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

• Coronavirus (Covid19) Updates

  Thu 26 Mar 2020

  All the information and guidance on the Coronavirus can be found on this website under Our School Community/Parents & Carers.

   

  We have also uploaded home learning resources under the Curriculum page, including some Occupational and Speech & Language therapy activities and resources.

   

  You can also follow us on Facebook.

   

  Parents and carers are encouraged to stay in touch with their child’s Class Teacher using Class Dojo.

   

  Please e-mail office@oakley.kent.sch.uk for any general enquiries or queries.

   

  Take care

  All the staff at Oakley School

• Oakley School & the Department of Work & Pensions, Kent working together and winning awards!

  Tue 10 Mar 2020

  Oakley School was the first school to allow the School Outreach Team for the Department of Work & Pensions (DWP) in Kent to trial their ideas to promote the "World of Work" and employability skills in Schools.  They worked very closely with Simon Bounds, Phase 4 Leader and other teaching staff on our Tonbridge site and together they created a programme which consisted of a three week course of activities. Alongside classroom workshops, the programme included DWP staff volunteers mock interviewing students. The last day of the programme consisted of a visit to Gravesend Jobcentre and Bluewater shopping centre. During the visits all the students were thoroughly engaged asking some very good questions to the staff.

   

  In recognition of all their hard work and enthusiasm, the Team at the DWP won second place for the Head of Profession Award at The National Civil Service Awards on 6th February.  They were nominated for the Public Service Award which was presented by Sir John Manzoni Permanent Secretary for The Cabinet Office and Chief Executive of the Civil Service.  They also received an extra award for Head of Profession which was presented by Peter Schofield DWP Permanent Secretary and Cross Government Head of Profession.  This is a fantastic achievement as there were only 3 prizes (not bad out of 250,000 civil servants across all Government departments!). The Team were recognised for the inspirational work that that they do within schools and for forward thinking in the way that they work, especially with students with learning disabilities.

   

  Our students got so much benefit from the experience, supporting their 'Skills for Life and Independence' that Oakley School has also readily agreed to run a pilot where DWP staff with disabilities talk to students about resilience and how having a disability should not be a barrier. 

  

• Warburtons “Values in People” Award

  Mon 09 Mar 2020

  For a few years now our friends at Warburtons (the bread people) have supported us at Oakley School with bread making, healthy eating and professional employability workshops, as well as donating enormous amounts of bread for our Summer and Xmas Fairs, breakfast and cookery lessons. So credit where credit was due we decided to write a letter of thanks to Jonathan Warburton himself without the local team’s knowledge. The press department were so pleased with it that they entered the team into a national competition called the “Values in People Award”.

   

  Well, last week Laura and Jess from the Paddock Wood division came into school to tell us that they had WON the award and brought their trophy in! Laura said she couldn’t believe her ears when she heard our Oakley School letter being read out by Jonathan himself!

   

  Well done to all the team over at Paddock Wood Warburtons – not bad to come first out of 4,500 employees!  And a very BIG THANK YOU from everyone at Oakley School.  https://www.warburtons.co.uk/

  

• Oakley Celebrates World Book Day

  Fri 06 Mar 2020
  Pupils and staff at Oakley School love to get dressed up and World Book Day is one of the highlights of our year.  Everyone looked fantastic and as well as normal lessons, enjoyed the day with a 'Where's Wally' hunt around the site and a celebratory assembly with prizes for the best costumes.  A big thank you, as always, to our parents and carers who spend time and money on the children's costumes and to all the staff who embraced their book characters and helped make the day so much fun!