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Show Racism the Red Card 2023

Fri 20 Oct 2023 Iola Seaton-Reid

Oakley School is proud to have raised £80.50 today for this important charity by wearing red to school.

The topic was discussed during the week in all classes. Thank you to our parents for their support once again.

To learn more about the history of SRtRC and the important work they do please visit their website following the link below.

https://www.theredcard.org/our-story/

MacMillan Fundraising Afternoon

Fri 06 Oct 2023 Iola Seaton-Reid

Chequers House did a tremendous job this afternoon serving tea, coffee and cakes to our families and friends. A magnificent £200.36 was raised for this most worthwhile charity.

Thank you to everyone who supported by donating cakes and/or coming along to join us.

Harvest Festival Collection

Mon 25 Sep 2023 Iola Seaton-Reid

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our lovely Harvest Service on Friday, as always it was a very special occasion.

Bernie the Bus, driven by Councillor Ashley Waite, collected our donations of non-perishable foods this afternoon. These will be taken to the Vineyard Storehouse Food Bank for distribution to families in our local area. Thank you to everyone to contributed. We estimate we collected around 130 cans which will be helping Bernie achieve the 10,000 Can Challenge.

OakFest'23

Mon 03 Jul 2023 Iola Seaton-Reid

We are delighted to announce that a grand total for OakFest has been reached, bar a couple more promised amounts from sponsors.

£15,588.00! - How incredible is that?

Thank you to everyone involved in any way at all from our fabulously talented musicians, very generous sponsors, our incredible volunteers and of course everyone who came along and supported the day.

The stage is booked and the marquees requested so it looks like we will be celebrating our 10th anniversary on Saturday 8th June 2024. Please put the date in your diary and spread the word to family and friends.

Introducing Sunset Club to be run by Oakley Pre-School

Wed 28 Jun 2023 Iola Seaton-Reid

Dear Parents & Carers

Oakley Pre-school is excited to announce that we will be offering a new Sunset Club for children of Oakley School from September – extending afternoon wrap-around care until 6pm. This will be offered on a pilot basis during 2023-24, as we assess the demand for this later session.

Sunset Club will run in a similar way to our popular Breakfast Club. Children would finish school, attend After School Club and Second Hour (book & pay with School) and then at 5.15pm move into Sunset Club until they are picked up (no later than 6pm).

Child-led free play will be encouraged, with a range of age-appropriate games and activities available to encourage a restful end to their day.

Full details (including the 2023-24 booking form) are available at www.oakleypreschool.co.uk/sunset-club. Pre-booking is essential to enable us to ensure appropriate child:adult ratios are in place.

If you have any questions, please let us know on preschoolchairman@oakley.bucks.sch.uk.

Kind regards

Jo Grey, Chair Oakley Pre-school

Kirsten Ebeling-Hornett, Manager Oakley Pre-school.

Badgers' Class Trip to Bray Lake Water Sports Centre

Fri 23 Jun 2023 Serena Courtney

Badgers had a fantastic day at Bray Lake having the opportunity to try dinghy sailing, stand up paddle boarding and canoeing. I think they had most fun cooling off in the lake! Such a great day and the children really rose to the challenge to try new things. Very proud of my class as always.

Sports Day Champions

Wed 21 Jun 2023 Iola Seaton-Reid

After a very close finish Blenheim were crowned champions of our annual sports day. Thank you to everyone who came along to support the day and to Mrs Cochrane and all the staff for such fantastic organisation making the morning run so smoothly.

Mindful Minis

Tue 06 Jun 2023 Iola Seaton-Reid

Lucy from Mindful Minis joined us for the day today. She spent time with each class teaching them breathing exercises and some yoga poses to help with wellbeing and relaxation. All our children and staff thoroughly enjoyed the very useful sessions.

Bikeability Training

Tue 23 May 2023 Serena Courtney

Our children are now much safer cycling on the roads following their ‘Bikeability’ training last week. We are grateful to our trainers, Tim and Bryan from Haddenham Cycle Training, who worked hard with two groups to ensure they could all look out for dangers, signal efficiently, turning both ways, passing parked vehicles and all other road hazards they could imagine. Hopefully you will spot the children riding safely around the village with their helmets on.

My son can happily tell the story of his helmet split down the middle following a fall on the road. Fortunately, his head was fine and a new helmet and some dressings for grazes to arms and legs were all we needed, but it goes to show the importance of wearing a helmet at all times whilst cycling.

Shelby the African Land Snail

Tue 23 May 2023 Iola Seaton-Reid

Marie, our hand signing teacher, brought a very special visitor to her after school club today. The children learnt lots of new signs linked to him and were fascinated watching him move around his tank.