Safeguarding

Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility If you are concerned about a child please consider….. Call 999 – if they are in immediate danger Contact Sandwell children’s social care on 0121 569 3100 (this number is available outside normal office hours) Contact the NSPCC helpline 0808 800 5000 If you would prefer to let us know we…

Parents Evenings 2019/20

We would like to remind parents of the remaining parents evening dates for the 2019/20 academic year. Year 9 – 23rd January 2020 Year 10 – 26th February 2020 Year 8 – 7th May 2020 Year 7 – 7th July 2020 Parents will receive reminders via the school text messaging service.

Mock Exam Results Christmas Breakfast

Our Mock Results Christmas Breakfast takes place on Friday 20th December between 7:30Am and 8:30 AM. This is a fantastic opportunity to share in the success of your child in the recent Mock Examinations that took place in November. Light refreshments and drinks will be provided.  to download a copy of the recent letter for…

Rudolph’s Rave

Building on the success of the fancy dress party back in October we are holding another OA party…Rudolph’s Rave! Please see the important details below: Tuesday 17th December Doors open in the canteen 6-8pm Urban DJ – DJ DL Students will be performing Limited amount of tickets Tickets are £2 and can be purchased from…

Staff Wellbeing @ OA

    Our wellbeing group has met to review wellbeing at OA. The team has discussed a variety of ideas to maintain and further improve wellbeing. Several members of our group are enrolling on a Level 2 Mental Health Awareness course, to enable us to support all members of our OA team. Our wellbeing advent…

Christmas Market 2019

Oldbury Academy will be hosting its next annual Christmas Market at the school on Friday 6th December between 5pm and 8pm. The evening promises to be fun for all with hot food, a Fair Ground, Local Craft Stalls, Santa’s Grotto and much more.   Tickets are on sale now from the school reception and under…

Wellies Needed

We are taking 124 Geographers on a field trip to Carding Mill Valley before half-term as part of their Geography GCSE work. If anyone has any old wellies in a wearable and clean condition that they would be willing to donate to the Geography department out students’ feet would be very grateful. If you can…

Fancy Dress Party

We are hosting a fancy dress party for the students of Oldbury Academy. The party will be in the school hall on Thursday 24th October, 6-8pm. Tickets are £2, students can purchase these from the PE department during break and lunch times. All funds raised will go towards the Africa trip and Year 11 Prom.…

Extended Open Period

Due to a mistake on Sandwell Councils website about the date of our Open Evening and high demand from parents for daytime tours of the school we have added an additional week of open mornings between 23rd and 27th September. These will start from 9:30am at the school reception and last for about an hour…