We would like to welcome you on Thursday 26th March to our next Parent Partnership Meeting from 5pm to 6pm in the Library. The theme for this meeting is Supporting your child with maths and why maths matters.
We would be delighted if you could join us, but if you are unable to attend and would like to know more about how to help your child with their revision, please email Ms L Somers, Head of Performance Faculty
Excitement is building for the always-popular Gym & Dance Show event, which is on Wednesday 25 March at 6pm in the Main Hall at the school. The theme this year is Through The Decades and it will feature students from all year groups, including our BTEC dancers.
This is a non-ticketed show but it would be helpful if you would complete this form to let us know how many seats you would like.
Donations from the audience are welcome with all funds going to the school’s productions.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Next week is the inaugural House Token Week. From 16-20th March students will be awarded tokens for displaying confidence in and around school.
Students that receive tokens should deposit them in the new House Token collection point at Piccadilly Circus.
Acts of confidence – displayed inside and outside of lessons – might include, but are not limited to; asking for help, joining clubs, stand up for themselves and trying new things.
Staff also may award a gold star for outstanding displays of confidence, which are worth an additional 10 house points!
Confident learners and confident people. This is what we strive to achieve here at Oathall. This term we have explored, amongst other things, how students can be an upstander and how to improve their self-esteem.
A group of our Y10 girls were invited to Burgess Hill Girls’ Tomorrow’s Women Conference this week, to celebrate International Women’s Day. They heard from a range of inspirational female speakers, including Amanda Collier, the former Detective Chief Inspector with the Met and star of The Traitors.
It was a fantastic, thought-provoking event and our students represented Oathall brilliantly. Thank you to Burgess Hill Girls for inviting us.
World Book Day week concluded on Friday lunchtime last week with The Book Quiz. Curated by the student librarians – special shout out to Molly – the quiz challenged participating teams to guess the book from brief extracts, book covers from blurred images and book titles from antonyms.
Thanks to everyone that took part in this, and the other events last week, and congratulations to Bea, Emily and Annie the quiz winners!
The quiz provided a fitting end to an extremely busy week celebrating the joy of reading in the school.
Celebrated every year on 14 March – our American cousins notate this as 3/14, which hopefully goes someway to explaining why it’s celebrated then – Pi Day is just round the corner, and plans are afoot in the maths department to celebrate its arrival.
There are two strands to this.
First, there’s the Pi Recital event. Students are invited to M1 at lunchtime on Friday 13 March where they can write down as many digits of Pi, in sequential order, as they can remember. Legend has it the school record is over 100 characters which itself is mind boggling. Whisper it, there may be prizes. They could include Galaxy Counters, but this is subject to change!
In addition there’s the house competition, where students are challenged to represent Pi in a “creative way”. The deadline for submissions for this is tutor time on the aforementioned Friday. They should let their imagination fly.
We encourage all students to take part in these initiatives in recognition of this mysterious and magical number.
Oathall students celebrated World Book Day, and the National Year of Reading, at lunchtime events all week in the library.
On World Book Day itself, a number of students volunteered to participate in an inspiring Open Mic session in front of a sizeable audience.
We heard from students about the books and authors they love, some read extracts, others shared poems they’d composed themselves.
We collected together a few excerpts of some of the students that took part in the compilation video below – which you can also watch on our recently launched YouTube channel.
We are looking to relaunch Friends of Oathall, the school’s Parent Teacher Association (PTA).
The school PTA plays a vital role in helping to build a strong school community. It brings parents and carers together with staff to support the school, create opportunities for families to connect, and raise funds that directly benefit our students.
We are looking for:
Roles include Chair, Treasurer, Secretary and committee members, but many parents can also support events without taking on a formal role. Even a small amount of time can make a big difference.
Let’s build something great for our school community together!
If you would like to get involved or find out more, please contact: [email protected]
This is just a small selection of the fantastic work recently completed by Y10 Art GCSE students that’s just gone on display on the main corridor in the school.
They were created using acrylics as part of the Animals and People scheme of work. Students looked at Impressionism as a starting point and used bold brush strokes and contrasting colours for maximum impact.
It’s an impressive collection of work and the students involved should be really pleased with the results.
Five Year 7 students represented Oathall Racial Empowerment Club at the second of three Student Action Cooperative Spring Network meetings lead by West Sussex County Council. The focus of this terms meeting was Stories of Sanctuary – Understanding displacement through student voice.
The group are now deciding how to disseminate this information across the school.
The Racial Empowerment Club meet every Wednesday lunchtime in H4. Students in all year groups are welcome to attend.
