All arrived, settled in and ready for some fun and games.
- Ready for action…
- Chase the flag activity
86 Students and 14 adult volunteers have just completed a weekend of hiking & camping on the South Downs and Ashdown Forest in preparation for the Duke Of Edinburgh Bronze Award Expedition taking place later this year. Apart from a small amount of rain, the weather held out, and aside from being a bit footsore and tired everyone survived the experience !
Well done to all of the Year 9 students that volunteered at the Parallel Youth Games at the Triangle in Burgess Hill. The games are a disability event for all schools in Sussex and children take part in a range of activities from New Age Kurling to Cricket. Oathall’s Year 9 students officiated in the Boccia and played their part in making the event both enjoyable and successful.
Year 8 student Luc Rohan took part as a competitor in the Mid-Sussex swimming team. Our congratulations go to Luc who achieved two 1st places and one 2nd place in his events, leading to a gold medal for the Mid Sussex Team. Luc will now start training for the athletics at the Sussex School Games finals at K2 on Wednesday 10th July. (more…)
On Wednesday 26 May, the U15 Rounders team won the West Sussex PE Girls Association area tournament.
The girls played exceptionally well throughout, beating Weald 10-2, Downlands 5-5½, Hazelwick 10-3 and Warden Park 5-1. We drew against Millais 5-5 but luckily still got into the final. We were up against Burgess Hill School for Girls.
It was a great game, the girls held their own and won 4-1 ½ getting 8 of the opposition players out! Congratulations to all who played, an amazing victory!
Josie Batchelor, Chelsea Henderson, Sophie Hicks, Ella Bates, Imy Dilling, Izzy May, Millie Stokeley, Lauren Bonwick-Adams, Ava Frohmader, Lauren O’Hara, Alex Markham and Jenny Lee.
Little Isaac Skey makes some new friends on the farm!
We host an annual public open day on the farm, this year it was held on Sunday 19 May 2013.
Lots of visitors came down to tour the facilities, meet the animals and take part in a variety of craft and child-friendly activities.
We had bee keeping displays, sheep shearing and wool spinning demonstrations plus a BBQ and a jazz band.
The sun shone and a great day was had by all!
With the current Year 11 students studying hard for their GCSE exams it’s time to put in place our brand new year 10 student leadership team. The process, led by Ms Gyngell involved a whole school vote, submission of CV’s and letters of applications as well as being interviewed by a panel of teaching staff and the year 11 senior prefects before being awarded the posts.
We are consequently delighted to introduce the new Head Boy and Head Girl, Nile Jones & Shannon King along with their deputies James Habineza & Keris Self. Becoming a senior student leader is a great achievement and the entire prefect team goes through a training course before being allowed to start their duties. We have every confidence that this group of mature and confident individuals will do a great job in the coming year. Good Luck!
Deputy Head Boy, James Habineza & Deputy Head Girl, Keris Self with Head Girl, Shannon King and Head Boy, Nile Jones,
Sam Wagland, Imogen Emmerson, Ollie Wells, Sophie Hinde, Laurence Jones, Ryan Pelham, Remi Cruttenden, Laura Revill, Bella Nixon, Sam Ayres, Isobel Muncer, Jasmine Tyzack, Celia Hill and Gemma Aldridge. Front row: Ali Langer, Stefan Kohil, Toby Smith, Sam Griffiths, Faye Leslie and Nathan Hardingham.
The whole prefect team.
In a dangerous world, everyone needs protection…
The English Department is delighted to announce that award-winning author Chris Bradford will be visiting Oathall on Thursday 16 May to work with a group of gifted and talented students in year 7 and year 8.
The event will combine a live performance by Chris based on a character from his latest book followed by a question and answer session. This enrichment activity is aimed at encouraging and developing writing skills as well as broadening the students’ reading repertoire.
Chris Bradford is the author of the Young Samuri and BODYGUARD series and his book Young Samurai: The Way of the Warrior has been deemed one of Puffin’s Best Ever 70 Books, alongside Treasure Island and Robin Hood.
In spring 2012 some students from Oathall worked with BBC TV presenter Stefan Gates to collect and analyse data to explore food production and land use by comparing the amount of land needed to produce snail protein compared to lamb protein… (more…)
Successful winners of Bronze and Silver D of E Awards and their families joined together on Wednesday evening to celebrate their achievements at the annual Award Presentation Evening . Students were congratulated on their achievements and presented with their award by Mrs Elizabeth Bennet DL, Chairman of West Sussex County Committee Duke of Edinburgh’s Award. Over 50 students successfully completed their Bronze award with a further 19 students completing their Silver Award and returning to Oathall to collect their certificates.
Bronze & Silver Award Winners
Oathall’s centre, coordinated by Mr Trevor Dore and his dedicated team of adult volunteers, proudly boasts a conversion rate higher than both the county and the national average for students completing this award.
First steps…
The lambing started at the beginning of March and we’re now surrounded by 54 noisy babies. We have just two more to come and then we’re done.
The main problem for us at the moment is the weather – by now we would hope to have at least half of them out in the field but the weather has made this very difficult.
We’ve also had two more litters of piglets – both sired by a Large Black boar.
As you can see this gives us some lovely black piglets from the Large Black sow and very pretty spotty ones from the Large White sow.
