Home testing information and reporting links

26th March 2021J Godbolt

All in school testing of students has now been completed. Students should now continue to test themselves twice a week using the home testing kits provided. We recommend that your child carries out a test on the evening before their first day in school each week. They should complete a second test between 3 – 5 days later.

In order to allow home testing to continue throughout the Easter holidays, students will be issued with more home testing kits before the end of term. Home testing should then continue throughout the Easter holidays. Students should do a test before returning to school or college for the summer term, either the night before, or morning of, the first day back, to find and isolate any positive cases

Please remember to continue to report your test result with the NHS and to log your result using the school’s online form.  If you have not done so already you may wish to save or bookmark these links as favourites on your device in order to access them easily every time you need to report a result.  Please do not email the result to the school.

Privacy Notice 
Participation in at-home testing is voluntary. Please make sure you read this privacy notice before you begin testing.

Instructions for carrying out the test
Please read the instruction leaflet provided and watch this instructional video.

We are waiting for further information regarding home testing after the Easter holidays and we will pass this on as soon as it becomes available.

The Cube challenge – the results are in!

2nd March 2021J Godbolt

The Cube house challenge week is now over. The response from students and the community has been brilliant with 245 entries from students, friends and families. it’s clear from the entry videos that there was a lot of fun had by everyone who took part.

The PE department is thrilled to announce that Voyager house were the outright winners with 179 successful entries. Well done to everyone who took part.

Miss Calleja’s Bizcocho cake & maths challenge

2nd March 2021J Godbolt

Just before half term, all students in KS3 were invited to take part in a maths competition with a difference. The challenge involved recreating Miss Calleja’s recipe for a Spanish sponge cake, Bizcocho 1, 2, 3 using volumetric ratio.

The recipe is easy: You need 125g of yoghurt, follow with oil, sugar and flour in the volumetric ratio 1:2:3. Add three eggs and a teaspoon of baking powder. The challenge was for students to make their recipe their own by adding their own ingredients or twist to this basic recipe. Additionally, students could look at changing the recipe for a different number of people and the ratio calculations for weight, instead of volume.

The winners were Francesca and Flora in year 7, Lucy in year 8 and Grace in year 9. Prizes were also awarded for best presentation and ‘most out there’ decoration.

Congratulations to the winners!

Oathall PE – The Cube challenge

10th February 2021J Godbolt

Starting on Monday 22 February, Oathall students and their families, as well as Oathall staff, are invited to participate in the Oathall PE department’s, ‘The Cube challenge’.

Each day, there will be a new challenge to complete. All the details including instructions and embedded links to videos can be found here. Participants will need to complete this short entry form and upload video evidence to demonstrate that they successfully completed the challenge. Anyone who is successful will be awarded points for their house. The house with the most points at the end of the week will be declared the winner. Good luck to everyone who takes part!

The Oathall PE team reserve to right to decide whether a participant has been successful in completing the challenge.

Students’ artistic talents on show in lockdown

1st February 2021J Godbolt

Students may not have access to the full range of school art resources at present but that hasn’t stopped them from getting creative at home.

In their remote lessons, students in key stage 3 and key stage 4 have been working on a number of topics and creating a range of pieces using photography, video, painting, drawing and collage.

Year 9 students have been tasked with creating a digital drawing using the Banksy artwork ‘Girl with a red balloon’ as inspiration, whilst students in year 7 were asked to observe and record the views from their windows in a media of their choosing.

This presentation gives you a flavour of some of the amazing work that has been created.

Getting creative in the great outdoors

15th January 2021J Godbolt

Students at Oathall have recently benefited from a generous donation from the Fairfax “Building Young Futures” education support programme. The programme has helped to fund a new outdoor learning hub on Oathall’s farm where students will be taught to develop skills using the Forest Schools ethos of learning. The new hub and resources will be used by students across all year groups helping them to develop confidence and self-esteem through hands-on activities and experiences gained in an outdoor setting.

An activity week is also being planned for summer 2021 where young people will be able to enjoy a week of fun and challenging activities, all provided by Fairfax.

Mr Blackholly, Head of Farm, said,

“I would like to thank the ‘Building Young Futures’ initiative for their generous support of Oathall students. We are especially grateful to Mr Peter Chisholm MBE for his help and support for this project. We are looking forward to inviting him and Fairfax representatives back to Oathall to see how their support has helped to transform young lives”.