Friday, 16 December 2016

A final Christmas Message...

Our Oakwood Christmas always ends with the Christmas Service...

A reminder of the Christmas message for everyone - the school community in the hall in good voice and celebrating together.

The Reverend Chris Knights from Lordshill Church led us in worship.

Have a lovely time.



Christmas Dinner

A big thank you to Mrs Lacey and her amazing team in the kitchen who cooked over 400 Christmas dinners on Thursday!

We had a great time and it tasted delicious!



Thanks to the OSA for the crackers!

Our Christmas Performances

Although Year R completed their Christmas nativity last week, everyone else has still been hard at work this week!

The children in Years 1-6 performed for their parents and friends - here's how they did!







Thanks to parents and friends who raised £1300 for the Southampton Hospital Children's Wards.


Merry Christmas!

Wednesday, 14 December 2016

Y6 Maths Competition Winners

In Y6 we have been working very hard in our maths sets. Mr Ackland's Maths Set have recently been using the website Sumdog (which all our Y6 children have an account for - managed by the school).

They recently won a Southampton wide competition! Each pupil has 1000 questions on a range of maths topics and varying in difficultly to attempt. The class with the highest average number of correct answers wins!

As winners they won a free upgrade for our accounts! This means we now have full access to all maths learning games!



Tuesday, 13 December 2016

A Christmas Message


As part of our production, Year 3 and Year 5 created this video. Merry Christmas from Oakwood! 


Monday, 12 December 2016

Year 1 Angels

Year 1 have been learning all about the important role of angels in the Christmas Story. 


We began the topic by imagining what an angel would be like. Without discussing our ideas we created an image of our angel and then wrote some descriptive sentences. At the end of the session we compared our ideas and found out that they were all quite different. 

After this we read the Christmas Story and talked about the role of angels. We then had a go at acting out some of the scenes which included angels. 

To finish our angel RE topic we made a Christmas angel decoration. 

Practical Maths in Year 1

This term the children in Year 1 have worked practically in their maths lessons when working with shape, measure and money.

Take a look at some of the activities they have done.



Year R - A Magical Nativity

Our Year R children presented a magical nativity to their parents, grandparents and friends.

It was their first time on the stage at Oakwood and they really did themselves proud.

We think it's amazing that a 2000 year-old story is still just as important today as it was all those years ago.

Thank you for getting us in the Christmassy mood, Year R!

OSA Christmas Fair

We would like to say a huge Thank You to everyone who supported the OSA Christmas Fair this year!

All the hard work on behalf of the OSA Committee and the helpers (including our wonderful pupil helpers) was rewarded by great attendance and everyone having lots of fun.

It really got everyone into the Christmas spirit - and everyone was impressed by our GIANT SANTA!

The grand total raised was just over £4000! Thank you!



Thanks especially to Mrs Handley-Garland (Chair of the OSA), Mr Chafe (our treasurer) and Mr Barrett (who helped make sure the school was back up and running the next morning!)

Thursday, 8 December 2016

Y4 at Lordshill Church

Year 4 had a wonderful morning this morning visiting Lordshill Church. Chris and Angie talked to the children about the church and it's role in the community. Chris talked to year 4 about Mary and what role she played in Jesus's life. This linked to our current RE topic. The children also remembered with Chris the Christmas story and how important it is to Christians at Christmas. Thankyou to Lordshill Church for a fantastic morning! he