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OakFest'21 Grand Total

Mon 15 Nov 2021 Iola Seaton-Reid

We are excited to announce that OakFest raised an incredible £13,713.29 for Oakley School, Oakley Pre-School and St Mary's Church. Thank you to everyone who made this fantastic result possible. The school will use its £12.5K share to promote music, the arts, drama and languages across the school.

Remembrance Day Commemorations

Thu 11 Nov 2021 Iola Seaton-Reid

We commemorated Armistice by observing a minute's silence in the school hall. The proceeding were led beautifully by our Year 6 pupils who read poems and prayers. Our pupils from all year groups shared stories and memories of family members and other heroes, both human and animal, who had served our country.

A beautiful display was created by all the children under the expert eye of Miss Schonert. The school will be represented at Sunday's commemorations at the War Memorial at St Mary's Church.

Show Racism the Red Card

Fri 22 Oct 2021 Iola Seaton-Reid

To support the important work of the Show Racism the Red Card charity we held a 'wear something red' mufti day. The children were taught about the work the charity does and a display was created in the corridor. £89.85 was raised by our families which will be passed on to SRTRC for their 25th anniversary campaign.

Macmillan Afternoon Tea

Wed 29 Sep 2021 Iola Seaton-Reid

Following on from our lovely harvest festival service we invited parents and carers into school for our Macmillan Afternoon Tea led by Chequers House.

The event was very well attended with a fabulous selection of delicious cakes and biscuits kindly baked by our families and Robins' Class.

£160.48 was raised for Macmillan Cancer Support.

Thank you as always for your generosity.

Harvest Festival 2021

Wed 29 Sep 2021 Iola Seaton-Reid

We were delighted to be able to visit St Mary's Church for our harvest celebrations after such a long time. The church looked beautiful and the display of fresh and non-perishable produce looked very inviting. Reverend Kaboleh led a lovely service to our pupils and staff.

Thank you to all our parents and carers for your generosity once again. Our collection of produce will be donated to the more needy in our community via Bertie the Bus.

Oakley School STEM Fair

Mon 27 Sep 2021 Serena Courtney

Last Friday saw the long awaited Oakley STEM fair return. This has been on hold throughout the pandemic, but the sun shone and our exhibitors were excited to meet us at last! We were so fortunate to have the support of so many people to demonstrate the wide variety of applications of STEM subjects. In the morning, representatives from RAF Brize Norton and our very own Mr Lainchbury, ran activities and challenges for each class in turn. The children had to work as teams, complete challenges and think about flight.

They all stayed with us for the afternoon of activities and were joined by representatives from Greatmoor, Brookes, the Churchill, Larkmead Vets, Imperial college, Baxter pharmaceutical, Guide Dogs and the Selmes family with some mammals for us to meet. The newly appointed science ambassadors from Year 4 and 5 helped to set up and worked hard all afternoon to provide activities for everyone to take part in. These included film canister rockets, paper spinners, bubble investigations, building challenges using only spaghetti, marshmallows and jelly babies and some maths puzzles. The afternoon wouldn’t have been complete without tasty refreshments from FOS. Thank you to everyone who contributed or attended to make the day a success for the children to learn about a wide variety of stem activities, helping them to learn about careers and to experiment and see how their learning helps them.

OakFest'21

Tue 07 Sep 2021 Iola Seaton-Reid

OakFest'21 attracted the biggest crowd ever. Festival goers enjoyed over 10 hours of fantastic live music from our many talented and generous musicians and artists. The OakFeast barbecue excelled itself with a wonderful menu of delicious food whilst the bar did a roaring trade offering many local beers.

Specials thanks must go to our wonderful sponsors who make the day possible and to everyone who was involved in any way, even just coming along. We are hopeful of a record breaking fundraising total this year. The final amount will be announced soon.

Photographs courtesy of Gemma Swaisland

Swimming Season Commences

Mon 07 Jun 2021 Iola Seaton-Reid

It is so wonderful to see our children back in the pool once again. We were unable to open last year due to C-19 so the pool sadly sat unused all summer. Meanwhile our most generous parents and the local community raised £3,000 through the Calor Rural Commjnity Fund initiative to enable us to purchase a new liner. This was installed a few weeks ago along with some other essential works and the pool now looks fantastic.

Thank you all for your support once again. This valuable resourse should be safe and available for our pupils to use during the summer months for a few more years.

Funky Hair Day in aid of Thomley Hall

Fri 30 Apr 2021 Iola Seaton-Reid

Chiltern House led fundraising events for their newly adopted house charity Thomley Hall.

We all had fun sporting funky hair styles and wigs. Over £330 was raised through donations and a cake sale.

Thank you to all our families for their generosity.

We hope to form close links with this Worminghall based organisation.

https://thomley.org.uk

Buckinghamshire Cricket Board Visit

Fri 23 Apr 2021 Iola Seaton-Reid

We were thrilled to welcome coaches Samina and Emma from the Buckinghamshire Cricket Board today. They had sessions with each of our classes learning ball control skills. We definiately have some budding fielders in our midst.

We really hope many of our children will join the many local clubs in the area.

Here are a few quotes from our children:

"I liked the session but my best part was the bowling challenge at the end"

"It was challenging. I had to use perseverance and my confidence but I found it exciting"

"The catching skills made me think about throwing the ball more carefully"

"It was fun"