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 Autumn 2 2024, we’re bursting with energy and pre-Christmas excitement! Our youngest pupils are enjoying exploring The Gingerbread Man, especially the mulit-sensory interactive activities linked to this in Professor Penny's Theatre of Possibilities.  KS2 are busy with Sound and Light, and KS3 are learning about Energy and Electricity. In the 14-19 Phase, we've been visiting local places of worship and getting to grips with some new work experience opportunities.  And we’re all busy rehearsing for our upcoming Christmas Show, Jack and the Beanstalk, and making lots of really big props for this - the Beanstalk is growing every day (with a little help from our brand new Thursday morning Parent Power group!)!

We've been developing some exciting project ideas for our Virtual Space and our mirrored Qube, where our music ensembles are practising ELO's 'Don't Get Me Down'. The choirs are enjoying singing and signing their new songs, and the 14-19 students love Old Student 'Keenan's Karaoke'. In terms of PE and sport, we really like the rebound sessions. Our lunchtime clubs are thriving - especially the Wednesday disco - and pupils and parents are enjoying our Tuesday after school and Saturday morning pool fun sessions. On Saturday 30 November it's our Christmas Family Fun afternoon - with 2 Santas! 

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 our cafe! We are really looking forward to meeting you.

Patricia Lewis

Headteacher