Edition No 38 2022/2023

A huge thank you to everyone who attended our fantastic Year 8 Presentation

Evening at The Frome Memorial Hall. Special thanks to Karen Stewart and John Killah from Fair Frome who were our Speakers.

Attendance E-mail: attendance@oakfieldacademy.co.uk

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INFINITY AWARDS SUMMER 2023

Name

Mrs Adams

Mrs Booth

Mr Colman

Mrs Cook

Ms Davel

Mrs Green

Madame Hall

Mr Hockley

Ms Munoz

Mrs Newland

Nominated By Category

Mrs Bourne

Kindness & Respect

Sam Incledon Kindness

Amelie Leakey & Sybil Durlacher

Elena Coulson

Kindness & Respect

Ambition, Honesty, Etiquette, Kindness, Respect & Pride

Hannah, Flo, Tab, Mia & Daisy Kindness

Mrs Adams Kindness & Pride

Lily Hall Ambition, Honesty, Etiquette, Kindness, Respect & Pride

Ms Mundy Ambition, Honesty, Etiquette, Kindness, Respect & Pride

Isla Grant Kindness & Respect

Tilly Hughes Honesty & Respect

Mrs Roynon Sophia & Ella 6A Kindness

Miss Schiffer Isla & Elena 5O Ambition, Honesty, Etiquette, Kindness, Respect & Pride

Mr Shaddick Cade Kingston Ambition & Pride

Mrs Webb

Mrs Woods

Miss Wright

Darcey Atkins

Daniel Beet

Alfie Bown

Ryan Butland

Billy Comer

Elena Coulson

Eden Dibble

Sophia Dowson

Toby Durston

Cade Kingston

Henry Irwin

Freya Long

Sybil Durlacher

Jake Gray

Summer Harwood-Clink

Aziva Maddox

Max Marks

Ruby Maudsley

Rowan Packman

Toby Parker

Archie Pearce

Tilly-Rose Smith

Ella Waterfield

Lucas Wheeler

Mrs Bourne Kindness & Respect

Tianna Goodall Ambition & Pride

Romilly Squirrel-Bowman & Aimmie Brassington

Kindness

Maddy Burge Kindness

Mrs Green Kindness

Miss Manvill Kindness

Mrs Thomas Ambition

Ms Mundy & Toby Parker Ambition & Kindness

Maddy Burge Kindness

Ms Mundy & Oscar Pearce

Rocco Mitchell

Kindness & Pride

Kindness & Pride

Mrs Curtis Ambition & Pride

Mr Shaddick Ambition

Adam Bottomly Kindness

Miss Pullen Ambition, Kindness & Respect

Amelie Leakey

Kindness & Respect

Miss Manvil Kindness

Nancy Lyall

Kindness

Daisy McCormick Kindness

Mrs Curtis Ambition & Pride

Nancy Lyall

Kindness

Francesca Jones Kindness

Mrs Green Kindness

Mrs Roynon Honesty & Kindness

Ms Mundy Kindness

Unknown

Kindness & Respect

Loki Woodbury Kindness

We are delighted to announce that 3 of our middle leaders are taking on some extra responsibilities/projects over the next year:

Mr Reynolds—Leading on PSHE, including careers

Ms Nightingale Supporting the SEND Department leading on ‘inclusive classrooms’

Mrs Green—Leading on teaching expectations and routines

Bea Baylis 6A is hoping to raise some money for charity by doing litter picks around Frome. Her goal is to collect a hundred bags and to raise a hundred pounds. She's collected 10 bags already. She has a go fund me page online

https://gofund.me/aecc782a

John and I just wanted to email and say thank you for inviting Fair Frome to come and talk to your Year 8 students at their Celebration Evening.

It was a real pleasure to be there and to help celebrate the achievements of the students and to have the opportunity to talk about the support that Fair Frome gives the Frome community.

Please do pass on our thanks to all the other members of staff involved.

Warm Regards

Karen Stewart and John KiIllah Co-Chairs of Fair Frome Trustees

TERRIFIC TWELFTH NIGHT

Shakespeare club’s performances of Twelfth Night last week brought a number of firsts for Oakfield Academy:

It was the first time Oakfield have been included as part of Frome Festival, the first time we have had three separate casts performing…and the first time (as far as we can remember) that the mayor of Frome has come to watch us!

Pupils from all year groups really rose to the challenge, with audiences describing their performances as “wonderful”, “fantastic” and “hugely impressive”. As well as the performances, pupils took on stage management, sound and prompting, not to mention creating “Twelfth Night Taskmaster” from scratch and producing a series of social media posts to advertise the show. The social media campaign was a great success, with over 3,000 ‘likes’ and leading to all nights being sold out.

CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE INVOLVED!

The academy office will be open between 9am and 3pm to sell uniform on Monday 24th July and Monday 4th September. CASH ONLY. Uniform will not be available to buy on Tuesday 5th September due to staff training. Pupils return Wednesday 6th September 2023.

As part of the transition process to Frome College, selected Year 8 pupils were invited to meet Frome College teachers at the Earth Science Centre, Mells and later at a working quarry.

Congratulations to pupils from our “S” classes who had their House Rewards Assembly last Friday.

CONGRATULATIONS to the following

Winners:-

Year 6 Ella Snelling & Molly Hampson

Year 7—Nancy Walters & Sam Leathes

Year 8 Isla Fagan & Isobel Pang

CONGRATULATIONS to:-

First Place—Oscar Pearce 5N

Second Place—Bella Eckard 5A

Third Place—Stella Prochazka 5A

Relay action shot taken at the re-arranged KS3

Sports Day by Miss Pullen

Mrs Newland, 6C Tutor, wanted to share this fantastic Anderson Shelter that was built by Charlie Rundle in her tutor group. The shelter even had a very noisy air-raid siren!

21 Jul Last day of Term (close 2pm)

Summer Holidays 2023

24 Jul Unifom for sale (9am-3pm)

4 Sep Uniform for sale (9am-3pm)

4 & 5 Sep INSET Days

6 Sep Term 1, pupils return

6 Sep New Yr 5 Photograph Day

21 Sep Open Day & Evening

27 Sep 40x Yr 8 Pupils visit Hinkley Point

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19 & 20 Oct INSETs

w/c 23 Oct Half Term Holidays

30 October Term 2

15 Dec Last day of Term, finish 2pm

16 Dec—1 Jan Christmas Holidays

2 Jan INSET

3 Jan Term 3 (pupils return)

Congratulations to Dax Hackworthy in 80, who spent a day working at The Piano Shop, Bath with his father as part of the ‘Take Your Child To Work Day’ activity.

HEAD LICE BLAST

We have received reports of a number of cases of head lice around the school. Please check your child’s head regularly over the holidays so that we can all return in September without any unwanted visitors.

Thank you for your support.