Oakley Church of England Combined School
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This afternoon Miss Cecilia introduced our Mandarin Club members to both Chinese dumplings and chopsticks! The children did so well getting to grips with the chopsticks and thoroughly enjoyed the session.
Phil Heard led a high energy drumming assembly this morning. Our school drummers performed for the pupils and parents and by the end everyone was up on their feet.
Huge thanks to Phil for his tremendous support and we look forward to seeing the school drummers and Phil in his band, The Vibe, on stage at OakFest on 8th June.
Yesterday our KS2 children joined over a thousand other Buckinghamshire primary school children at the Buckinghamshire Music Trust's concert, Echoes 10.
Rehearsals have been going on in school for many weeks with the children learning the songs and musical score to Constellations, a specially commissioned piece written by Cameron Sinclair, on their brass and stringed instruments.
The event was a huge success and a real privilege to be part of and I am sure performing at the iconic Royal Albert Hall will be a story our children will be telling their grandchildren in years to come.
Thank you to Lyn Lee of BMT, Ms Green and Miss Brown for working with the children to get them ready for such a huge performance.
Our team of runners did us proud last Saturday taking part in the AVPSAA annual cross country event at Askett House.
This is always such a well organised and enjoyable event which we have now taken part in for a few years.
Thank you to the children who took part, parents for your support and to our school staff who attended.
On our first day back from the Easter holidays we welcomed Jennifer from Kapla Clubs UK to Oakley School. Jennifer worked with each class creating some beautiful and spectacular models from thousands of Kapla bricks.
The children worked so well together in small groups carefully placing their bricks. As you will see from the attached, photos some of the structures were very intricate and required a very steady hand!
Rothschild House did a tremendous job raising £445.00 for this year's Red Nose Day campaign. This was achieved by selling almost 100 official red noses and children wore red to school in return for a small donations. After school we held a cake sale selling a fantastic assortment of cakes and biscuits baked and donated by our wonderful families.
Mrs Cochrane raised money by donating a pound each time a child made her laugh with a joke!
Oakley Pre-School also helped towards our magnificent total with their own red mufti day.
Thank you to everyone for your most generous support.
Photos to follow.
Yesterday we welcomed ex Oakley pupils, Tess and Ruby back to Oakley School. Tess shared her published children's book, Foosie, with each class and talked to our older pupils about the inspiration and process for writing and illustrating her book.
If you would like to purchase a copy it is available through Amazon and Waterstones.
23 Oakley pupils travelled up to Birmingham last Friday to join a choir of 5000 strong at Young Voices '24. We all had a fantastic time singing along to the songs we had learnt and also listening to singing star Natalie Williams, rapper MC Grammar and watching the inspiring young drummer Nandi Bushell. We all loved watching Urban Strides perform and were thrilled that Andy took the time to come up to talk to us during a rehearsal break.
All in all a great event which gives our young children the chance to perform in a huge arena space. I am sure they will remember it for a long time to come.
Yesterday our intrepid team of swimmers represented Oakley School at the 2024 Thame Rotary Swimathon at Thame Leisure Centre. They did us proud swimming an incredible 110 lengths in 55 minutes. So far they have raised £195.00, which will be shared between Thame Rotary and our pool maintenance fund. If you are able to make a small donation please use the link below which will be available for another week. Thank you so much for your support and huge thanks to Jess, Megan, Ariadne, Ophelia, James and Josh for swimming so well.
https://www.givey.com/oakleycofecombinedschool
The final amount raised for Oakley School was £112.00. This will be used towards pool costs this summer. Thank you again to our team of swimmers.
Our pupil, Dougie, will be talking live, accompanied by his mother, Victoria, on Red Kite Radio this coming Sunday 4th February at 10.00am. Please tune in to listen to him talk about how Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy impacts his life and to hear about all the incredible things he has achieved.