The Greenies Vs. bugs!

Jean and Debs from Hampshire Recycling came back to work with us again today. We audited our waste...we had more rubbish than before (oh dear!) but we also had nearly double the amount of recycling (great!). We now need to REDUCE our rubbish before they visit us again in the Spring.

After our waste audit, we looked carefully at our new compost bin by the herb garden. Did you know fruit, veg and paper towels are perfect to put in your compost bin but you shouldn't put in meat or cooked food because it might attract rats!

We then looked at all the animals you might find in a compost bin - worms, milipedes, centipedes and wolf spiders to name a few. We then made some movable compost animals and have displayed them by our school council board - come and take a look!

Oakfield's Big Dig Day 2!

Another Sunday..another checklist of jobs ticked off!

On a gloriously sunny November Day, the garden team (plus a few new willing arrivals) continued work on the Herb Garden. All the groundwork for the posts has now been completed - holes were dug and huge wooden posts chopped to size!

Sub-groups also worked around the school; painting walls and rubbing down the climbing frame ready for a good lick of paint - it should look as good as new when completed. We have also ordered new netting for the frame so apologies if it is out of action for a while but we want to make sure that it is always in tip-top health and safetly condition for the children.

Many thanks to everybody who helped. It was lovely to work alongside such supportive parents and form stronger bonds with the people in our community, all your help was very much appreciated and I know the children will benefit hugely from all that we have achieved.

Mrs Wilkinson

Specialist ICT teaching at Oakfield

We are extremely fortunate to have James Harrap, Secondary ICT teacher and ICT specialist, coming in and working with the children. He is currently working with Foxes and as you can see from the photographs below, they are having lots of fun learning how to e-mail each other safely.

Molly said "I've learnt how to type an e-mail...Mr Harrap showed us a few different computer tricks that I never knew before. I can't wait to learn how to blog too!"

Mr Harrap will be working with year groups 2-6 to give the children additional specialist ICT teaching. What a fantastic opportunity for all the children and we would like to thank Mr Harrap for supporting Oakfield.

FOO Fashion Show!

Glamorous models, bright lights, the smell of hairspray in the air...it could only be Oakfield's fashion show!

With a fabulous selection of clothes from Street y'z, children were styled to perfection before hitting the catwalk! Mrs Mabbatt was great on the mike alongside Nikki Scammell.

FOO set up some exciting side stands selling a selection of jewellery, gifts, bags
and refreshments to satisfy the crowds.

Oakfield would like to say a massive thank you to FOO for organising such a successful event and also to Street y'z, meandher handbags and fancytogs jewellery for all their support at the event.

The NSPCC visit the children of Oakfield

Pat and Buddy from the NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children) visited us on Wednesday 2nd November to tell us all about Childline and how they help children who are feeling worried or upset.

We are going to help Childline by raising some money for them. We get to take part in a Super Circuit event tomorrow (Tuesday 8th November) which we will be sponsored for. If we get enough sponsors, we earn badges!Pat explained that we should not ask strangers to sponsor us, we are only allowed to ask people we know.

INFORMATION FOR CHILDREN
If you are having a tough time, don't forget the Childline number is 0800 11 11, there is always a person waiting to take your call. It doesn't cost you a single penny but having a chat might help you to overcome your fears or worries.

Thanks for reading all about the NSPCC.
From the Squirrels!

Oakfield's Big Dig!

The Herb Garden starts!

After measuring up and a visit from Mr Muir, who kindly dug the foundations out for us, the Oakfield Gardening Team got started! Lots of enthusuastic and hard working parents and children gave up their Sunday to help us create an idyllic garden for all of us kids to use. The herb and flower garden will help us to learn more about Science, Geography and Healthy Eating.

Everybody worked really hard to make 8 garden planters, 1 herb wheel, 1 chicken coop and half the slabs were laid down. We also managed to tidy up the quadrangle, organise the greenhouse and give the new guinea pig hutch a new home! What a lot of work to do in one day! A MASSIVE THANK YOU to everybody who came and helped out.

As you can see below, it is all looking really good! We are continuing with work this Sunday 13th November from 1-4pm. Please pop along for a couple of hours and help out if you can spare the time!

Any help would be much appreciated!

From Squirrels class!

Awesome Egyptian Art!

Today Foxes and Badgers have been artists all day. We had a visiting artist, Caroline O'Brien, who led the day. We found out lots of information all about different Egyptian Gods and then used this to create our own banners displaying symbols about our God.

Miss Chainey and Mrs Cunningham were really impressed at how well we worked together in our groups to produce our art work. We are planning to display it around school, but if you can't wait for it to be hung up then please pop into the classrooms to have a look!

Miss Chainey and Mrs Cunningham

Owls and Woodpeckers family celebration

On Wednesday Owls and Woodpeckers had a family celebration. We (the children) planned the whole celebration ourselves. We showed our parents some acts and we told them about keeping healthy as our topic was called Feeling 100%. We had a brilliant family celebration and then once it finished our parents came back to our classes and had a look at our work.
By Scott (Woodpeckers)

Oakfield's fashion show

Love the latest fashions?
Fed up of trapsing around the shops?
Want to find a bargain?

Then come to OAKFIELD'S FASHION SHOW!
Hosted by FOO
on

THURSDAY 3RD NOVEMBER

Doors open 6.45pm

Show starts 7.00pm

Tickets are FREE!

Come and watch the models show of the latest fashions at the right price for your pocket!

10% of the proceeds from all sales will go to FOO (Friends of Oakfield) to help support our school.

Do you know how to Murf?

Today the school Council (AKA The Greenies) met up with Jean and Debra from Hampshire recycling to create an action plan to help reduce waste at Oakfield.

We went all around the school finding ways to increase the amount of recycling we could do.....we spied on Mrs Tritton in the office....peaked into Caterpillars' class and walked all around our lovely grounds.

We have decided on lots of actions, here are the first few from our action plan....
1) Make lots of posters to remind adults and children how to recycle
2) Make scrap paper trays for each classroom
3) Label rubbish and recycling bins
4) Create a compost heap
5) Creat a school recycling bank

As you can see we have lots of work ahead of us at Oakfield...good job the Greenies are on the case!

After our action plan we 'murfed' ourselves into workers at a Material Recycling Centre (MRF). It was harder than it looked to make sure all the correct bits of recycling went to the right place!

We had lots of fun and learnt a lot...thanks Jean and Debra!

Watch out for the Greenies around Oakfield completing their action plan!

Ladybird's Welly Walk

On Thursday, Ladybird's went on a Welly Walk. We each took a piece of string and went on a hunt for Autumn leaves to thread onto them. We explored lots of areas of the field to find leaves from different types of trees. They were lots of different colours! We had a list of red, orange, yellow, green and brown.

While we were out exploring we sang our Welly Walk song (to the tune of 'Here we go Round the Mulberry Bush').
"We're going on a welly walk, a welly walk, a welly walk. We're going on a welly walk to thread some Autumn leaves!"

Our threaded leaves are now hanging in our classroom. Come and see what we have been doing!

Miss Brown

Check out our posters!

Today we made reduce, re-use and recycle posters to let the school know how they can reduce rubbish in our school!

Woodpeckers get in the groove!

Last week we were joined by members of the charity Lepra, who had organised a fundraising dance day. Each class had a slot throughout the day and our Woodpecker class certainly enjoyed themselves as you'll see from the photos below. It fitted perfectly as part of our current topic on Feeling 100% as well as helping raise money for this worthwhile charity.

Oakfield Greenies get started!

Oakfield's School Council teamed up with Jean from Recycling Hampshire to look at how we recycle in school and to spread the word about how we can get even better!

First of all, Jean told us all about recycling and the ways Hampshire and the government are making England a 'greener' country.

Next, we decided on our new name...'The Greenies' and became very hands-on as we looked through all our school rubbish to see how good we were at recycling. We weighed and recorded how much rubbish and recycling we had. We are hoping to reduce the amount of rubbish and increase the amount of recyling before Jean visits us again!

Did you know that used tissues should go in the RUBBISH bin?
If something has been laminated it should go in the RUBBISH bin too?
At school, Jean said that only 'bottle shaped' plastics should go in the recycling bin!

We told everybody else in the school all that we had learned in Friday's assembly.... we will be keeping a close eye on everybody's recycling habits in the school. We also want to start recycling other items besides paper and plastic...did you know we can even recycle our handwriting pens?

Watch out for our posters to remind you!

From Eamon, Daisy, Thomas, Mia, Sarah, Dylan, Mollie, Jude, Eve, Callum, Maisey, Nathaniel, Oliver and Alice.

Owls and Woodpeckers learn about fire safety

Yesterday, Owls and Woodpeckers classes were visited by Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service to learn about fire safety and arson awareness.

They were given the opportunity to be fire investigators in a specially equipped vehicle. They also learnt about basic safety measures in the home and thought about a home fire escape plan. Ask your child about what you should do to keep yourselves and your home safe.

By Miss Blackler

Badger Class Samba Concert

Badger Class performed absolutely brilliantly in our recent Samba Concert. The children played their instruments fantastically and all of the other children, parents, grandparents and guests all enjoyed listening a great deal. I think it is one of the best concerts we have done this year.

Well done Badger Class!! You were superb as always!

From
Miss Chainey

Oakfield's Golden Rules

We have lots of golden rules and these are what they are.

We show respect for others  (do speak  politely  to  one   another).

We   listen to others (do not interrupt).

We are kind and helpful (do not hurt anybody’s  feelings).

We are gentle (do not hurt others).

We are honest (do not cover up).

We look after our property (do not waste or damage thing’s).

We always follow instructions.

Written by Fin (Yr3 - Foxes)

woodpeckers awesome street dancing!

On Tuesday 28th of June, Woodpeckers did some awesome dancing! We had a cool dancing instructor, Hayley, she was so encouraging and enthusiastic. She did the street/break dance timeline (from old skool to nu skool)
We did some magnificent moves!




Hayley did some amazing dancing in the hall also we did some pretty funky wave moves.
WE GOT MISS BLACKLER TO JOIN IN TOO!- she was really good it as well. Everyone joined in and did their best, it was fantastic. Some of us decided to take a letter home so we could join her dance club. But if you want, you can do it at school on Fridays after school (of course).






We got to play around with the moves and in the end we had a dance. Everyone was really good, especially Mia and Jessica and lets not forget Jacob, who was good too! We had an hour with Hayley, so we did lots and lots of dancing - and we thought is was absolutely brilliant!






Tuesday was ... well... I can't even describe it. WOW!
Even though we had to miss literacy!

By Caitlin

digital art

Last Thursday, two people from Year 5 and two people from Year 2 were invited to a digital art course for the afternoon.

A man called Tony came in aswell as some children from local schools and told us about the art he did (digital art.)

We started off by doing a quick collage with buttons,fabric and metal.
Once we had done that, Tony came and took a picture of our collage and then he uploaded our pitures onto the computer.Then, if you wanted, you could have your picture taken too.

Everybody logged onto a computer and listened to Tony talk about what we had to do next. So everybody went onto a programme called paint.NET.On this programme you could put all your pictures into a digital collage. We were able to change the colour of our skin and clothes, we were also able to add pictures from the internet too.

We enjoyed it and it was very fun. We learned alot.






By Charlie and Bethany.

Oakfield's Multicultural Art Week

Last week at Oakfield Primary School, everyone was busy with their art. Every class had their own topic. The whole school did lots of exciting activities which kept them very busy.

Yr 5 and Yr 6's topic was the Far East. They walked to Goatee Beach and did some exciting activities like tea writing, pebble painting and Andy Goldworthy nature pictures.

Yr 3 and 4's topic was South America. They did fun things like weaving and worry dolls. The worry dolls were made of wire and wool. The weaving was very complicated but they ended up looking beautiful.

The infants topic was Africa. They had lots of fun with their art. They made murals of people. Then they coloured them in which made them look really nice.

At the end of the week we had a massive celebration in the hall. That's where we showed off all our work to the Mum's and Dad's who were amazed. Then we had a picnic outside and a chinese dragon decided to join us! Two or three other people played the drums and the cymbals.

As you can see we had an amazing week!

By Eamon and Evie