School Year 2016 – 2017
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This terms most improved readers, hope you enjoyed your shopping trip with hot chocolate!
Whole Year Attendance
Well done to these children for attending school for the whole year!
100% Attendance
The Liz Ivil Award
Well done. This award is given to children who have shown outstanding achievements in Sports, Academic and Community. Well done to Blaine, Ella and Nieve.
This was The Class of 2017!
All the children voted for each other to receive a special award and they sang us all a lovely song, there wasn’t a dry eye in the house! Good luck Class of 2017, we all wish you bright and happy futures!
Even the dinner ladies had a special word to say.
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July 2017
Class of 2017
Don’t they look amazing! Everyone enjoyed prom night, food was great and the dancing was fun, shame it had to come to an end.
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July 2017
Mary Poppins
maple Class showed us their amazing singing, dancing and acting skills today in theor version of Mary Poppins. It was fantastic! There is only one way for them to go and that’s up, up and away! Well done you were brilliant!
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July 2017
Teddy Bear Picnic
Blossom, Beech and Sycamore Classes all joinde in together for a massive Teddy Bear Picnic, we played rounders and just had fun playing together, it was great! Thanks to everyone who brought in picnic food it was yum!
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July 2017
Oakley Talent Show
Oakley Cross certainly does have talent! We had a fantastic show this afternoon filled with a variety of acts, all planned by the children. We had singing, dancing and even a rectial from the recorder!
Well done to everyone!
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July 2017
Sports Day
What an amazing time we all had taking part! What’s more it didn’t rain! Thank to everyone for coming along to cheer us all on and also to the PTA for providing refreshments.
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Summer Fayre
Thankfully the weather held off and we had a wonderful Summer Fayre. We had loads of stalls and fun things to do. Thank you to everyone who came along, and to the PTA for providing refreshments.
Article 31 Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities.
July 2017
Mr Wilson’s second liners
We invited friends and family to come and watch this amazing brass band with us. There was loads of audience participation and great fun. It was very loud too!
Article 31 Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities.
July 2017
Science Week
To celebrate science week we had a visit form Professor Brainstorm! He showed us some amazing science, a little like magic tricks! He showed us how gravity works with forces, showed us how strong we could be, or not in some cases.
Article 31 Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities.
June 2017
London
Oakley Cross on their adventure in London! all back safely to the hotel – hopefully tired and ready for a good nights sleep!
London Calling – a few more photos. Plenty more to do tomorrow. all in bed now.
Day 2 in London – Natural History, HMS Belfast and cable cars across the sky. Wicked still to come. Fab!
Pizza -yummy, especially because its in London!
After a wicked night at the theatre everybody safely to the hotel for a well earned sleep. Back home tomorrow, where has time gone!
Article 29 Education must develop every child’s personality, talents and abilities to the full. It must encourage the child’s respect for human rights, as well as respect for their parents, own and other cultures, and the environment.
May 2017
Tennis
A huge well done to our tennis team who came second in the competition today. The team said they had really enjoyed playing and can’t wait until the next round. They will be going to the final next month!
Article 29 Education must develop every child’s personality, talents and abilities to the full.
May 2017
Women’s Refuge
We had some special visitors in school today from the Women’s Refuge. We invited them to come and collect loads of books bought from the money we raised from World Book Day. We asked some of our children to choose the books and to present them to the ladies from the refuge. They were really excited and took the books to give to the children who would love to read them at their centre.
Article 2 All children have these rights, no matter who they are, where they live, what their parents do, what language they speak, what their religion is, whether they are a boy or girl, what their culture is, whether they have a disability, whether they are rich or poor. No child should be treated unfairly on any basis.
April 2017
Treat Day
We all had a great treat today, it was fab! The children choose an obstacle course in their pjs with music! It was exciting having races with our friends and even some of the teachers joined in.
Article 31 Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities.
April 2017
Easter Fashion Show
As part of our Easter celebrations we held a fashion show. Some of us made hats while others made outfits. We invited friends and family to come and judge it, and of course the winners all won a big easter egg!
Article 14 Every child has the right to think and believe what they want to and to practise their own religion, as long as they are not stopping other people from enjoying their rights.
April 2017
Easter egg hunt
Todays Easter egg hunt was great fun. Parents and teachers all joined in with the children to follow the clues to win a prize!
Article 14 Every child has the right to think and believe what they want to and to practise their own religion, as long as they are not stopping other people from enjoying their rights.
March 2017
Mothers Day lunch
To show our mums that they are ‘One in a Million’ we invited them to share our lunch. We even sang a special song to our mums! Thanks to Shelley and Stacey for a delicious lunch and also to everyone who came to enjoy it!
Parents gave us some fantastic feedback, thankyou. You left some lovely comments as you can see from this small selection.
Article 24 Every child has the right to nutritious food.
March 2017
Winners of the short story competition
A huge well done to the winners of our short story writing competition who received a certificate and a bag of stationary goodies! The winning stories will be displayed in our library.
Short story competition winners
Article 31 Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities.
March 2017
Red Nose Day
Article 31 Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities.
March 2017
World Book Day
A very strange thing happened in school today, some of our children turned into book characters! We celebrated book day this year by dressing up as our favourite book characters, and Cruella de Vil treated us to story time.
Children who came dressed up paid £1 fine which was used to help raise £101. This money will be used to support the work of a local women’s refuge centres who provide items for children in need. thankyou for your support.
Article 31 Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities.
February 2017
Gansta Granny
Year 5 and 6 enjoying their trip to Billingham Forum to watch Gansta Granny. Fab show enjoyed by all!
Article 31 Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities.
February 2017
Valentines Disco
Everyone enjoyed the pink and red themed valentines disco, we had a great time dancing the night away and having fun with friends.
Article 31 Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities.
February 2017
Crazy Creatures
Treat this time was a little scary for some(the adults!) we had lots of scaley and hairy creatures in school. Our children showed how brave they were and over came lots of fears!
Article 31 Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities.
December 2016
Christmas at Oakley Cross
We enjoyed a vast range of Christmas activities this year, from going to the theatre to Santa visiting us with present!
Disco time
Fun and games and plenty of party food for our Key stage 2 Christmas party.
Magic with Santa!
Blossom Class and Little Acorns had a magical afternoon today visiting Santa. It was amazing!
Christmas Carols
We held our annual carols in the hall, we had lots of parents/carers come and join us for this special time of year.
Trip to the Theatre
The whole school went on a journey today, all the way to the theatre, oh yes we did! We all enjoyed a wonderful afternoon watching Jack and the Beanstalk.
Visit from Father Christmas
The school PTA know some very special people, look who they brought to see us today!
Christmas dinner
Thanks to Stacey and Shelly for our delicious Christmas dinner, even the elves joined in!
Article 31 Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wider range of cultural and artistic activities.
December 2016
Whole school performance ‘Home for Christmas’
Children have really enjoyed themselves, showing us their acting and singing abilities, taking part in this years Christmas production. The theme of this production was to highlight homelessness. The drama club and the whole school have worked hard rehearsing and practising the songs.
Article 29 Your education should help you use and develop your talents and abilities. It should also help you learn to live peacefully, protect the environment and respect other people.
December 2016
Children in need
We all went a little spotty for children in need this year to help raise money for an amazing cause. We helped to raise over £149! Fabulous! This money will go to help children access their rights.
Article 2 All children have these rights, no matter who they are, where they live, what their parents do, what language they speak, what their religion is, whether they are a boy or girl, what their culture is, whether they have a disability, whether they are rich or poor. No child should be treated unfairly on any basis.
November 2016
Remembrance assembly
Maple Class lead us in a very moving assembly this morning, telling us the story of Harry Patch who was known as The Last Tommy. We held a two minute silence throughout the school at 11 o’clock.
Article 13 You have the right to find things and share what you think with others, by talking, drawing, writing or in other ways unless it harms or offends other people.
November 2016
Book Fair
The book fair arrived this week. We held a competition to win a £5 for each of our classes to enter all you had to do was draw a poster telling us all about your favourite book! It was really difficult to choose a winner, but here they are.
Book fair winners
We sold loads of books, so it was only fair that the winners helped to choose some new books for the school library.
Article 29 Education must develop every child’s personality, talents and abilities to the full.
November 2016
The Keymaster
Well done to The Drama Group for a fantastic production of the Keymaster. Your abilities to sing dance and act really shone out, to think you have only been practising since September and you were simply amazing.
Article 31 Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities.
October 2016
Halloween Disco
Our Halloween disco was very popular again this year and the children (and teachers) had a fun time. As always, there were some fantastic costumes and excellent special effect make-up. Well done mums and dads!
Article 31 Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities.
Oct 2016
Harvest Assembly
Thankyou to everyone who came along and joined with us to celebrate this years harvest. We really hope you enjoyed our celebration. Thankyou for all your donations for our harvest table. We will be giving all or our harvest gifts to our local food bank at The Well to help every child ‘eat well’ and enjoy their right to nutritious and healthy food.
Aritical 24 Every child has the right to good quality health care, clean water and a clean environment.
October 2017
MacMillan Coffee Afternoon
We held our big coffee afternoon today in support of Macmillan Cancer Care. This is a charity very dear to a lot of people and a very worthwhile cause. Thank you to all of our parents who entered the great ‘Oakley Bake Off’. We had some stunning efforts which Mary and Paul would have been proud of. After much deliberation, our star bakers are: Fynley & Freya’s mum, James’ gran, Chloe’s nana and Jak and Siena’s mum. Thank you to all of you who came along to support and enjoy our coffee afternoon. We all helped to raise a massive £292!
Article 24 Every child has the right to the best possible health. 2016
Oct 2016
Toilet twinning
As every child has the right to be safe and to have access to a clean and hygienic place to live, we decided to help raise money for the charity ‘Toilet Twinning’. Thank you very much for supporting this fundraiser, we made a fantastic £125.00, enough to buy two toilets for children and families who don’t yet have clean and hygienic facilities. Thank you to Miss Turnbull for organising this event and for thinking up the grand idea of mummifying teachers. There were some fantastic efforts from our children. Check Facebook page for more pictures of the mummies!
Article 24 Every child has the right to the best possible health. Governments must work to provide good quality health care, clean water, nutritious food and a clean environment.
September 2016
European Day of Languages
We celebrated ‘European Day of Languages’ in school today as part of our Rights Respecting work because all the children have a right to a good quality education which teaches them to respect other cultures and languages(article 29). Each class focused on a different European country and spent the day learning more about the language and culture of that country. Some classes cooked or tasted food and a dance teacher worked with classes to learn traditional dances. We learnt so much and had a lot of fun too!
Article 29 All children have a right to a good quality education which teaches them to respect other cultures and languages.
Sept 2017
