House Captains

2018-19

House Event - 26th October 2018

Today, a fantastic, musical-theatre inspired House Event took place. Each of the four houses entered a comedy act, a dramatic performance, a song and a dance. The standards were incredibly high and our three judges: Mrs Wilkinson; Mrs Gerry and Miss Barratt had a difficult decision to make when it came to the scores. They each awarded a score out of 10 to the acts, giving a maximum of 30 house points to each act. The Green House were unfortunately unable to enter their comedy act.

The scores were as follows:

A great big ‘well done’ to all the children who entered – they had a huge audience and we were all thoroughly entertained!

Here are some of the pictures:

Miss Weir and I are really looking forward to working with the new team; we know they are going to do a fantastic job as well as be excellent role models for Oatlands.

Guided Tours

One of our jobs as House and Vice Captains is to give guided tours around our wonderful school. We will be busy showing possible staff around our school over the next few weeks. In these tours we show the candidates our facilities like our outdoor spaces including the newly installed running track. Other things we show are our working spaces and places like our school hall, dining room and reception. We talk them through Pupil Voice Groups; other extra-curricular activities and how the school works every day.

by Jack and Jasmine

House Honours

Every week either House or Vice Captains choose one pupil each from year 3 and 5 or 4 and 6 depending on the rota.

They choose by watching for students that stand out for using either the Oatlands values or the British values and using their knowledge of which house they’re in or they just ask.

In the Friday celebration assembly, the House or Vice Captains stand up near the end of the assembly to announce which star pupils they have chosen.

We enjoy giving these awards out and the students enjoy receiving them.

By Ollie and Josh

Spring Term Cultural House Event

On the last day of Spring Term the whole school had a Cultural House event. All the classrooms had a theme, whether it be Hawaii, Japan, China, India, New Zealand or Iceland. We took part in some fun activities and enjoyed them all. E.g Hawaii was creating moving fish, India was Bollywood dancing, New Zealand was the Haka, Iceland was the mythical creatures station and so on! We all enjoyed it immensely and hope we have more like these in the future!

By Sophie and Phoebe

Our first House Event of the year – the Oatlands Junior Performance Poetry Slam has been a fantastic success with wonderful, creative performances from every year group. Each of the houses put forward an individual, a paired and a group performance which were then given feedback by our panel of judges – Mrs McNerney, Mrs Coyne, Mrs Grimer and Mrs Gerry. The teams had already gone through an audition and had been enthusiastically coached and encouraged by our hard-working house and vice captains.

We were all thoroughly entertained and impressed by the exceptionally high standards of performance. A huge thank you and well done to all the children who took part.

Results

Joint winners of individual category: Emma Trayford and Josie Robinson

Winners of paired category: Hollie Bassham and Chloe Brett

Winners of group category: Lily McIntosh , Esme McComb and Ruby Oliver

Overall Highest scoring House: Green Kingfishers Mrs Wilkinson

Our House and Vice Captains will be selling Poppies for Remembrance Day, at afternoon registration every day from Monday 30th October.