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• How to keep your child safe online

  Tue 06 Feb 2024

  After half term we will be working with your child in school in keeping themselves safe online. There is a portal called 'SSS training' which we subscribe to as a school and use for some of our staff CPD. Included in our package are parental pages and for online safety there is a useful video explaining how you could talk about this with your child together with resources that will support you in applying parental controls to your devices. Please click on the link below to find out more.

   

  CLICK HERE

• Children's Mental Health Week

  Tue 06 Feb 2024

  This week is children's mental health week. We launched it in school yesterday with an assembly for KS1 and 2. Children will be completing activities during morning task and PSHE lessons to raise awareness all week. This years themes are 'Use your voice' and 'Express yourself' and on Friday 9th February there will be a non uniform day where children can 'express themselves' by wearing their own clothes. For more information about this there is a letter in the letters home section of the parents tab together with some helpful tips about how to support your children in talking about mental health. If you click on the link below it will take you to the 'Place to Be' website that also has lots of extra information that you may find useful.

  CLICK HERE

• Measles Information for Families - Healthy Sandwell

  Wed 31 Jan 2024

  As you will be aware, there has been a spike in cases of Measles in our region. 

   

  Healthy Sandwell have provided a useful 'What you should know' infographic.

   

  Catch up clinics  are available - pre-booking is required. 

   

  https://blackcountry.icb.nhs.uk/news-and-events/latest-news/half-term-mmr-pop-vaccine-clinics-set-children

   

  More advice is available from the NHS website: 

  https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/measles/

  

• Issues with Oakham's Twitter/X Account..

  Wed 31 Jan 2024

  You may have noticed that we have been quiet on our school Twitter/X account lately. Unfortunately, due to changes made to our account and our provider,  we are struggling to link our updates to our website and it is now only showing archived posts.

   

  Therefore we will be moving from Twitter/X in the near future and are looking to move to another social media provider. 

  This will enable us  to effectively keep you updated with the latest news and learning at Oakham.

   

  We will be in a position to share our plans with you after half term. 

• Merry Christmas from all at Oakham!

  Thu 21 Dec 2023

  It's been a very busy but very enjoyable end to this term.

   

  Thank you for all of your cards, gifts and donations for our Christmas events and productions.

   

  Merry Christmas from all of the children, governors and staff - Here's to an amazing 2024 at Oakham!

  

• SKIPS Safety Net Resources for Parents & Carers

  Tue 19 Dec 2023

  As we approach Christmas, many of our children will be having gifts that allow access to the internet. 

   

  SKIPS Education have produced informative and age appropriate resources to support families to start conversations and raise awareness of staying safe online. 

   

  These downloadable resources cover a wide range of topics and are very accessible and designed to  help avoid the potential risks and issues when spending time online and on social media. 

   

  https://safetynet.skipseducational.org/parent-guides/

  

• Treat yourself to an 'Elfie Selfie'

  Thu 14 Dec 2023

  Thanks to Shan & Hema from 'We Do Greetings, Dudley', we will be hosting a free and fun photo opportunity after school on Tuesday and Wednesday in the KS2 lodge. 

   

  They will be providing a colourful Christmas backdrop to enable your children to grab a Christmas picture. 

   

  It will be available on both afternoons from 3:40pm and all we ask is for families to join in the queue on the KS2 playground. It will be busy, so please be patient...

   

  We are very grateful for the kind gesture from 'We Do Greetings Dudley.' Further details are available at www.WeDoGreetings.co.uk or email: 

  Dudley@WeDoGreetings.co.uk

  

• Christmas Raffles

  Mon 11 Dec 2023

  The much looked forward to Oakham Christmas raffles tickets will be on sale tomorrow 12th December.

  There will be a parents raffle with a first prize of a fantastic Christmas drinks hamper and numerous other prizes including bottles of spirits, champagne and a beer hamper, please see the photos below. Adults raffle tickets are £1 each

  The children's hampers include soft drinks and are priced at 20p per ticket.

  The tickets will be on sale for all of the FS and KS1 performances next week and before school, break and lunchtimes.

  Thank you once again for your generosity in donating bottles, this year has been exceptional and we will be able to raise lots of money for school fund to spend on your children.

  

• GM2LF Christmas Poster Competition

  Thu 23 Nov 2023

  The GM2LF Big Local Partnership is inviting all schools in the area to take part in their Christmas Poster Design Competition 2023

  The competition is open to all school children and as usual is split into two categories children aged 3 – 6 and children aged 7 – 11. .

  The two overall winning entry designs we will be used as designs to create our own Christmas e-cards and goodies will be printed and given to the winning entries.

  In addition, the children will each win a £10 and the two overall winners will also win £50 each for their school.

  Rules

  • To design a 2D Christmas poster, on an A4 portrait sheet of paper
  • Designs can be in any format, paint, crayon, felt tip, etc  The brighter and jollier the better!
  • Each school chooses the 3 best entries for the two age categories, thus 6 in total
  • Please take a photo of the 6 best entries and email to myself at the above email address.
  • The GM2LF Big Local Partnership will organise the final judging of all entries from all schools.
  • Closing date for entries is: Friday 1st December 2023
  • Winners will be announced: Friday 8^th December 2022

• Oakham Primary & Coastal Estates International School - Live Link-Up!

  Tue 21 Nov 2023

  Today, Year 3 had the privilege of linking up with Coastal Estates School in Ghana. Children across both continents listened to a story commissioned by Black Country Touring called ‘Where Are You?’
  
  The themes of the story were loyalty, overcoming distances and the benefits of being mutually supportive of each other. This provided us with some fantastic links to our PSHE and geography curriculum.

   

  All of the children were clearly inspired by the beauty of the wonderful places that the characters within the story experienced on their journeys and hopefully, they learned that the power of friendship can overcome all obstacles.

   

  Rather excitingly, children were also able to ask questions live to our partner Ghanaian school. We learned about the climate, the school day and favourite Ghanaian delicacies.

   

  We hope to begin a longstanding relationship between both schools so please look out for further news of this in the coming months. 

   

  At the end of the production, children received a special, commemorative copy of ‘Where Are You?’ This will be theirs to keep and cherish.
  
  Thank you, to all involved, for your wonderful support and for making such a positive difference to the experiences of our Year 3 community