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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 →

This morning Mrs Bain held a whole school assembly all about water safety. As we break up for summer, lots of us are going to be going on holiday and exploring, which could lead us to being near water. It … 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 our amazing Sports Crew led a whole school assembly! They talked about why PE is important, the great after-school clubs we’ve had and the ones coming up, our PE award for all our hard work, and fun activities we … Continue reading →

On Monday, the whole school enjoyed a pantomime as their smiley reward! They had a brilliant time watching a performance of Jack and the Beanstalk. The show even had some songs to help the children to learn their times tables. … Continue reading →

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 →

On Friday afternoon 3 Grove and 6 Grove enjoyed their reward for amazing punctuality for last term. Well done!

A huge well done to the competition winners for this week 🙂 

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 →

Over the last few weeks, we have been collecting food at school for our harvest festival. The harvest festival celebrates the gathering of crops after they have germinated over the summer period. It is tradition at Oxford Grove that we … Continue reading →

Today we had our Year 6 SATS parents’ meeting. Miss Jarvis and Miss King explained to parents how the SATS work, what is tested and how Oxford Grove will help children get ready for them. We discussed the SATS timetable … 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.

Over the past two days, year 6 have been on their end of year trip to the Anderson Centre where they took part in lots of outdoor activities. On day one, we started with archery and tree climbing. Many of … Continue reading →

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 →

This morning, we had an excellent performance from our wonderful boys choir. Mr Martin led us in a warm up and then we were blown away by the incredible performances. Well done to all the boys involved and a big … Continue reading →

Today we received our final total for our Oxford Grove Spellathon. We raised an amazing £515 for The Book Trust. Thank you to everyone who took part and donated to help us raise this fantastic amount! 

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 →

This morning, we have launched our fundraiser for this term, a spellathon! We are raising money for The Book Trust UK. Today, your child brought home a sponsorship form, a list of their new target words to learn and a … Continue reading →

It is National Numeracy Day! At Oxford Grove we LOVE maths and are really pleased to be celebrating National Numeracy Day! We have entered the number heroes competition where we had to draw ourselves in our chosen career and explain … Continue reading →

In our Whole school assembly today, we looked at VE Day and why this is an important celebration within History. This week marks the 80th Anniversary of VE Day and 80 years of peace since the end of WWII. We … Continue reading →

Over the Easter break, pupils across the school took part in the ‘Bring a Book to Life’ Competition . They were asked to create a project to showcase their favourite book. We had fantastic posters, poems, shoe boxes and videos … 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 →

Thank you to everyone for all your fantastic projects for the History Competition! We were blown away by all the fantastic entries. What a great way to show off equality throughout History!

A huge, huge thank you to all our parents who came to support us this morning on our Maths Parent Workshop morning. We hope you had a wonderful time learning Maths with your child. Thank you to all our amazing … Continue reading →

December is a very exciting month for many people around the World who follow Christianity. Advent starts on the Sunday nearest to 30 November (which is 4 weeks before Christmas). For Christians in the UK and all over the world, … 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 →

Wow! What a fantastic performance from the children at Smithills School this morning! Year 3A, 4B and 6TJ were very lucky to go and see Smithills School’s performance of Beauty and the Beast. We really enjoyed seeing all of the … 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 →

This morning, parents were invited into school for our Art morning.  Miss Bimson spoke to parents in the hall to explain how art is taught at Oxford Grove and then parents could then visit their child in class, to observe … Continue reading →

Today we have had a very special visitor at our school. Bart came to share his story with us and help us to understand what life might be like for people who live with a disability. At a very young … Continue reading →