We hope you enjoy our Oaklands Christmas Winter Walk video montage. We’ve collected photos and videos during this term’s performing arts session showing some of the elements of the session, exploring, dance, music and drama. The first section sets the scene of the story and then we tell the story of our journey. Look out for your ‘young person’ and the wonderful ways our young people communicate Christmas wishes at the end.
We are absolutely delighted to let you know that a group of pupils at Oaklands have won the award for ‘Most Impactful Film’ as part of the Edinburgh and Lothians Schools Film Competition.
The Oaklands film, Who We Are, made as part of our Our Edinburgh programme last year was enrolled into this year’s Edinburgh and Lothians Schools Film Competition, which runs as part of the Edinburgh International Festival.
The film was made by Beech and Spruce Classes and their staff teams and explored life in Edinburgh for young people at Oaklands.
You can watch the short film by following the link below.
We were so sad to say goodbye to our wonderful Music Meg yesterday as she moves on to her next adventure, closer to home, in Devon.
Meg’s influence and talent has impacted on all our lives over the last three years and we will miss her so much.
From our first ever Oaklands School choir and their performances at the Queen’s Hall, to wonderful projects on The Lion King with Disney and the world’s most insanely catchy tunes, which are heard ringing out from every classroom at Oaklands!
Meg, THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING!
In true Meg style, she’s left us with a song, which we thought you might enjoy.
We are looking forward to welcoming our pupils back to school!
Wednesday: Secondary pupils only – NO PRIMARY PUPILS
Thursday: Primary pupils only – NO SECONDARY PUPILS
Friday onward – ALL PUPILS BACK
To help your child understand that they are going back to school, and to help prepare them, please let them see you packing their school bag, and laying out their school uniform.
If your child understands and uses objects to communicate, give them their school jumper and school bag to touch and see.
If your child understands photos – show them the photo of school.
If your child understands symbols – show them the symbol for school.
If it is hard for you to show your child the photo/symbol on your phone/tablet, then please call and leave a message for Speech and Language Therapy on 0131 315 8106 – we can send out a paper one.
The SignAlong sign for school is…
(flat hand – fingers and thumb together – in front of chin – make a wee circle)
It’s a really important skill to learn to confidently ask for help when you need it… but first the children will needs lots of practise to become familiar with the sign and symbol for “help”.
Please look out for the “help” postcards coming home tomorrow and watch our video to learn how to sign “help” with your child at home…
Hello all our lovely Team Oaklands families and friends!
You will now find our brand, spanking, new page ‘Oaklands Home Learning’ on our website. This will give you lots of ideas of fun activities you can take part in while we’re out of school.
There’s even the Circle Time powerpoint with songs, so there’s no excuse to stop the signing and singing!
Best wishes to you all and please don’t hesitate to get in touch should you need to.