Oasis Academy Oldham is a coeducational

secondary school A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' secondary education, lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) ...

with academy status for 11- to 16-year-olds in the Hollinwood area of

Oldham Oldham is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, amid the Pennines and between the rivers Irk and Medlock, southeast of Rochdale and northeast of Manchester. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, wh ...

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. The academy was formed from a merger of Kaskenmoor School in Hollinwood and

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. The academy is sponsored by the

Oasis Trust Oasis Charitable Trust, commonly known as Oasis, is a UK-based Christian registered charity. It was founded by the Reverend Steve Chalke in September 1985. Chalke had been assistant minister at Tonbridge Baptist Church, Kent, for four years. He ...

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© Crown copyright When in 2016 the Collective Spirit Free School was closed, Oasis Academy Oldham accepted many of the 230 displaced children into years 8,9,10 and 11.

History

The academy was formed in 2010 from a merger of Kaskenmoor School in Hollinwood and

. These schools had a reputation for indiscipline. It moved into its own buildings in September 2012. It was inspected by Ofsted in late November. They were complimentary of the behaviour of the students and the enthusiasm of the newly appointed headteacher but rated everything else to be inadequate. Text was copied from this source, which is available under a
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© Crown copyright. The school was originally staffed by teachers from the preceding schools. In 2011, the previous principal left and 20 staff in August 2012: staffing was not stable, routines and procedures were not in place. The academy was already a larger than average secondary school with a smaller than average proportion of students from minority ethnic backgrounds. Over half the students were eligible for the

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, i.e. on

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s or in local authority care. The new principal had started in April. The school community followed Ofsted advice, and in May 2014 it left special measures. It still 'required improvement'. In 2016 the school still 'required improvement'. When in 2016 the Collective Spirit Free School was closed, Oasis Academy Oldham accepted many of the 230 displaced children into years 8,9,10 and 11. In 2018 it moved back into special measures as it was an inadequate school. Ofsted focused on pupil under-achievement. The most able pupils and disadvantaged pupils made exceptionally poor progress. In July 2020, Ofsted reported back on the results of their Section 8 monitoring inspection. They approved the school's improvement plan and the trust's statement of action.

Description

Oasis Academy Oldham is part of the Oasis Community Learning group, and evangelical Christian charity. The trust have guided forty schools out of special measures. 19 per cent of the 52 Oasis academies classified as failing. The trust's founder Reverend

Steve Chalke Stephen John "Steve" Chalke (born 17 November 1955) is a British Baptist minister, the founder of the Oasis Charitable Trust, a former United Nations' Special Adviser on Human Trafficking and a social activist. Chalke is a Fellow of the Royal Soc ...

says "Turning round a school is sometimes a quick fix, it really, truly is. And sometimes it’s a really long, hard, hard job".

Academics

Curriculum

Virtually all maintained schools and academies follow the National Curriculum, and there success is judged on how well they succeed in delivering a 'broad and balanced curriculum'. Schools endeavour to get all students to achieve the English Baccalaureate(EBACC) qualification- this must include core subjects a modern or ancient foreign language, and either History or Geography. The academy operates a three-year,

Key Stage 3 Key Stage 3 (commonly abbreviated as KS3) is the legal term for the three years of schooling in maintained schools in England and Wales normally known as Year 7, Year 8 and Year 9, when pupils are aged between 11 and 14. In Northern Ireland the ...

where all the core National Curriculum subjects are taught. This is a transition period from primary to secondary education, that builds on the skills, knowledge and understanding gained at primary school, and introduces youngsters who are starting from a lower than average base to wider, robust and challenging programmes of study needed to gain qualifications at

Key Stage 4 Key Stage 4 (KS4) is the legal term for the two years of school education which incorporate GCSEs, and other examinations, in maintained schools in England normally known as Year 10 and Year 11, when pupils are aged between 14 and 16 by August 31. ...

. They study English, Maths, Science, History, MFL, Geography, Art, Performing Arts, RE and Design plus Sport. They are provided with

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and

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s. At Key Stage 4 the focus is on the EBACC, and there are daily Maths, English and Science lessons- plus some options. Spanish and French are the taught Modern Languages. Again knowledge organisers are used

References

External links

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