We would all like to thank NA cars for organising for an ice cream van to come in to school today. It was such a surprise and a lovely treat. The sun also came out for the visit 🌞. We all enjoyed our ice creams very much indeed. THANK YOU!

We had an amazing trip to Twycross Zoo this week. Throughout the term we have been learning about the different animals found in the rainforest. We learnt facts and produced a fact file. At the zoo we managed to see many of these animals in real life! They were amazing!

What a lovely summer festival we had on Wednesday. Thank you to the families that joined in with us. We enjoyed circus skills games, African drumming, face painting and the gruffalo trail in the forest. The secondary classes also ran their own stall. We made the items (photo frames, biscuits, scrunchies and tote bags) and sold them on the stall. Well done secondary pupils, you were amazing. The money raised from the festival will go towards buying our own school minibus.

Throughout the year we have visited Chasewater a few time to go for a walk. Last time we went we went to the train station to look at the steam trains. This time we went to the park area. The have lots of accessible equipment which we enjoyed very much. We practised climbing, balancing and swinging.

At Oakwood we pride ourselves on being able to give the pupils as many experiences we can in every area of their development. Over the past few weeks we have been involved in sporting activities to developing pupils physical development and team working. One of these activities was archery! It was such a fantastic opportunity to be taught how to use a bow and arrow accurately and safely. Thank you, Caroline, for such a wonderful experience.

Another activity was a football match to start the Euros and to support the England team. Pupils had the full experience of walking on to the ‘pitch’ and joining in the National anthem! Thank you, Bev, and I hope England play really well.

And another activity has been cricket. We were playing in two team to see who could score the most runs. Thank you, Matt, for introducing us to the game and sharing your passion (even when Claire’s team won the match!).

We were lucky to be invited to the Rushall Arts Festival and to perform a couple of songs with Rushall Primary School. Our singing and signing was fantastic and even got up to have a dance.

Over the past couple of weeks we have met with Kylie (the community worker at Morrisons). She has given us a tour of the store and showed us how each of the departments work. We have learnt about different meats and cheeses and how pizzas are made. It was very enjoyable and we learnt a lot.

After we had been to each of the departments we then were able to have a go on the tills. We were shown how to scan the item, take payment and print receipts.

The bug hotels that were completed a couple of weeks ago were judged by important people at Midland Metro Alliance…and we won an award!!!! It was so exciting! Our trophy was for ‘creativity’. I agree… we were so creative with our project. Three pupils represented our class to collect and accept our award (it felt like the Oscar’s!). They collected our trophy and brought our medals back to school to give to the rest of our team. I am so proud of you, Willows class, you are amazing. The presentation was at Molineux football stadium and they made our school feel very special. The trophy will be displayed proudly at school and everyone in our class will have their medal for winning.

The Midland Metro Alliance set us a project to make a big hotel to care for our local environment. Over the week we researched the different kinds of bug hotels and identified our favourite features. We then started to create our bug hotel in the forest area.

Once it was built we then decorated a welcome sign, put up bunting and flags. We added logs as a bridge and entrances to our hotel.

What a wonderful time had doing our class sports day session! Thank you to all of the families that were able to make it. We had a carousel of sports activities, egg and spoon race, running race, hurdles, javelin and orienteering.

We had a go at each of these activities and even got our families involved! We have put all of our stickers that we achieved in to our communication book.