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May Revels - Saturday 13th May

Oakridge School is holding its annual May Revels on Saturday 13th May from 1-4pm. It's a fun, family friendly event that helps to raise vital funds for the school.

There is a fantastic line up of activities planned including bar, BBQ, live music, bouncy castle, raffle, tombola, tug 'o' war, welly wanging, face painting, cakes, plants, books, bric a brac and games, and of course, let’s not forget the May pole dancing that the children will be performing! Here’s a short video of them practising!

Traditional wooden stalls decorated with colourful bunting will be dotted around the village green, creating the feeling of a quintessential country fair. There will be the opportunity to win some fabulous prizes including a mini break to Devon and a professional photo shoot.

This year's bar will be stocked with traditional craft ales and oodles of Prosecco! There is always a lovely chilled atmosphere. Card or cash accepted.

With such a fabulous line up of activities planned, you'd be daft to miss it! So come on, put the date in your diary, invite a few friends, and come and join in the fun. All money raised goes directly to the school and to the benefit of the children.

Strike Day

Today, lots of schools across the country were sadly closed, but not at Oakridge. As always, the teachers at the school went above and beyond to ensure the children did not miss out on any learning. Despite our tiny size, the school managed to remain open. A huge thanks to all the staff for making this happen.

The children enjoyed a normal school day, learning their usual maths and English before a more hands on lesson in the afternoon.

The school took on an allotment a few years ago and it is a great asset. The children enjoy many outdoor lessons there. It teaches them many things, such as where food comes from, how food grows and the importance of local food production. It always really engages the children and helps to develop vital core skills such as teamwork, leadership and taking responsibility for themselves and also their friends.

In today’s session the children enjoyed planting tomato and runner bean seeds. These will be cared for and looked after in school before getting planted out when they are big enough…and when the weather has warmed up a bit!

Earth Day 2023

Today Oakridge School celebrated Earth Day! The children began their day by turning the lights off in their classroom for one hour.

They then walked through the village to the school allotment, where they planted seeds. The Eco Warrior committee also presented an assembly to the rest of the school with some wonderful words about ways in which everyone can do their bit to help the planet.

They rounded their rather wet trip off with some mindfulness exercises.

Finally, the day was rounded off with a cake sale to raise money to buy bird food.

Happy Birthday Cressida Cowell!

Pupils from Oakridge School would like to wish Cressida Cowell a very happy birthday for today! They have fond memories of meeting her a couple of years ago at the Cheltenham Literature Festival. At the time, the children were reading the wonderful Wizards of Once, and thoroughly enjoyed meeting her and having her sign their copies.

Meeting Cressida Cowell was just one of the highlights from a jam packed day! They were also treated to some outdoor street circus entertainment…

…which they all found hugely enjoyable!

Their day was rounded off with a very special workshop from Cressida, where they got a sneaky peep into the world of her imagination!

The arena was packed as the children listened intently as she told them all about the inspiration behind her stories. Let’s hope they were all inspired!

Worship Assembly Easter 2023

We’re all hopping and skipping our way into the Easter holidays after a lovely morning spent with the children to celebrate their wonderful achievements this term.

At the end of every term, Oakridge school invites parents and carers to an ever so lovely service in the Church that leaves you with a warm fuzzy feeling in your tummy. The children stroll across the village green after morning registration, the little ones in particular are always ever so excited!

This morning, Class 1 wore their Easter bonnets, which they had made in school earlier this week. They absolutely loved showing them off to their Mums and Dads!

They had also been busy blowing eggs and decorating them to hang on their Easter tree, which was proudly displayed in Church.

The older children from Class 2 gave some lovely musical performances. Despite the nerves, they powered through the pieces they had been practising hard on all term. The Church was filled to the rafters with rapturous applause!

Next it was Class 1’s turn to come to the front and tell everyone what they had been learning about. This little girl was proud of the Easter bunny moving picture she had made.

The children then delighted in parading up and down the aisle, waving a beautifully colourful cross they had decorated. It was really joyful to watch.

At the end of each assembly, the children are handed Golden Acorn’s. These are certificates of achievement that recognise any super special efforts, and there are always a lot to give out!

Finally, the children were treated to a bit of a surprise by a very special visitor who had ‘hopped’ by!

Earlier in the morning some parents had hidden lots of colourful wooden egg ‘tokens’ around the Church. There was almost a crush down the aisle as the children bumbled over each other to try and be the first to find a token!! Luckily, there were plenty and they came running back to swap it for a real chocolate, plastic free egg. Happy Easter everyone!