This week we have been celebrating Chinese New Year and welcomed the year of the snake! There has been lots of fun learning about Chinese traditions and we had a special visitor …..The Chinese Dragon who performed the Dragon Dance to bring us good luck and send us blessings for the new year. Take a look at our class blogs to see what other fun activities we have been doing.
It’s that time of the week again….. Who has the highest attendance?
This week our attendance stars are :
Well done Robins, Hedgehogs and Deers – you have worked hard all week and you have the highest attendance this week.
Our whole school attendance this week is 87.8%.
Our attendance this year so far is 89%.
Thank you to all our families for your continued support.
Enjoy your weekend.
Hannah
We have all had a brilliant week at school, having endless fun while experiencing and learning new skills. Well done to everyone for your hard work this week! I know that you will continue to learn more, know more and do more next week.
This week our whole school attendance is 89% and since September, our attendance is 89.4%. You should all be really proud. Remember coming to school everyday is really important – we learn lots and have lots of fun with our friends! This week, the classes with the highest attendance are:
Well done Nightingales, Birch and Badger. I am really pleased that you have the highest attendance this week. Remember:
I wonder who will get the highest attendance next week.
Take a look at our individual class blogs to see, in detail, what we have been learning about this week! We look forward to another fantastic week at school next week.
Have a great weekend.
Hannah
We applied to Variety for a new minibus in March 2023.
As our school has grown, we needed another minibus so that our students, particularly the older ones, have an opportunity to explore the wider community. They need to develop their independence skills outside the classroom. This bus will enable them to do this.
The amount raised by PSA (Friends of Oakwood) was £17,275.00.
The other two thirds was sponsored by Daz’s Rock 4 Charity and The Rowlands Trust.
The money has been raised through donations from various businesses, including MV Kelly, Palletways, RSK Transport, NA Cars, Morgan’s Café & Midland Block & JJ as well as personal donations from parents and families.
The rest of the money has been raised through events such as sponsored swim, sponsored mountain climb (Ben Nevis and Snowden), Duke of Edinburgh Award, Summer Fayre, Sponsored Wheel-a-thon and various raffles. Our final donation came from Lorraine Thompson, Head of Virtual School.
Wowwww!!!
What a fantastic Summer Festival! Thank you to everyone who donated to our raffle and purchased raffle tickets. We raised an amazing £584.00!!!
As part of our secondary enrichment some of our pupils at our Pelsall Lane site took part in our ‘Summer Pizza and Picnic Night’ after school on Thursday. In preparation, our pupils helped plan and select the pizzas and outdoor activities that they would like. We then came together with our Year 7 and 8 friends and set up our secondary grassed outdoor area and cooked our chosen food, and then took part in a range of outdoor games. We especially enjoyed listening to some music and singing and dancing along to some of our favourite songs. We finally ended our evening with helping tidy away whilst we shared ideas for our next after school enrichment session in the Autumn term.
Over the summer term we have taken part in a very exciting project with The West Midlands Combined Authority. Midland Metro Alliance are doing lots of construction work in our area. They are building new lines for the Midland Metro. They asked for our help to build bug hotels so that insects and bugs have a safe place to live. Our entries were entered into a competition with other schools and we were invited to attend an awards ceremony at Wolverhampton Football Stadium. All bug hotels were judged by important people at Midland Metro Alliance…and we won two awards in Chestnut and Willows class, we are so proud of our secondary pupils! Our trophies was for ‘creativity’ and ‘Design and Planning’. A number of secondary pupils representing our secondary department at Oakwood collected and accepted our special awards. Well done team Oakwood. We would also like to thank the West Midlands Combined Authority and Midland Metro as they made our school feel very special. The trophies will be displayed proudly at school and everyone who took part received a medal for their participation.
Work is well underway to convert the remaining areas of the former education development centre (EDC) into classrooms and areas for Oakwood.
Here are a selection of photos from the work so far.
This week we are please to announce the launch our one of our ‘Treat Trolley’s’ in our secondary department at our Pelsall Lane Campus. Over the last few weeks we have worked as a team to plan and design what we would like our trolley to look like and also the items we would like to sell and buy. The aim of our ‘Treat Trolley’ is for pupils to experience exchanging money for a chosen item including pencils, colouring books, sweets, play dough, bubbles and much more. We will also play an important role in restocking the trolley, as well as greeting and serving other visitors. Throughout the term we will also have some special themed events planned involving our ‘Treat Trolley’, so keep visiting our weekly blogs to see.
We are also excited to announce we are currently working hard on designing and bringing to life our next ‘Treat Trolley’ at our Walsall Wood Campus which will be opening very soon.
We have all had a super week at school and had endless fun in experiencing and learning new skills. We are very proud of our ‘Highest Attendance Winners’ this week who are:
Our whole school attendance this week is 88% and attendance for the year so far is 89.5%. Keep up the hard work everyone and we look forward to another exciting week at school next week. Please take a look at our individual class blogs for more about our exciting adventures at school.
