News
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Thursday 21 July 2022 Leavers' Day Den Making
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Tuesday 19 July 2022 St Swithun's Water Day On 13th July we celebrated St Swithun’s Day early…it’s on 15th July. The legend is that the weather on 15 July supposedly determines the weather for the next forty days, as noted in the popular Elizabethan verse:
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Tuesday 19 July 2022 Year 3 Art Project This term, some of the children in Y3 were fortunate enough to participate in a 4-week project with two visiting artists. Oli and Andrea worked with them and the Endeavour special school in Headington on a project entitled 'The Gift'. Their focus was well-being and their aim to produce artwork that could be gifted to the other school. The children in Willow class produced works inspired by contemporary artists and ranged from a hanging origami mobile, a dance, a sequence of photographic stills and a wooden puzzle. In turn, St Swithun's was gifted a fabulous artwork made by the students at Endeavour that can be seen hanging in reception.
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Tuesday 19 July 2022 Eco Award for St Swithun's 'We like how the Eco-Committee members communicate with each other and to internal and external stakeholders through using a variety of methods including reporting back to classes and through assemblies. You also use your lovely colourful and eye-catching Eco-Board and the school website.
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Tuesday 19 July 2022 Year 1 & 2 Hillend Visits!! Recently the Year 1 and 2 classes visited Hillend Outdoor Centre for day trips (Year 1) and overnight stays (Year 2).
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Tuesday 12 July 2022 Kabantu Concert
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Tuesday 12 July 2022 Year 5 Project Pylon You may recall that our Year 5 children took part in a project, organised by Oxford City Council and sponsored by Pivot Power, to raise the profile of renewable energy. Children used inspiration from pylon designs around the world to design and create their own pylons made out of willow. Well, the artist children worked with – Andrew Manson – used one of the children’s designs to inspire his Superhub Mural. The design he chose can be seen at Redbridge Park and Ride.
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Monday 11 July 2022 Street Tag Here are our latest, most active Oxfordshire School teams from the concluded Season 3 of the Vale of White Horse Schools leaderboard, 2022.
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Tuesday 5 July 2022 Schools Eco Application Submitted The School Council have now submitted their application for an Eco-Schools Award. The final step was to write an Eco-Code which will be displayed in school.Congratulations to Runa, Ikram, Audrey and Ellie for winning the energy-saving poster competition and to so many others for entering. It's great to see re-cycling have a higher profile in the lunch hall and our energy monitors are doing a great job reminding us to turn off the lights! The good weather has enabled teachers to do a few lessons outside and our new caretaker, Mr Martin, is talking to the cleaning company about using more environmentally-friendly products.
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Tuesday 5 July 2022 Larch's AMAZING trip to Abingdon School What an amazing and 'poptasic' experience Larch Class had during our Science workshop at Abingdon School on Friday. We developed our observation and measuring skills by testing out some indicators in acids and alkalis and examining the results. We also added a piece of magnesium to hydrochloric acid and then set fire to the gas within the test tube to see what would happen. Our session, quite literally, ended with a bang when our teacher showed us the effect of setting fire to a hydrogen filled balloon. A massive THANK YOU to the staff at Abingdon School for accommodating us and for this brilliant workshop!
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Thursday 30 June 2022 We love Lego club!!! We love Lego club! From towns to cities, to cars and people.. We love creating them all!
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Tuesday 28 June 2022 St Swithun's Sports Days Last week we had two successful sports days with Foundation & KS1 on Monday and KS2 on Friday. Merlin were the winning house for Foundation & KS1 and Red Kite were the winners for KS2. All did brilliantly in their events and a special thank you to the sports leaders for running the field events and Premier Sports for preparing the children for their races.Well done to everyonewho took part!!
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Tuesday 21 June 2022 Year 6 Matthew Arnold Sports Day Last Friday 17th St Swithun's went to Matthew Arnold for a sports afternoon along with the Y6s from North Hinksey School and Botley School.
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Thursday 16 June 2022 World Ocean Day Using cues and changing the tint and the shade the children designed their own pictures to show the different layers of the ocean. We took our learning outside and we measured out a life size whale on the playground and as a team we formed the shape to show how large a whale is. It was great fun!!
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Thursday 16 June 2022 Saplings visit Science Oxford We went to Science Oxford and had a wonderful time exploring in the Discovery and Exploration rooms and then going out for a woodland walk . We played a game that helped us to understand how bees collect pollen from flowers and then went bug hunting, some of us even found a newt! It was an amazing day!
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Tuesday 14 June 2022 Year 6 Quadkids Event Year 6s participated in a Quadkids event at Botley School on Monday 13thJune 2022. Quadkids is an athletics event, where the children sprint 75m, run 600m (long distance), do a vortex howler throw and a long jump. The children who went represented the school brilliantly and came 2ndout of 6 teams. Caelan also came 2ndin the top 3 individual year 5/6 boys. Well done!
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Thursday 9 June 2022 Year 5 MAD Museum visit What fun was had when Elm Class visited The Mechanical Art and Design Museum in Stratford upon Avon on Tuesday 7 June. Children relished the opportunity to see and interact with a wide range of automata. ( An automaton is a control mechanism designed to follow a predetermined sequence of operations.)
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Tuesday 7 June 2022 Jubilee Celebrations On the last day of term, St Swithun's had a lovely day celebrating the Queen's Jubilee by giving the children the option to dress in red, white and blue. We all enjoyed scones with jam and cream on the field for morning tea and also planted a special Jubilee tree, which was donated to the school by Millets Farm.
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Friday 27 May 2022 Year 6 Hampton Court Visit Year 6 visited Hampton Court on Thursday 26thMay 2022 as part of their Tudor topic, which was back in the Autumn term. Due to Covid bubbles, it was postponed but it was just as exciting. The children had a workshop about Henry VIII’s court and explored the palace. The children represented the school really well and were a delight to take. Thank you to Miss Maskell for organising such an amazing trip!
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Friday 27 May 2022 Project Pylon Year 5 children had a fantastic day working with a local artist, Andrew Manson, and an engineer from Pivot Power to find out more about the history, innovation and benefits of green energy, sustainability and environmental art. This creative project, sponsored by Oxfordshire City Council, is related to the electric vehicle charging hub opening at Redbridge Park and Ride in the summer and supports our current learning on Global Warming.
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Tuesday 24 May 2022 Cedar's Science Workshop at Abingdon School The children really enjoyed their visit to Abingdon School The session was based around lab skills and the children did different experiments with acids and alkalis.
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Tuesday 10 May 2022 Year 3 Visit Chedworth Roman Villa Last week, Oak Class alongside Willow Class, went to visit the National Trust site Chedworth Roman Villa as part of their history topic of Roman Britain. Chedworth Roman Villa is located in Gloucestershire and is one of the largest and most elaborate Roman villas so far discovered in Britain.
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Monday 9 May 2022 Thursday at Kilvrough
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Thursday 5 May 2022 Day 2 in the Big Kilvrough House
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Wednesday 4 May 2022 News from Kilvrough
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Tuesday 3 May 2022 Singing Squad trip to Young Voices - Tues 26/4/22 Well, all that can be said is WOWWW!!. After months of hard work practising the songs and dance moves, and also having to endure the disappointment of a postponement, the wait was definitely worth it as Singing Squad and staff made the journey down to Wembley for an afternoon rehearsal and an evening performance of fantastic singing, beat boxing and street dancing for the Young Voices 2022 concert. The atmosphere was electric and taking part in a huge musical performance along with about 4,500 other children was awesome and life enhancing. Despite it being a very long day, the children simply shone; they sang and danced their hearts out. They represented St. Swithun's incredibly well and they should be very proud of themselves. It was certainly a day to remember and cherish for the rest of their lives.
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Friday 1 April 2022 Year 6 visit Science Oxford Year 6 had a visit from Science Oxford on Tuesday 30thMarch 2022 and they did a workshop all about survival of the fittest. The activities were all hands on and the children learnt about how the finches that Darwin observed had different shaped beaks (represented by the different sized clips) and therefore, could only eat and survive off certain foods. The children also learnt about how competition could impact on chances to survive! The workshop was fun and engaging and the children learnt lots about our Science topic of Evolution.
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Tuesday 29 March 2022 Saplings Mother's Day Tea
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Tuesday 29 March 2022 Shona Beecham Music Assembly St Swithuns were lucky enough to have Shona Beecham come and play her violin to the whole school on Thursday 24th March. Shona is currently at the Royal College of Music and has played in concerts around the world. She is also a member of the Chineke! Junior Orchestra who have been featured on Britain’s Got Talent! Our thanks to Shona for a wonderful concert of Bach and Dvoâ„¢ák
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Thursday 24 March 2022 Children's Mental Health Awareness Week WOW!!! Take a look at the AMAZING and creative balloons the children made following Childrens' Mental Health Awareness Week. They brighten up our school and it is a delight to see them displayed and hanging around. We looked at the different strategies that we can all employ should we not be feeling too great. These may include going for a walk, playing some sport, reading a book, getting out into nature, deep breathing and mindful colouring. On our balloons, we wrote these on the basket so we had these in our own toolkit to keep us secure, just like the basket does. We also listed the different trusted people whom we could talk to during these times. Speaking with someone can really support when we are feeling upset or 'out of sorts'. These people can lift us up when we are feeling down, and so this is why we wrote their names on the balloon.
