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School Life
Find out about our Sports Day on 18th and 19th June and our Summer Fair on Saturday 20th June between 1pm and 4pm
Read more about our busy final half term of this year!
Find out about summer half term 1.
Read Mrs Scarth's start of term letter for Summer 1
Find out more about another busy half term at Oatlands Junior School
Read all about Spring 2 in Mrs Scarth's start of term letter.
We spoke to our new CEO, Ian Tucker, to find out more about his background and his vision for Red Kite Learning Trust.
Read Mrs Scarth's letter for the end of Spring 1
Join Project MUGA at Enchanticas' Spring Ball on 21st March
All children took part in a day full of maths fun, and learning about the importance of the NSPCC.
Please support our fundraising campaign to build a new MUGA (Multi-Use-Games-Area) on the playing field.
Help Us Build a New Multi-Use Games Area (MUGA) on the playing field.
We are raising funds to build a brand-new Multi-Use Games Area (MUGA) at Oatlands Junior School.
Many happy returns for the first birthday of our marvellous Bike Bus!
Welcome back for Autumn 2 at Oatlands Junior School
Join us for our New Starters Meeting on Wednesday 12th November at 1330.
Read about our busy half term
Tigers have been joined by Mr Ratcliffe from St John Fisher Catholic High School in the Brass Brigade.
Read Mrs Scarth's message for the end of the school year.
Keeping Children Safer Online: An Essential Parent & Carer Talk
With Anna Sarjantson
? Tuesday 30th September 2025
? 6:00 PM
? Oatlands Junior School
We’re thrilled to announce that OJS placed 4th overall in the country in the Outdoor Classroom Big League!
Follow the link to read the FACE Newsletter July 2025
Our Trust Educational Visits Coordinator and Science Teacher at Harrogate Grammar School, Joanne Sutcliffe, reflects on the value of school trips, not just for students but for the colleagues who make them possible.
Richard Sheriff, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), of the Red Kite Learning Trust has made the decision to retire from his leadership position and look to pursue his many other interests both within and beyond education.
A huge thank you to everyone who completed the survey in March. We had a great response, with 104 responses distributed fairly equally across the year groups.
Find out more about Learning and Teaching Assistant Vacancy at Oatlands Junior School.
Read more about Dr Bike's visit to Oatlands Infant and Junior School on YourHarrogate website
Read more up-to-date advice for parents and carers for online safety
Enjoy a slideshow of all the winner of the decorated egg competition 2025
Read all about our sporting successes in Miss Bakes's Newsletter.
Happy Easter from Oatlands Junior School! ??
We hope you have a wonderful Easter break. Enjoy the time with your loved ones and come back ready for the new term.
?✨ **Eid Mubarak!** ✨?
Oatlands Junior School wishes all our students, families, and community members a joyous and blessed Eid. May this special occasion bring peace, happiness, and prosperity to everyone celebrating. Enjoy the festivities and cherish the moments with your loved ones.
Congratulations to our successful netball teams at Harrogate Grammar School!
Oatlands Junior School is celebrating the outstanding results published in its latest Ofsted report.
BBC News report on Oatlands Infant and Junior School Bike Bus
Oatlands Junior School feature in Harrogate Advertiser for our Bike Bus and Beechwood Grove School Street
More than half the children in Year 5 have now completed their Bikeability training.
Our school participated in the Panathlon on 04/03/2025, competing against seven other schools in various activities. The team demonstrated outstanding behaviour, resilience, and teamwork, ultimately winning the event.
Another successful Bike Bus with children and families from Oatlands Infant and Junior Schools
Another successful football tournament for children at Oatlands Junior School
The fabulous BIKE BUS returns on Friday 14th February! We look forward to seeing you there.
Schoolchildren break the Guinness World Record for largest ever poetry lesson
Year 5 set off on a magical journey to explore space in the Planetarium!
Year 6 joined Poetry Workshop from Maria Ferguson.
Thank you to everyone who joined us and supported us along the way on our first Bike Bus of 2025!
CEO of Red Kite Learning Trust, Richard Sheriff talks about the “tricky balancing act” of deciding whether to close schools during ‘snow days’ and the toll of abuse teachers face on social media.
Oatands Infants and Junior Schools' Bike Bus was a resounding triumph!
The whole school had a fantastic time at Harrogate Theatre, watching the patnomime Beauty and the Beast
Everyone at Oatlands Junior School Enjoyed Christmas Jumper Day in aid of Save the Children
As many services and agencies are closing over Christmas, we wanted to contact you to offer some suggestions about where you could access support and advice during that time if you require it.
Read more about the Bike Bus
We are delighted to annouce that the DfE has approved the proposal for Saltergate Schools to join our Trust.
Children at Oatlands Junior School celebrated Odd Socks Day on Tuesday 12th November
Oatlands Junior School were joined by Brigadier Crossland for our Remembrance Assemblies and wreath laying
Thank to our friends at the NSPCC fort heir workshops in Year 5 and 6 classes
Well done to everyone who represented OJS at the Year 5/6 netball tournament.
Well done to our Year 4, 5 and 6 Girls' Football Teams at the Sport Influence Tournament
Welcome back everyone in Year 6 who took part in the Mount Cook residential.
What a resounding success!
Thank you to everyone at OJS for their generous contributions to our Harvest Collection for Harrogate Foodbank
The RED Award at OJS
See the video of our art exhibition at RKLT offices.
As we approach the end of the academic year we want to share some of our Cluster Team highlights, successes and feedback from the past year.
ed Kite Foundation is designed to enhance the life experiences and opportunities of children in its care facing challenging circumstances.
Year 5 and 6 boys from Oatlands Junior School victorious at Yorkshire Dynamo County Finals 2024
Our schools are all part of Red Kite Learning Trust, a multi academy of 14 schools who benefit from centralised support and collaboration.
Our Youth Board have been discussing rewilding, sustainability, election plans and the first Red Kite Learning Trust Olympics.
The first Red Kite Learning Trust Olympics took place this week with year 5 and 6 pupils from all our Trust schools competing in a number of sporting events.
We are excited to showcase the first art exhibition in our Trust Central Office and recently welcomed the Oatlands Junior School and Trust community to a special Open Evening.
Miss Bakes lead an enthusiastic team at the Harrogate Area Cricket Finals at Pannal Cricket Club.
Another successful sporting event for Oatlands Junior School
Another fabulous tournament for Year 3 and 4 footballers from Oatlands Junior School.
This week, our Chair Trustees, Chris Tulley, and our CEO, Richard Sheriff, sent an open letter to local MPs and other senior politicians and executives in
the Department for Education about school funding.
Last month, Maths Leads from all our primary schools came together to collaborate and share best practice.
Another wonderful performance from two OJS football teams at Rossett School
"Lights! Camera! Action!" our two Year 6 teams performed at Authors Abroad Poetry Slam at the Carriageworks in Leeds.
Thank you to everyone who organised and took part in Harrogate Ladies' College girls' football tournament.
Prickly Pigs visited OJS to tell us all about looking after hedgehogs in the wild.
Our Red Kite Learning Trust Youth Board met again earlier this month. Read all about their meeting and initiatives our young people are working on.
See photos of Year 6's trip to Ripon Museums
Well done to our two year 3/4 football teams!
A marvellous fundraising effort from our whole school community.
Thank you to everyone inovolved.
What happened to Dick Turpin? How wide was a Viking long ship? What could be found in canopic jars? What did Romans do with knuckle bones? All these questions were answered at our pop-up museum.
Miss Bakes arranged for children to take part in a range of sports as part of Disability Awareness Week
Enjoy photos from another busy World Book Day
A great big thank you!
Enjoy some photos of our fabulous day with the Birdman
Congratulations to children from years 3 and 4 who came first at Harrogate Panathlon!
On Thursday 22nd February, our Wellbeing Champions had the opportunity to visit Saint Michael’s Hospice
Children throughout Oatlands Junior School took part in activities link to Safer Internet Day on Tuesday 6th February 2024.
Online workshop with SF Said
This term, our Youth Board met up to discuss rewilding initiatives, Trust-wide sustainability, improving attendance and ideas for future meeting agendas.
Children from all year groups enjoyed taster sessions with X Martial Arts School
Year 5 and 6 footballers finish first and third in the latest tournament
Thank you for supporting our endangered animal fundraising competition.
We have some extra special guests leading our assemblies today. Thank you for answering all our questions.
Year 6 starting a brand new project with Artizan
Oatlands Junior School transformed into a Planetarium for the morning!
"Moments matter, attendance counts."
Oatlands Junior School choir joins "the largest children's concert in the world!"
Enjoy photos of another busy Christmas at Oatlands Junior School
Sula Stanhope is just like any other Year eight student. But inspired by her teachers at Oatlands Junior School and Harrogate Grammar School to a love of English, she has written and published a book.
Seasonal advice from National Online Safety
Keen to learn from our young people, to give them a voice and an opportunity to help shape the future of our Trust, last year we set up our Red Kite Youth Board. Read our latest update.
Mrs Scarth is visiting every class in school to share a Christmas story.
Flamingos, Cheetahs and Meerkats have all enjoyed reading the Explorer by Katherine Rundell. Today they were lucky enough to meet the author online.
Great to get some tips on staying safe on the internet from PCSO Martin Powell
Fabulous second place for Oatlands Junior School's chess team
A little taster of Italian delicacies to inspire writing in Year 4.
Year 4 and 5 found out a lot more about Diwali in our special celebration assembly.
Another successful tournament for Oatlands!
Red Kite Learning Trust are holding a Recruitment Open Day where you can find out more about current teaching and operational career opportunities available across our Trust.
Congratulations to our year 3 and 4 netball team.
A brilliant result, coming second overall.
Well done!
As keen mathematicians at OJS, everyone has taken part in the qualifying rounds for the Maths Challenge to represent their Oatlands Housein the finals.
Everyone is looking forward to the finals on Thursday 12th November.
Ofsted has confirmed that Oatlands Junior School continues to be a ‘Good’ school with evidence to suggest that the school could be judged outstanding if we were to carry out a graded inspection now.
In this year’s report we have chosen to celebrate the successes of our schools, communities, colleagues, and young people by telling some of the stories from across our Trust.
Welcome Back! I hope you all enjoyed a lovely half-term break. The children have certainly liked sharing what they have been up to over the holiday with me, throughout this week
School closes today for the half-term holiday. I look forward to welcoming the children back to school on Monday 5th June at 8:55am
Children and staff have enjoyed getting into the Coronation spirit this week, making crowns, creating their own bunting designs and celebrating with class parties
Saturday 13th May 8am-12pm
We have exciting, planned improvements to our school grounds next academic year. In preparation for this, we are keen to carry out remedial works to get ready for a significant investment in the outdoor space. On Saturday 13th May from 8am-12pm, we are opening school
Wishing you all a lovely Bank Holiday weekend and I look forward to welcoming the children back to school on Tuesday 2nd May at 8:55am.
A warm welcome back to school and I hope you all enjoyed a lovely Easter holiday. Summer term is always busy and exciting, with lots of events planned.
Another fabulous, themed week has been enjoyed by all the children in school, finishing with a visit to the OJS French café, this afternoon.
Thank you for your donations - the total so far stands at £266.
Oatlands Junior School
A good time was had by all during Children’s Mental Health Week.
Oatlands Junior School
This year’s theme is ‘Let’s Connect’. Children at OJS will be exploring this both in assemblies and PSHE lessons. Let’s Connect is about making meaningful connections.
All our pupils and staff look super today in their maths themed outfits! Lots of creative number work happening in lessons, especially when thinking about future jobs and what type of maths skills are involved.
On Thursday 8th December we are taking part in Save The Children Christmas Jumper Day.
Friday 18th November
Next week, the children will be taking part in activities for Anti-Bullying Week.
The giant pumpkin competition winner was announced today. The actual weight was a whopping 40.59kg!
£1 a go
Friday 7th October 2022
Get active whilst helping combat climate change!
It’s been a busy year for Arts Committee and Art with three major artworks created and a lot to catch up on.
The new sculpture for 2022, All Together: The Crown, celebrates the 70th Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
CARING ABOUT TODAY, CREATING SUCCESSFUL TOMORROWS.
Our upper school choir proudly represented OJS at the North Yorkshire Schools Platinum Jubilee Concert.
Well done to our Y6 cricket team who came a close second in the North Yorkshire Schools cricket competition
CARING ABOUT TODAY, CREATING SUCCESSFUL TOMORROWS.
Science Club got off to a flying start - quite literally! - as we designed and flew rocket mice!
Saturday 18th June 2-5pm
On Tuesday 31st May, Freddie and Jishnu in the Grizzly Bears Class travelled to York to take part in the North Yorkshire Rockets Cricket Team Under 11s
On Tuesday 22nd March a famous
explorer called James Ketchell
came to OJS to tell us about his
Everest expedition and lots more of
his adventures.
