Christmas Carol Service 2011

Christmas is coming....and what a fantastic way to celebrate with our Christmas Carol Service at Testwood Baptist Church!

On Monday 12th December, teachers and children, friends and family of Oakfield, all congregated at the Church to sing lots of songs and join in worship with Ray (the Youth Pastor).

The juniors created a great tableau and re-told the nativity story, whilst the choir led us in singing some more modern Christmas songs with very inventive actions! Great fun was had by all.

Thanks to all who attended and as always, huge thanks to Ray and his team for making us feel so welcome!

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

Oakfield Choir Sings at ASDA!

On Tuesday 6th December, Oakfield Choir performed at ASDA in Totton. We sang christmas carols for the general public in our local supermarket. Everyone who was watching us loved the performance and clapped and cheered every time we finished a song! After singing beautiful songs for about one hour, Mc-Donalds kindly supplied us with a mouth-watering hot-chocolate each (yum yum!). The choir had a really enjoyable time singing at ASDA and we would love to do it again next year!

By Charlotte and Scott ( Yr 5 Woodpeckers)

All the fun of the Fair 2011!

This afternoon Oakfield got into the festive spirit at our Christmas Fair. Friends and family of the school had a fantastic time buying handcrafted cards, crackers and christmas tree decorations all made by the children.

Ladybirds made some beautiful table decorations (as modelled by Mr Graham) and Caterpillars and Dragonflies created some cracking crackers!

Dylan (year 5) drummed up some passing trade in the Woodland and children happily had their faces and nails painted and some even had tatoos applied - the kung Foo panda transfers were definitely the most popular!

With the smell of candy floss in the air and Christmas tunes playing in the background, it was lovely to see everybody having such a wonderful time.

Thank you to everybody who came for your fantastic support and a special (extra big) thank you must go to FOO, especially Mrs Lemon, for their excellent organisation which made the event so successful.

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

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.

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!

Introducing Jon from Brazil!

On Wednesday, a lady called Avril, from Actionaid, came to talk to us about our new adopted child.

Over the past year, each class has saved money raised from Parent Celebrations to put towards sponsoring a child from another country. This is a fantastic opportunity for us to learn about a new country and culture and also help someone who isn't lucky enough to have an Oakfield Primary School to go to!

Avril told us about Joao Guilherme Santos Lemos (his name translates to Jon). He is 7 years old and lives in Brazil. The school council chose to sponsor a child from Brazil because they had heard about the dangers and violence of living there and they wanted to help a child avoid the gangs and get a good education.

'Jon'lives in a wooden house with his grandparents and his brother and sister. His brother is called Thiago and his sister is called Carol. Jon is lucky because with our money he can have a room of his own and go to school.

Jon has already written us a letter and sends us a hug. We are going to write to him and tell him all about Oakfield!

By Tim and Amber (Owls)