During the school day it is quite usual to find toddlers attending the playgroup, senior citizens enjoying a tea dance, adults studying in the BusinessCentre or attending a variety of courses organised by the University of the Third Age and young adults with special needs participating in their daytime club. All this adds to the school's family atmosphere, allowing the whole community to share the school's facilities. At Oak Farm we take the word entitlement seriously and have always endeavoured to provide a balanced entitlement, which attempts to meet the personal, social, and academic needs of our pupils. Fundamentally, we believe in involving pupils in their education. All schools attempt to provide that something extra which makes them different.
Enrichment takes place in many ways.
The education of children can be enriched through the enthusiasm and commitment of dedicated teachers prepared to provide a lively, interesting and relevant curriculum, but more, to provide opportunities to explore, experience, and develop beyond the entitlement curriculum. Our impressive range of extra-curricular activities is second to none. These include camping weekends, foreign exchanges and many popular trips arranged by Year Heads and Tutors, for example, to the cinema, theatre, concert and museum visits, swimming, ice skating, ten pin bowling, and horse riding. Oak Farm led the way locally in offering all Year 10 pupils a period of work experience. Now all upper school pupils not only undergo work experience, but also a challenging pursuit and community service which make up the three prongs of the Project Trident scheme.