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Oakley This year we welcomed Miss Lancett, Mr Phillips and Miss Law, and they have proved to be great assets to the House. The girls are very grateful to the whole tutor team for their unstinting support this year. In January, our new Housemother, Mrs Astill, was welcomed to Oakley from Mary Windsor and she has supported and worked alongside Mrs Smith.
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We started in the old Oakley’ before a move to the old Mary Windsor’ at the end of the Michaelmas term. We returned after the Easter break to take up residence in our brand new home which is now, without a doubt, the best House in the School When Mr Bowen came to visit the House at the beginning of the academic year, he commented that Oakley’s House spirit was very evident . This year the girls especially enjoyed visiting the Frankfurt Christmas Market in Birmingham and the pper Sixth Leavers’ meal took place in The Slug and Lettuce early in the Summer Term. We are very proud of the individual achievements of our girls too, which are far too numerous for us to mention them all here. However, Oakley was full of pride for both Montana Bent and Pippa Brock who have been appointed School Monitors for next year.
In rama, three of the leading roles in the fantastic production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream were taken by Oakley girls Polly Fletcher, Montana Bent and Emily Taylor with Katie Leather and Katie Thompson supporting in the Chorus. Behind the scenes atasha Evans and Carren Wong did a superb job in the make-up team. Helena Solomou, Olivia Berwick, Lois Beswick and atasha Osborn-Patel took part in the equally outstanding Fourth Form production Shockheaded Peter. At the end of the Summer Term, Simone Stiff and Sophia Leidinger took part in the hilarious musical Am-Dram, again directed by our very own Miss Lancett and Mrs McKee. In Music, numerous Oakley girls performed extremely well in the House Music Festival. Lizzie Leather came first
in the strings class, Cammy Tong won the woodwind class, Andrea Ellinas played the harp, Aleksandra Satikova played the violin, Anna Rogers the ute, Kate uffy sang and Emily Smith played in the brass class. Music Scholars Lizzie Leather and Anna Rogers performed exceptionally well in front of a large audience in the Birmingham Town Hall at the end of the Lent Term. Oakley girls have also been heavily involved in the Chapel Choir, Choral Society, Orchestra and various bands this year. The nison House Song Competition was as enjoyable as ever, and although we didn’t win, the sense of House spirit was extraordinary, and the hard work put in by Lizzie Leather and the House Monitor Team paid off. Our performance earned us joint third place.
In Sport, special mention must go to Pippa Brock who was selected for the Midland’s etball Squad, Georgie Boffey who was the hockey GK for the Indoor and Outdoor Hockey squads that reached the ational Finals and more recently this term, goalkeeper Hannah Taylor who was selected from eight counties for the Junior Regional Performance Centre. Lizzie Stone has represented the School at the West Midlands Fencing Competition and also in the Public School’s Fencing Championships. Faye Al- akeeb, st team hockey captain, was awarded her School Cap. Polly Fletcher was awarded etballer of the Year and Polly and Annabel Cox were awarded their School Caps for their commitment to etball. Katie Thompson was awarded Major School Colours for etball and Lauren