Author Archives: Mrs Thompson

Today our Year 6 children have performed their amazing Leavers Assembly! They have worked incredibly hard over the last few weeks to create a wonderful performance. Their assembly included amazing songs, funny sketches of their time at Oxford Grove and … Continue reading →

Today we held a very special assembly for Mrs Hart! Mrs Hart has worked at Oxford Grove since 1980 and for the last 46 years, she has helped countless children to learn and grow as they have come through our … Continue reading →

We’re changing the consent process for school vaccinations Dear parent or guardian, We’re writing to let you know about a change to how you’ll be asked to give consent for school vaccinations. From August 2026, our local NHS school age immunisation … Continue reading →

Today, the School Council were delighted to welcome Dave from Bolton Dementia Support! We were able to present him with the money that we have raised for this charity – £451.14! Today, the School Council were delighted to welcome Dave … Continue reading →

A huge well done to our Earth Day competition winners! It was such a hard choice that we ended up choosing a winner from KS1 and a winner from KS2. Well done to everyone who entered and worked so hard … Continue reading →

We are delighted to welcome parents and carers into school for our Family Learning Course on Digital Skills! It was fantastic to see families learning together today —building confidence with technology, exploring new skills, and supporting children’s learning in a … Continue reading →

A huge well done to our Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 blog competition winners! These children left the most high-quality blog comments across all of our school blog sites over the last few weeks. As well as the … Continue reading →

Bolton Schools ICT are hosting their annual Safer Internet Day competition! All entries must meet the Safer Internet Day theme: “Smart tech, safe choices – Exploring the safe and responsible use of AI.” Art: Children can make a piece of … Continue reading →

Oxford Grove has taken part in Safer Internet Day!  Visit our Digital Leader blog or our class blogs to see what we have been up to.

Oxford Grove are very proud to have received a letter of commendation from the Secretary of State for Education for our hard work and achievements in supporting the outcomes of disadvantaged children.

Today we have had a very special assembly led by Emma from Bolton Hospice, who are one of our School Council chosen charities for this year. We learned all about how Bolton Hospice support people who are poorly and need … Continue reading →

Bring in £1 for Bolton Hospice and you can wear your own clothes for the day!

1 Grove had an amazing time today on their attendance reward trip – seeing ‘High School Musical Jr’ performed at Smithills School! They won this trip because their class had the highest attendance last half term. The children were really … Continue reading →

Oxford Grove is proud to announce our latest award – Online Safety Certified School 2025-2026! This award demonstrates our ongoing commitment to online safety, both in school and in our community. We have achieved this award through keeping online safety … Continue reading →

Oxford Grove School Council need your help! We are so lucky to have lots of exciting things to do at play time and dinner time, including activities for everyone to join in with. We have lots of equipment that we … Continue reading →

Today our School Council delivered an assembly all about anti-bullying. They talked to us about the definition of bullying and what this might look like in real life. They explained the difference between bullying and falling out with our friends. … Continue reading →

We are excited to welcome all of our families back to Oxford Grove on Monday 1st September! School opens at the usual time of 8:30am.

Well done to our amazing Year 6s who performed a wonderful Leavers Assembly today! We will miss you all very much! Thank you to all the parents and carers who came to celebrate with us all. Have a look at … Continue reading →

Thank you to everyone who attended our Work Related Learning Summer Fair! We were so lucky with the beautiful weather! It is always so wonderful to see this event so well attended by all of our families. We hope you … Continue reading →

Today we have held workshops for our families and governors on how we teach Computing and Online Safety. Lyndsey from Smoothwall delivered a presentation at the start of the morning on how families keep children safe online, which was very … Continue reading →

Well done to some of our Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6 children who took part in the Bebras computational thinking challenge! It was very tough, with lots of logical thinking problems to work out, but everyone showed great … Continue reading →

Thank you to all of the families who attended our parent/carer online safety workshops today! Lyndsey worked with families to lead discussions on how to support children’s online lives, how we can manage children’s accounts and how to start conversations … Continue reading →

On Thursday 28th November, Oxford Grove will be hosting Lyndsey from Smoothwall who will be running online safety workshops for our families. She is an industry expert, having previously worked with the police on catching criminals who targeted children online. … Continue reading →

We have received a very kind ‘thank you’ letter from the Destitution Project, who received your kind Harvest gifts last week. Thank you again to all those families who donated so generously.

We all know that sometimes things can feel difficult and it can be hard to cope. At Oxford Grove, our staff are always available to support you, as well as your children. However, if you feel you would like to … Continue reading →

Thank you to all of our families who attended the online resources workshop. This was aimed at families of our younger children in school. Families learned about the wide range of information available on our website. They also learned about … Continue reading →

The winners of the D&T competition enjoyed a fun filled afternoon with the Fun Food Chef. First of all we looked at the menu that included all the delicious foods that we were going to make! We started to make … Continue reading →

Thank you to all of our families who came along to our Work Related Learning (Summer Fair) event! The children of Oxford Grove have really enjoyed working hard over the last few weeks designing and making their products to sell. … Continue reading →

This evening after school our staff enjoyed a flower arranging workshop! A big thank you to Victoria for hosting the session and showing us all what to do.

Congratulations to the two families who won laptops in our online safety workshops! 

Today we have held our parent/carer online safety workshops, hosted by Lyndsey from Smoothwall. Lyndsey is an industry expert; she used to work for the police catching criminals who targeted children online, so she has a wealth of experience in … Continue reading →

Congratulations to some of our fantastic Digital Leaders who worked as a team to create a fabulous online safety video for the Bolton Schools ICT Online Safety competition this year! We are so proud to announce that we won first … Continue reading →

We have been so lucky at Oxford Grove to enjoy a very special smiley reward this week! Our KS1 and KS2 classes enjoyed a very exciting assembly with lots of cool science investigations and mad experiments! Our classes also enjoyed … Continue reading →

A huge well done to the winners of our Music Competition! They worked very hard to create posters all about their class musicians and class composers. These exciting entries will go on display in our Music Room for all to … Continue reading →

Congratulations to the winner of our Road Safety poster competition! Her detailed poster entry was chosen for the top prize of a laptop! The poster will also be professionally made and displayed outside school to remind everybody to keep safe … Continue reading →

Congratulations to the winner of our Attendance poster competition! Her high-quality poster entry was chosen for the top prize of a laptop! The poster will also be professionally made and displayed around school.

We have really enjoyed an exciting Christmas performance today! Our Year 5 djembe drum players and brass players performed songs they have been learning over the Autumn term. Our school choir also sang beautifully for us. We enjoyed celebrating Christmas … Continue reading →

A selection of our Key Stage 2 children were selected to take part in the Bebras Computational Thinking Challenge, an international challenge organised in over 60 countries and designed to get students all over the world excited about computing. Each … Continue reading →

A big congratulations to our laptop winners! These families won the raffle for the parents/carers who attended our Online Safety workshops last week. We hope you enjoy using your brand new laptops at home!

Today we have had a full day of online safety at Oxford Grove! We have held workshops for Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6. During the workshops, we talked specifically about gaming, social media, apps and the risks of … Continue reading →

Today, our families from KS2 were invited into school to attend a Computing Workshop followed by a visit to their children in their classrooms, to watch them taking part in Computing lessons with their teachers. We had a focus on … Continue reading →

Welcome back everybody! It has been wonderful to see all of our children back in school. Here are a few dates for your diary over the next few weeks to help you get back into the school routine. Sports Afternoons – … Continue reading →

An amazing well done to Mr Martin and his boys’ choir who performed for our parents and carers outside school today! Thank you to everyone who came to watch!

Thank you to all of our families who attended our Summer Fair (Work Related Learning). The children had a fun-packed day researching, designing, producing and evaluating their products. Due to the weather, our event had to be held indoors but … Continue reading →

Well done to everybody at Oxford Grove for achieving the School Games Mark – Gold award for yet another consecutive year. An amazing effort by all children and staff! The School Games Mark is a Government led award that focuses … Continue reading →

Our classes have now started transition! Children have moved into their new classrooms with their new teachers and are starting to get to know the expectations for the next year. Our teachers are working hard to ensure that children are … Continue reading →

We have had a fantastic day celebrating the coronation at Oxford Grove! We took part in lots of coronation themed activities and were lucky enough to take home some amazing coronation commemorative items.  We also enjoyed our special coronation themed … Continue reading →

Thank you to all of our families for your kind Easter egg donations! Here is a thank you message from Urban Outreach.

A huge thank you to our amazing families who have brought in Easter eggs for us to donate to Urban Outreach food bank. Our School Council presented the eggs to Urban Outreach in assembly today. These eggs will be given … Continue reading →