School Year 2017 – 2018
Brass Band Festival
Our final day of term ended with some entertainment from a brass band from Spain. The children were clapping and dancing along.
End of school year treat
What a great way to end the school year. Water war broke out at Oakley Cross with todays mammoth water fight! Our summer behaviour treat erupted into a fight to the end! Children against children, children against adults, no prisoners were taken and most of all nobody stayed dry!
Article 31: You have the right to play and rest.
July 2018
Class of 2018
We wish our year 6 children well as they leave us to enjoy their summer break before beginning their new chapter in their education.
Most improved readers Summer Term
Well done to you all!
Time capsule
A few months ago we were asked to create something to go into a ‘time capsule’. We placed children’s work, photos and their thoughts about the school in 50 years time! We were asked to attend a special ceremony to place our Time Capsule inside the village phant, it will stay there for 50 years!
Article 12: You have the right to an opinion.
July 2108
Teddy Bears picnic
Today was the day for a teddy bears picnic! Blossom, Beech and Pine Classes joined together and had a fab time playing with their teddies and friends. We all sat inside for food just in case it rained.
Article 31: We have the right tom play and rest.
July 2018
Oakley Cross Talent Show
Wow! Move over Britons got talents, Oakley Cross Talent show had everything and more! Simply fantastic. There was a wide variety of acts from singing, dancing, hula hopping, animals noises to guitar playing!
….. and the winners were FANTASTIC!
Summer Term most improved readers
Well done to our most improved readers for this term, well done. Everyone choose their own book to buy and enjoyed hot chocolate with marshmallows!
Ariticle 29: Your education should help you use and develop you talents and abilities.
July 2018
On Safari
Wow! This was the very first Key Stage 1 end of your performance and they were amazing! They went On Safari, a story about friendship, they used big loud voices and fantastic singing voices. Well Done everyone!
Article 29: Your education should help you use and develop your talents and abilities.
July 2018
First Aid workshops
In response to suggestions from our suggestion box children in years 2 – 6 received first aid training. Thank you to St Johns Ambulance and The Go Group for organising the workshops. Willow class have been leaning what to do in an emergency and how to administer first aid with Mrs Geraty. Eric from St Johns ambulance was very impressed with their knowledge!
Years 4 and 6 enjoyed their first aid workshop, learning how to check an unconscious casualty, to put them in the recovery position and bandage wounds.
Article 24: You have the right to the best health care possible.
July 2018
Sports Day
What an amazing sports day we had! the children took part in a carousel of activities followed by finals in skipping and running. Red team won! But it was very close as always.
Big thankyou to the Spar for providing refreshments for the children.
Article 29: Your education should help you use and develop your talents and abilities.
July 2018
EYFS Sports Day
Thankyou too all our parents and friends for joining us. The sun shone and the children were fantastic. The Red Team won but a great time was had by all!
Article 29: Your education should help you use and develop your talents and abilities.
July 2018
Dinosaur Day
WOW! What a day. Thankyou to Och and his team for coming in and giving us this opportunity. The children spent time digging and discovering all sorts of fossils.
And then…… We met some dinosaurs!
Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education.
July 2018
The Great Get Together
A massive thankyou t everyone who joined. It was lovely to see so many faces. Thankyou for all the suggestions you gave us, we will discuss with staff how we can implement your ideas. We hope you found our visitors informative and that the information from your children about healthy packed lunches gave you some new ideas.
Our children have been busy sketching self portraits, which we have framed, for you too buy.
Article 24: You have the right to safe water to drink and nutritious food.
June 2018
Treasure Island
Another fantastic show from the drama club! Well done to all of the children, Mr Robinson and Staff who were involved in the show. For more photos click here.
Article 29: Your education should help you too use and develop your talents and abilities.
June 2018
Soccer Aid Playground Challenge
Today we filled our boots! Thankyou to everyone who helped us raise money for UNICEF’s ‘Soccer Aid’ …. the children took part in the football obstacle course! The children enjoyed taking part in the obstacle course and showed good control and resilience and most importantly they all had fun!
Article 27: You have the right to food, clothing a safe place to live and to have your basic needs met. You should not be disadvantaged so that you can’t d many of the things other kids can do.
June 2018
Healthy Eating Week
Sycamore Class made potato and sweetcorn fritters with Mrs Lowrie for an alternative healthy snack.
Willow Class spent the morning cooking a healthy pasta sauce. It was delicious! Some children even offered to cook for the whole school!
Beech Class tried a healthy snack today, they had dippy eggs with brown bread soldiers. Everyone tried them and loved them and all are showing a good understanding of how to be healthy and why it is important.
As part of healthy eating week, we tried some new healthy treats that we grew ourselves in our Oakley Garden! We tried home-grown radishes! Well done for trying new things.
Article 24: you have the right to nutritious food and safe water to drink.
June 2018
Tennis festival
Well done to some of the children from Willow Class who took part in a tennis tournament at Bishop Barrington. We played 5 games, winning 4 and only losing 1! Overall we came second. Well done and a huge congratulations.
Article 29: Your education should help you develop your talents and abilities.
June 2018
Edinburgh
Our visit to Edinburgh has been amazing, we loved Pizza Express, we really loved Wicked, breakfast was amazing, we had great fun just having fun! The Zoo was fantastic and we especially enjoyed hearing all about the monument to Greyfriars Bobby, the famous story of a loyal dog who sat next to his owner’s grave for years! He is a few more pictures from our trip to Edinburgh.
We invaded Edinburgh castle!
Hitting the streets!
All aboard the Edinburgh express, is it lunchtime yet did I hear?
Article 31: You have the right to play and rest
May 2018
Breakfast Club Launch
Our breakfast club is now sponsored by Greggs and the County Durham Housing Group and is therefore free for our children to attend. We offer a variety of cereals, toast and fruit. It is a good opportunity for our children to join in some games and meet up with friends before school. Come along and give it a try.
Article 24: You have the right to safe water, nutritious food, a clean and safe environment.
May 2018
The Royal wedding
To celebrate The Royal Wedding, our fantastic cooks are cooking up a special wedding feast. We asked everyone to come to school dressed in red, blue or white.
Article 31: you have the right to play and rest
May 2018
Most improved readers
Well done to this terms most improved readers. We all enjoyed our trip to Tesco to choose and buy their own books oh and not forgetting a cup of hot chocolate or tea.
Ariticle 29: Your education should help you use and develop you talents and abilities.
April 2018
Skip 2B Fit
Everyone really enjoyed their sessions with Dave this morning, even parents and teachers joined in! Everyone worked hard to do better than before, showing resilience and a great attitude in trying to beat their scores. It was good fun! Watch out for more about Skip 2B Fit.
Article 31: You have the right to play and rest.
March 2018
Tidy Ted
We had a visit from Tidy ted! Beech Class did some litter picking around the school. They were brilliant and really helped to tidy up our school.
Sycamore class took part in a clean litter activity
Article 29: Education should promote respect for the environment
March 2018
Pollard and the Boar
Blossom, Beech and Pine classes enjoyed a story telling session this morning from Auckland Castle. The knight Pollard and the Boar. Everyone enjoyed this famous local story using the puppets to re-enact it.
We made our own mitre hats, just like the Bishop of Durham in the story.
Article 29: Your education should help you use and develop your talents and abilities.
March 2018
Easter Egg Competition
Every year children and parents get together to create a decorated egg. This years entries were eggstra amazing!
Article 30: You have the right to practice your own culture. langauge and religion.
March 2018
Sports Relief
A massive well done and thankyou to the children of Oakley Cross, we rasied £90!
We have really enjoyed Sports Relief this year. Keys Stage 2 headed outside for a Sports relief workout!
We raced Miss O’Neil and Mr Smith around the field, children won of course!
Finished of with a nice cool down.
Article 24: Children have the right to be healthy.
March 2018
Science Week
Everyone had fun this week, it was science week! We LOVE science! Sycamore investigated how far cars can be rolled and whether the contents of each makes a difference. Later in the week, they explored different ways to free a toy figure from a block of ice. Good investigations and interesting discussions.
Article 29 : Education should develop a child’s talents and abilities.
March 2018
Famous place competition
Over the last few week, children have brought in their pictures of famous places or buildings. We had Big Benn, The Golden Gate Bridge, The Great Pyramids, The Taj mahal and loads more. Here are some of the children with their pictures, they are fab! Everyone who entered won a pen, and there were loads more prizes too.
Article 29: Children have the right to learn about other places and cultures, and the right to develop their talents and abilities.
March 2018
Cross Country Event
we took part in a Cross Country event along with loads of other schools. It was very soggy! It didn’t dampen our efforts in any way. 24 children from Oakley Cross took part from years 3, 4 and 5.
Article 31: You have the right to play and rest.
March 2018
World Book Day
Check out all the fab characters that came to school today! We all had a great day between DEAR time, activities and games, jammed packed with reading fun!
Beech and Pine Class had some amazing visitors today too! They had turtles, Batmen, Umpa Lumpas, Cats in Hats, Where’s Wally, Gansta Granny and loads more.
Article 31: You have the right to play and rest.
March 2018
Show Racism the Red Card
Year 6 had some special visitors today to ‘Show Racism the Red Card’ . Dean and Richard played games and had discussions with year 6 all about racism and bullying.
Article 31: Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities.
March 2018
Valentines Disco
Just a few Photos from an amazing fun night!
Article 31: Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities.
February 2018
Mother’s Day
A few weeks ago we asked children if they would like to draw a special picture for their mum. It see these pictures please click Mother’s Day Pictures.
Snow Day!
We had great fun making snowmen, safe snowballing and making snow angels!
Article 31: you have the right to play and rest
January 2018
Most Improved Readers
Well done to this terms most improved readers. You have all been amazing.
Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education, you should be encouraged to go to school to the highest level you can.
December 2017
Christmas Carols
Thankyou to everyone for joining us in Carols round the tree. Merry Christmas to you all!
Snow white
We had a great time at the panto this year, it was as fantastic as always.
Article 31: You have the right to play and rest.
December 2017
Jack and The Beanstalk
This years christmas performance was amazing. For a change we performed a traditional tale, with special effects! The drama club and the whole school showed off their wonderful acting and singing skills.
Article 29: Education must develop every child’s personality, talents and abilities to the full.
December 2017
Santa’s Visit
This time of year is always special and the children love it when we get a visit from Santa. he always has a good chat with us and usually brings a pressie!
Article 14: Every child has the right to think and believe what they want and to practise their religion.
December 2017
Christmas Fair
What a lovely festive day we had for our fair, it snowed! We thank everyone for braving the weather to come and see us and also to the stall holders, staff and to The Friends of Oakley Cross for helping to organise another successful event.
The winner from the colouring competion:
Well done Girls!
November 2017
Dukeshouse Wood
What a great time everyone had this year at Dukeshouse Wood. We had such busy days! We took part in Activities such as mini olympics, climbing wall, 3G swing, quad bikes, archery and the night line in the dark! We were yo from 7:30 until 10:30 finishing the evening with a campfire and toasted marshmallows, fab!
Article 31: Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range artistic activities.
November 2017
Go Bright!
This friday we went bright for children in need and raised a whopping £167! Well done to everyone who paid £1 to wear bright.
Article 26: You have the right to help if your are poor or you are in need.
November 2017
Remembrance Assembly
Well done to maple Class for delivering such a moving Remembrance Assembly this morning. Thank you to everyone who came along to watch.
Article 38: You have the right to freedom and protection from war.
November 2017
Anti-Bullying Week
Our Rights Respecting Ambassadors spent the morning at Evergreen Primary in preparation for anti-bullying week. They had a great time. They made delicious looking biscuits and were amazing representatives of our school.
Aricle 31: Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of artistic activities.
November 2017
Reading Hub Grand opening
We had an exciting morning in school as we had some very special visitors along to officially open our reading hub today. PCSO Bree, PCSO Atkinson, PC Graham, PC Irvin and PS Turner all joined us in assembly to talk about reading and their other interests with the children. They shared some of our stories and then PS Turner officially cut the ribbon and opened the reading hub for us. I am sure our children are going to have many hours of reading fun in our fantastic new hub. A huge thank you goes to Mrs Wilkinson and PCSO Bree for organising this visit.
Article 28: Every child has the right to an education.
November 2017
Apple Bobbing!
This half terms treat was spookytastic! Children choose from a choice of films and apple (and Pear) bobbing. It was great fun and everyone had a great time.
Article 31: You have the right to play and have fun
October 2017
Decorating Stones Competion
Well done to our decorated stones competion entries, they were all fab. The winner won a box of crafty things.
Article 29: Children have the right to develop their talents and abilities.
October 2017
Tuishi Pamoja
The amazing children of drama performed Tuishi Pamoja, a story about friendship. The story is set in Africa and features all kinds of animals. There was some amazing singing and acting. Well done to you all!
Article 29: Children have the right to develop their talents and abilities.
October 2017
Halloween
What a scare you gave us all! Everyone really enjoyed our night of spookiness. Warning these picture might scare you!
Article 31: You have the right to play and have fun
October 2017
Arty-Fact
The children enjoyed the visit of Arty-Fact theatre company who presented their maths filled show.
Article 28: Right to an Education
October 2017
Harvest Festival
Thankyou to everyone who came to our Harvest Festival Assembly. We took all the donations of fruit, vegetables and groceries to The Well to share in the community.
Article 27: You have the right to food
October 2017
Tag Rugby
Team Oakley took part in a tag rugby festival at Bishop Auckland Rugby Club. They all had a great time playing against different schools.
Article 29: Your education should help you use and develop your talents
October 2017
World Biggest Coffee Afternoon!
Thankyou for your support of this event this year. Your generosity has helped raise £310.75 for Macmillan Cancer Support. We hoped you enjoyed at the lovely treats made by children and parents as well as taking five minutes to relax and chat.
Our master baker this year was James’ Gran – congratulations on winning the Great Oakley Bake off. in second place was Fynley and Freya’s mum and in third place Dalton’s mum. Well done all!
Article 24: You have the right to the best health care
October 2017
