To celebrate the Saints' return to the Premiership on Saturday, we are allowing children to come to school on Monday wearing a Southampton football shirt, if they have one and wish to do so.
If you have a Saints shirt*, you can wear it on Monday instead of your normal Oakwood sweatshirt or fleece!
Well done to our new Premiership Team!
(*Just a Saints shirt! Not full kit. No other teams shirts allowed!)
SAM and ODO visited assembly yesterday morning and reminded us of their important messages.
SAM's message is that School Attendance Matters.
ODO's special message is that Odd Days Off can lead to bad habits which will be a problem when you're older and have a job.
Our current whole school attendance is 96.3%, which is really good news. Keep up the good work!
Year 3 had a fantastic few days at Fairthorne Manor Activity Centre. The children completed many outdoor activites including archery, abseiling, low ropes and the ariel runway. Each activity was completed with lots of team work and perseverance from their children.
For many this was their first night away from home, all children thoroughly enjoyed their Faithorne Experience!
A group of Year 3 children spent a very wet day at Woodmill Activity Centre doing lots of fun team-building activities. The children completed a low ropes course and had to practise their communication and team work skills. They also had a go at archery and the climbing wall!
We're looking at better ways of lettings pupils and parents know about all the clubs we offer after school.
The survey from parents' evening told us we needed to get better at this and so, as from today, we're publishing a live list of what's available so that you can always phone us - even if you miss out on letters or children don't bring them home.
The list is below, but it will always be up-to-date on the new Clubs Page.
We hope this helps!
Year 3 had a wonderful first day back investigating and observing many different rocks and soils. Year 3 also had the opportunity to make their own chocolate (not mud) 'Rocky Roads'. The children thoroughly enjoyed eating their treats at the end of the day and learning all about where rocks and soils come from and their purposes. Please have a look at our photos below.
Oakwood Infant and Junior Schools have been working together to make the school site safer for pedestrians, cyclists, prams and buggies and scooter users who arrive through the gate near to the driveway.
A lot of people crossed the car park to get to the Junior School or the Cycle Store because that was really the only way to go.
Now, there's a clear way to go, with a fence separating the path from the driveway. There's also a proper zebra crossing and a new path linking the Infant School path to the Junior School.
Thanks to Long and Dibden Fencing, R and D Surfacing and David Deane at Southampton City Council for working with us on this project.
You'll also notice that the fencing along the front of the schools along Sandpiper Road has been finished. This completes a project to replace the fencing around the entire schools' site which has taken about five years and cost about £125,000.
Oakwood Infant and Junior Schools have been working together to make the school site safer for pedestrians, cyclists, prams and buggies and scooter users who arrive through the gate near to the driveway.
A lot of people crossed the car park to get to the Junior School or the Cycle Store because that was really the only way to go.
Now, there's a clear way to go, with a fence separating the path from the driveway. There's also a proper zebra crossing and a new path linking the Infant School path to the Junior School.
Thanks to Long and Dibden Fencing, R and D Surfacing and David Deane at Southampton City Council for working with us on this project.
One of the photos has the Junior School House Captains recreating a famous pop group's album cover! Leave a comment telling us what it is and you might win a prize!
You'll also notice that the fencing along the front of the schools along Sandpiper Road has been finished. This completes a project to replace the fencing around the entire schools' site which has taken about five years and cost about £125,000.
It's hard to believe that we have been living in Mexico City for 6 months now!
It is a noisy place to live - probably much like other big cities in the world. We have become used to the sound of constant construction noises, honking of horns, traffic, loud speaker announcements, whistles, bells and voices! It is very different to living in sleepy Lordswood where we could hear foxes and owls at night!
You may have seen on the news that we had a major earthquake a couple of - days ago - our second since we moved here in September. They have been strange experiences, where the ground rolls and you feel a bit like you are on a large boat in the ocean! To begin with it felt like we were dizzy and then the realisation that the earth was actually rolling registered.
We had to evacuate our home on both occasions and find a safe place to wait out on the street until the earthquake came to an end. This took a couple of minutes - which doesn't sound like long but, believe me, when everything is swaying and the vehicles are all moving around on their own, it feels like much longer! We lost power for about an hour and a half but thankfully we had no damage.
I have added a selection of photos from our first six months here to give you an idea of the different sights, both within the city centre and also on the outskirts of the city. Enjoy!
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