Welcome

Welcome to Oakthorpe Primary School!

We are a small, friendly and caring school situated in the village of Oakthorpe, Swadlincote. We have 105 amazing children who are well-behaved, thoughtful and work really hard! Together, all of our dedicated staff team, along with our supportive parents make our school a great place to learn with lots of fun along the way. To find out more about our ‘Vision, Values and Aims’ click on this link.

We are really lucky to have wonderful grounds with a pond wildlife area, a woodland wildlife area and a huge playing field. Although our postcode is Derbyshire we are actually a Leicestershire school. Click here to see where you can find us! We have a great ICT suite and interactive whiteboards in all our classrooms. We have a good sized school hall (complete with projector and screen) and all our meals are cooked on the school premises. We warmly invite parents to come and join us for lunch – just book at the office in the morning! Look out as well for our special themed lunch days when parents are very welcome!

CLUBS

We have many clubs available to our children throughout the year as we believe in offering a wide range of opportunities to our pupils. For example we run a cookery club, varied sports clubs such as cross country and athletics, a dance club, an art club, homework club and the children run a range of clubs themselves! We do vary clubs to offer as wide a variety as possible so check newsletters for updates!

PUPIL VOICE

We have a valuable school council who represent Oakthorpe pupil views. The school council make an important contribution to how we run the school and collect opinions from the children about things we do. This includes policies, how we change the school environment, what clubs we run and even our aims and school motto. At Oakthorpe the views of our children really matter! We encourage children to take an active part in everything so if you call us at lunch-time expect to speak to our professional receptionists!

WHAT’S ON THIS SITE?

This website is to give you an overview of our wonderful school and an insight into some of our key features. We hope you like it! You will find helpful homework links and photographs of work and activities we do at school. There are also useful links to community web-sites and information about our governors as well. If you miss a newsletter you will be able to catch up here.

This website is frequently updated so make sure you come back and visit regularly to find out what’s new and what we’ve been up to! If you are a parent, governor or child you will find the link to our VLE Fronter as well. Through the VLE you will have access to the latest agreed policies and you will also be able to add your opinions and ideas to current forums – please visit as your views are valuable! If there is anything else you would like to see on our web-site then please let us know.

COME AND HELP US!

We are always looking for new skills and talents in school to help us improve the provision for our children. If you want to help us in any way please get in touch! We have a working party for Healthy
Schools and a hardworking PTFA who always need helpers! If you just want to offer your skills in any other way let us know!

If you need any more information about the school, do not hesitate to contact us. You can e-mail the office or telephone our secretary Angela Yates with any queries.

Kind regards,

Mrs D. Moulds

Headteacher