Oakley Church of England Combined School
Love, Honesty, Respect
Oakley Church of England Combined School
Love, Honesty, Respect
Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Break the Rules Day
Fri 17 May 2024Much fun was had at our first Break the Rules Day, a FOS fundraising initiative. Carefully chosen rules were allowed to be broken for 50p each, such as wearing make up, tattoos, having crazy hair, bringing in a toy, juice instead of water, no uniform etc. Our children really loved the day as you will see from the gorgeous photographs. Thank you to our parents and carers for their support as always.
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Oakley Shop Opening
Fri 10 May 2024Children from our Robins and Owls Classes visited the newly opened Oakley shop this afternoon on its first full day of opening. Each child chose an ice lolly to enjoy in the sunshine.
They were so excited to visit the much anticipated shop and cafe and I am sure will be regular visitors with their families.
The children in Owls Class had a chance to see the tiles they had painted with local artist Adam Grout on the walls of the kitchen area which look so beautiful.
Please do support this wonderful addition to our village.
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Mandarin Club
Thu 02 May 2024This 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.
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Drumming Assembly
Thu 02 May 2024Phil 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.
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Echoes 10 - Royal Albert Hall
Tue 30 Apr 2024Yesterday 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.
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Cross Country Event, Askett House
Mon 22 Apr 2024Our 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.
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Kapla Workshops
Mon 15 Apr 2024On 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!
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Red Nose Day 2024
Fri 15 Mar 2024Rothschild 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.
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World Book Day 2024 - Author Visit
Fri 08 Mar 2024Yesterday 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.
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Young Voices 2024
Mon 26 Feb 202423 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.
