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.

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

The NED show visits Oakfield!

Today at Oakfield, we had a visit from Billy and his trusty friend Yo-Yo Ned, from the NED show in America.

They told us how to be champions and how to go for our goals. Billy was really funny and showed us lots of fabulous yo-yo tricks, along with great voices and sound effects too. He could've been a comedian!

NED stands for:

NEVER GIVE UP
ENCOURAGE OTHERS
DO YOUR BEST

We think all of Oakfield will remember Billy and Ned's great message. They left us feeling very happy and confident and we are looking forward to 'boomerang-ing' compliments to one another from now on!

By Jordan G and Lucy (Owls)

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)

A day at Goatee Beach

As part of Multicultural Arts Week, Owls and Woodpeckers walked down to Goatee Beach to spend the day learning about Japanese Culture.

We chose to visit the beach because in our class novel, Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo, we are reading about a boy called Michael who becomes shipwrecked on a small island and makes his home on the beach.

We tried our hand at a number of activities; from Japanese pebble painting and writing our names in Japanese, to creating natural art landscapes and writing Haikus (a type of poem) about Goatee Beach.

We had a fantastic day and are looking forward to learning much more about Japanese culture and art this week.

Land Ho!

Owls and Woodpeckers enjoyed the start of their new topic 'Land Ho!' on Tuesday as they celebrated with a Hook afternoon!

We found out about Japan, learnt how to use chopsticks and wrote our name in Japanese using noodles!

Xavier was really pleased that he cracked how to use chopsticks and Holly F was surprised that it wasn't considered bad manners to slurp your noodles! We look forward to the rest of our topic.

Written by Jordan W and Rachel K

Wicked Wednesday at Osmington...

Day 3 and it is getting harder to wake up...

Some children had exactly 6 minutes between getting up and room inspections this morning! The fresh air, excitement and jam-packed days are beginning to show! Despite some sleepy heads, everybody did sleep well and had a good night.

Perking up after a hearty breakfast of sausages and scrambled egg....and toast...and cereal...and fruit...and yogurt, we all went off to our first activities of the day.

Group 1 have been climbing the heights of the indoor wall and Tim was a star at getting to the top.

Group 2 have been trampolining - we love the funny faces you can pull when you are in the air. Jemma showed us her 'swivel hip' skills, Maja showed us her luminous socks and Isaac showed us his socks with holes in!

After lunch, both groups are off to the Olympic Sailing Centre to go kayaking....check the blog tonight to see who stayed dry!

Terrific Tuesday at Osmington...

Day 2 at Osmington...

After the usual chatting and giggling, all the children slept well and we had a very successful first night. We were all woken up by glorious sunshine streaming through our windows and the view over the bay is stunning.

After filling up on a massive cooked breakfast, we have headed off to our first activities of the day. Activity group 1 (Alexandra, Clarissa, Holly S, Jessie, Carla, Nicole, Emily, Tim, Xavier, Jordan G, Zac and Thomas) have been fencing. Zac has been providing some hilarious sound effects and lots of dodgy french accents can be heard throughout the hall! Tim is proving to be a dab hand at fencing whilst Carla and Jordan G were the last 'men' standing when playing 'catch the fencing glove!'

Activity group 2 (Lucy, Holly F, Maja, Amber, Rachel, Holly W, Jemma, Ben, Isaac, Jordan W, Billy and Josh)have all been aero-balling and it is getting quite competitive. Holly F is showing off her trampolining skills and as you can see, great fun is being had by all!

Watch out for the next update later on today....

School Tour

Owls have now learnt how to make a rolling slideshow! Here are some funky photos of our fabulous, newly designed, classrooms!

What do you think of them?

We love them!