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

• Oakley School NHS Rainbow: We’re all in this together

  Fri 24 Apr 2020

  To show our support for NHS staff and Key workers around the UK, staff at Oakley School have been busy making a special surprise for everyone this week.  We hope you enjoy watching our video as much as we enjoyed making it.  Stay safe and well.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vK2a5moTEU

  

• 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!

  

• Oakley School pupils helping 'Keep Britain Tidy'

  Wed 19 Feb 2020

  On the morning of Thursday, 13th February, Oakley School's Eco committee met and decided to join a Keep Britain Tidy campaign to contact a local business and become a #LitterHero and declare littering as unacceptable!

   

  Keep Britain Tidy had sent us a template letter which we added our personal touch to and it was then printed and delivered to our local Tesco customer services desk by Eco Reps from Maple class during their food tech shopping trip.

   

  In the letter we asked Tesco to join us in the campaign and clear up their car park, but also to encourage their customers to join in too.  We will let you know how Tesco respond.

  

• Oakley pupils learning to put out fires!

  Wed 05 Feb 2020

  On Thursday, 30th January, our Phase 2 pupils were visited by Kent Fire and Rescue Services and had a great time learning about all the apparatus - we were even referenced on the Service's twitter feed:

   

  https://twitter.com/kentfirerescue

   

  We can't thank the Service enough for their visit - the pupils (and staff) loved it!

  

• Biodiversity – feeding the birds!

  Wed 22 Jan 2020

  As part of our Forest Schools work this term Phase 2 classes ( Ash, Elm, Chestnut & Willow) have been finding out all about birds; how to identify common birds, what different foods birds liked to eat and how their bodies are designed to help them fly.

   

  They have designed bird feeders, the weirder and more wonderful the better and then used cheerios, apples, seeds, lard, cheese and dried fruits to make fat balls and rings of different things for the birds to eat.

   

  They put them out all around the garden and woodland areas and then spent time bird watching to see what they could see.

  

• A cracker of a Christmas Fair!

  Fri 13 Dec 2019

  Thank you so much to everyone; families and staff who supported this year’s Christmas Fair on Saturday, 7th December, not to mention all the local businesses, sponsors and individuals who donated some amazing raffle prizes!  The atmosphere was wonderful—we forget sometimes what a treat it is for our pupils and their families to socialise in a safe and fun environment and what better time of year to do that than at Christmas.

   

  We had Father Christmas visit us, we had a chocolate tombola that ran out of chocolate it was so popular, wonderful arts and crafts and edible treats, made by pupils from 2 to 19 years old, a bouncy castle, books, DVDs, cakes and gifts for sale.

   

  Everyone’s generosity and affection for Oakley School was so heart warming.  Thank you. A special thanks, also has to go to The Friends of Oakley, our PTA, they worked like troopers before, during and after the Fair and as a result raised a magnificent £2,842.79.  Well done and thank you everyone.

   

  

• Oakley School welcomes "Kermit"!

  Thu 05 Dec 2019

  On 27th November Oakley School received an early Christmas present of a shiny new minibus from this region’s Lords Taverners' charity.

   

  Many members of the district’s business community who support The Lords Taverners gathered at Oakley School where the bus arrived full of singing and chattering members of the school council. The giant key was then handed over and the VIP’s were taken on a tour of the school where they met many exceptional pupils, got to understand the ethos and character of the school and couldn’t help but be motivated by the energy and enthusiasm they witnessed.

   

  To finish off the presentation the guests were treated to a musical performance from Oakley’s singing and signing choir and an enormous thank you card from the Year 1 Caterpillar Class.

   

  Due to its vibrant “Lords Taverners” green colour the bus has been affectionately named “Kermit"!