Latest news & updates about college life
We’re flying the flag for Europe at Oathall this week
This week we’re marking European Languages Week at Oathall.
Our Year 7s have recorded a song in either French, German or Spanish and they will be voting for their favourite in our very own Eurovision Song Contest later this week.
Our European adventure will finish with fish and chips!
Did you know our catering service has changed? It is now provided by our own, very experienced in-house team.
Catering Manager Mrs Denyer and her staff are committed to delivering the highest standards and to sourcing fresh, local ingredients.
Menus are rotated every three weeks and theme days are set to be a regular feature.
To mark the launch of this new service the catering team has linked up with Oathall’s busy Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) department in a bid to take students on a culinary adventure this week!
On Monday 20 January we will be dining Español with vegetarian paella and Spanish chicken pie, on Tuesday ‘sehr gut’ frankfurters and German sauerkraut will be served up, on Wednesday we’ll be going Italian with authentic beef bolognese or vegetable lasagne, mamma mia.
On Thursday quiche and ratatouille followed by tarte au citron will be served with a French flourish and on Friday we’ll be celebrating the best of British with traditional fish and chips or a ruby murray (veggie curry)… Bon appetit!
Year 9s putting an employer through his paces
Our Year 9 students recently made a date with experts representing more than twenty different employment sectors from around West Sussex including media, hospitality, the sciences, construction, professional services.
The students gathered in the sports hall and discussed roles, responsibilities, qualifications and routes of entry for various sectors in small groups. (more…)
Happy new year to you from all at OCC!
The governors, staff and students of Oathall Community College would like to wish friends of our school a very happy and healthy new year.
2013 was a fantastic year for us, there were so many highlights, here are just a few…
Emily at Elephant World
If you’re completing your Bronze or Silver award at Oathall you might be interested to see how ex-Oathall student, Emily Pippard got on with completing her volunteering section for her Gold award. Emily kindly sent us this account of her time spent volunteering at Elephants World, Kanchanburi, Thailand.
In August, this year I travelled to Thailand for a month, during my trip I planned a day-trip to Elephants World. (more…)
Scrooge wakes up to a bright new day!
If you missed the performance of A Christmas Carol last week or just want a reminder of this marvelous show you can see a selection of pictures taken on our Flickr pages or by clicking on this picture below.
Many thanks to everyone who bought raffle tickets, refreshments or entered the chocolate tombola.
We raised a fantastic sum of £2000!
Magenta preparing for some Carols in the Barn!
Oathall Community College has held its annual Carols in the Barn event on Thursday 12 December.
In the days running up to it farm staff and student volunteers decorated the barn with lights and other festive trimmings while a large Christmas tree generously donated by Balcombe Estates provided a spectacular centrepiece.
Past and present students, parents, staff and members of the local community packed into the barn for a cold but magical start to Christmas. Under the watchful eye of the animals a selection of traditional and religious readings were given and music students raised the roof with renditions of lots of festive favourites.
Students and staff show off their 2013 Bright Award for Best New Business.
Earlier this year our farm shop was nominated for Best New Business in the 2013 Bright FM Awards. Students and staff at Oathall Community College were thrilled to have even have been nominated but on Thursday 14 November we scooped the award! The award was presented to Mr Wood, Head of Farm and Mrs Woodward, Farm Shop Supervisor at the ceremony at the East Sussex National Golf Resort in Uckfield.
