Oakwood Friday Flyer 16th May

Monday 19th May 

• Year 5 Swimming Sports, 8.45am: please see further info below
• Year 6 Swimming Sports, 9.45am: please see further info below
• Kindergarten Trip to Priory Park, 10am-1.30pm: All children are welcome to attend the Kindergarten trip to Priory Park next Monday, whether or not it is their usual day in Kindy. We ask that all children arrive at Oakwood by 9.30am ready for a departure in the school minibuses (fitted with booster seats) at 10am. We will return at around 1.30pm. Children who do not usually attend on a Monday will be ready for collection at 2pm. Children should wear lightweight long trousers/leggings and a long sleeved top, and have a shower-proof jacket if the weather turns. Please ensure that your child has a sun hat and that sunscreen is applied before coming to school. All children will need a water bottle, and their packed lunch and snacks will be provided by the school catering team.
• 1L Forest School Experience Afternoon: A reminder that children will need a set of clothes suitable for the current weather (no shorts please) as well as a sunhat.

Tuesday 20th May

• Library Parent & Child Morning Drop-In Session, 8-8.15am: Please access the Library via the rear door/porch of the main house.
• Year 3 Swimming Sports, 8.45am: please see further info below
• Year 4 Swimming Sports, 9.45am: please see further info below
• Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 Parent/Teacher Meetings, Lyne Hall, 4-7.30pm: Reception, Year 1 & Year 2 Parent/Teacher Meetings take place in the Lyne Hall and Gym from 4pm next Tuesday. A reminder of your appointment times will be sent next Tuesday morning. Please contact the school office if you are unable to attend or have any queries relating to the booking system. Refreshments will be served and books available to view in the studio behind the Lyne Hall. Please contact the school office if supervision is needed.

Wednesday 21st May 

• Nursery “Gruffalos and Fairies” Forest School Dress-Up Morning: We are looking forward to our Nursery Gruffalos and Fairies Forest School morning next Wednesday. Children who do not normally come to Nursery on a Wednesday are very welcome to come in on this day - but please let Miss Reed know if your child will be coming in.
  Please arrive by 9am so that we can prepare for the fun and those children who do not normally come in on a Wednesday should be collected at 1pm. Children are welcome to dress up if they'd like to, but please ensure that legs and arms are covered.
• Sailing: IAPS Championship @ Andrew Simpson Watersports Centre, Portland (by invitation): Good luck to those children who are representing Oakwood at the IAPS Sailing Event next Wednesday. Mrs Bax will be attending with the children and their parents. We wish our sailors all the best!
• Y5 & Y6 Fixtures – please check SOCS for further information and team selections:
  Girls Cricket: U11 v Aldro (AWAY): 2.15-5pm - please note later finish
  Boys Cricket: U11 v Seaford College (AWAY) - 2-4.45pm
  Girls Cricket: U10 v Ditcham Park (Home):  2.30-4.15pm
  Boys Cricket: U10 v Seaford College (Home):  2-4.15pm
• Parent Netball with Kirsty Evans: 7.30pm on front courts.

Thursday 22nd May

• Library Parent & Child Morning Drop-In Session, 8-8.15am: Please access the Library via the rear door/porch of the main house.
• Reception to Year 6 Online Safety Day: Next Thursday, we are holding age-appropriate workshops during the school day for pupils in Reception to Year 6. We continue to find these workshops very useful and they are an important introduction, and for the older years, a continuing reminder of the importance of online safety. The sessions are run by Mr Lee Hayward from Online Safety UK.
• Y3 & Y4 Fixtures – please check SOCS for further information:
  Girls Cricket: U9 v Sherborne House (HOME): 2.30-4.45pm *PLEASE NOTE THIS IS NOW A HOME FIXTURE
  Boys Cricket: U9 v Ditcham Park (Home): 2-4.15pm
  Girls Cricket: U8 v Sherborne House (Home): 2.30-4.15pm
  Boys Cricket: U8 v Westbourne House (AWAY): 2-4.30pm *please check SOCS for teams and locations
  Boys Cricket: U8 v Prebendal (AWAY): 2-4.30pm *please check SOCS for teams and locations
• Year 6 Play Rehearsal after school: A reminder that ALL Year 6 children are required at rehearsal 4.15-5.15pm next Thursday.

Friday 23rd May

• Friday Assembly, Lyne Hall, 8.35am: Year 4 will be hosting next Friday’s assembly, with a focus on their recent Residential Trip. Parents of Year 4, musicians and Pre-Prep Star Badge Winners are welcome to join us in the Lyne Hall. Refreshments will be served in the Heritage Room, or lawns behind the main house, weather permitting.
• Prep School Talent Show Finals, AM: Next Friday morning, pupils and staff will enjoy performances from some of our talented children in the Prep School Talent Show Finals. Please note, this is an internal informal event to be enjoyed by pupils and staff only on the last day of term, and will not be recorded.
• Whole School Photo, 2pm: This takes place next Friday at 2pm, weather permitting, we will be taking our whole school photograph.  Please could all children from Reception to Year 6 ensure that they have their blazers in school.  Reception to Year 5 children should be in summer dresses or shorts and green polo shirts.  Year 6 should wear a summer dress or white shirt and tie. Nursery and Kindergarten children should wear their Oakwood hoodie if they have one.  If your Nursery or Kindergarten child does not normally attend on a Friday, you are most welcome to bring them in for the photograph.  Please bring them to the back of the main house by 2pm where we will invite parents to wait outside the Heritage Room until after the photograph has been taken.  We anticipate that you will be able to collect your child around 2.15pm.
• Pupil-led Charity Afternoon - CANCELLED: Due to low sign-up, this event has been cancelled. We look foward to hosting another afternoon after half term, on the 27th June.
• The Big Charity Stonepillow Sleepout at Oakwood: Mrs Bradbury is looking forward to seeing lots of Oakwood families from 6.30pm at the Big Charity Stonepillow Sleepout. Donations of cardboard very welcome to help particpants build their shelters - please drop cardboard to the main house from Monday 19th May. Please see information below for further information and to sign up to sleep out. 

We look forward to welcoming parents to next week's Prep School Swimming Sports events.

• Refreshments will be served at the pool and the adjacent school uniform shop will be open should anyone wish to pop in prior to, or after, their child's swimming event. Each year group's event will last approximately 1 hour.
• Please can children wear their Oakwood black or green swimsuits and/or shorts, along with their green Oakwood swimhat (or fabric alternative if preferred).
• Children who are swimming will be grouped in small races, based on ability and times achieved within their curriculum swimming lessons at Oakwood.

Monday 19th May
Year 5 Swimming Sports - 8.45am
Year 6 Swimming Sports - 9.45am

Tuesday 20th May
Year 3 Swimming Sports - 8.45am
Year 4 Swimming Sports - 9.45am

Our BIG CHARITY STONEPILLOW SLEEPOUT at Oakwood takes place next Friday 23rd May. We would love as many Oakwood families as possible to take part, raising essential funds for Stonepillow, a local charity supporting the homeless.

1. Sign up here to take part
2. Ask family & friends to donate via our dedicated Just Giving page: Oakwood Big Charity Sleepout JustGiving Page
3. Sponsor Mrs Bradbury to sleep out too!
4. Start collecting cardboard boxes to build your sleep shelters with, or deliver any cardboard donations to school from Monday 19th May.
5. 6.30pm arrival time on the evening of Friday 23rd May.

If you have any questions about the event, please contact the School Office team - office@oakwoodschool.co.uk

Please see below a poster with details of this year's Charity Photography Competition. Entry is £3 which is added to school bills, with all proceeds going towards our two school charities.

Very much chanelling one of our school charities, The Rainbow Centre, the theme this year is Rainbow Flowers.

We hope all of you will feel inspired to get snapping during half term!

Please can parents email their child's entries by 4th June to Mrs Jackson - ljackson@oakwoodschool.co.uk.

As we edge closer to some of our exciting summer events, we are also very grateful for the help of Oakwood families at this time with the following:

Oakwood Summer Fair, Saturday 14th June - DONATION REQUESTS
We are grateful for any donations to be dropped to the main house for the following stalls:

• Small gifts to add to the Luxury Hamper to be raffled at the fair
• Bottle Tombola (bottles of any kind welcome - alcohol, soft drinks, toiletries, condiments)
• Soft Toy Tombola (pre-loved and clean please)
• Pre-Loved Childrens' Books (good condition please)
• Empty and clean jam jars (for the Year 6 stall, to be decorated)

Oakwood Charity Colour Run, Saturday 14th June - FAMILY SIGN-UP
Please sign up to the Oakwood Charity Colour Run, using the form below. This 'Oakwood First' promises to be a fun way to finish off the day after the Summer Fair.

 Oakwood Charity Colour Run Sign Up 

Oakwood Summer Party 'I can't believe it's not Glasto' - BOTTLE DONATIONS REQUEST & TICKET SIGN-UP
We are looking forward to celebrating the end of another year at Oakwood at the 'I can't believe it's not Glasto' party organised by the Year 2 Parents. They would be very grateful for bottle donations to go towards 'The Wheelbarrow of Booze' Auction Prize. Please drop any donations to the Main House.

If you have not yet booked your ticket to this event, please complete the form below:

'I can't believe it's not Glasto' Summer Party Ticket Booking

Following our Sustainability Week last term, we are keen to maintain awareness and keep a focus on as many sustainability issues as we can – hence this section of the Friday Flyer. 

During our last staff INSET, we spent some considerable time thinking about how best to teach our pupils about climate change and, more importantly, how we can all help to reduce it. 

We looked at the DfE Climate Action Plan, the Dasgupta Review on the Economics of Biodiversity and the 17 UN sustainable development goals, amongst other things. We have now begun to map our sustainability learning objectives across the school to ensure that we are including accurate, pertinent information in our lessons and that our pupils are able to process what they are learning in a positive way. 

It is interesting to note that the language used by experts has changed from ‘climate crisis’ to ‘climate catastrophe’ and, whilst we want our children to appreciate the seriousness of our situation, we also want them to see themselves as potential arbiters of change. 

Also, the photo attached is of the Year 3 Outdoor Learning group planting out sweetcorn and french beans (these are from the seeds planted on the food day of our sustainability week).                                                                    

Jenny Hall
Head of Outdoor Learning and The Green Team
jhall@oakwoodschool.co.uk

Chichester Primary Schools Swimming Gala - Good Luck tomorrow!
Good luck to those children who are representing Oakwood this Saturday in the CCSC Primary Schools Swimming Gala at Westgate Leisure Centre in Chichester. Jamie from Chichester Swim School will also be there to support our pupils along with Miss Halford and Mrs Clemens.

IAPS U11 Boys Cricket Festival @ King Edward VI School - Good Luck today!
Good luck to the U11 Boys who are currently playing in the IAPS Cricket Festival as we post this flyer. A full report will be published next week.

IAPS U11 Girls Cricket Tournament 
Well done to the U11 Girls Cricket Team who represented Oakwood at the IAPS Girls Cricket Tournament at West Hill Park on Wednesday. They played an outstanding day of cricket so early in the season to finish 3rd in the tournament overall. 

The girls won four of their five matches to finish tied at the top of their group. As it was a tied result, the total number of runs was used to decide who went into the 1st/2nd playoff. Oakwood missed out by just 5 runs, and went into the 3rd/4th place playoff, which they won against Princes Mead, achieving a super 3rd place overall and coming home with medals.

Well done to our other super stars, who all performed brilliantly in their fixtures this week.

Year 6 Cricket: Oscar, Annie, Ben, Lucia and Marcos
Year 4 Cricket: Carla, Atticus, James and Freddie
Year 3 Cricket: Renzo, Chloe, Oscar, Charlie and Eddie Sm.

A reminder that all Sports Fixtures are available to view for your Prep School Child in their SOCS calendars. Spectators are welcome at fixtures, and Match teas are served in the Heritage Room for parents of players.

SOCS Oakwood Parents Link

We're thrilled to share CSS Activities' recent success at the Club Hub UK awards in Birmingham last weekend, where they were listed as one of the Top 100 Children's Activity Providers! With a panel of seven specialists from the industry, Charlie and the CSS Team were placed 26th in the country out of 340 entries. 

Well done Charlie and all at CSS Activities!

Now is the time to get any cups and trophies awarded last year at Swimming Sports, Sports Day and Speech Day engraved and returned to the school office.  

We would recommend specialist local engraver Steve Ingall - steveningall69@gmail.com or telephone 07960 526420.

Our two school charities for this academic year 2024-25 are The Rainbow Centre and Save the Children. These two charities will be the focus of school fundraising initiatives during this year, in addition to our ongoing fundraising for FOO (Friends of Oakwood).

If your child has any fundraising ideas for these charities, please complete the form below, or contact our Charity Coordinator, Mrs Annelise King - aking@oakwoodschool.co.uk

School Charity Fundraising Ideas Form

Upcoming charity fundraising events for the Summer Term

1. Oakwood Summer Fair and Charity Colour Run, Saturday 14th June
2. Pupil Led Charity Selling Afternoon, Friday 27th June