Oathall’s busy Parent Teacher Association (orOPTA) 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.
With only two more days to go, the PTA’s target to raise £25,000 for maths and science resources has been achieved and exceeded. The total currently stands at just over £26,000.
Thank you to everyone who has made a donation or contributed to the fundraising campaign.
There are still 2 days left of the fundraising campaign so if you did mean to make a donation then there’s still time for you to go online and make a pledge on the Oathall PTA Crowdfunder page.
It’s official! We have crowdfunded over £18,000 of the £25,000 target for maths and science equipment. Thank you to all of our supporters. We now have until 23 June to raise the remaining £7,000.
That’s about £7 for every student at Oathall so please do dig deep and make a donation towards the education of the young people of Haywards Heath, Lindfield, Scaynes Hill, Ardingly and Horsted Keynes. Who knows one of these young people may be a Nobel laureate of the future. You can go online and donate here.
Visit our crowdfunding page and help us to inspire thousands of secondary school students to become future scientists, engineers and inventors. We want to buy state of the art equipment for Oathall Community College’s new science and maths classrooms which are opening this September. So, we have not got long to raise our target of £25,000 by June 23rd.
Our aim is to provide students with:
digital microscopes
anatomical models
specialist cameras
Lego Mindstorm kits
exciting maths learning software
digital screens
display posters
All these things will bring alive the worlds of science and maths for thousands of current and future Oathall students.
The campaign aims to raise funds to equip the newly refurbished maths and science classrooms with state of the art equipment that will inspire a love and passion for science and maths that will allow our students to become the inventors, scientists, entrepreneurs, and engineers of the future.
Since last July, the old SAM block has been undergoing a long-awaited transformation with almost every part of the building being completely refurbished and modernised. The project itself ensures the building is fit for day to day teaching needs. However, the school staff, governors and parents have very high aspirations for our students.
Oathall has a tradition of excellent science teaching and our mathematics results are above the national average. We want to maintain and build on this reputation. We want to enhance the environment in the new building with state of the art equipment and resources that will inspire a love and passion for science and mathematics.
This is not about test tubes, heat mats and calculators; this is about having ambitious state of the art technology and equipment such as digital microscopes, thermal imaging cameras, anatomical models as well as display posters, digital screens and signage to bring the building and the teaching of these subjects to life.
These are not the normal items you find in a school science or maths classroom and are beyond even the best-funded schools. We believe our staff and children deserve the opportunity to learn using up to date teaching technology and hope that with the help of the whole community we can achieve this.
Our target is to raise £25,000 by 23 June 2018. You can support the campaign by visiting the Oathall crowdfunding page.
You can keep in touch with updates about the campaign on the PTA Facebook page.
At the end of the autumn term, PTA chair Karen Crockford met the senior student team at Oathall for the unveiling of the new benches on the piazza and to draw the winning raffle tickets for the Christmas raffle. The weather could have been kinder but Karen stoically stood in the torrential rain with head girl Gemma Batchelor, head boy Elliot Day, and deputy head students George Brooks, Shaan Bayan, Anna Worsley and Naomi Johnson to show off the new benches.
The PTA would like to thank everyone who bought Christmas raffle tickets and contributed to raising nearly £1000. We are very grateful to all of our lovely local companies for their support in providing some wonderful raffle prizes and especially to Leaders Estate Agent for providing the top prize of an IPad.
We are delighted to see that the money parents, staff and students have raised this year has purchased nine smart new black benches providing students with extra seating around the school.
The next meeting of OPTA will be held on Thursday 21st November 2013 in the LRC (main building next to the Library) from 7pm-8.30pm. This meeting is the annual general meeting and is open to all parents; if you would like to help, comment or contribute in any way, but cannot attend, please send an email to [email protected].
Verity Brown, our current Chair of OPTA will be stepping down at this meeting so if you are interested in becoming Chair please come to the meeting or send an email expressing your interest. These FAQ’s might help you to decide that you’d like to become the Chair.
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.
