Extra-curricular activities

2nd August 2019Oathall

Extra-curricular activities timetable w/c 7 October 2019

We offer a range of extra-curricular activities and opportunities encompassing a wide variety of interests. We encourage students to join at least one club during their time at Oathall. For most activities, unless specified, students can join at any point throughout the year.

We try to make sure the information in this section is current. Some clubs especially PE clubs change during the year. If you can’t find details of an activity here please check the weekly Student Bulletin for the most up-to-date information.

 

 

Want to hear about our latest meat sales?

2nd October 2018J Godbolt

We regularly send out emails with information about the latest sales of meat and other farm produce. If you would like to sign up to receive our emails with details of the latest meat sales then

Click here to be taken to the sign-up page

Too busy to sign up? Just call us at the farm and someone will be happy to let you know when the next sale of meat will be taking place. It gets very busy down on the farm so the best days to call us are Tuesdays and Fridays between 8 am and 4 pm. Our direct line is 01444 883211 or you can email us on farmshop@oathall.org

School Meals at Oathall

30th August 2018Oathall

School meals at Oathall are prepared and served by our own in-house catering team.

Catering Manager Mrs Denyer and her staff are committed to delivering the highest standards using fresh, good quality ingredients. The food and drink that we offer comply with the school food plan standards.

Menus are rotated every three weeks with themed days being a regular feature.  They are varied, nutritionally balanced and cater for all dietary needs. We offer gluten-free menus but ask that your child pre-orders this each day with the canteen team. We operate a nut-free policy but we are not always able to guarantee that nuts are not brought into the school by other children.

If you have any dietary requirements for your child please speak to Mrs Denyer or email her on sdenyer@oathall.org we will do our best to accommodate any requests. 

School meal food offer and menus

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Duke of Edinburgh Award Centre

30th August 2018Oathall

Oathall Community College can proudly boast one of the biggest and most successful units in West Sussex with over 100 students involved in the award at any one time.

The concept of the Duke of Edinburgh award is simple – anyone aged between 14 and 24 can do a programme at one of the three progressive levels which, when successfully completed, lead to a Bronze, Silver or Gold award. Oathall offers the award at Bronze level (Year 10).

With assistance from adult leaders, participants select and set objectives in each of the following areas:

  • Volunteering – undertaking service to individuals or the community
  • Physical – improving in an area of sport, dance or fitness activities
  • Skills – developing practical and social skills and personal interests
  • Expedition- planning, training for and completion of an adventurous journey in the UK or abroad
The award is run and overseen by the Award Centre Coordinator, Miss Arlington.   If you have any questions or want to find out more about the award please contact the school.
More information about the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award and the charity can be found at www.dofe.org

Oathall Farm

4th December 2012Oathall

Few schools can boast a farm and we are delighted to have such a valuable and unusual feature as a school facility. Our extensive fields, animal enclosures, barn and farming equipment enable us to keep a wide variety of livestock. The farm creates many opportunities for learning across the curriculum. Oathall Farm’s contribution both across the curriculum and to students’ personal development is nationally recognised as outstanding.

The farm and farm shop have their own websites which can be accessed here:

www.oathallfarm.org.uk

www.oathallfarmshop.org.uk

Raising funds for Oathall

17th August 2012OPTA

There are many ways you can help support the PTA in raising money for the college. We’ve all got busy lives and pressures on our time so here are a few easy ways that you can help.

What is OPTA?

15th August 2012Oathall

Oathall’s busy Parent Teacher Association (or OPTA) is a friendly and enthusiastic group of people with a desire to contribute positively to school life.

We aim to encourage positive relationships and communication between parents and teachers, tackling the wellbeing of the school and the welfare and development of our children together.

Like other PTAs we fundraise for those extra things that the school budget cannot cater for whilst strengthening the school community through social events and activities.

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Mindfulness Monday

22nd June 2020J Godbolt

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.

Teaching & Learning bulletin

13th June 2020J Godbolt

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

Specsavers ‘Virtual’ Sussex School games

12th May 2020J Godbolt

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.

Good Deed Competition

28th April 2020J Godbolt

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

Edenred – Free School Meal vouchers

7th April 2020J Godbolt

The government has now introduced a new scheme for supporting children eligible for free school meals.

The new scheme is being run by an organisation called Edenred.

Oathall will arrange for families to be sent a weekly voucher to the value of £15 each week for every child eligible for benefits-related free school meals. Parents will normally be emailed an ‘eCode’ which can be used to redeem an eGiftcard.This can be used at a range of supermarkets.

Families with no access to emails will be sent an eGiftcard by post. The school will contact you about this if we do not have a working email for you.

More information for parents about this scheme can be found here.

New home Learning Ideas

2nd April 2020J Godbolt

We have put together a new Home Learning ideas website which is intended to provide links to ideas and inspiration from close to home and around the world.

The website has links to activities and resources that you can try out from home such as virtual museum tours, activities to do in your back garden, walks around Lindfield, virtual science experiments and much more.

We have only had a short time to put this together so our intention is to keep adding resources to the site.