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

• BREAKING NEWS: Oakley School awarded GOLD for SMSC!

  Fri 19 Oct 2018
  On Wednesday, 17th October we had our assessment for the Spiritual, Moral, Social & Cultural (SMSC) National Quality Mark and we are delighted to share that Oakley School has been awarded the GOLD standard. If you listen to the week’s Radio Oakley show (under the News section of this website) you can hear the moment we found out and just how delighted we all are with this outcome. You can also read the Assessor’s report (which can be found on this website: Our School Community\Parents & Carers\SMSC).  The report is a wonderful reflection of how fantastic our children, young people and the staff team who support them, are. What a great ending to what has been a great term at Oakley School.  

  

• Harvest Festival

  Thu 11 Oct 2018
  Today, Thursday 11th October, we celebrated Harvest Festival in assembly on the Tunbridge Wells site. Reverend Rich Thomas from St. Phillips led the assembly. Rich is also one of our Governors and so a regular visitor to Oakley School and a familiar face to our children and young people. All donations for Harvest Festival will go to Nourish, the local food bank, which is one of our chosen charities this year. Thank you to all our parents, carers and members of staff for their kind and generous donations.

  

• Final instalment of the Year 6 adventure at Bore Place

  Tue 09 Oct 2018
  The pupils have loved their time at Bore Place. They all keep asking to stay another night! This morning they have been pond dipping (which they LOVED) and cooking apple crumble. Everyone back at school is looking forward to hearing all about it when they return to school this afternoon.

  

• The Next Instalment of the Year 6 adventure at Bore Place

  Tue 09 Oct 2018
  Everyone had a lovely evening. Lasagne and Eton mess for dinner and then they went on a bat walk. They had sound detectors which picked up when bats were near and they could see them flying around above them. The pupils then helped Tom make a campfire and toasted marshmallows. Everyone was asleep by 10pm-ish and there was only one child awake this morning at 7am!
  
   

  

• Update from the Year 6 pupils at Bore Place

  Mon 08 Oct 2018

  Everyone is having a lovely time. They have raked hay, harvested beetroot, squash, tomatoes and cucumber. They have peeled and cleaned onions, done some gardening, visited the farm and saw cows and calves (some were only hours old!). They have enjoyed snacking on lovely flapjack and played football in the fields at break time and are now baking bread to go with their dinner! The children are loving it and some have asked if they can stay all week! They are getting a little tired from all the activities so they are going to have some down time after baking and before dinner. Then after their lasagne it's time for a night walk looking for bats and a campfire (where they will be enjoying pop corn and marshmallows!).
   

  

• Phase 2 Residential - Bore Place

  Mon 08 Oct 2018

  Skills for Life and Independence is at the heart of everything we do at Oakley School.  We believe that providing our children and young people with opportunities away from home provides them with positive and challenging learning and social experiences in new environments. Our aim is to offer a variety of experiences and progression that help to develop our children and young people to extend their skills and promote their well-being, positive attitudes and self-confidence.

   

  And so, with that in mind, our Year 6 pupils headed off this morning, Monday 8th October to Bore Place.  They have had a lovely morning, hay raking and having a tour of the site.  This afternoon they have some play time and a visit to the farm!  Smiles all round so far, with one of the pupils saying "Oh I love it here!"

   

   

  

• Planting the seeds of peace

  Thu 04 Oct 2018 Times of Tunbridge Wells, 3rd October 2018 (P25)

  OAKLEY SCHOOL in Tunbridge Wells has been chosen by one of the largest women's service organisations in the world as the local recipient of a rose to commemorate the recent International Day of Peace.

   

  The event was to celebrate the end of World War 1, and service groups around the country were asked to choose a school local to them to receive a symbolic rose.

  
  The Tunbridge Wells Inner Wheel Club decided theirs should go to Oakley School, which accommodates pupils with special needs aged two to 25 years old.

   

  Local Inner Wheel Club President Christine Baker told the Times: "Peace Roses were planted by Inner Wheel Clubs at various local schools all over Kent on September 21 to celebrate the International Day of Peace, and also the centenary of the ending of World War 1.

   

  "Oakley School was the obvious choice for us.  It is an eco-school, and we firmly believe in their ethos and ability to grow individuals even though they have special educational needs.

   

  "We were very impressed to see how caring Oakley School is, and were delighted to see such happy children - and also to see that they have an active Gardening Club."