Duke of Edinburgh awards ceremony

28th April 2014J Godbolt
Mr Dore with successful Bronze and Silver Duke of Edinburgh Award achievers.

Mr Dore with successful Bronze and Silver Duke of Edinburgh Award achievers.

Current and former Oathall students and their families were present at the annual Duke of Edinburgh awards ceremony at Oathall last week. The evening celebrated the achievements of some 80 young people who had gained their Award at Bronze or Silver level.

Kate Hall, North Sussex Duke of Edinburgh Coordinator spoke about the award and presented the successful students with their certificates. Also speaking on the night were former Oathall students, Holly Maunders and Shannon Mactaggart, both of whom went on to achieve their Gold Award after leaving Oathall. They spoke about the experience and encouraged the students present to attempt the Gold. (more…)

Camping World equipment evening

3rd February 2014J Godbolt

Camping World is hosting a dedicated Duke of Edinburgh’s Award evening on Tuesday 1st April from 6pm-8pm in the dining Hall at Oathall.
The purpose of the evening will be to inform and advise parents about necessary equipment with the chance to try out and order a range of official recommended kit on the night. A team of outdoor experts will be on hand to offer guidance on the pros and cons of the different types and brands of equipment. Items can be ordered during the evening and they will be delivered to Oathall where the Award’s leaders will hand them out to the students. Parents will be able to take advantage of a special promotional discount on the night.

All DofE award participants and their families are welcome.

Emily and the Elephants of Kanchanburi

23rd December 2013J Godbolt
Emily at Elephant World

Emily at Elephant World

If you’re completing your Bronze or Silver award at Oathall you might be interested to see how ex-Oathall student, Emily Pippard got on with completing her volunteering section for her Gold award. Emily kindly sent us this account of her time spent volunteering at Elephants World, Kanchanburi, Thailand.

In August, this year I travelled to Thailand for a month, during my trip I planned a day-trip to Elephants World. (more…)

A Christmas Carol

14th December 2013J Godbolt
Scrooge wakes up to a bright new day!

Scrooge wakes up to a bright new day!

If you missed the performance of A Christmas Carol last week or just want a reminder of this marvelous show you can see a selection of pictures taken on our Flickr pages or by clicking on this picture below.

Many thanks to everyone who bought raffle tickets, refreshments or entered the chocolate tombola.

We raised a fantastic sum of £2000!

 

Oathall Farm Shop shines at Bright Awards

20th November 2013J Godbolt
Students and staff show off their 2013 Bright Award for Best New Business.

Students and staff show off their 2013 Bright Award for Best New Business.

Earlier this year our farm shop was nominated for Best New Business in the 2013 Bright FM Awards. Students and staff at Oathall Community College were thrilled to have even have been nominated but on Thursday 14 November we scooped the award! The award was presented to Mr Wood, Head of Farm and Mrs Woodward, Farm Shop Supervisor at the ceremony at the East Sussex National Golf Resort in Uckfield.

(more…)

OPTA AGM

13th November 2013J Godbolt

opta-colourThe next meeting of OPTA will be held on Thursday 21st November 2013 in the LRC (main building next to the Library) from 7pm-8.30pm.  This meeting is the annual general meeting and is open to all parents; if you would like to help, comment or contribute in any way, but cannot attend, please send an email to [email protected].

Verity Brown, our current Chair of OPTA will be stepping down at this meeting so if you are interested in becoming Chair please come to the meeting or send an email expressing your interest. These FAQ’s might help you to decide that you’d like to become the Chair.

OPTA AGM Agenda

Ofsted Rate Oathall as ‘Good’

11th November 2013J Godbolt

ofsted logoFollowing a two day Ofsted inspection in October, Oathall has been rated as ‘Good’ in every area.

Inspectors observed 52 lessons, met with students, teachers, senior leaders, the governing body and representatives from the local authority.

The final report published on Friday 8 November praised teaching standards, pupil behaviour and the school’s leadership and management.

(more…)

Cantabria Gallery

11th July 2013J Godbolt

Well, we all made it home safely after our fun-filled, musical, Spanish experience! Sorry that we weren’t able to post much whilst we were away but here are a few photographic memories of our trip. Thanks to Emma, Gemma, Miss Driscoll and Mrs Godbolt for their photographs.

UPDATE! See more photos in our Flickr gallery here

Isla – Day One.

8th July 2013J Godbolt

We had an action packed day on Sunday which took in, rehearsals  for the musicians and Spanish lessons for the rest of us (we found out how to say ‘do you have any sellotape?’) followed by a trip to the prehistoric caves at Altamira, and the the rest  of the day spent in Santillana del Mar which ended with our first live performance. The setting was beautiful, the acoustics marvelous and our students were a knock-out with the large audience that gathered to watch us.  Later on today we hope to get time to master the rather slow upload speeds (might be something to do with 40 odd teenagers all trying to go through one wireless access point?) and post some photos.