MERRY CHRISTMAS MR X

We were delighted to welcome Mrs Dawn Williams to Oakleigh House again this year.  Mrs Williams called to collect our presents for the Mr X appeal.  The School Council raised money to buy the presents by selling their own Christmas Cards.

IF YOU GO DOWN TO THE WOODS TODAY...

... then you will be in for a pleasant surprise as Oakleigh House School are now having Forest sessions from Nursery to Year 6. All the children thoroughly enjoy using the Nature Trail for these sessions on our school grounds. They make use of our new outdoor classroom weekly and have been learning all about features in a Forest and how we can use natural resources to make pictures/collages/models etc. Come and have a look at what we've been doing...

ACORNS RESTAURANT OPENS

Highly regarded catering firm, Thomas Franks, have taken over the catering for the Acorns restaurant.  The children and staff are looking forward to enjoying locally sourced freshly prepared lunches each day. 

'Thomas Franks is a contract caterer with a passion for food, professionally presented through excellent service by using fresh, locally sourced ingredients in each and every meal we serve.'

HEALTHY SCHOOLS PHASE 1

In July 2013 Oakleigh House School achieved Phase 1 Healthy Schools award. The School Council worked hard to collate evidence and to work with the school through the phase. The focus was on Food and Fitness; Safety and the Environment. 

'Oakleigh House School has achieved a great deal in their first year on the Healthy Schools Scheme and it was a privilege to assess a school that is achieving so much. It was lovely to see evidence of parent and community involvement as well as partnership working with other organisations.'

Next we will be working towards our Phase 2 so watch this space to see our developments and achievements in the next coming months. 

FLYING THE FLAG HIGH

 

In June 2012 Mr Gerry Taylor came to assess us for the Eco Schools Green Flag Award.  He was very impressed by the whole school's enthusiasm for the Eco-Schools process, and the level of staff and pupil involvement with environmental issues raised by the programme. 

He reported "...Excellent Eco-linked curriculum work by all age groups; Lots of staff and community involvement; Enthusiastic and knowledgeable pupils during the tour; an all-round ESDGC school with well-integrated Healthy School, Fair Trade, Nature Detectives etc."

He was also able to record that the school site was completely litter free - Grade 'A' - Well done!

He was delighted on behalf of Keep Wales Tidy to inform Oakleigh House that their application for the Eco-Schools International Green Flag was successful.  The Award has been given without preconditions.  

Mrs Ferriman is very proud of how hard everyone has worked to achieve this fantastic award.

ECO Code

If you take a walk around our school then you will see our ECO Code on display in all our classrooms and on our ECO display by the hall. This helps to remind us what we believe being ECO means in Oakleigh House School.

Oakleigh House School is beginning an ECO campaign to see how much food waste we can save at lunch time and how many little changes we can help that will make a big difference to help save our planet! Watch this space for news and updates of our new projects and adventures to becoming a 'greener' healthier school!