The 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.
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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:
- To foster awareness of the arts, music, science, technology and literature.
- To value the individual
- To develop an understanding of the interdependence between people and their environment.
- To encourage spiritual and moral development and an understanding of other faiths, cultures and societies, as well as our own.
- To support self evaluation by both staff and children.
- To provide the resources required to teach the school curriculum and equal opportunities for all children to participate in it.
- To develop a partnership with parents and the community that benefits the school.
Oakridge Parochial School is a co-educational Church of England Aided primary school and as such receives its funding, in part, from the Diocese of Gloucester. Thomas Keble, vicar of Bisley, established it in 1837. The present building opened in 1872. The school has strong links with the Parish Church, St. Bartholomew’s, and participates regularly in family services and village festivals. The school endorses and supports the covenant between St. Bartholomew’s and the Oakridge Methodist Church.
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.
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