Congratulations to Year 10 student, Fletcher R, who has been selected to represent Welsh Athletics at the London Mini Marathon in the T37 category.
His selection is a credit to him and is the result of his gruelling training schedule with Brighton Phoenix, enviable mental strength and wholehearted commitment. We wish him the very best this weekend!
Last week during their PE lessons, students in all years took part in the Spring term House Games Week. Even the sun made an appearance some of the week.
They participating in team games including handball, basketball or football earning points for their Houses.
And the results are below.
Congratulations to Endeavour for consolidating their position at the top of the overall House Competition, and well done to everyone that competed.
The Cube house challenge week is now over. The response from students and the community has been brilliant with 245 entries from students, friends and families. it’s clear from the entry videos that there was a lot of fun had by everyone who took part.
The PE department is thrilled to announce that Voyager house were the outright winners with 179 successful entries. Well done to everyone who took part.
Starting on Monday 22 February, Oathall students and their families, as well as Oathall staff, are invited to participate in the Oathall PE department’s, ‘The Cube challenge’.
Each day, there will be a new challenge to complete. All the details including instructions and embedded links to videos can be found here. Participants will need to complete this short entry form and upload video evidence to demonstrate that they successfully completed the challenge. Anyone who is successful will be awarded points for their house. The house with the most points at the end of the week will be declared the winner. Good luck to everyone who takes part!
The Oathall PE team reserve to right to decide whether a participant has been successful in completing the challenge.
Thank you, everyone, and keep up with the exercise over the summer
Oathall’s Under 14 Girls Football team continued to show resilience, determination and grit to secure their place in the County Cup Quarter Finals making them one of the top 8 teams in Sussex.
The match against Claremont School was a gripping game with the score drawn at 2-2 at full time. Neither team was able to penetrate the defence in extra time and following a further 20 minutes of play, nothing could divide Oathall and Claremont teams. The match went to penalties with Oathall’s penalty takers and goalkeeper holding their nerve eventually winning the match 3 – 2. Congratulations to everyone who took part.
The team will now go on to play Cardinal Newman school in the Quarter finals.
On Monday 25th March, around 50 students from Oathall took part in the 2019 Rock Challenge Competition. This was the culmination of 7 months hard work and dedication from the performers, stage crew and lighting team. The achievement from each and every student was outstanding.
Oathall’s performance this year was titled ‘Black Swan’. This was a contemporary, street dance fusion piece that explored the physiological and psychological struggles of a mentally delicate dancer and her strive for perfection, only to find herself struggling to maintain her sanity as she descends into madness from the pressure of perfection. To succeed, she will have to transform herself into something she has never been.
The Rock Challenge was established in order to combine the benefits of taking part in a large scale dance production with involvement in a positive ‘ drug-free’ activity.
Although Oathall did not win, the students’ performance was recognised with awards gained in the following categories
• Award of Excellence in Lighting
• Award of Excellence for Entertainment
• Award of Excellence for Visual Enhancement
• Award of Excellence for Stage Use
• Award of Excellence for Costuming and Character
• Award of Excellence for Soundtrack
Performance faculty enrichment leader, Mrs Avery said
I am proud that at Oathall the Rock Challenge event brings students of all ages, backgrounds and gender together in order to work collaboratively on a brilliant production. The students take charge not only of choreography but costumes, sound, lighting and scenery.
I would like to thank every student who took part in and contributed to this year’s production, you were all a pleasure to work with. Finally, thank you to all the parents & staff who kindly support dance at Oathall and help to encourage our students to achieve amazing things.
It has been a fabulous sporting start to 2019 for Oathall’s PE teams. We have been successful against local schools in Football, Futsal, Indoor Athletics, Indoor Cricket and Hockey to name but a few.
Here’s a quick summary of some of the highlights
The U12 boys’ hockey team (pictured above) played in the annual tournament in Crawley with 5 other schools, with a combination of U13 and U12 teams. Despite being the youngest team present they finished unbeaten with 4 wins and 1 draw.
Our Indoor Athletics teams were successful in the Mid-Sussex round of the Countywide indoor athletics competition with the Year 7 Girls & Year 8 boys winning their rounds.
The Under 12 Girls Football team have completed all of their West Sussex league fixtures and have finished the season unbeaten.
Keep up the good work everybody!
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Congratulations to Oathall’s U12 Girls Football team who have finished the season unbeaten. The beat teams from The Weald, Hazelwick and Burgess Hill Academy and drew with both Millais and Tanbridge House.
