Latest News

Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Meet the Paralympian Hannah Cockroft OBE

  Fri 24 Mar 2023 Iola Seaton-Reid

  Our whole school tuned into a live presentation broadcast by the National Paralympic Heritage Trust.

  'Hurrican Hannah' Cockroft gave an inspirational talk explaining her disability and her incredibly successful career so far.

  

• Easter Gardens

  Tue 21 Mar 2023 Iola Seaton-Reid

  Our Butterflies Class pupils have been creating Easter gardens as part of their RE lessons.  They have show great imagination and are so proud of their achievements.

  

• Mothering Sunday

  Sun 19 Mar 2023 Iola Seaton-Reid

  Our children wrote prayers on leaves to those who mother and nurture them.  These were created into a beautiful display by our friends at St Mary's Church.

  

• Red Nose Day Fundraising 17th March 2023

  Fri 17 Mar 2023 Iola Seaton-Reid

  We have had fun raising money for Red Nose Day today.  Official red noses were sold; we had a red/mufti day and held a delicious cake sale after school.  £290 was raised for this fantastic charity.

  Thank you to everyone for their tremendous support once again.

  

• Swimathon in aid of Oakley School and Thame Rotary

  Mon 27 Feb 2023 Iola Seaton-Reid

  The Oakley Swim Sensations did a tremendous job yesterday representing Oakley School at the Thame Rotary Swimathon.  Harry, Emily, Ariadne, Aoife, Louis and Jessica swam a total of 97 lengths of the pool, that's almost 2.5km!

   

  Counsellor Paul Cowell presented medals to the participants.

   

  Monies raised through sponsorship will be shared between Oakley School and Thame Rotary who support many worthwhile causes.  Thank you to everyone who has donated.  The total currently stands at £325 but it's not to late to top this up!  Just follow the link below:

  https://www.givey.com/oakleyschoolthameswimathon

   

  This was such an enjoyable and well organised event and we plan to enter at least two teams next year.  Anyone over 8 years of age can take part so let me know if you are interested.

   

   

  

• Strove Tuesday Pancakes

  Tue 21 Feb 2023 Iola Seaton-Reid

  Every child enjoyed a pancake to mark Shrove Tuesday today.   RE lessons explained the season of Lent.

  Lent is a period of 40 days during which Christians remember the events leading up to and including the death of Jesus Christ, whose life and teachings are the foundation of Christianity.

  The 40-day period is called Lent after an old English word meaning 'lengthen'.

  This is because of the time of year when it happens, as this is when the days start to get longer, as we approach Summer.

  It is a time of reflection and of asking for forgiveness, and when Christians prepare to celebrate Jesus's resurrection at the feast of Easter, which comes at the very end of Lent.

  

• Year 3/4 Football Match 07.02.23

  Wed 08 Feb 2023 Iola Seaton-Reid

  Yesterday afternoon our year 3/4 football team played their socks off at our home match against Waddesdon School achieving a 4:1 win.  Huge congratulations to our squad and thank you to Waddesdon School for coming over to play.

  

• Young Voices 2023

  Tue 07 Feb 2023 Iola Seaton-Reid

  Yesterday our school choir joined thousands of other children at  Wembley Arena for the Young Voices 2023 concert.  They all did so well singing their hearts out to the medley of songs and joining in the dance moves with the Urban Strides dancers.  We accompanied Heather Small singing 'Proud' and were entertained by the incredibly talented violinist Anna Phoebe and the Beatbox Collective.  Truly a night to remember.

  

• Drumming Assembly led by Phil Heard

  Thu 02 Feb 2023 Iola Seaton-Reid

  We had a great start to the day this morning when Phil Heard led our collective worship.  Our school drummers got us up on our feet tapping and clapping along to the rhythms.  Thank you Phil for your incredible enthusiasm and skill as such a fabulous drumming teacher.  We look forward to hearing the drummers at OakFest on 10th June.

  

• Donation from the Chandos Arms, Oakley

  Mon 30 Jan 2023 Iola Seaton-Reid

  We were very pleased to welcome Matteo from The Chandos Arms to school today.  The pub had kindly donated the takings from their Christmas raffle to Oakley School - the grand total of £376 was raised.  We would like to thank everyone wo bought tickets and of course to Matteo and Brandon for thinking of us.