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Note from our Head
Dear Oakfield families,
The end of another super busy half-term for our entire Oakfield community and you will be relieved to know I will keep my message brief this week.
It has been wonderful to see pictures coming through from Rockley of our Year 6s enjoying their well-deserved residential trip. It has been brilliant to be able to have our Year 6s go on this annual trip for the first time since 2019 and we hope our current younger children are looking forward to making the trip themselves in the coming years.
We have so much to look forward to before the end of the Summer Term including our World Summer Fair, our Summer Exhibition, Hispanic Day, Oakfield's Got Talent and various trips, dress-up days, class parties, sports days, productions and Celebrating Success to name but a few!
So do make sure you have a week of rest ahead of all the fun and excitement to come and thank you as always for your continued support.
Moyra Thompson
Clean Air Week 13th - 17th June
This year, we are celebrating Clean Air Day with Oakfield's Walk/Cycle/Scoot to School Week. From Monday June 13th to Friday June 17th we're asking families to try to leave the car at home and travel on foot, on two wheels, or use public transportation to get to school. If that's not possible, perhaps you could park further away to help reduce congestion around the school.
The school run from all local schools is responsible for up to 25% of traffic congestion around West Dulwich. Air pollution inside the car can be three times as high as outside.
One in ten children in London has asthma and there are clear associations between air pollution and heart and lung disease, stunted lung growth in children, and reduced cognitive ability.
So please join us in celebrating sustainable, active travel this Clean Air Day. Your children will earn house points and other rewards for making an effort (but don't worry - there are no donations to remember or special outfits to wear!).
Clean Air for Oakfield is a group of parents who are keen to find ways to reduce traffic and air pollution around the school. We will have a stall at the upcoming Summer Fair so do come and have a chat then too.
Year 6
Rockley Royalty
Year 5
In Science we looked at water resistance and investigated how the forces of air and water movement affected the progress of our plasticine boats
Year 2
The Year 2 children had fun sharing their poetry projects with the class.
We were wowed with acrostic poems, rhyming poems and shape poems!
Lions, penguins, giraffe, tigers! “The best day ever!” Year 2 had a wonderful time visiting London Zoo. They enjoyed a workshop to support their Humanities topic, animals. The children had fun exploring animals in the environment. Did you know the Sumatran tiger sleeps 20 hours a day!
Who knew stop watches could be so much fun! In mathematics the children timed one another to perform activities outside. They worked with a partner to time each activity, estimate the time they thought it would take to carry out the activity and to record the time in minutes or seconds!
Year 1
The Year 1 children were being scientists this week and investigating magnets. They learned that opposite poles attract and like poles repel, and they tested out different objects that were magnetic.
LOWER FOUNDATION
There was fun using a tablespoon to measure out flour, vegetable oil, salt, water and food colouring to knead their playdough mixture...
...some excellent measuring of the height of sunflowers...
...and finally a relaxing time at the spa!
Roll of Honour
Thea (Y5) - excellent written Spanish language work
Jesse (Y5) - excellent written Spanish language work
Credits:
Created with images by tanarch - "Panorama sky with cloud on a sunny day. Beautiful cirrus cloud. Panoramic image." • Nataraj - "Watersport on theCaribbean Sea at Aruba island at sunset" • cristalov - "Aerial drone view of speed boat in motion, transportation concept, summer time." • Jay - "Zoo. Animals" • fox17 - "birthday candles on golden background" • Jason Schronce - "Sunset rays over a field of sunflowers" • Bits and Splits - "On Red Carpet Vip and Celebrities Concept"