OAKDALE POST: OCTOBER 2018 Welcome to the Latest Edition of the Oakdale Post
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OAKDALE POST: OCTOBER 2018 Welcome to the latest edition of the Oakdale Post. As you will see the pupils have been provided with a wealth of opportunities and embarked on some interesting learning. May I wish you a restful, relaxing and happy half term break and remind you that pupils return at 8.50am on Monday 29th October 2018. House Captains: Dear Parents and Carers, Well done to our new Year 6 House and I am delighted with the energetic start to the school year! Once again, Year 3 Vice Captains— they will be have settled in with real sense of belonging, it is as if they have always been at ambassadors for the school throughout Oakdale. I would very much like to thank all our parents and carers for their this year: ongoing partnership in supporting the smooth transition. All year groups Baytor: Sienna, Lily, Arnav and Harry continue to look extremely smart in their uniform. So many visitors comment upon how Oakdale children conduct themselves so well and wear their uniform Brownsea: Isabella, Sanna, Sam and Kai with pride. You will already know that children have been excited in learning Haven: Eshal, Chloe, Finlay and Jacob new topics through their project work. The quality of the home learning is also exceptional. Much of this is due to the support from parents and carers. Parkstone: Shannah, Neha, Ben and Whether it is designing and constructing an Iron Man, or helping with Kieron handwriting, reading and multiplication tables, the partnership with parents and carers is crucial to children's success and confidence. School Councillors 2017—2018 We are pleased to welcome new staff to Oakdale: Mrs Evans (Year 3 teacher) School councillors who were and Miss Hillier (Year 6 teacher). Our new colleagues have settled into life well democratically elected by their at Oakdale and have made excellent relationships with their classes. peers. The school’s ‘Job Centre’ display board with job descriptions and person Year 3: Max, 3ME, Kaitlyn 3ME, specifications have attracted many applications from children for House Max 3JB and Florrie 3JB Captains, Prefects, Mentors, Librarians, ICT Monitors, Chicken Club Monitors, Reading Mentors to name but a few. Every child has been successful in gaining Year 4: Theo 4LR, Aashika 4TH, a responsibility. This is a true reflection of the wonderful ethos in our school. Dylan 4EV and Maya 4CB Children are keen to help others. Well done! As we have had many visitors to Year 5: Joseph 5LF, Millie 5DW, Oakdale throughout the autumn term, including tours and professionals visiting Matthew 5RH and Daisy 5LF Harbourside Learning Partnership events, people continue to say how polite Oakdale children are. They comment on the high quality work in pupils’ books Year 6: Arnav 6SA, Cortana 6HI, and on the amazing displays around the school. Many parents and carers are Harry 6LN and Sanna 6LN stunned at the excellent facilities, and the surprisingly large site. The school can They will represent the school take up to 180 pupils in years 3, 4 and 5. Visitors frequently say: ‘Wow!’ on and attend meetings throughout walking around our wonderful school. This is all due to the amazing children, this academic year. parents/carers, staff and governors at Oakdale Junior School! Thank you to everyone! I do feel so proud of our school community. Have a really good half term break! Year 3: Mrs Bissell On Friday 21st September, Cathy Murray worked with Year 3 as part of their “Mighty Metals” music day. Each Head teacher class enjoyed a workshop where they explored rhythms and beats using metal percussion instruments. They had fun making lots of noise! By 3JB SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS, CONFIDENT INDIVIDUALS, RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS Year 6 Football: Swimming: Swimming continues to be an integral part of our PE The Year 6 Football has had a promising start to curriculum at Oakdale Junior School. Children in Years 3, 4 the season with a narrow loss to Hamworthy Park and 5 attend a 7 week module during each year. Junior and a convincing win against Upton Juniors. Year 6 take part in swimming activities once SATs are completed, these are to ensure that the majority of pupils Mr Jackson leaving year 6 are able to swim 25m competently and that they would have a good idea of how to react were they to Year 5 / 6 Football Tournament Well done to Kiera, Chloe, Penny, Zara, Lola, Diya and find themselves in difficulties in water. (Meeting the Rosy who on a wet and windy Thursday 11th October current national statements for swimming). afternoon took part in a girls football tournament at Talbot Primary School against 5 other schools. The Swimming is a very important skill to achieve, particularly games started well with a win over Talbot B team. A in the area in which we live. Taking children swimming draw was the result when playing Manorside and regularly and sending them to local swimming lessons, although the other 3 games did not end in victory goals for Oakdale were scored. Great determination, a will to alongside school swimming, all lead to confident keep trying ones best and great team work and individuals who are able to enjoy the water safely; both encouragement was displayed throughout. The girls for exercise and for enjoyment now and in later life. should certainly feel very proud of their performance and it was a pleasure to watch. The current national indication is that approximately, 1 in 3 – 33% - of year 6 children leave primary school without achieving the national standards. Here at Oakdale 98% of Cricket last year’s leavers were able to swim at least a short 4EV and 3JB have been very fortunate to have some distance and around 86% met the national standards and cricket coaching as part of their PE lessons, from Rob above. We still need to aim to increase these levels next Newton, Cricket Coach working for Dorset Cricket year. board. Each Tuesday morning they have experienced learning new skills through fun and challenging Swimming teaching is provided in 3 ability groups, so all activities in batting, bowling, fielding - catching and children are suitably challenged during these sessions. We throwing. This has all lead up to them playing small quick cricket games. After half term, Rob will also be travel by minibus to another local school for these lessons helping to set up a Table Cricket club Monday on Monday and Tuesday mornings. lunchtime. Help required/volunteers please Miss Davies In addition to our swimming teachers and minibus drivers we do need to have the support of parent/carer Swimming at Oakdale. volunteers. I should like to take this opportunity to thank We are very lucky here at Oakdale Junior School all of you who have supported us in the past and who because we get to go swimming every year. This year have volunteered already this year. 4EV went swimming first every Monday morning. When However, we do need volunteers for every class in the we get to the pool we are told to sit in different places school in order to make swimming the smooth operation depending which group we are in. There are three it usually is. If you are able to help on any occasion please groups. The teachers are Mrs Welch, Nikki and Geoff. do contact the office with your details. They are all excellent teachers because they help us to learn different strokes, how to jump into the pool Enjoy your swimming, properly and how to go under water and blow bubbles. Ann Welch This term we have all had a certificate to show how good we are at swimming. At the pool one end is deeper and the other is shallow this means that we feel safe at the pool. Next half term 4CB will be going swimming. Thank you Mrs Welch for organising all our lessons! Harry and Isla 4EV SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS, CONFIDENT INDIVIDUALS, RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS Year 4: Year 4 were challenged to make an underwater board game as our home learning. We have worked very hard on them and we are looking forward to playing them with our grown ups on Thursday afternoon at our Blue Abyss Outcome. We are sure they will enjoy them and we are looking forward to showing off our underwater art and non chronological reports as well. We are so excited to show you. By Veronica and Poppy 4CB Chicken Club Our chickens are cared for by Chicken Care every Tuesday after school. A group of children from all year groups clean their food tray and put new food in for them. They then put new water in and clean their water tray. The chickens then get held by the children and get fed. During this time their bed gets cleaned so that they have a clean bed. We really enjoy taking care of our chickens. Sometimes we are lucky and find eggs too! By Ophelia 6CM Year 4: Year 4 went on a trip to the fascinating Bourne- mouth Oceanarium. We went to look at lots of amazing creatures including penguins and spider crabs. We all loved the shiny piranhas and the pig nose turtle. Next we went to the abyss and it was so cool and incredible—a lot of things glowed like glasses, shoes, paper and pencils. Some of the teacher’s vests were glowing. We were all wowed when we got shown the fossils. I think everyone enjoyed it because I certainly did. By Taya and Georgina Year 4: As part of our topic about the “Blue Abyss,” we did some art work using oil pastels and ink.