Five Year 7 students represented Oathall Racial Empowerment Club at the second of three Student Action Cooperative Spring Network meetings lead by West Sussex County Council. The focus of this terms meeting was Stories of Sanctuary – Understanding displacement through student voice.
The group are now deciding how to disseminate this information across the school.
The Racial Empowerment Club meet every Wednesday lunchtime in H4. Students in all year groups are welcome to attend.
After a year or more of stops and starts the Oathall forest school programme is now up and running and an established part of the curriculum at Oathall.
The programme based predominantly on the farm offers short courses to students in years 7 and 8. Students are encouraged to take part in outdoor learning activities with cooking over an open fire being a big hit. Students are responsible for fire lighting and using hand tools to build resources and cooking tools from wood. Equipment and resources for this new addition to the curriculum have been supported by a generous donation from Fairfax Properties ‘Building Young Futures programme’
Mr Blackholly, said
I am delighted with the way that student’s are progressing and we are hoping to develop the resource further making it into an outdoor learning hub for the school.
Just before half term, all students in KS3 were invited to take part in a maths competition with a difference. The challenge involved recreating Miss Calleja’s recipe for a Spanish sponge cake, Bizcocho 1, 2, 3 using volumetric ratio.
The recipe is easy: You need 125g of yoghurt, follow with oil, sugar and flour in the volumetric ratio 1:2:3. Add three eggs and a teaspoon of baking powder. The challenge was for students to make their recipe their own by adding their own ingredients or twist to this basic recipe. Additionally, students could look at changing the recipe for a different number of people and the ratio calculations for weight, instead of volume.
The winners were Francesca and Flora in year 7, Lucy in year 8 and Grace in year 9. Prizes were also awarded for best presentation and ‘most out there’ decoration.
Congratulations to the winners!
Students may not have access to the full range of school art resources at present but that hasn’t stopped them from getting creative at home.
In their remote lessons, students in key stage 3 and key stage 4 have been working on a number of topics and creating a range of pieces using photography, video, painting, drawing and collage. 
Year 9 students have been tasked with creating a digital drawing using the Banksy artwork ‘Girl with a red balloon’ as inspiration, whilst students in year 7 were asked to observe and record the views from their windows in a media of their choosing.
This presentation gives you a flavour of some of the amazing work that has been created.
Rampion Offshore Wind Farm’s first operational turbine in the array off the Sussex coast will be named Veranzio Turbine.
Veranzio Turbine was the name put forward by Oathall’s Year 7 eco-club, EcOathall and which went on to win a public vote.
“We are delighted to have a really worthy name for the first operational turbine at Rampion and would like to thank everyone who suggested some fantastic names and all those who voted this week,” said Katie Scanlan, Rampion Visitor Centre Manager.
The team at Rampion Offshore Wind Farm’s Visitor Centre shortlisted 5 names for turbine F04, the first operational turbine installed in the array off the Sussex coast. Oathall’s year 7 Eco club had its entry to name the turbine chosen & shortlisted for a public vote.
Fausto Veranzio was a Croatian inventor interested in science and engineering. He described one of the first-ever wind turbine designs in his book Machinae Novae published in 1616. He also wrote about solar and water energy; truly ahead of his time.
Geography teacher Mrs Lindsley said
“It’s fantastic that Oathall students have named Brighton’s first operational wind turbine in the array offshore. 953 votes were cast and ECOathall secured 70% of the vote. The wind farm technicians will put the name on the actual turbine in the spring when the weather conditions and accessibility is better. The students also are invited for a visit to the visitor centre and will each get a goody bag!
Thank you to everyone for supporting us, ECOathall members are over the moon – such a lovely end to a tumultuous year for them.”
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
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