till the final whistle, despite Townhill coming back a bit stronger in the second half. Mrs Rogers said "It was the best game all season!"
Thanks to Mrs Rogers and Paul for a great season and for helping us lift the cup for a second time!
In beautiful weather at the Saints Training Ground at Staplewood, Oakwood beat Townhill 3-0 in the final of the Southampton Cup. Match report to follow.
We hope you've managed to see our Gone Google billboards around town, including the big illuminated one on the Millbrook Road!
Google has now published our story on their official Google Blog, so please have a look!
We hope to do a little more podcasting in future, so we're starting today with a quick recording of three of our flautists performing a piece of music called Road Hogs.
What does it remind you of?
You can subscribe directly to our podcasts on iTunes by clicking:
Poetry performance, Garden growth, Skeleton Drawing, Street dance and curry tasting!
Four wonderful volunteers from 'The Coriander Lounge' came to teach Year 4 some Indian dance. Our thanks go to Miss Patchett for organising this free event.
Oakwood Junior School is one of only ten organisations worldwide - and the only one in the UK - which have won recognition from Google today for making the most of the Google Apps suite of programs.
We use Google Apps at Oakwood for email, calendaring, document storage, running our own intranet sites for staff and governors... and for running this blog!
We also use it to teach children about online safety, how to share documents with only specific people and how to use email sensibly.
Google provides these facilities free for educational establishments.
We don't get a prize, but we get a mention on the Google Apps blog and a free billboard twenty-four free billboards!
Tell us if you see them!
Our term dates for 2011-2012 are now available.
Please look at them carefully if you are planning holidays for next academic year.
Our INSET days are also marked. The final INSET day is 23 July 2012. In 2012, the City Council has decided the last day of term in the summer should be a Monday. Oakwood Infant and Junior Schools have agreed that term will finish at the end of a full week on Friday 20 July 2012 for pupils.
|