Active Kids Levelling up the cricket playing field at Spratton Hall SPRATTON HALL IS proud to be one of the first schools to offer mixed cricket teams across their whole prep school (children aged 8-13). Until 2021 their sporting offering was divided, with different sports for boys and girls. The school made cricket the main summer sport for girls in the summer of 2018, which was so well received, they have created 25 mixed teams this year. Parents have whole-heartedly embraced this change, and support for all teams has been fantastic this season. The school’s commitment to cricket and sporting success has been an important factor in their recognition by the Cricketer magazine, as one of the Top 50 Cricketing Prep Schools, for three years running.
National Teaching Award for Steph the Chef WITHAM HALL’S VERY own Steph the Chef has been awarded the 2022 Pearson National Teaching Award for the ‘Unsung Hero.’ Steph is much loved by pupils, parents and staff alike and this is a fitting accolade for the leader of the Witham Hall Catering Team.
Entrepreneurial Oakhamians OAKHAM SCHOOL ENTREPRENEURS have been selling products to staff and pupils as part of a new business-led activity set up in memory of a former student. Year 12 pupils created businesses, came up with ideas for a product to sell and then marketed it to the school ahead of the marketplace event. They then set up stalls on the school grounds in their teams and sold their chosen products to their audience. The stalls included jewellery, fidget spinner pens and sticky ceiling balls, all of which were very popular with their target market. The pupils taking part in the activity had all studied the newly-launched Freddie Groome Enterprise Challenge, which pays homage to late Old Oakhamian Freddie (’13) and was set up in his memory after his death in 2020. As a lover of all things business, Freddie’s family, along with his former classmates, wanted Freddie’s legacy to live on at the school and have funded the project to give pupils the opportunity to thrive in the world of enterprise. Over the past academic year, pupils have developed their business-building skills by learning how to prepare, develop and review their own business ideas. Throughout the scheme, pupils demonstrated a range of enterprising skills including teamwork, leadership and innovation. The course will now finish with a review of the success and profit of each business.
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