Friday 4th July 2025

Dear Parents and Carers,

We had a lovely end to the week with Reception’s year group assembly this morning. They shared some of the highlights of their year, which included some beautiful art work and singing. The children showed such confidence in front of such a large audience of parents and grandparents. Thank you to all of the staff for supporting the children to put on such a great assembly and to all of you who joined us this morning.

It is hard to believe we are approaching the end of another academic year! On Tuesday we welcomed our new Reception families to Oatlands and children had the opportunity to visit their new classes. It was a good day all round and I heard very positive feedback from Mrs Greene at Cleves about how well our year 2 children did when they visited year 3 for the day.

A huge thank you to everyone who attended Fun Day last Sunday. The day was a great success and there was such a lovely atmosphere. Thank you to all of the staff and parents who gave up their time to run a stall. I understand that we have raised in the region of £2,400!

We are looking forward to our Sports Days at the beginning of next week and hopefully it won’t be too hot! We are very grateful to the Multi-sports team for running our sports day again this year. Please remember to send children to school in PE kits along with hats, sun screen and water bottles. Families are welcome to come to the school field and cheer the children on.

Multi-sports will also be attending our new families Reception picnic tomorrow at the field on Pantile road. This will be a lovely opportunity for our new families to meet each other again ahead of them starting in September. Fingers crossed for dry weather!

We hope you have an enjoyable weekend!

Tanya Mooney 

Key Dates Next Week

Saturday 5th               New Reception parents’ welcome picnic

Sports Days!               Please see the details below

Wednesday 9th         9.15-10.30 SEND Coffee Morning

Wednesday 9th         Starfish Forest School

Wednesday 9th         3.00-3.30 PTA Cake Sale

Thursday 10th             Year 2 Chiltern Open Air Museum

Friday 11th                  1:30- PTA Camping Weekend

Morning Rules 

Please remember our rule about children staying with parents/carers in the morning. This is to ensure children are safe and ready for school. 

We thank you for your cooperation 

Sports day next week

Year 1 – Monday 7th July – 9.30-10.15

Year 2 – Monday 7th July – 10.30-11.15 (NEW TIME)

Reception – Tuesday 8th July – 9.30-10.15

Children should come to school in their PE Kits which they can wear for the whole day.

Oatlands PTA Camping weekend- Friday 11th

Everyone confirmed on the Oatlands Camping weekend is registered to collect their children from school at 1:30pm on Friday 11th July. For any enquiries please visit the website www.oatlandscamping.co.uk or email oatlandscamping@gmail.com

PTA Bake Sale-9th July

Year One will be hosting this term’s bake sale, straight after school at 3pm on Wednesday 9th July. Cakes, biscuits and sweet treats will be on sale to all year groups for minimum £1 donation per cake. As previously, it will be predominantly cash only. Please plan to bring exact change to speed up sales.

Could Year One parents please bring any home-baked or shop-bought cakes, biscuits and other treats to school at morning drop-off? These will be collected outside Y1 classrooms. No nuts and nothing that needs to be refrigerated please. Thank you

Extra-Curricular Clubs & Activities – finish dates for this term

Street Dance

Year 1 – last session Monday 21/7/25

Year R – last session Tuesday 15/7/25

Year 2 – last session Wednesday 16/7/25

Spanish

Year 2 – last session Monday 21/7/25

Year 1 – last session Tuesday 15/7/25

Story Book Club – last session Tuesday 15/7/25

Little Arts & Crafts – last session Tuesday 15/7/25

Small Sports Club – last session Wednesday 16/7/25

Our Art Club

Year 1 – last session Wednesday 9/7/25

Year 2 – last session Thursday 17/7/25

Lego – last session Thursday 17/7/25

Choir – last session Thursday 3/7/25

Multisports – last session Friday 18/7/25

Cleves PTA 2nd Hand Uniform Sale- Change of date to 11th July

Cleves PTA would like to warmly invite any families of upcoming Year 3 students at Oatlands School to attend our final second-hand uniform sale of the year at Cleves. We’ll have a great selection of quality items available.

Friday 11th July

3:15–4:15pm

Astro Turf between Year 5 & Year 6

Thank you, and we hope to welcome some of your families soon! Best regards, Cleves PTA

Safeguarding Notice

If you have any concerns about a child’s safety or wellbeing in the school or community, please speak to one of our Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSL). DSL- Tanya Mooney, Head Teacher.  DSL- Phil Copsey, Deputy Head Teacher or DSL-Kelly Grindle, Oscar Manager and Nurture Lead.

Star Writers

Well done to this terms Star writers who have been awarded for demonstrating Oatlands Values 

Ladybirds

Oliver, Indie & Jaya

Bumblebees

George, Willow & Witold 

Butterfly

Braxton, Maya & Elliot

Jellyfish

Rafferty, Ewan & Yigit

Seahorses

George, Leena & Heidi

Starfish

Ayaan, Natalie & Brooke

Tigers

Joshua, Jaxon & Martha

Lions

Gabriel, Elias & Arya

Leopards

James, Jonathan & Ibrahim