Welcome to Oakridge Parochial School
Term dates for 2009/2010
Term One : Tuesday 1 September 2009 - Wednesday 21 October 2009
(Inset Days 1st & 2nd Sept - Pupils start Thurs 3rd September)
Term Two : Monday 2 November 2009 - Friday 18 December 2009
Term Three : Monday 4 January 2010 - Friday 12 February 2010
(Inset Day 4th Jan staff only - Pupils return Tues 5th Jan)
Term Four : Monday 22 Februray 2010 - Thursday 1 April 2010
Inset Day 1st April staff only - Pupils finish term 4 on Wed 31st March
Term Five : Monday 19 April 2010 - Friday 28 May 2010
Term Six : Monday 7 June 2010 - Friday 23 July 2010
(Inset Day 23rd July staff only - Pupils finish term 6 on 22nd July)
INSET DAYS 1st & 2nd SEPT/4th JAN/1st APRIL/23rd JULY - STAFF ONLY)
Introduction to Oakridge Parochial School
Oakridge is a well equipped, forward thinking school, seeking to work in a close partnership with teachers and governors, children, parents, church and the village community.
We seek to nurture those Christian qualities, skills and attitudes that will enable the children to develop into happy, responsible, confident young people, well adjusted to living in a demanding and ever changing society.
We encourage pupils to take responsibility for, and full advantage from, a learning situation which keeps up to date, whilst appreciating our tradition and culture
We aim to plan and deliver an appropriate curriculum for a small rural school. This is founded upon the principle of meeting the progressive needs of all the children at the school and delivering the programmes of study for each subject contained in the National Curriculum. We aim:
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To foster awareness of the arts, music, science, technology and literature.
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To value the individual.
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To develop an understanding of the interdependence between people and their environment.
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To encourage spiritual and moral development and an understanding of other faiths, cultures and societies, as well as our own.
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To support self evaluation by both staff and children.
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To provide the resources required to teach the school curriculum and equal opportunities for all children to participate in it.
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To develop a partnership with parents and the community that benefits the school.
Because Oakridge is a Voluntary Aided school, the majority of governors are Foundation Governors, that is, they are appointed by the Diocese of Gloucester on the recommendation of the Parochial Church Council of Oakridge Church.
The Foundation Governors have particular responsibilities to ensure that the whole curriculum is delivered amidst a distinctive Christian ethos. The religious education reflects, within a modern education context, the requirements of The School's Trust Deed, dated 20th April 1871 and there is a daily act of school worship.
Contact Us: Oakridge Parochial School Oakridge Lynch Stroud Gloucestershire GL6 7NR Tel/Fax: 01285 760269 e-mail: admin@oakridge.gloucs.sch.uk or use the Enquiry link on the left.