Welcome

Welcome to Oak Field School!

We hope our website will give you a flavour of the exciting learning adventures, opportunities and current projects at our school, and of our energetic, ambitious and supportive school community.  For a quick insight into our school, do watch our 4-minute video, which we really enjoyed making together. 

Our vision for Oak Field School, rooted in its long-established ethos and values, is of a vibrant, thriving and diverse learning community. It is of the highest quality teaching and learning, delivered through a dynamic, engaging and meaningful curriculum. This is a curriculum which offers all our pupils lots of different opportunities, and which draws out their curiosity, resilience, choice-making and independence skills, to support them to become aspirational, confident, lifelong learners who are fully equipped to embrace challenges. It is of an outward-facing school whose pupils are active, engaged and visible participants in the local and wider community, with all its richness of real-life experiences (see the Pestalozzi quotation in the school’s mission statement). It is of a safe, supportive, respectful and caring environment where pupils, families, staff, multi-disciplinary teams, and other professionals have high expectations and work together in active, holistic partnership. We aim to maximise opportunity and minimise barriers, and to seek and provide excellence, both in and beyond school. Oak Field is about creative and committed teamwork, in its widest sense.  

In Summer 1 2024, we’re bursting with energy! Our youngest pupils are enjoying exploring with Martha Maps It Out, KS2 are finding out about all about Growing Plants, and KS3 are learning about some aspects of Africa. KS4 are focussing on greetings, welcomes and goodbyes and are developing ideas from The Day War Came by Nicola Davies, the 6th Form students (fresh from Romeo and Juliet) , are very enthused about their work on song lyrics and rhythm, and we’re all really looking forward to Green Week (22 April) and Sports Week (20 May). Our brand new Professor Penny's Theatre of Possibilities has just been built and is almost good to go, and we have been developing some exciting project ideas for this, starting with our Hi Friend interactive performance. 6F3 are delighted with the animation of their composition for the English National Opera Project 'Finish This' (1 of 15 winning entries from schools across the country), and we've just performed some of our music at the Lakeside! Our new lunchtime clubs are thriving - especially archery - and pupils and parents are enjoying our after school and Saturday morning pool fun sessions. 

If you’d like to come and see us, do contact us - we are always really keen to welcome visitors. And if you come on Weds-Fri, you can enjoy a very good barista coffee in Café 1! We are really looking forward to meeting you.

Patricia Lewis

Headteacher