Oaklands Catholic School
Address
Map
Stakes Hill Road

Waterlooville
,
PO7 7BW

England
Coordinates50°52′06″N 1°01′18″W / 50.86836°N 1.02158°W / 50.86836; -1.02158
Information
TypeAcademy
MottoUnited by the Cross
Religious affiliation(s)Roman Catholic
Established1966
Local authorityHampshire
SpecialistHumanities College
Department for Education URN137345 Tables
OfstedReports
Chair of GovernorsAndrew Hastilow
HeadteacherMatthew Quinn[1]
Staff>200
GenderCoeducational
Age11 to 19
Enrolment1400
HousesSt Catherine, St Clare, St Dominic, St Margaret, St Martin, St Stephen, St Teresa, St Vincent
Colour(s)Navy blue, Royal blue
Websitehttps://www.oaklandscatholicschool.org/

Oaklands Roman Catholic Comprehensive School and Sixth Form College is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form college with academy status located in Waterlooville, Hampshire.[2] It opened in 1966, although its history can be traced back to 1902. Around 1400 students attend the school with over 150 in the Sixth Form. Oaklands has been a Specialist Humanities College since September 2005.

Buildings

The school consists of seven different blocks, mainly separated into different subject groups. There have been an extensive site improvement programme seeing the replacement of prefabricated buildings with purpose designed brick-built buildings. The three new blocks consist of a new music block, Humanities block (Formerly C block, now John Paul II block) and Sixth Form Block. Each of these blocks has been built in a similar style, often incorporating a cross in different coloured bricks. 2012 has seen a major refurbishment of the Maths/Science block with Maths moving to A Block and the labs being update in three phases with completion eventually around Summer 2013.[1]

Uniform

The school uniform was redesigned for the September 2009 academic year; the expense of the uniform caused controversy.[3] A press release was released on the school website claiming many of the facts written by the newspaper articles were incorrect, and that the uniform was very hard wearing due to its materials.[4] As a response to the controversy, the school started a nearly new uniform shop where the uniform could be brought cheaper.

Alumni

Alumni of Oaklands School include:

References

  1. ^ a b "Oaklands News" (PDF). Oaklands. September 2013. p. 3.
  2. ^ "BBC NEWS - Education - League Tables - Performance results for Oaklands Catholic School". news.bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2 January 2019. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
  3. ^ Wainwright, Martin (17 August 2009). "Comprehensive defends new school uniform costing nearly £100". Archived from the original on 8 March 2016. Retrieved 12 December 2016 – via www.theguardian.com.
  4. ^ "School News & Activities". Oaklands School. Press Release Uniform. Archived from the original on 30 December 2009. Retrieved 18 August 2009.
  5. ^ "Caroline Dinenage MP - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
  6. ^ "Who is Penny Mordaunt?". 2 May 2019. Archived from the original on 17 June 2019. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
  7. ^ "Southampton's golden boy – but James Ward-Prowse's heart remains in Portsmouth". Portsmouth News. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  8. ^ Stanley, Megan (16 May 2022). "The musical comedy duo you didn't know grew up in Hampshire". hampshirelive. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
  9. ^ "A businessman who got bored of waiting for the government to reduce fly-tipping has created a new app to combat the problem". East London and West Essex Guardian Series.
  10. ^ "Man spends £300k of own money in personal war against fly-tipping". Evening Standard. 24 August 2019.
  11. ^ "'I'm not ashamed of where I grew up'". The News (Portsmouth).

External links

Schools in Hampshire (including Portsmouth and Southampton)
Roman Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth
Authority control databases
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