Here are the full photos and videos from our performances at the Alfa Music Festival last night.
Well done to all those who took part, who have been practising for so long – you were amazing!
Children of the World – our first song
Let Love Shine Through – our second song
Our Choir leading the ensemble song – Fiela
Proud – our school song, which we sang as the other choirs were being dismissed at the end of the night
Tonight, our choir have enjoyed taking part in the Alfa Music Festival! Well done to all those involved – more pictures and videos to follow soon!
Well done to all the children who took part in the Young Writers’ Once Upon a Dream poetry competition. This is the 25th year that the competition has been run and they received in excess of 25,000 entries! We are very proud to announce that a number of poems written by you have been chosen for publication. The winners include:
Shan, Alizah, Husnain-Ali, Ali, Fatima, Natasha, Daisy, Grace, Michael, Ayesha, Rehan, Malaika, Jamie, Chloe, Zainab, Ella, Alexis, Oluwatosin, Freya, Emma-Leigh, Alex, Jayden, Priya, Jasmine, Noshin, Tallanah, Suranne, Husna and Rayyan.
Today we have celebrated Harvest.
Thank you to all of our parents who donated so generously. We have boxed up all of the gifts and they have been given out to members of the community. Any remaining donations have been given to St Luke’s.
Today, we have enjoyed our first Smiley Reward of 2016-2017! The whole school enjoyed watching the Zulu Dancers perform in assembly, in the morning and in the afternoon.
We also took part in special workshops with the Zulus in our classes, singing and dancing to their amazing music.
Check out our photos!
We are so lucky and very excited to have 18 eggs arrive at school this week. We have looked after them so well that the hatching has started and beautiful baby chicks are now living at Oxford Grove!
We have captured the hatching on our very own chick cam and have lots of photos to share with you very soon.
We are pleased to announce that Oxford Grove has achieved Gold standard in the Liverpool Reading Quality Mark!
Well done to all our staff who work so hard to promote reading for pleasure.
Some quotes from our Liverpool Reading Quality Mark Assessment Report:
“Reading is an integral part of a rich curriculum with reading for pleasure embedded across the school.”
“Staff, governors and parents spoke passionately and enthusiastically about reading throughout the school and how this has impacted on the children’s love of reading and attainment in reading.”
“The school governors are involved in learning walks, book monitoring and data analysis, giving them an outstanding insight into teaching and learning.”
“Children are extremely knowledgeable about books, authors and poets, and spoke fluently about the amazing texts they have read.”
“The engagement of all children throughout the school is impressive and inspirational. The school has capture the awe and wonder of reading for pleasure and provides experiences for the children that they will never forget.”
“Recommended authors and poets are displayed in each class. Children were able to discuss these at length, passionately talking about their favourite class authors.”
“Staff, governors and children are extremely passionate about reading and this comes through in every area of the school.”
Today we have enjoyed lots of activities about books!
Our teachers have shared their favourite books with us – we all really enjoyed hearing about why they liked their books!
Emma from Bolton Central Library came to visit Years 2 to Year 6 to talk about her job as a librarian. She told us all about how to use the library. She also read some stories and got us to talk about them together.
Oxford Grove are in the Bolton News again!
This time, we are celebrating our achievement of the Stonewall Bronze Award this month. We are the only school in Bolton to hold this award currently.
Well done to all our hard working staff and amazing children!
