On Thursday, Year 1 travelled to the Sea Life Centre in Weymouth as part of their ‘animals and living things’ topic work in science. The sun shone for us all day and the children behaved beautifully. Highlights of the day were the baby otters, fairy penguins and the underwater tunnel...

We are delighted to have been awarded the Platinum School Games Mark. This is the highest Mark achievable, and is awarded to schools that have met the standard for the Gold Mark in the previous four years. The School Games Mark is a government-led awards scheme launched in 2012 to reward schoo...

Year 4 were very lucky on Monday to have some special guests come from the Natwest Moneysense Team as part of work included within the schools Safeguarding Curriculum. Students explored the Save Your Pennies, Save The World topic in which they learned all about different types of energy, the impact...

We welcomed Tom Williams to Oaklands yesterday, for a fascinating Introduction to Parliament assembly for our KS2 pupils. The children really enjoyed the talk - perhaps we'll see a former Oaklands pupil in Parliament in the future!

Years 1,2 and 3 were lucky enough to have a visit from the authors Sarah McIntyre and Philip Reeve, who have written the books Adventure Mice.  The children thoroughly enjoyed drawing their own adventure mice characters as well as playing their very own space-themed game.