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Welcome to Oak Bank School

A special message from the Head Teacher
For those of you who do not know about Oak Bank School, we are a special school which caters for pupils who have social, emotional and mental health difficulties, including associated challenging behaviours. Many of the pupils that attend the school have additional special educational needs such as autistic spectrum disorder (ASD), attention deficit and hyperactive disorders (ADHD) and speech, language and communication difficulties.
Places for pupils are commissioned at the school by several local authorities, Including Central Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Milton Keynes and Luton. All pupils who are referred to the school have an education, health and care plan.
Oak Bank is an Outstanding learning community (Ofsted 2015 & 2019) that engages pupils and develops positive attitudes to learning. The school currently has capacity for 127 pupils ranging from age 9 to 19. ‘The quality of education is outstanding and life changing’ Ofsted March 2019.
Staff at Oak Bank are confident and skilled in building positive relationships that help to break down barriers, build self-esteem and challenge disaffection. Teachers and support staff at Oak Bank are highly trained to meet the needs of individual pupils.
Many of the pupils that attend Oak Bank have not had success in their education elsewhere. Through their attendance at Oak Bank, these pupils rebuild their trust and desire to learn. Our pupils achieve exceptionally well academically, from often lower-than-expected starting points. They leave school at Year 11 or after sixth form with relevant qualifications and work experience that helps them gain employment.
Our website provides only a glimpse into the range of our provision, ethos, activities and the fun that our pupils and staff enjoy as they learn. Please contact the school if you would like to know more.
Peter Cohen
Executive Head
Oak Bank School
3 months ago
Wellbeing Team: Please find attached some information that may be useful to you. It refers to a school nurse text service run by Bedfordshire Community Health Services.
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3 months ago
ASDAN: The staff and pupils have all been working on the same skill-based content to earn Google Workspace badges.
This is a self-paced program with a bronze, silver and gold structure and very quickly people are rising up the ratings.
We want to mention JW in Yr9. He has completed bronze and silver. He is now going for gold. He has completed more units than other pupils and staff. A huge well done on the effort and engagement and something that needs the recognition to go beyond the class.
Well done everyone. Keep up the great work.
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3 months ago
Horticulture: Excellent effort from LG today. Sowing “Big Max” pumpkins and “Habanero” Chilli plants. The greenhouse was left cleaner than when we started! Keep up the hard work
Many thanks
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Good lad👍😂👍
Love it ❤️💛💙🧡😎😉😎😉😎😉😎😉
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3 months ago
Oak Bank Families: Active Adventure have asked schools to make available their flyer promoting activities this summer.
There is a web address and numbers included for those wishing to find out more.
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