Artsmark Gold has been awarded to Oathall College for its commitment to, and excellence in, arts and cultural education. Headteacher, Mr Edward Rodriguez presented the award to a group of students representing all of the arts disciplines at the last night of the college’s performance of William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. (more…)
Endeavour house were the triumphant winners in the first ever, Oathall School Games week. Students in each of the four houses competed in inter-house matches in football, bench ball and cross-country running competitions.
It was a closely fought competition with Endeavour beating off a strong challenge from Discovery. The final results were
Endeavour 78
Discovery 70
Voyager 67
Pioneer 65
Top Row: England Cricketer Kate Cross, Ella Bates, Imy Dilling, Megan Hannah, Amber Layne, Student Coach Lucy Western and England Cricketer Tammy Beaumont
Bottom Row: Issy Peacock, Mellieha Teague, Rebecca Bonanate (C), Millie Walker and Charlotte Hepburn
Oathall’s under 15 girls cricket team have beaten all the opposition to become National Champions in the Chance to Compete 2014 Girls U15s cricket finals held on 15 September in Birmingham.
Chance to Compete is a national secondary school competition aimed at giving secondary state school children an opportunity to play competitive cricket. Matches are played in under an hour and all participants play a significant part in the game. (more…)
Oathall was delighted to welcome Haywards Heath Town Mayor, Mrs Sandy Ellis to present awards at the college’s annual celebration evening on Tuesday 15 July. The evening recognises students in all college faculties and from all year groups who have demonstrated the greatest progress and highest achievement over the school year. Students are also awarded for their outstanding contribution to the college and wider community. Accompanying parents left the event with pride stating what a memorable end to the school year that the evening provided.
Pictured with Mrs Sandy Ellis, Haywards Heath Town Mayor and Mr E Rodriguez, Headteacher, are left to right: Lila Jones (English award), Connie Went (Headteachers award), Jesse-Antoine Allotey (Humanities award), George Adams (Science award), Connor Ghosh (Year 8 award), Myles Rice (Modern Foreign Languages award and Year 10 award), Kimberley Guest (Year 9 award)
Katy Gardner beside her portrait at the Mall Galleries
Congratulations to Katy Gardner, whose GCSE artwork was selected by the Royal Society of British Artists judging panel to be exhibited at this year’s National Students Art Exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London. This is an incredible achievement, particularly as both large scale pieces made the final selection.
Congratulations also to Zakiyra Begum, Kieran Ross, Hassana Akther-Tuhra, Freya Way and Marjana Akther-Bushra whose submitted artwork was highly commended.
Mr Howard Wood has been awarded the TES Schools Award for Lifetime achievement at a gala luncheon ceremony held today at the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge, London.
Warmest congratulations to Mr Wood for this well-deserved award from all of the school community.
Mr Wood ‘Woody’ and Headteacher, Mr Rodriguez at the award ceremony today.
Howard Wood and students take delivery of the new Massey Ferguson tractor.
The farm unit is now the proud owner of a new 75hp Massey Ferguson MF 5410 tractor. The tractor has been purchased as a result of generous donations made by farm sponsors and benefactors and replaces the 24 year old tractor that the college used on a daily basis.
Howard Wood, Head of the Farm, said
“We use a tractor regularly for typical farm operations and without it we would struggle to provide the farm educational facilities that we offer to students. Our old tractor had been a real workhorse for the farm but had come to the end of its useful life as a machine that could be used on a school farm. So we are very lucky and thankful for all the support and donations from our friends and sponsors from the farming community allowing us to make this much needed purchase.”
We are grateful to all of the following sponsors and benefactors who helped us to raise funds for the tractor.
Greenwood Trust
NFU West Sussex Old Scheme Funds
Garfield Weston Foundation
Coin Co International PLC
Educational Trust Fund of the West Sussex Branch of the NFU
Hurstpierpoint Ploughing Society
Mrs Maggie Chamberlain
Students from Oathall recently took part in the annual Central Mid-Sussex Schools Gifted & Talented festival. The event is in its third year and each year goes from strength to strength.
Gifted and Talented students with examples of their work being exhibited int he Headteacher’s office.
Workshops and activities were offered in a range of subjects such as maths, creative writing, poetry, science, ICT and philosophy as well as creative arts including pottery, sewing and textiles.
Oathall students were winners in Art and Poetry categories with a number of other students being runners up or being highly commended by the judges. A list of winners can be found on the Central Mid Sussex Schools website.
The response from the children who took part in the festival has been extremely positive, with almost 90% rating the activities in which they took part as either good or brilliant. Many children were particularly enthusiastic about having had the opportunity to learn news skills whilst working with, and making friends with, children from other schools.
You can see photos of some of our successful students on our Flickr pages.
Here at Oathall Community College we are proud of the talents and achievements of our students, both inside and the classroom and out. We celebrate these successes regularly in school and via Aspire, our regular school newsletter.
Now we’re sharing these successes with others via our website and a new Flickr gallery which you can view here.
Did you can also keep up to date with the latest OCC news, events and updates via Twitter? You can follow us @OathallNews @oathallfarm and @oathallPEDept
Class of 2014 Oathall students received graduation certificates in front of family, friends and representatives from the local community at the first ever Oathall Graduation Evening on Thursday 8 May.
From left to right: Headteacher Mr Rodriguez, Deputy Head Boy James Habineza, Head Girl Shannon King, Year Leader Mr Wright, Peter Waterfield, Nile Jones Head Boy and Keris Self Deputy Head Girl.
Mr Wright, Year leader created the ‘Oathall Challenge’ scheme for students in his year group to provide a way of celebrating and recognising students who showed commitment to the core values of the college, above and beyond academic achievement. To succeed at the challenge, students through years 10 and 11 had to demonstrate acceptable levels of punctuality, attendance and behaviour as well as taking part in activities such as prefecting, mentoring younger students, helping out at school events and organising their own charity function.
The keynote speaker at the event was Mr Peter Waterfield, British Diver and Olympic Silver medallist 2004. Addressing the audience he gave an inspiring speech about dedication to the task and personal achievement. Afterwards he said:
“I am simply amazed at how committed the students here are; taking part in and leading extra-curricular activities and in supporting their school.”
