ISSUE 6

Welcome parents to our weekly newsletter, thank you to those parents who answered our remote learning questionnaire, the results were extremely positive especially with regards to the support that our teachers give through this difficult time. What is also interesting is the fact that your children like to learn at their own pace.

As we prepare to open our school to Year 10 students and continue to expand our remote learning offer it is important to continue to celebrate our students and their absolute resilience.

As a final light-heartened quiz can you guess what event I captured (badly) last week?

Great work

I hope you all enjoyed your half term, what a glorious week it was and I am sure you all made the most of it.

The creativity has been superb with lots of DIY projects going on with amazing results!

Charlie Hewitt has been busy again this time constructing a very solid looking bird table using power tools, hope you had a safety check there Charlie.

Lydia court also managed to find a Stag beetle (they are rare these days) how did you catch it?

Jenny Kemp has been active exploring the woods, decorating cakes and my favourite, paying tribute to our VE heroes, beautiful drawings Jenny!

This week “Shout Out” winner goes to Braydon Stocks who made a garden table from wooden pallets and a mosaic top! I love this idea and it seems quite easy to make (let me know how you do it!) In addition, Braydon decided to brighten up the garden with a flower patch. So much creativity has gone into this Braydon, I hope you, and your family are making the most of it.

I think this little quote shows us how simple life can be for all ages. Being silly allows you to remain joyful and happy with yourself and life. Being honest means that people will trust you and being kind creates peaceful and happy relationships.

Please keep sending your photos my way and keep safe

Helen.sydenham@oasissholing.org

Miss Sydenham

Home Learning Tip

“Learning is the relatively permanent change in a person’s knowledge or behaviour due to experience”

The diagram below shows that learning takes place (and becomes permanent), when knowledge that a student has received is transferred to a student’s long-term memory.

In lessons (either in the classroom or those set remotely), students will be asked to practice using the knowledge that they have received. This practice will take different forms, from answering simple “what is…” questions, to filling in the gaps in sentences or explaining why facts are true.

Students will often find these parts of the lessons harder as they require deeper thinking, but it is vital that students do practice using the new knowledge so that it is transferred to long term memory and connected with previous learning using mental models. If new learning is not practised then it is forgotten very quickly (perhaps even before the end of the lesson), and this will result in students struggling to make sense of future learning.

Mr Wilkinson

Year 10 Live Lessons

It has been a very busy week for year 10, with the move to online ‘virtual’ lessons, senior team interviews, as well as a continuation of our usual online learning. Wednesday saw our first live lessons delivered by MS Teams, with over half the year group logging in at the correct time for their English class. These lessons will continue over the coming weeks, as a means of giving students that contact with staff which they have sorely missed through the lockdown, and we are currently working on a timetable for continuing with these once students start to return to school. Students will receive an invite to their lessons via email (which will have a link sending them to MS Teams), with lessons taking place on the following days:

Senior Student Team

Mr Dale and Mr Brown have interviewed 35 Year 10 students, who have applied for positions on next year’s senior student team. Each and every single one of them should be incredibly proud of how they have conducted themselves at these interviews, with students showing incredible confidence, insight and perception, and I have been incredibly proud to see how well they have all done. All students showed a great awareness of the problems that are likely to be facing students once we return to school, and an incredible determination to help be part of the solution. It was very inspiring to see young people talk with such eloquence and compassion. A huge well done to all of those involved.

Mon Tues Weds Thurs Fri

Session 1 (9:00-11:00)

10T1 (EDC) 10T2 (KCH) 10T3 (BNO

10T1 (TMC) 10T2 (THO) 10T3 (MMI)

10T1 (BCL) 10T2 (AGR) 10T3 (CWA)

10A1 (HJE) 10C1 (CDA)

10C2 (KRO) 10C1 (SRE)

Session 2 (11:00-1:00)

10S1 (AAD) 10S2 (JPA) 10S3 (BNO) 10S4 (HEV/KCH)

10S1 (RNE) 10S2 (MMI) 10S3 (EMI) 10S4 TMC)

10S1 (PLE) 10S2 (AGR) 10S3 (ZCU/JLI) 10S4 (BCL)

10B1 (GPA) 10B2 (CDA) 10C2(HJE)

10D1 (NWI) 10A1 (VJO) 10B1 (SRE) 10D2 (KRO)

1:00-2:00 Tutor time

Cultural Capital

It’s not every day that a spaceship blasts astronauts into space, but that is what happened on Saturday with the launch of SpaceX’s Dragon rocket, piloted by Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken. This marks the first time that a private company (rather than one run by the government) has sent astronauts into space, and could be the start of further exploration and discovery of the great unknown. Perhaps in 70 years, your grandchildren will be taking holidays to the Moon or even Mars! Follow the link to watch the footage of the Dragon space craft’s lift off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI3fiNkgTOU

Assembly

Over the next few weeks, Mr Woodman is going to be doing a series of virtual assemblies looking at the different 9 habits. Please follow the link to see this weeks assembly on being humble.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1570316166482803

Mr Dale

Sumdog Competition

This week our Year 7 and 8s have started to gear up for the National Oasis Sumdog Contest. As of Friday 5th June, they will be competing as a tutor group against 55 other Oasis Academies.

If you haven’t got involved yet, do so now out www.sumdog.com/oasis, all you need is the school code which is oasissholing2 and your MathsWatch login details.

We have been very impressed with how seriously some of our students have taken their training for this event and would like to celebrate the top 5 from each year group.

Top 5 Year 7 Students Millie Bennett – 1277 questions Summer Bailey – 1021 questions Kiaran Shotter – 998 questions Max Watts – 901 questions Kaleb Barnes – 570 questions

Top 5 Year 8 students Connor Baulcomb – 1498 questions Irenya Perry – 1036 questions Luke Baki – 544 questions Daniel Froud – 458 questions Charlotte Sippitt – 340 questions

Good luck Y7 and 8 and may the best tutor group win!

For Fun

Mrs DCosta’s Maths teaser:

Name the country from the outline

Last week’s answers:

The answer was 36 The third tank after the tap would fill first

Student Engagement Draw Prize Winners

Every week we will pick two students from each year group who have engaged well with their home learning to win a £10 Amazon Voucher. Congratulations to this weeks winners, who are:

Year 7: Filip Jurek, Kiera Williamson Year 8: Salih Azimi, Molly Symonds Year 9: Ryan McNulty, Piper Pallot Year 10: Daniel Cornes, Ruby Baker

Voucher codes will be sent to students’ school email addresses in the next few days.

Contact Details

Do we have the correct contact details for you? It is vital that we have correct, up-to-date contact details for all parents and carers. Please contact 023 8044 8861 Email: info@oasissholing.org if you have recently changed your telephone number, address or email.

Thank you