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 2025, we’re bursting with energy! Our youngest pupils are enjoying exploring Lucy Cousins’ Hooray for Fish, especially the multi-sensory interactive activities linked to this. KS2 are busy with Myths and Legends, and KS3 are learning about South America. In the 14-19 Phase, Benjamin Zephaniah’s Talking Turkeys is a hit with KS4, who have also been planting lots of summer vegetables. The 6th Form are taking their learning outdoors as much as possible (a whole day learning in a tent on the field!) and are working with HandMade Theatre on a Jungle Book interactive experience for KS2 in Professor Penny’s Theatre of Possibilities. And we’re all really looking forward to Sports Week from Monday 19 May – Sports and Sensory Challenges, Mini Olympics, archery, indoor bowls, mechanical horse and much much more!
Our music ensembles are practising Holst’s Mars and Snow Patrol’s Chasing Cars for a performance at the Djanogly Theatre (Lakeside) on Friday 23 May. The choirs are enjoying singing and signing their new songs (Best Day of My Life, Don’t Stop Believin’ and Try Everything), and we’ve recorded and sent a song to our link schools in Cuba! In terms of PE and sport, we really like the rebound sessions and kwik and table cricket. Our lunchtime clubs are thriving – especially the Walking Club (‘Come Rain or Shine’) and the Thursday mobile outdoor disco. And do ask us about our Thursday morning Parent Power group, which meets every week!
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