Farm Open Day success

25th May 2016J Godbolt

This year’s Farm Open day was a huge success! The weather was fine and we welcomed 100’s of visitors from the local community to the farm.

Our students were on hand to explain and answer questions about the farm and livestock care as well as being integral in the event organisation. Visitors got the opportunity to get up close to see farming practices in action.  Alan Kensett gave sheep shearing demonstrations. Students helped visitors hand-feed orphan lambs. And, of course, our youngest visitors were able to sit in our tractor driving seat, always one of our most popular activities.

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BBC Ten Pieces

26th November 2015J Godbolt
Hannah Newson Xylophone Felix Carter Mrs Van Galen Rose Fredericks Trumpet

Rehearsing for the concert performance

Since last summer students at Oathall & pupils from 6 Mid-Sussex Primary schools have been feverishly practising and rehearsing in preparation to take part in the BBC Ten Pieces performance. Ten Pieces is an exciting initiative for schools, led by BBC Learning and the BBC Performing Groups that aims to open up the world of classical music to a generation of children and inspire them to develop their own creative responses to ten pieces of music. The project culminates today with a concert at the Kings Church in Burgess Hill.

Listen here to a BBC Sussex radio interview about the project.

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Great Gardening Bake-Off

15th May 2015J Godbolt

Students from all year groups have been busily baking cakes this week to enter into the Great Gardening Bake-off. The competition is part of the Chelsea Fringe Event – Strictly Gardening being held at the Orchards Shopping Centre, Haywards Heath on Saturday 16 May. Entries are being submitted from local secondary schools and in keeping with the theme, every cake must  have at least one vegetable ingredient. On the day the best eight will be tasted and judged by Café Elvira’s chef. More photographs can be viewed on our Flickr pages.

Congratulations to Year 7 Student Emily Brock for coming first in the competition! 

 

Oathall’s Big Sing

17th October 2014J Godbolt

Pupils from Haywards Heath primary schools joined students from Oathall Community College today for a morning of music and singing at Oathall’s Big Sing. Now in its third year, the Big Sing aims to boost the musical confidence and experience of Year 5 and 6 pupils by allowing them to perform with older students under the expert tutelage of Emily Barden, Head of Vocal Studies at WSCC Music and music teacher Martijn Van Galen. (more…)

Sport Relief 2014

21st March 2014Oathall
Captain Jade and some Oathall sailors!

Captain Jade and some Oathall sailors!

Students in Years 7, 8 and 9 at Oathall Community College completed a fun run on Friday 21 March in aid of Sport Relief.

The race took place around the school grounds and participants dressed up as anything beginning with the letter S or R for the occasion.

Check out the photos from the run here and see if you can spot Superman, Spiderman, a rocker, the grim reaper, Little Red Riding Hood, the Statue of Liberty and SpongeBob SquarePants!

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Oathall is supporting Sport Relief 2014

21st March 2014Oathall
Oathall is supporting this great cause

Oathall is supporting this great cause

Our school will be supporting Sport Relief on Friday 21 March 2014.

In return for a donation all OCC students can come to school for the day in their own clothes (not fancy dress).

Students in Years 7, 8 and 9 will also be taking part in a fun run round the school fields; the dress code for this year’s run is anything beginning with the letter S or R so we want to see lots of sparkly, red, riotous, striped or spotty costumes for this fantastic cause!

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Marvellous master class at Oathall

14th March 2014Oathall
Artists at work at Oathall

Artists at work at Oathall

A group of local gifted and talented primary students visited us on Thursday 13 March to take part in a ceramics master class.

The creative Year 4 and 5 pupils enjoyed getting their hands dirty in the name of art by making their own peacock inspired slab vessels.

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Oathall parliament to sit for the first time this week

25th February 2014Oathall
Oathall's new student parliament.

Oathall’s new student parliament.

Oathall Student Voice (OSV) will officially launch on Friday 28 February.

OSV is about working together to improve the school for everyone.  It enables students to have their views about five key areas of school operations heard:

  • Environment – school grounds, buildings, recycling etc
  • Teaching and learning – comments, suggestions
  • Student support – anti-bullying, buddying
  • Health and fitness – initiatives eg health eating week
  • Community – charity, fundraising activities, enrichment.

It offers a forum for students to ask direct questions to members of staff regarding an idea / issue that was raised in student councils.  It also allows staff the opportunity to respond to the questions and / or formulate and share a plan of action to take the idea/ issue forward to the next stage.

The existing school council activities will feed into the work of Oathall’s new parliament; MPs will represent different portfolios and have a term to work on projects/ initiatives before reporting back at the next sitting of parliament.

Look out for more information and updates soon!

Careers Speed Dating a Success

20th January 2014Oathall
Year 9s putting an employer through his paces

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…)