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Blind Dave visits Oakham to launch 'Move More Sandwell'

Fri 31 Jan 2020

Children in Key Stage Two had the great pleasure of spending time with Black Country legend, 'Blind Dave' Heeley on Wednesday.

He took a break for his impressive training schedule to visit Oakham and encourage all of the children, staff and their families to get involved with the ' Move More Sandwell' project.

After an inspiring talk about his life-story, numerous charity fundraising challenges and how exercise is so important in our modern lifestyles, Dave answered some very impressive questions from our children.

These covered topics such as his favourite challenges, dealing with blindness and which members of the royal family he has met (we won't mention her majesty's drinking habits, Dave!)

Following the assembly, Dave worked with Classes 8 and 9 and got everybody busy running around the playground and school hall to experience what it's like to exercise without your full vision.

Many thanks to Matt Hill at Public Health for arranging the visit and also to our Council VIP's; Sharon, Maria and Lorraine for their support too!

We wish Dave and his team all the best with their next fundraising challenge when they 'Escape from Colditz' later this year!

For more details on 'Move More Sandwell' CLICK HERE

Superhero Menu - School Census Day!

Thu 16 Jan 2020

Many thanks to everyone's support today - 276 children, many in KS1, were busy enjoying their school lunch today provided by our 'Superheroes' in the school kitchen!

Thank you for your support and it will make a big difference to the school and our funding!

Oakham's Indian Ocean research float has been launched!

Thu 16 Jan 2020

You may recall that earlier on in the school year, we were visited by Dr Bob Key, an environmental scientist from Princeton University.

We were given the honour of being the only school in the UK to be involved with their latest research project based in the Indian Ocean.

Our float was named 'Lautan' which means ‘ocean’ in Indonesian and was launched from a research vessel on the 11th of January.

Lautan will be busy collecting data on sea temperatures, currents and ph levels from the depths of the Indian Ocean and beaming it back to the USA. Some of this data will also be used in school by Oakham pupils to support their learning about environmental topics.

We will keep everyone informed about Lautan's progress. To learn more about how our float, why not CLICK HERE and watch this short animation?