We had a fantastic day last week when all of our pupils and staff, and many of our families, took part in our Oaklands Kilt Walk. We are raising money to buy a new Innowalk, an amazing bit of kit that brings so many health benefits to our young people. But they don’t come cheap! We are aiming to raise £40,000 to buy one. However, thanks to our Kilt Walk, we are already well on our way to achieving this total. We were inspired to run the event by one of our fabulous pupils support workers, Helen, who took it upon herself to take part in the Edinburgh Kilt Walk last weekend, walking an impressive 21 miles, to raise money for the Innowalk and Oaklands. We have raised an impressive £15,115 so far. Thank you so much to everyone who took part and who donated to help us achieve this total.
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We love learning outdoors at Oaklands all year round. May is especially fun, as every year we celebrate all things outdoors with our Outdoor Learning Week. This year it was Carnival themed as we linked in with the local West Pilton Community Festival. We had so much fun! We had visiting dancers, a maypole, tie dying, drumming, colourful spray painting in the woods, stories and more. Best of all, we had a whole school Carnival Parade with a visiting musician, Jed, who led us all in some high energy drumming and dancing through the woods.
Carnival dancing in the woods.Albi leading some Latin dancing as part of our Carnival themed outdoor learning week.It’s always great to be star of the week at assembly, even better when it is outdoors.It’s lots of fun learning to dance during outdoor learning week.Outdoor learning week – drumming in the woods.Circle time in the playgound showing off our communication skills.Outdoor learning week – assembly in the primary playgroundClasses showing off their carnival costumes round a maypole during outdoor learning week.Festival fun in the woods during outdoor learning week.
Have you ever wanted to come and have a look around Oaklands School? Well now’s your chance. Have a look at this video for a whistle stop tour of our fabulous rooms, resources and outdoor spaces.
We are absolutely delighted to have won this year’s School Sport Award. We couldn’t be prouder of our young people who showed off their many and varied sporting talents when Sport Scotland visited our school. Have a look at the video to see some of their amazing talents in action.
Not only did we win the award, but we were also invited to the star-studded award ceremony in Glasgow which was a fabulous night out. One of our secondary pupils, Euan, represented Oaklands at the event. He looked extremely smart in his kilt and even made it into school the next day to tell us all about it. We’d also like to say a special thanks to our Sports Coach, Sharon Humble, whose hard work and incredible energy is the driving force behind this incredible achievement.
