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 main school with over 150 in the sixth form college. It has been a Specialist Humanities College since 2005. The school had a "Good" Ofsted report in 2017 and were accredited with "many outstanding features".[3]
Buildings
The school is made up of eight houses and consists of seven different blocks, separated into different subject groups. There has been an extensive site improvement programme involving the replacement of prefabricated buildings with purpose-designed brick-built buildings. Three new blocks were developed (Music, Humanities, sixth form); each of these were built in a similar style, incorporating a Christian cross in different coloured bricks. In 2012, a major refurbishment of the Maths/Science block was undertaken. The labs were updated in three phases and the project was completed by Summer 2013.[1]
Uniform
The school uniform was redesigned for the September 2009 academic year; the expense of the uniform caused criticism.[4] A press release was issued claiming that many of the facts published by newspaper articles were incorrect, and that due to the controversy, the school would start a cheaper uniform shop.[5]
Alumni
Alumni of Oaklands School include:
- Louise Casey, Baroness Casey of Blackstock attended Oaklands between 1976 and 1983.[6]
- Jon Cruddas, elected in 2010 as the Labour MP for Dagenham and Rainham, having been elected in 2001 for the preceding Dagenham constituency.[7]
- Caroline Dinenage, elected in 2010 as the Conservative MP for Gosport.[8]
- Penny Mordaunt, elected in 2010 as the Conservative MP for Portsmouth North and Leader of the House of Commons as well as the former Secretary of State for Defence.[9]
- James Ward-Prowse, West Ham United F.C. player and former Southampton F.C. team captain and England national football team player.[10]
- Rosie and Nicola Dempsey, British comedy act Flo & Joan.[11]
- Martin Montague, an entrepreneur and author.[12][13][14]
References
- ^ a b "Oaklands News" (PDF). Oaklands. September 2013. p. 3.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Ofsted - Find an inspection report".
- ^ 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.
- ^ "School News & Activities". Oaklands School. Press Release Uniform. Archived from the original on 30 December 2009. Retrieved 18 August 2009.
- ^ "Casey of Blackstock". Who's Who. A & C Black. 2021. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U250526. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Watt, Nicholas (17 May 2012). "Jon Cruddas: the philosopher at the heart of Labour's policy planning". The Guardian. London, UK. Archived from the original on 18 May 2017. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
- ^ "Caroline Dinenage MP - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
- ^ "Who is Penny Mordaunt?". 2 May 2019. Archived from the original on 17 June 2019. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
- ^ "Southampton's golden boy – but James Ward-Prowse's heart remains in Portsmouth". Portsmouth News. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
- ^ Stanley, Megan (16 May 2022). "The musical comedy duo you didn't know grew up in Hampshire". hampshirelive. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Man spends £300k of own money in personal war against fly-tipping". Evening Standard. 24 August 2019.
- ^ "'I'm not ashamed of where I grew up'". The News (Portsmouth).
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