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We are pleased to announce the 2019-2020 House Championship winners.
Credit cup winners – Pioneer
Attendance Cup winners – Pioneer
House Championship winners – Pioneer
Congratulations to everyone in Pioneer for this great achievement. Assistant Head of House, Mrs Corbett accepted the cup on behalf of the students in Pioneer at the end of the term.
The final end of year House scores were
Pioneer – 138
Voyager 125
Discovery – 104
Endeavour – 104
Thank you, everyone, and keep up with the exercise over the summer
Each Monday students may wish to try out one of the activities from our new Mindfulness Monday well-being site These are designed to support well being. You may find it helpful to keep a record of what you have done and there are two record-keeping ideas in the activity journal section. if you don’t like these feel free to make your own. We would love to be able to see what you have been doing, so please do share your journals with your tutors or keep them for when we are back.
We will update the sections as we find new activities so please do share anything you have done that helped your own well being and we will post it for others to try.
Please email Mrs Kirkpatrick with your ideas, updates and photos.
Welcome to our latest Teaching & Learning Bulletin and its new format. Whilst we continue to work under the most unusual of circumstances, it is clear that our students have engaged with their learning in very creative ways. We wanted to create a space to display examples of students’ outstanding work, undertaken whilst working away from the school. To do justice to this, we have given this bulletin its own mini-website; do explore the various tabs at the top to find out about activities from all areas of the curriculum. A number of students have continued to attend the school site, and during Easter and half-term, various alternative activities were undertaken by them.
I would like to extend my thanks to all our staff for their hard work and efforts in developing resources and programmes to continue to engage their students but significantly to you, our parents for all that you do to support the learning of your children during these extraordinary times.
Edward Rodriguez
Headteacher
Students across Sussex are being encouraged to compete in the Specsavers ‘Virtual’ Sussex School Games.
Each Monday morning a new sport is launched and students can participate from their living room, garden or school. Throughout the week students can practice, train and improve before submitting their best scores for their school on Friday. At the end of each week’s challenge scores are added up for each school and ranked on the leaderboard. There are prizes and medals for everyone taking part (including adults) as well as the prestige of being crowned Champions if your school wins.
You can join in at any time and prizes are awarded each week for the most participants from any school.
So to find out more and to see where Oathall is each week on the Leaderboard head on over to Active Sussex to find out all the details.
Prior to the Easter holidays, our ‘Good Deed House Competition’ was launched, students were asked to submit a picture, report or video of a ‘good deed’. Unsurprisingly, many of our students rose to the challenge; baking cakes for elderly neighbours, gardening, supporting younger siblings, making supportive signs and raising money for the NHS to name just a few.
Our top 4 deeds as voted for by staff were:
Libby (Y7) who made a cake for her elderly self-isolating neighbour and put a box of old books and DVDs outside her house for people to take.
Lola (Y10) who has been looking after her sister whilst her Mum has been at work and even taught her to bake biscuits
Ella, Amy and Rose (Y10) who have been climbing steps in their house equivalent to the Empire State Building to raise money for the NHS and The Gunjur Project in The Gambia as visited by students in February.
Isla has been supporting her grandmother by caring and walking Rupert, her much-loved dog. Isla sends her grandmother pictures of the dog which has been of great comfort.
Special thanks go to Jacob (Y9) for his heartwarming sign in support of NHS, Lucy (Y7), Jason (Y9), Jacob and Maxwell (Y7) for their fantastic gardening, Jasmine (Y7) for waking early to prepare a surprise breakfast for her family and Frederick (Y7) for helping his dad with some heavy-duty logging work!
All entries contributed to the House points and the overall results were
1st Voyager
2nd Pioneer
3rd Discovery
4th Endeavour
Congratulations to you all and keep up the fantastic work!
Miss Gyngell
During this period of partial closure, Oathall continues to be open for provision for vulnerable pupils and children of key workers. Irrespective of any partial closure or collaboration with another school, the safeguarding of all our children remains our top priority.
At this time, our school will continue as normal in supporting our vulnerable children and if anyone has any questions regarding this they are asked to make contact with our Assistant Headteacher, Mrs E Green.
Please contact the school on office@oathall.org if you have any queries.
The exam boards are committed to providing you with grades for all your subjects, these grades will, we are told, carry exactly the same value as those awarded in other years. They are yet to finalise details about how your grades will be awarded, however, they have clearly indicated this will involve a range of different elements. It is not yet clear how these different elements will be weighted.
In essence, you will be awarded grades for the qualifications you are currently entered for based on a blend of school forecast grades, your KS2 attainment, completed coursework (where relevant) and Key Stage 4 performance data. It is not yet clear how these different elements will be weighted. They are planning to issue the final grades at the end of July with an appeals process and the option of sitting the real exams later in the year if you are unhappy with the grade given to you.
Things to consider
We will continue to remain in touch and provide further guidance as more information becomes available.
Yours faithfully
Mr E Rodriguez
Headteacher
This information was also emailed to students on 24 March.
