Positions Of Responsibility
Congratulations to Year 11 pupils Ben and Emilie-Anne who are our Head Boy and Head Girl for this year and Scarlett and Louis who are their deputies. We have a [...]
Bouncing, Balancing And Burrowing Bunnies
This weeks reception PE lesson was all focussed on the letter ‘B.’ Our pupils became little bunny rabbits. Taking part in bouncing challenges including hoop skipping, jump rope and rope [...]
Build A Bodybuilder
Year 10 GCSE PE students sat a very different exam this week. Rather than a written exam they had to work in teams to ‘ build a body.’ Each group [...]
Modern Art
Former head girl Georgina Watson has very kindly donated two 2 metres tall 3d printed sculptures from her Bachelor's Degree Show from 2017. The two pieces are an example of how [...]
Year 7 Team Building
Year 7 pupils enjoyed a fantastic teambuilding day at Gisburn Forest this week. The day started with an orienteering task. It was a delight to see the keenness and [...]
Forest School
Reception’s forest school has got off to an exciting start with lots to explore in the woods over the last couple of weeks. We started with a minibeast hunt to [...]
While We Can’t Hug
Year 2 have enjoyed reading the book While We Can’t Hug. It is a lovely story that explains all the other things that we can do to show people that [...]
Year 2s Autumn Walk
Year 2 have been using iPads when out on an autumn walk. They had fun looking for leaves, acorns, berries, Bramley apples and the best of all conkers. They took [...]
DofE
This weekend our bronze and silver Duke of Edinburgh’s Award groups enjoyed the great weather as they headed out into the Ribble Valley to undertake their expeditions. Our year 11 [...]
Badminton Club
Mrs Smith's badminton club was popular on Friday with our key stage 3 bubble! Pupils worked hard refining their skills after a long six months off! But they could still [...]
BMX Club
This Thursday saw the return of Mr. Peel's BMX club, and many pupils from Years 7 and 8 took the opportunity to get out into the school grounds and the [...]
Reception’s First PE Lesson
This morning Reception had their first PE lesson with Mrs Smith. The lesson began with some ‘getting to know you challenges’ then moved on to bean bag skills. The pupils [...]
Powering Up Outside
Year 5 took their learning outside this week to take advantage of the milder weather and the outdoor eco-classroom. What better place to run around and look for the information [...]
Dodgeball Tournament
We hosted the borough dodgeball tournament at Oakhill. We welcomed 12 schools to play in the ‘spirit of the school games tournament.’ This was a none competitive event where rather [...]
Year Three DT
Year three have begun their new D.T. topic on Sculpture. They were set the challenge of using only cocktail sticks, sultanas and marshmallows to make a sculpture. It was a [...]
Mountain Bike Adventure
Oakhill cyclists of all ages got together last Sunday for a mountain bike ride across Gorple Moor and sections of the Pennine Bridleway. Pupils, ex pupils, parents and staff made [...]
Annual Cross Country Race
On Friday we finally got a beautiful afternoon to host our annual inter house cross country race. All of our senior pupils from Year 7 to 11 took part and [...]
Ribble Valley Schools Swimming Gala
Oakhill entered the Ribble Valley schools swimming gala on Monday, competing against nine other schools. Although we only had a small pool to choose from our team did fantastically well! [...]
