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• Tuesday 22 March 2022 Schools Eco Award
• Tuesday 22 March 2022 British Science Week 2022 Following an egg-citing launch assembly on Monday, children across the school engaged in a week of hands-on science. They enjoyed being scientists; exploring, predicting, discovering and asking/answering questions about the science around them using CREST awards as a stimulus for their learning. Children learnt about scientists and their various roles in our world. There was a real science buzz across the school, it’s full of future scientists!
• Tuesday 15 March 2022 Year 5 Radley College Visit The Year 5's were lucky enough to visit Radley College last week to attend a concert performed by Braimah Kanneh-Mason. It was an amazing opportunity for the children to experience this and we hope it was inspiring for them.
• Tuesday 15 March 2022 Year 4 Big Sing On Thursday 10thMarch, Year 4 took part in the 'Big Sing' in the magnificent surroundings of Radley College Chapel, along with children from6 other local primary schools. They had a wonderful time singing and composing songs based on nonsense poems!
• Tuesday 15 March 2022 Anti Bullying Assembly Last week our Anti bullying ambassadors gave a presentation to Key Stage 2 to discuss the importance of their role and what to do if you have any concerns in school. They will be repeating this presentation to Key Stage 1 tomorrow. They did a fantastic job putting the assembly together and presenting it themselves. Well done to all of them!
• Friday 11 March 2022 Year 2's trip to the British Motor Museum The children learnt about the oldest car, and went on board a 99 year old bus. They enjoyed using their own special notebook and pencil to write down facts and sketch what they saw.
• Tuesday 8 March 2022 School Council start Eco Award!
• Tuesday 8 March 2022 Year 5 Orienteering Mr Briggs and Mr French took ten Year 5 children to the orienteering event, organised by Mr Taylor at North Hinksey Rugby Club. They did a fantastic job and thoroughly enjoyed themselves.
• Tuesday 8 March 2022 Year 1 History Workshop Year 1 had a fantastic History workshop where we learnt all about Mary Seacole. First, we explored what life was like during her life, discovering that they didn’t have light bulbs and the fastest mode of travel was a steam train. We then explored and imagined her British hotel and realised that it was nothing like the hospitals we have today. Next, we became nurses and helped our wounded toys by bandaging their wounds. We had a great time!
• Friday 4 March 2022 World Book Day - Where's Wally!!! The children had a lovely day dressing up in their own versions of Where's Wally. They enjoyed sharing and reading their favourite books with their buddy classes as well as doing Where's Wally themed work and activities. Thanks to all parents and carers for your support with getting costumes sorted!
• Thursday 3 March 2022 Singing Squad Singing Squad is run every Wednesday afternoon between 3.25pm - 4.15pm and is held in the Key Stage 2 Hall with Miss Maskell and Mrs Thrower.
• Thursday 3 March 2022 Shrove Tuesday in Saplings On Shrove Tuesday, everyone in Saplings had a wonderful time enjoying pancakes. Each class made their own batter mixtures, chose the toppings they'd like on their pancakes and then thoroughly enjoyed eating them! We also did a good job of washing up our plates afterwards too!
• Thursday 3 March 2022 Rowan Science Trip to Abingdon School We enjoyed a trip to Abingdon School to be scientists. As soon as we walked in we put on lab coats and protective glasses. One of us said ‘ I’m a real scientist, I can’t wait to get started.’ Another said ‘ this is terrific seeing the science happen!’ We have been learning about healthy eating so we learnt about energy in food by burning different foods and investigating what this told us about the energy in them. It was exciting when the teachers showed us this with sugar as it created a huge flame!
• Monday 28 February 2022 Year 2 Explorers Day In Year 2, on the last day of term we had a very exciting day finishing our Great Explorers topic. We came dressed as explorers to school! First we had created our own world map puzzle and then virtually explored our favourite places on Google Earth. After that we discovered some new foods that had magical effects on us from across the globe. We created our own binoculars to spot our new discoveries more easily. Finally we created paintings of the animals we invented in Science. It was a fantastic day!
• Friday 18 February 2022 Year 6 - Bird Spotting & Sketching In art, Year 6 have been studying the work of Frank Jarvis, who is known for his field sketching. He has a passion for nature and in particular, birds. These photos of Cedar class show the children bird spotting in the school’s garden and doing field sketches themselves. A great way to spend a Friday in the sunshine!
• Friday 18 February 2022 Year 5 Football Tournament The Year 5s represented the school well and won most of their games. The football festival was at Tilsley Park in Abingdon. All involved had a great time! Thank you to Mr Kearney and Mr French for accompanying the boys.
• Friday 18 February 2022 Year 1 The Great Fire of London! In Year 1 this term, we have be learning all about The Great Fire of London. We have really enjoyed finding out that itstarted in a bakery on Pudding Lane in 1666. We explored the reasons for the fire spreading so far and lasting for so long and discovered that the houses were made of wood, packed close together and there was no fire brigade! In art, we created our very own houses out of boxes and then had our own fire, with real fire! It was all very exciting!
• Tuesday 15 February 2022 Year 4 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Day Wacky Willie Wonka Day for year 4
• Friday 11 February 2022 Year 5 Bikeability Sessions Some children in Elm Class have been taking part in the Bikeability programme which provides children with the skills, knowledge and understanding to cycle safely on the roads. Children have learnt about the ‘ABCDs’ of cycle maintenance and are building their road confidence. Trained instructors help children cycle safely and responsibly, identify and respond to hazards, learn to start and stop on-road journeys and maintain suitable riding positions, show children how to share the road and communicate with other road users, understand signals, signs and road markings and advise children how to manage risk when cycling and negotiate junctions. A valuable life skill!
• Friday 11 February 2022 Year 4 Science Enrichment Session As a result of our recent collaboration with Abingdon Science Partnership, children across Year 4 participated in a Primary Physics Workshop to support their learning on ‘States of Matter’. Children enjoyed using laboratory apparatusand measuring equipment, including Bunsen burners. They investigated questions related to evaporation and condensationand discovered more about solids, liquids and gases.
• Thursday 10 February 2022 Year 3 visit Oxford History Museum On Friday the 4thFebruary, Willow and Oak Classes went to the Oxford History Museum where we experienced an amazing workshop all about human and animal skeletons. We also were able to look around the museum at all the amazing artefacts.
• Thursday 10 February 2022 Chinese New Year Last week the children in our nursery and reception classes (Saplings) have been busy learning about Chinese New Year. We learnt that as part of the traditional celebrations, people clean their houses, so we cleaned our classrooms! Then we tried some noodles, rice and crackers, we decided that they were very yummy. Then some of us had a go a writing in the style of chinese writing, that was tricky! Then on Friday we ended our celebrations by dancing to music as the animals from the Chinese calendar and then creating our very own Chinese dance with ribbons and mirror dancing - great fun!
• Friday 4 February 2022 A massive thank you!! Thank you to everyone who donated and purchased a signed Korky Paul book when we were lucky enough to have him visitin January.
• Thursday 3 February 2022 What's been happening in Year 2? In writing journeys in Year 2 we have just finished the book ‘The Day the Crayons Quit’ by Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers. We really enjoyed learning lots of vocabulary to describe the exasperated and furious stationery we discovered in our own classrooms. We wrote our letters as angry stationery, and created our own class books. As well as writing, we illustrated our books too in the style of Oliver Jeffers.
• Friday 28 January 2022 May Fair - Can you help???
• Tuesday 25 January 2022 Drago's Fire Safety KS1 had a visit from Oxfordshire Fire Service last week to tell us all about how to be safe with fire. They told us a story about Drago the Dragon and how he learnt to be careful with matches. After that we got to see inside the fire engine. We asked the firemen questions about their job and learnt a lot!!
• Friday 21 January 2022 Art & Craft Club The newly launched Art and Craft Club is proving a success with the childing enjoying making and creating things!!
• Thursday 20 January 2022 February Half Term Holiday Camp
• Thursday 13 January 2022 Korky Paul Visits Our huge thanks to Korky Paul, the illustrator of the Winnie the Witch Stories, for entertaining and inspiring us all to read and draw. Korky's enthusiasm and sense of fun was infectious and it was wonderful to see the children enjoying themselves so much.
• Monday 10 January 2022 YR 5 Earth and Space Topic On Friday, to launch our topic on Earth and Space, children in Year 5 took part in an astronaut training programme. During their time at Astronaut Academy children completed a range of activities that challenged their stamina, tested their memory and precision skills and further developed their team building capabilities. Did the children have what it takes to be astronauts Absolutely, children ¢ ¢ ¬ ¢ … ¾ ¢s drive and enthusiasm resulted in a successful day at the Academy.
• Thursday 16 December 2021 200 Club December Super Draw Winners
• Thursday 16 December 2021 Breakfast Club & Art Club Launch St Swithun's and Oxford Active are excited to announce the launch of a Breakfast Club and Arts and Crafts Club from January 2022.
• Thursday 16 December 2021 Christingle The children really enjoyed the Christingle service this week. Thank you to all who participated.
• Monday 13 December 2021 Christmas Lunch All our children enjoyed the Christmas Lunch.
• Thursday 9 December 2021 BBC Oxford Visit BBC Oxford came into school to film our KS2 children singing carols.
• Monday 6 December 2021 Year 5 Viking Experience Year 5 were lucky enough to welcome a ‘real-life’ Viking to our school on Monday 6thof December to deliver an inspirational and interactive workshop all about the Viking way of life and the invasion of Britain. Amongst other activities, children had the opportunity to take part in a craft project and be immersed in storytelling. They all had a fantastic time!!!
• Monday 6 December 2021 COP 26 Here's a sample of how our children learnt about COP26 and what it hoped to achieve.
• Friday 3 December 2021 Football Tournament
• Wednesday 1 December 2021 Noah's Pudding "I think the message of the story is that you don't need to all act the same to be in a community. Neither do you all need something external to bring you all together. You just need each other - if one person was left out of the community, it wouldn't be the same."
• Friday 26 November 2021 Anti Bullying Ambassadors
• Friday 19 November 2021 Children In Need 2021
• Monday 15 November 2021 Odd Sock Day Nov 2021
• Monday 15 November 2021 Explorer Dome For Year 2
• Friday 12 November 2021 Handwriting Competition
• Monday 18 October 2021 Woodlands Oct 2021
• Thursday 14 October 2021 Welcome to our new website

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