Parallel Youth Games

17th June 2013Oathall

Parallel Games Students

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…)

Oathall Rusty 10 Ayrshire Champion and Reserve Dairy Champion

4th June 2013
Oathall students at the Heathfield Show with Rusty 10!

Oathall students at the Heathfield Show with Rusty 10!

Oathall students were thrilled when their four-year-old  Ayrshire dairy cow Oathall Rusty 10 was judged to be Ayrshire champion and reserve dairy champion at the recent Heathfield show, for the second year in succession. Rusty won three trophies including:

  • The Dinah Bridge Perpetual Challenge Trophy for the champion Ayrshire
  • The Blockfield Perpetual Challenge Cup for the best recorded heifer or cow
  • The Agrifactors Perpetual Challenge Trophy for the Reserve Dairy Champion.
  • Oathall students also showed the best Ayrshire dairy calf for Mr and Mrs Dr Heasman, winning the Ayrshire cattle club Perpetual Tankard.

They are now looking forward to the South of England show when they will be displaying their cattle and pigs together with a show garden. 

U15 Rounders Champions

24th May 2013Oathall

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!

Oathall Girls U15 rounders team

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.

 

 

Farm Open Day a Success

22nd May 2013Oathall
Little Isaac Skey makes some new friends on the farm!

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!

Meet the new senior student leadership team!

17th May 2013Oathall

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!

Headboy-Headgirl-Deputies

Deputy Head Boy, James Habineza & Deputy Head Girl, Keris Self with Head Girl, Shannon King and Head Boy, Nile Jones,

Senior Prefects

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.

New Student Leadership team

The whole prefect team.

Award winning author to visit Oathall

10th May 2013Oathall

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.

 

Pride in a visit

23rd April 2013J Godbolt

Former Oathall student Camella Main returned to Oathall this month to talk to year 8 students about her recent voluntary work overseas.

She returned to Oathall to share her experiences of working as a volunteer in hospitals, orphanages and schools in northern Tanzania. Camella spoke warmly of the way that her time at Oathall had developed her skills and confidence and she went on to encourage the year 8 audience to strive and achieve and to take up every opportunity available to them.

 

Y8 Assembly - Africa volunteering

Camella with current Oathall students