French Poets
Year 4 pupils have thoroughly enjoyed putting together colour poems in their French lessons this term. They have used their dictionary skills to search for new words to describe a [...]
Prep Student Council Cake Sale
This half term the Prep Student Council have been very busy putting everyone’s new year diets on hold, by having cake sales on some Friday afternoons. Lots of yummy cakes [...]
La Chandeleur
Year 6 pupils have learnt all about the tradition of La Chandeleur in today’s French lesson. Celebrated on 2nd February, they discovered that this was originally a pagan festival. While some [...]
La Saint-Valentin
Year 3 and 4 pupils have been working hard in their French lessons, preparing very special cards for Valentine’s Day. They have each chosen who to prepare their card for [...]
Debating Team
Last Tuesday Year 11 travelled to Bolton School Girls’ Division to compete in a debate following the format of the English Speaking Union MACE competition. Pupils prepared for the debate [...]
Helping Others
After the experience of going into town last week and giving out packed lunches to those in need Rose in Year 2 decided that she’d like to do it again. [...]
Year 1 Visit The British Commercial Vehicle Museum
Year 1 had a fantastic time at the British Commercial Vehicle Museum in Leyland last week. Where they got up close and hands on experience with a lot of the [...]
Ribble Valley Netball
This term Freya Dean from Ribble Valley Netball club has joined Oakhill on Friday lunchtimes to coach both our under 11 and under 9 netball squads. Freya comes with a [...]
Oakhill Boys Champions In Local Climbing Competition!
A team of 6 boys from Years 7 and 8 took part in the Hyndburn and Ribble Valley boys climbing competition at Roefield last Friday. They arrived to face a [...]
Silver Duke of Edinburgh
Our Silver Duke of Edinburgh's Award group, made up of 7 pupils from Year 11, are now underway with the Expedition section of their Award. Last weekend they ventured out [...]
Writing Success!
Last term, pupils in Years 7 and 9 entered a poetry writing competition. They were invited to write poems inspired by winter, with the prize being their publication in an [...]
80 Years Young!
Today is a very special day at Oakhill, our Chair of Governors, and Mr Baron is 80 years young! This morning he was surprised with a Birthday celebration which involved [...]
Querido Zoo
Children in our pre-school and pre-prep classes are thoroughly enjoying their Spanish lessons. Each week, they are visited by a specialist language teacher from the main school and learn through [...]
Holocaust memorial event
This month year 9 visited Whalley library and took part in an event to commemorate 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz. The art and history event involved students listening [...]
Prep School Student Council Cake Sale
The first Prep School Student Council cake sale of 2020 was eagerly anticipated, with queues forming outside the Year One classroom before the event began. The cakes were very kindly [...]
Kung Hei Fat Choi
To celebrate Chinese New Year the pupils from Year Three were invited to Yu Restaurant and Bar at Copster Green for the morning. Taz, the children's entertainer kept everyone laughing [...]
Le Navet Enorme
There was much excitement in Year 4 this week as pupils acted out the famous story ‘The Enormous Turnip’ in French. Each child chose to either act as a specific [...]
Year 2 Helping Others
It has been a busy week in Year 2 starting with a trip to Tesco on Monday to buy all that was needed for the pack lunches we made on [...]
