Our school captains Isla and Lola take you on a tour of an Oathall school day.
2020 Tour of Oathall Film by jgodbolt
Watch our animated 2020 Open Day presentation and discover more about the college – featuring testimonials from former students, parents and staff.
Welcome to Oathall by jgodbolt
Welcome to our 2020 Open Day film. This film has been made to give you a flavour of Oathall. Whilst we have had some professional input with the filming and editing of this film much of the content has been provided by current and former Oathall students.
We hope you enjoy watching it.
2020 Oathall Open Day Film by jgodbolt
We are pleased to be able to share our Open Day video with the addition of subtitles here. Please click on the arrow in the box to play the film.
2020 Open Day film with subtitles by jgodbolt
In 2019, some of our talented students produced a film of our Open Day event. We hope this gives you a flavour of what you have missed.
And alongside that, why don’t you have a look at the presentation we put together for our students who joined us this September. We hope these two short films begin to give you an insight into what Oathall is all about.
Tuesday 15 September is Battle of Britain Day. To commemorate this day, on Monday 14 September, students from Oathall remembered a local Battle of Britain pilot by laying a wreath and holding a small ceremony at his graveside in Western Road Cemetery in Haywards Heath.
Flying Officer Richard Plummer was born in Haywards Heath in 1912. Joining the RAF in 1937, he was shot down over Thameshaven in Essex on 4th September 1940. He later died of his injuries and is buried here in his hometown.
2020 sees the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain and while a larger commemoration of the event is of course not possible this year, students and staff at Oathall Community College were keen to mark this occasion. History teacher Mr Jim Hastings and two Year 11 students, led the tribute by laying a wreath on behalf of the College.
Mr Hastings said of the event,
We as a school are keen to embrace the actions of local people in the past. Richard Plummer fought at the height of the Battle of Britain but sadly died never knowing that he had helped secure victory for his nation. Our history students paid their respects in a manner which epitomises the best of their generation, at the graveside of a man who epitomised the very best of his. They were eager to hear Richard Plummer’s story, from Haywards Heath to joining the RAF, fighting in Norway to his Hurricane being hit over Thameshaven. We feel honoured to have been able to remember a local war hero and share his story with our school community.
We were so proud of all our new Year 7 students when they started at Oathall this September. They managed their first-day admirably even with all the new Covid-19 measures in place. They finally got to meet their new tutors in person and got to meet all the other students in their Houses. And everybody got a chance to experience some lessons in English, Maths and Science. We are so pleased to finally meet you all.
We are pleased to announce the 2019-2020 House Championship winners.
Credit cup winners – Pioneer
Attendance Cup winners – Pioneer
House Championship winners – Pioneer
Congratulations to everyone in Pioneer for this great achievement. Assistant Head of House, Mrs Corbett accepted the cup on behalf of the students in Pioneer at the end of the term.
The final end of year House scores were
Pioneer – 138
Voyager 125
Discovery – 104
Endeavour – 104
The results are in!
Thank you to everyone for participating in the Distance Challenge. We had such a great effort from everyone with students, families, staff and even pets taking part.
A big thank you to Mrs Blyth, who took responsibility for managing the scoring which was not an easy task looking at total distances:
Here are the scores and running order:
- Pioneer: 3039.82 points with 1102km achieved
- Voyager: 2133.31points with 1012.76km achieved
- Endeavour:1353 points with 410km achieved
- Discovery: 1103.43 points with 364.24km achieved
Thank you, everyone, and keep up with the exercise over the summer
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
