Oathall is supporting this great cause
Our school will be supporting Sport Relief on Friday 21 March 2014.
In return for a donation all OCC students can come to school for the day in their own clothes (not fancy dress).
Students in Years 7, 8 and 9 will also be taking part in a fun run round the school fields; the dress code for this year’s run is anything beginning with the letter S or R so we want to see lots of sparkly, red, riotous, striped or spotty costumes for this fantastic cause!
Our champion cricketers
Our U15 girls are Sussex Indoor Cricket Champions 2014.
28 schools from across the county entered the Lady Taverners Under 15 Indoor Cricket Tournament – the biggest field of entries to date. Oathall Community College’s team of 10 prevailed at the county final with a consistently strong showing in all three rounds of play.
They will now go forward to represent Sussex at the regional finals of the tournament on Thursday 3 April in Surrey.
Ms Laura Gyngell from the PE department said: “Our girls stamped their mark early on in the tournament beating rivals from the likes of Brighton College and Oakmeeds with ease. This is a fantastic achievement and the team should feel very proud of the result and their professional conduct.”
Here’s one of our new additions
Spring is an exciting time on the farm with lambs coming into the world round the clock. Rotas of sleep-deprived students are carrying out late night or early morning vigils – as of Monday 17 March we have welcomed 27 new lambs!
A new Sussex X Ayrshire heifer calf called Holly has joined the Oathall family and new piglets are expected very soon.
Our dancers ahead of their performance
On Friday 14 March a group from Oathall Community College took part in the West Sussex Dance Time festival.
The now annual event allows young people the opportunity to perform at professional theatres; over 1000 students from primary, secondary and special schools took part this year.
Oathall’s KS3 Contemporary Dance Club performed a moving piece at The Hawth in Crawley called ‘Safe and Sound’ which drew inspiration from a quote by Abraham Lincoln:
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
Artists at work at Oathall
A group of local gifted and talented primary students visited us on Thursday 13 March to take part in a ceramics master class.
The creative Year 4 and 5 pupils enjoyed getting their hands dirty in the name of art by making their own peacock inspired slab vessels.
Give your brain a work out at Oathall!
OPTA will be staging a fabulous fundraising quiz night on Saturday 22 March, the event starts at 8pm and will be held in the main school hall.
Tickets cost £10 per person and this includes supper and a licensed bar will be available on the night.
Book your place today via ParentPay or pay by cheque, be quick, the deadline for entries is Wednesday 19 March.
Read more about the quiz night here.
Good luck!
Our U14 football champs!
Our Year 9 boys won the Mid-Sussex District U14 7- a-side football competition on Thursday 6 March at Oakmeeds Community College in Burgess Hill.
Oathall triumphed over teams from St Pauls, Oakmeeds and Weald on their way to the final securing three clean sheets in the process:
Lambs born at Oathall Farm
Spring arrived at Oathall Farm this weekend with the exciting delivery of three newborn lambs.
First to arrive was a ram before there was double trouble this morning in the shape of twins. Two of our students, Tommy Scott and Jake Scovell, were on hand with some much needed assistance, especially with the breach birth of one of the twins.
The lambs’ arrival this weekend gives them a couple of weeks to get used to their surroundings before they are the stars of the show at our Lambing Day on Sunday, March 30. The farm will be open from 12pm-4pm and entrance is free.
Check out the photos – and lots more from the farm – on our Flickr page.
Year 7 reading team with author Nicola Davies
Forget the Man Booker Prize or the Blue Peter Book Awards, the honour every children’s author wants has been announced today at Oathall.
Our Year 7 reading team has named Ruby Redfort: Look Into My Eyes by Lauren Child from a nine-strong shortlist selected by the county’s school library service. Their choice matched those of students from across the county, who also picked the book as the winner of the West Sussex Children’s Book Award.
Meeting in progress on Friday 28 February
The inaugural meeting of Oathall’s new student parliament was held on Friday 28 February.
The initiative known as Oathall Student Voice (OSV) offers pupils the opportunity to question teaching staff and senior leaders or to make suggestions to improve day-to-day operations in several key areas via termly meetings; these include the school environment, teaching and learning, student support, health and fitness and community engagement.
