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

• Greg Clarke MP visits Oakley's Further Education students

  Mon 13 May 2019

  On Friday, 10th May, Greg Clark MP visited our Further Education provision on the Tonbridge site. He spent an hour and a half chatting to students about work experience and their hopes for employment and the barriers they felt they faced.

   

  One of our students gave a presentation about his work experience and two other students shared a film they had made to represent the students’ views.

   

  Mr Clark said he wanted to support the students with their aspirations and help remove some of the barriers if he can, he has promised to come back and share feedback when he has spoken to local employers and ministers.

  

• Year 9 Residential a great success

  Wed 08 May 2019

  Our Year 9 pupils ventured off to Bentley Copse near Ashford from Monday, 29th April to Wednesday, 1st May 2019.  Bentley Copse has over 15 adventurous activities and offers a range of accommodation for groups in its extensive forest woodlands and twenty-eight acres of natural Hurtwood Forest.

   

  We know, being a Forest School, how much the majority of our children and young people love being active and outside, so it was no surprise how much they enjoyed their time away.  

   

  The staff team who went with them were so proud of them all, they behaved brilliantly and they all tried every activity, even if they didn't complete it, overcoming fears, nerves and disabilities.  

   

  We hope you enjoy the photographs below, as much as the children and staff team enjoyed their time at Bentley Copse.

  

• The Big Battery Hunt

  Wed 08 May 2019

  We are taking part in a very exciting campaign called the Big Battery Hunt.  This will form the whole school Energy project for our Eco Schools Green Flag application.  In school, pupils will learn how important it is to recycle batteries and what happens when people don’t.  

   

  Pupils have been challenged to find and collect as many old batteries as possible and we are asking parent and carers to help them.   The children can be as creative as they like by asking friends, family and the wider community to help them collect as many batteries as possible to help make sure that no battery ends up in landfill.

   

  The children have been given a collection box, to bring into school when it is full so that we can add it to the main container and enter the competition.

   

  You can visit https://nationalschoolspartnership.com/initiatives/bigbatteryhunt/ for more information about the campaign.

  

• Oakley's Eco Committee lead on our Healthy Living Project

  Wed 08 May 2019

  This term we are encouraging each other to drink more water.  We are hoping to use our maths skills to create tally charts and graphs using data we collect in class and improve our health and well-being at the same time.  (We are also encouraging each other to use our drinking bottles rather than throw away cups, to help our environment).