'The Eagle has Landed' (At Oakthorpe!) - 04 February 2012

This half term, the children at Oakthorpe have been truly inspired to complete some projects at home to show off their space learning. You can see th...

The ULTIMATE 2%ers have been chosen... - 27 January 2012

As part of our push to BEBRILLIANT, the Learning Council have been busy choosing the best 2%ers from across the school. In assembly we talked a...

To Oakthorpe and BEYOND! - 27 January 2012

During the first half of the Spring Term we have been doing lots of learning about SPACE. In January we had a visit from a mobile Planitarium where w...

We are truly brilliant! - 08 December 2011

We have been throwing ourselves into 'Being Brilliant' this term by fundraising for thecommunity! Altogether we have raised over £40...

Enterprise Day with Albert Village - 17 November 2011

On Wednesday 16th November, children from Mr Ellis' and Mrs Witham's classes had an exciting enterprise day all about the High Street. We had a great ...

Oakthorpe is becoming more and more BRILLIANT! - 01 November 2011

The Learning Council have been very busy! So far they have talked to the school about being 2%ers and Mood Hoovers and a lot of the children are alr...

--------NEWSFLASH-------- - 25 October 2011

Oakthorpe is becoming BRILLIANT! With the help of Andy Cope, the Learning Council have begun to help the whole school to become more BRILLIANT! Chec...

'3 Little Pigs' themed week of learning - 14 October 2011

We have had an exciting week this week with our whole school cross curricular themed week of learning all connected to the '3 Little Pigs' story. &nbs...

Wildlife area Update - 27 September 2011

The wildlife club are sat on the butterfly bench in the wildlife area updating the website on our new laptops. The pond is looking very green and yo...

Underground House GRAND OPENING - 23 September 2011

On Friday 23rd September the whole school were involved in the Grand Opening of our new outside learning space on the schoolfield. It was a fant...

Thank you for the Harvest Gifts! - 23 September 2011

We must thank everyone for being so generous and bringing in gifts of food for our Harvest Festival. The Marlene Reid Centre are as always extremely a...

Parents of 4+ come for lunch! - 23 September 2011

After an exciting morning going to the church to celebrate Harvest Festival we welcomed parents of 4+ to come and join us for a special Harvest dinner...

Bude - celebration event - 15 September 2011

We've had tears of sadness tonight as the children said a final farewell to their tutors. Jake Redfern won the 'Wally' T-shirt for being good fun and ...

Bude - Final Day! - 15 September 2011

Dragon boats and Surfing today for our final full day at Bude. The weather has been great and the waves fantastic! &nbs...

Bude - Canadian Canoes ! - 14 September 2011

Climbing! - 14 September 2011

A great day today with bright sunshine (after a bit of a rainy start for our early morning run!) Here we are climbing! &...

Bude-We are the champions!!! - 14 September 2011

The boys took on everyone at footballand ended up victorious. There were 6 other teams and we were undefeated. Big thanks to our special coachin...

Beach Time! - 14 September 2011

We had a great time on the beach.....

Bude 2nd day! - 13 September 2011

We've had it all today - huge rainstorm and bright sunshine -luckily the sunshine lasted most of the day! Mountain boards, canadian canoes and a fancy...

Billy's Birthday today! - 13 September 2011

Well, it was an eventful night last night. Having got to sleep much earlier we were all woken at 4.30am to the lovely tones of the fire alarm!!! It ce...