If there are revisions to the information within the Friday Flyer, we will communicate any changes directly with the parents of the pupils affected, by Parentmail.
The Big Charity Stonepillow Sleepout at Oakwood - TONIGHT!
Our BIG CHARITY STONEPILLOW SLEEPOUT at Oakwood takes place tonight! It is not too late to camp out!
We would love as many Oakwood families as possible to take part, raising essential funds for Stonepillow, a local charity supporting the homeless.
- Sign up here to take part
- Please share our dedicated Just Giving page to family and friends:
Oakwood Big Charity Sleepout JustGiving Page - Please arrive from 6.30pm, remember cardboard! We have sent important information about the event to those who are signed up to attend.
- If you have any questions about the event, please contact the School Office team - office@oakwoodschool.co.uk
Diary Events for the week: 2nd-6th June
Monday 2nd June
- Year 6 Residential Trip to France departs from Oakwood: We hope the Year 6 children are looking forward to their last Oakwood Residential, departing on Monday 2nd June. Please can children arrive at Oakwood no later than 4.40am, for a prompt 5am departure - this is an earlier time than previously advised on the trip letter. For those who have used their passports and European health cards during half term, these must be brought with children on the morning and handed to staff. Pupils should bring a substantial, NUT FREE packed breakfast and lunch in disposable wrappers (no lunch boxes, tins or glass bottles). They should pack a book, cards, or small travel game in their day bags and bring named water bottles. No electronic devices permitted, as per Mrs Bradbury's recent letter to Year 6 parents. Bonnes Vacances!
- Pre-Prep Swimming Demonstrations Week: Please see seperate info below for further details about the events.
- Year 3 Egyptian Dress-up Day - POSTPONED: This day has been postponed to Monday 16th June.
- 1F 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 3rd June
- Library Parent & Child Morning Drop-In Session, 8-8.15am: Please access the Library via the rear door/porch of the main house.
- Reception Trip to the Arundel Wetlands Centre: On Tuesday after half term, Reception will be going to the Arundel Wetlands Centre. Children should wear comfortable home clothes appropriate to the weather, and trainers (no sandals/open toed shoes). Sunscreen and sun hats essential if the weather is fine. Snacks and a packed lunch will be
provided by school. Please can children bring a small named rucksack for their lunch, sun cream and water bottles. - Nursery Swimming Demonstrations in swimming lessons, 10.25-10.50am.
- Kindergarten Swimming Demonstrations in swimming lessons, 10.50-11.40am.
- Year 1 Swimming Demonstrations in swimming lessons, 1.30-3pm.
Wednesday 4th June
- Y5 & Y6 Fixtures – please check SOCS for further information and team selections:
Boys Cricket: U10 v Windlesham House (Home): 2-4.15pm - please check SOCS for team selections
Boys Cricket: U10 v Windlesham House (AWAY): 2-4.45pm - please check SOCS for team selections
Girls Cricket: U10 v Seaford College (AWAY): 2-4.30pm - Y3/Y4 Forest School Club - CANCELLED: We are sorry that due to an external committment, Mrs Hall is unable to run her Forest School Club on Wednesday 4th June. Supervision is available in Prep if needed and the cost of the club will be adjusted to reflect the reduced number of sessions.
- Parent Netball with Kirsty Evans: 7.30pm on front courts.
Thursday 5th June
- Library Parent & Child Morning Drop-In Session, 8-8.15am: Please access the Library via the rear door/porch of the main house.
- Nursery Swimming Demo in swimming lessons, 10.20-11am.
- Kindergarten Swimming Demo in swimming lessons, 11-11.40am.
- Year 2 Swimming Demo in swimming lessons, 1.30-3pm.
- Y3 & Y4 Fixtures – please check SOCS for further information:
Girls & Boys Cricket: U9 v Ryde (Home): 2-4.15pm
Boys Cricket: U8 v Windlesham House (AWAY): 2.15-4.45pm - Finance & General Purposes Governor Committee Meeting, Heritage Room, 6pm: Rescheduled from 15th May.
Friday 6th June
- Special Achievement Assembly, Lyne Hall, 8.35am: Our first Friday Assembly after half term will be a Special Achievement Assembly. This is an opportunity for children in Reception to Year 6 to bring in any awards they have received for activities outside of school. (Please note Year 6 children will be on their residential so we look forward to celebrating their achievements the following week). Awards should be delivered to the office by Thursday 5th June with a short explanation. This assembly is for pupils and staff only.
- Reception Swimming Demo in swimming lessons, 10.25-11.40am.
- Welcome to Reception information meeting for new Reception families, Squirrels Classroom, 2-3pm.
- Year 6 Residential Trip Returns: Year 6 children will return from their residential trip on Friday evening around 10.30pm; parents will be kept updated of the return time by staff on the trip.
Saturday 7th June
- Swimming: IAPS National Finals @ London Aquatics Centre: Good luck to our two Year 5 boys who are representing Oakwood at the IAPS swimming finals on Saturday 7th June. What a wonderful opportunity for them to swim at the London Aquatics Centre!
Pre-Prep School Swimming Demonstrations Week
We look forward to welcoming parents to the Pre-Prep School Swimming Demonstrations after half term.
Please refer to the Parentmails sent to each year group (Nursery-Year 2) which detailed the children's swimming groups and event days and times. Please note, Kindergarten and Nursery children will only swim at one event. Please check the letter carefully for your child's day and time.
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.
Tuesday 3rd June
- Nursery: 10.25-10.50am (please check the Parentmail for which day your child is swimming)
- Kindergarten: 10.50-11.40am (please check the Parentmail for which day your child is swimming)
- Year 1: 1.30-3pm
Thursday 5th June
- Nursery: 10.20-11am (please check the Parentmail for which day your child is swimming)
- Kindergarten: 11-11.40am (please check the Parentmail for which day your child is swimming)
- Year 2: 1.30-3pm
Friday 6th June
- Reception: 10.25-11.40am
Oakwood Photography Competition - Rainbow Flowers
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 Wednesday 4th June to Mrs Jackson - ljackson@oakwoodschool.co.uk.
Donations Requests and Event Sign-Ups
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 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
Oakwood's Got Talent Finals
Oakwood’s Got Talent was a huge success and has raised a lovely amount for our school charities; thank you to ALL children who performed. Particular well done to our finalists who performed their acts again this morning, and the overall competition winners ‘The Teachers’ from Year 5 - Bertie, Jo, William, Max B and Jamie!
Sustainability 'Snippets'
During the last 18 months we have been completing activities to gain points for the Woodland Trust’s Green Tree Schools Award and we are delighted that we have now achieved the gold standard!
Years 3 to 6 have all contributed, using time in their English lessons, outdoor learning lessons and Green Team slots.
Activities have included tree dressing (during the Christmas Fair), inventing Tree Heroes, designing Titania and Oberon’s world in the woods, using time in the woods to inspire creative writing and poetry, shredding our own paper waste for composting, having a rota to deposit our food waste in the hot bins and even having a tree tea party! Importantly, we have also planted many, many saplings, focusing on creating wildlife friendly habitats. Hopefully, the more time children spend amongst trees, the more they will love, appreciate and want to look after them.
Jenny Hall
Head of Outdoor Learning and The Green Team
jhall@oakwoodschool.co.uk
Sports Stars and News
Chichester Primary Schools Swimming Gala - Well done!
Well done to all the swimmers who represented Oakwood last Saturday in the CCSC Primary Schools Swimming Gala at Westgate Leisure Centre in Chichester. We are delighted to report that Oakwood came first overall in Division 2! An outstanding result!
IAPS U11 Boys Cricket Festival @ King Edward VI School - Well done!
Well done to our Senior Boys who competed at the IAPS Boys Cricket Festival in Southampton last Friday. It was a tough day of competition but fantastic to see the boy's cricket progressing and every one of them contributing and taking wickets. They achieved a final position of 6th place, having lost the 5th/6th play off by just 1 run. Well done boys.
IAPS U11 Sailing Regatta 2025 at Weymouth and Portland Sailing Academy - Well done!
Our four Oakwood sailors achieved an outstanding result in challenging water conditions on Wednesday in Weymouth. Our two crews placed 1st and 3rd overall, out of 34 crews! IAPS didn't announce a winning overall school, but it would have been us!
Well done to our other super stars, who all performed brilliantly in their fixtures this week.
Year 6 Cricket: Evie, Ivy and Ollie K.
Year 5 Cricket: Jonah, Izzy, Jo, Phil and Dylan.
Year 4 Cricket: Austin, Elodie, Luke and Olivia.
Year 3 Cricket: Nicholas, Georgia, Charlie, Olive and Caleb.
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.
URGENT - Return of cups and trophies
Please return any engraved cups and trophies awarded last year at Swimming Sports, Sports Day and Speech Day to the school office as soon as possible.
We would recommend specialist local engraver Steve Ingall - steveningall69@gmail.com or telephone 07960 526420.
If you have any queries relating to the return of any awards, please contact the School Office team (office@oakwoodschool.co.uk).
Camp Little Oaks & CSS Activities Booking Forms
Please contact the school office (office@oakwoodschool.co.uk) should you wish to book
Camp Little Oaks for May Half Term.
Camp Little Oaks is internally-run, providing holiday care for Oakwood pupils in Nursery and Kindergarten.
CSS Activities are now taking bookings for ages 4-11+ children for May half term and Summer 2025. Book now using the link below. CSS Activities Holiday Camp is an externally-run provider available for all children in the local area.
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!
Summer Term - events and activities
School Charities 2024-25
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
- Oakwood Summer Fair and Charity Colour Run, Saturday 14th June
- Pupil Led Charity Selling Afternoon, Friday 27th June
Lunch Menus: 2nd-6th June
Our meals at Oakwood are homemade, using locally sourced food, by our wonderful catering team.
Please see below for detailed allergen advice for the menu next week.
Oakwood Gallery - Here's what we have been up to this week
Champion Litter Pickers
Email your litter picking photos to office@oakwoodschool.co.uk or to your child's class teacher and we will ensure they are awarded 4 all-important house points.
Friday Flyer Quiz
To answer this week's quiz, please click on the quiz link below, and submit your answers as well as your name and form. Your teacher's will then see your answers and be able to award housepoints for each correct answer.
Answers to last week's Friday Flyer Questions:
The Eurovision Song Contest Final was held in Switzerland.
Some ducklings hatched near our Oakwood pond earlier this week - they have already left the pond!
The length of the Westgate Leisure swimming pool is 33 and 1/3 metres.
