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. First we had to sketch our sea animal, we then went over it in oil pastels. We used contrasting colours to add detail and patterns. When we had finished our picture we went over it with watered down ink. The ink stuck to the paper but did not go onto the oil pastel. This meant that our animal stood out. Whilst the ink was still wet we sprinkled salt over it, which absorbed the water to cause a cool effect.
We had great fun doing it and are very impressed with the results.
By 4LR
SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS, CONFIDENT INDIVIDUALS, RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS Macmillan Coffee Morning:
A huge thank you to everyone who supported the Macmillan coffee morning. It was a huge success with over 200 friends of Oakdale attending and enjoying the cake and entertainment. Well done a everyone as we raised a grand total of £627.00.
Miss Horlock £627.00 raised!
COFFEE Glorious COFFEE
By Evie Sewell Do you love coffee? If you do, keep on reading. On Friday 21st September Oakdale Junior School held Macmillan Coffee Morn- ing. There was a lot of cake and adults could have some coffee. The cake was very delicious. Most people’s favourite type was chocolate. Also, some children in 5DW got chosen to do the George’s Marvellous Medicine play they did in Year 4. They sang 2 songs and said it was fun. Some more things that were there were Daisy Randall playing the Violin and someone else playing the Piano. They sounded amazing. Also, the choir sang a couple songs. They sang “Try Everything” From the film Zootropilis and the Gospel Melody. They raised over £600 pounds! Here are some quotations that people said “The cake was very delicious,” Emily in 4EV. “I love coffee, “ Miss Smith. I hope you have enjoyed this article and stayed until the end. Everybody said that this Macmillan Coffee Morning was the best. I hope you thought that too. I hope you have enjoyed this article and stayed until the end. Everybody said that this Macmillan Coffee Morning was the best. I hope you thought that too.
Year 6:
This term we have been learning about World War 2 in Year 6. We have visited the tank museum which was a fun and exciting experience. Our current Year 6 novel is “Goodnight Mister Tom.” It is about a boy called William Beech who is evacuated to the country and goes to live with kind, old Mister Tom. We have been retrieving and infering information from the text to help with our reading skills.
In English we have written a balanced argument, a biography on Hitler and are writing a letter as a soldier from WW2. In topic, we have made our own propaganda posters which are encouraging people to help in the war.
By Tamashi, Layla, Isabella and Neha 6HI P A G E 5
Analysis of New Parent/ Carer Questionnaire:
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Transition arrangements, including the transfer 63% 35% 2% day/ parents meeting were effective and in- formative Do you feel your child has had a smooth transi- 60% 32% 8% tion from first to junior school? The home/ school diary has been an effective 52% 43% 5% means of communication with your child’s class teacher Your child feels safe at school 62% 34% 4% Your child has enjoyed their first few weeks at 63% 34% 3% Oakdale Junior School Other comments: My child is really focussed on learning now Greater stimulation and challenge Really impressed with opening evening Mathletics and TT Rockstars are effective Great team of teachers Really respect the core values of the school School needs to promote further afield as we did not consider Oakdale as an option but now could not be happier It is a big step up from Year 2 Improve communication regarding clubs and payments Stagger leaving time to ease parking More supervision and observation in the playground
Reasons for attending Oakdale Junior School: (listed in order of frequency):
Local school
Siblings attended
Open evening
Recommended
Reputation
OFSTED
Website
Not allocated catchment school
SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS, CONFIDENT INDIVIDUALS, RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS World Discovery Day at Bournemouth University International College
The winners of the One World By The Sea art competition were invited to a special World Discovery Day last week at Bournemouth University.
First we met a real Australian digeridoo player who taught our group how to make different sounds using a long pipe. We then took part in a percussion orchestra playing African drums and lots of unusual instruments like Boomwhakers. After lunch we had our faces painted and joined in with art activities like painting pebbles, writing our names in Chinese and origami. My favourite part was when I got to meet the international animals- Alpaca, mini chickens and giant fluffy rabbits.
On Saturday we met up at the Bournemouth Triangle International Festival to receive our certificates on stage in front of our parents. The exhibition is on display in the front gallery of BU International College in Landsdowne.
Ms Fricker
Year 2 Presentations
The Year 5 Performance Troupe have been on the road again! To highlight the wealth of opportunities and amazing facilities that Oakdale Junior has to offer, we have been visiting local schools to encourage Year 2 children and parents to attend our open evening to simply ‘have a look’. After a short rehearsal schedule (for which the children have given up some of their lunchtimes) 13 children were ready to perform a short scene from George’s Marvellous Medicine. After this they sang two songs, taken from the entertaining ‘Dahlicious Easter’ performance in March. The presentation was compared by Neha (Year 6, Parkstone House Captain) who did a fantastic job at opening and closing the presentation and of representing our school. Joe, Raeed and Summer also did a sterling job, performing an informative interview piece outlining all the facilities we have to offer. The chickens always cause a stir! We are so lucky to have them. Our thanks go to the committed troupe: Sully, Martha, Megan, Ella, Cameron, Lola, Millie, Lauren, Daniela and Summer.
Mrs O’ Connor
SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS, CONFIDENT INDIVIDUALS, RESPONSIBLE
Year 5 and 6 Netball vs Longfleet - Tuesday 16th October 3 games were played. The two Year 5 teams had convincing wins, with 8 goals scored between the two games. Throughout the game, the children improved their footwork and accuracy of passing resulting in some lovely passages of play. Well Done. Year 6 although they tried hard were not able to score any goals in their game. Miss Davies / Mrs Welch
Year 5 Sport Ambassador Day Six Year 5 children and Mrs. Martindale spent the day at Poole High School at the Leadership Academy course. The children attended 4 workshops where they learnt new ideas for games and activities that will help to pro- mote physical activity in school. They are looking forward to cascading their knowledge to the other Sport Lead- ers and organising these for the Year 3 children at lunchtime. They also had to generate their own ideas on how we can improve health and physical activity at school. Miss Davies
Sports Leaders and Year 3 lunchtime club. 20 keen Year 5 and Year 6 children have started running a lunchtime club, on Tuesday, for Year 3. First of all the Sports Leaders had some training in different activities so that they know what to do. Now they are running these playground games and activities for the children take part in. Games include Foxes and Rabbits, Dishes and Domes, Hot Potato, The Floor is Lava and many more. Miss Davies BEAT THE STREET Beat the Street is a free, fun challenge where people are rewarded with points and Cross Country: prizes for exploring their area on foot or bicycle.
On Thursday 11th October the Dozens of special sensors called 'Beat Boxes' appeared across the area. Players Oakdale cross country team ran tap the Beat Boxes with cards and fobs to track their journey and earn points for 1.1 miles. It was pouring with themselves and their school team – the more Beat Boxes people swipe the more rain but we were all resilient and points they earn. All children at Oakdale have been given a fob, map and a card for their adult at finished the race. We ran at home. Baitor Park. Some parents came to take their children and the rest At present Oakdale are in 11th place with a total of 19,270 points with 380 people having registered or been active. If you haven't used your fob yet, try and walk or went in the minibus. Before the cycle over the half term break. race we did some warm ups. To see how your child or how Oakdale are doing head over to the website and By Derren 4CS check it out - www. beatthestreet.me/pooleandpurbeck/home
Happy walking or cycling. Miss Davies
Cross country
Friday’s after school cross country club has proved popular again and after several weeks of training, the runners are beginning to get fitter. Unfortunately the first race in the Poole & East Dorset cross country league was cancelled but last week’s race at Baiter went ahead, much to everyone’s excitement. Teams were entered into the Year 5/6 races with the boys and girls running separately. Everyone completed the 1 mile long race and it was great to see the great team spirit displayed by the children as they cheered each other on. A particular mention must go to the Year 4 runners who were competing against pupils a lot older than them: Derren, Alex, Daniel, Mikolaj, Owen, Georgina, Lola and Rose
Well done to all those who took part in the race and many thanks to the parent/ carers who came to support.
Next race: Thursday 8th November at Canford School, 2.30pm. We will be leaving at 1.45pm, please let Miss Bertenshaw know if you are able to assist with transporting your child to the race. Miss Bertenshaw Star Cuisine Ltd September 2018 Quality school meals provided by Star Cuisine.
Your children now have the opportunity to enjoy a quality freshly prepared hot school lunch with great tasting food and a healthy diet in mind. Epic Egyptians Star Cuisine have been supplying schools within the Harbourside Partnership for the past four years and have built up a great reputation for delivering meals of top quality at great value. We By Raeed Uddin work alongside schools and children to create their favourite meals and understand their In year 5 we have been learning about an- likes and dislikes. Following well-balanced Government guidelines, we supply a menu cient Egyptians. We have Been using IPads with 15 different meal choices over a three week period. Children and Staff really love our meals. and books.Read on to find out about epic All dietary requirements are catered for! Egyptians. The feedback we receive from parents & Carers at the following schools: Hair Razing Hook Courthill, Lilliput, Baden Powell & St Peter’s, Longfleet, Old Town & Oakdale Schools has been very positive. Mummies were one of my favourite bits of our topic. At the beginning of our topic, Year 5 went For more information please contact your school office. to the music room and saw a mummification. We hope your child will love them Sadly, it was fake and Mr Hanmore was the too. www.starcuisine.co.uk priest. “I loved the mummification, the heart re- minded me of avocados” said Sully who is funny from 5DW.
Pro Pyramid Build
In Year 5 we saw some clips on the great Pyramid of Giza. It was about a man from a village who became a master builder, working on the great Pyramid of Giza.
King Tutankhamun Key Dates for the Diary 19 October - INSET day One of Year 5 favourite subjects of our half term 22-26 October - Half Term was Tutankhamun. On the IPads we used an app 29 October - Children return to called Tut Tomb 360. In the app you could explore school 30 October - Year 6 height & weight checks King Tuts Tomb. 2 November - Year 4 visit from "The Vikings" Ancient Art 8 November - Year 6 World War II Tea Party 2-3pm 8 November - Cross Country at Canford School Our art in Year 5 has been out of this world, and 15 November - Year 6 Boys County Football match back in time. We drew tomb paintings of Egyp- 21 November - Shakespeare performances in school tian gods and used coffee stains to make it look 22 November - Flu vaccinations for Years 3, 4 and 5 like papyrus. Papyrus is what Egyptians used as 29 November - Poole Schools Carol Concert at The paper. We also made extraordinary canopic jars Lighthouse 6.30-9.00pm out of clay. There was a Man, Baboon, Falcon and 6 December - Cross Country at Ferndown Upper a Jackal. “My favourite thing was the canopic School jars” said Oskar from 5DW.”I liked the papyrus 13 December - Dick Whittington Pantomime trip to drawing” said Daniella also from 5DW. The Lighthouse—whole school 21 December - Children break up for Christmas holi- day, finish at 3.25pm 7 January 2019 - Children return to school
SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS, CONFIDENT INDIVIDUALS, RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS