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Maya, in Year Three, swims at the Pioneer Club and she has been awarded first place for front crawl. She has also been a winner at Glow Dodgeball, played in Blackburn. Well done Maya!

Last week our prep football team played their final matches in the Ribble Valley B Football League. They won 2 and drew 3 which meant they finished overall 3rd in the league!!! Fantastic attitude and performances from every player that has played over the year!

Well done to Juliet in Year Three, who last weekend took part in a competition at the Blackburn ice rink. With a combination of fantastic spins, spirals and jumps Juliet achieved first place. Well done for a fantastic result!

Well done to Evan in Year Three, who this weekend received a special trophy, that he gets to keep, for being a member of Lammack Junior Football Club. He also earned a special medal from the rugby team that he plays for attending practices and matches for the whole year! [...]

In case you weren't aware, last Friday was National Laugh Out Loud Day. This was celebrated at Oakhill by year three and year four in their class assembly. With a mixture of jokes, prayers, a song, photos, videos and a drama sketch the children kept everyone laughing and smiling. Well [...]

The fabulous staff at QSM in Briercliffe took Year 8 round the steam engines and weaving sheds of the mill which only closed in 1982. Brandon and his colleagues answered questions and explained in detail the process to take cotton from plant to woven cloth, demonstrating several machines on the [...]

The Senior pupils took part in the Oak Mudder as part of their House competitions. This required pairs to complete an obstacle course with tasks ranging from crawling under tarps, jumping horse jumps, wheel-barrow wiggling, coconut shy and hoop activities amongst others. The winning House was Scholars, and the Oak [...]

Oakhill History Club are delighted to be group winners in the National Archives 20s Streets Competition. Students have researched Longworth Road in Billington and the family who owned Oakhill House to find out their stories and piece together a community's experiences as they lived through the trauma of war. Longworth [...]

On Friday we took a bus load of prep and another bus of senior pupils down to Whalley Cricket club for practice in the nets at lunchtime. The sun shone for us and a lovely time was had by all. We decided to award the person with the most wickets [...]

The annual Oakhill Association Plant Sale was yet again, a blooming success! Orders totalled almost £1300. Many thanks again to T Cornwall and Sons of Higher Walton, Preston for the fantastic variety of plants and vegetables and to everyone who placed an order.