Head teacher's welcome

As the head teacher of Oakdale South Road Middle School, I am delighted to welcome you to our school website.

We are a friendly, happy and popular middle deemed primary school, serving the communities of Oakdale and Old Town Poole.  Additionally, we also currently have children from other areas of Poole. From September 2013 we change to a 7-11 Junior school.

Our school community has many qualities but, in particular, prides itself on good pupil personal development, high standards of pupil behaviour and good participation in the many enrichment clubs and activities that are on offer to our children.

Achievements have included nationally recognised awards such as Sport England Activemark, Healthy Schools and Artsmark Silver.
Our 2010 OFSTED inpection resulted in the school's overall effectiveness being graded as outstanding. Particular strengths included:

• Pupils' achievement and the extent to which they enjoy their learning
• Extent to which pupils feel safe and contribute to the school/wider community
• Pupil behaviour
• Effectiveness of care, guidance and support
• Safeguarding procedures

Our school has excellent resources, a wonderful building and a staff and team of governors committed to continual improvement.

If you wish to find out more about us, please contact the school.  I or my Deputy, Mr Cook, or Assistant Head, Miss Horlock, would be more than happy to talk to you and show you around. 

Rob Alborough, Headteacher
January 2011

 

Use the guidance below to explore our site and find out more about Oakdale South Road Middle School by taking our Visual Tour.  Our Mission Statement defines the school's aims and our Home School Partnership Statement sets out our expectation of the way in which the school, parents and pupils should work together in partnership.  The School Prospectus will answer many of your questions, as will our Policies, School Profile and latest Ofsted report, but please do contact us for further information or to arrange a visit.

Please note we are currently close to implementing and making live a re-designed website.

Brief guide to using this site

The menu buttons at the top of every page will take you to the various areas of our site.

Within each area, use the buttons down the left hand side of the page to explore in more detail.

If you get lost, just click on our school’s dolphin logo, in the top left of the screen, to return to this home page

To view some of our documents, you will need Adobe Acrobat reader, which you can download for free by clicking on the Adobe icon at the bottom of this page.

Depending on your Internet connection speed, some of our images and documents may take time to download. Please note: we have removed the photographs from our website prospectus for this reason but hard copies with photos are available from the school office.

We have included a number of links to other websites that may be of interest to you. Please remember that links will open in a new window. Close the window to return to our own site. Whilst care is taken in selecting other sites, neither Oakdale South Road Middle School, its staff nor the South West Grid for Learning are responsible for their content, which may include advertising.

To find out about safe use of the internet, visit the government's internet safety advice site for parents at www.parentscentre.gov.uk and click on the 'Using computers and the Internet' section. You can also visit www.besafeonline.org.