Oak Class - Post 16 | Merefield School

Welcome to Oak Class!

Oak Class Staff

Class teacher- Lesley Hall

Teaching assistants- Paula Green, Myra Rice, Angela Rimmer and Eileen Duff

Oak class have a flexible space designed to allow students to develop skills for work and independent living skills. We are equipped with a full kitchen, classroom area, toilets and social space.

In Post 16, we aim to facilitate the generalisation and development of skills within real-life contexts to enable our pupils to prepare for the next stage in their lives, usually a college, work placement or social care placement. Pupils work towards a variety of accreditations and qualifications including ASDAN Personal Progress, ASDAN Personal and Social Development and ASDAN Bronze Silver Gold award. Our aim with each student is to support them to achieve their potential as an individual both academically and socially. We have a highly practical curriculum model with lots of opportunities to access other provisions and the local area.

Autumn Term 2024

This term our topic is famous authors with the class studying William Shakespeare. We will be visiting the Shakespeare North theatre to watch a production of Romeo and Juliet which will support and inspire the pupils with their creative writing and art work. Cookery sessions will be focussed on developing independence in the kitchen whilst making a variety of healthy snacks, baking for our annual MacMillan coffee morning and preparing a Veronian feast fit for Romeo and Juliet.

As part of work related learning the class have developed their own community cafe enterprise. Pupils have developed a Friday breakfast roll cafe, planning the advertising, budgeting and shopping for ingredients, preparing all food and providing a delivery service to staff. All money raised from this enterprise will go towards a class reward trip at the end of term.

We will be accessing a variety of community based sessions such as Dunes Leisure centre, YMCA gymnastics and sporting competitions with MSLD partnership. We will be continuing our links with the local supermarkets and work experience placements including Birkdale community hub, Bridge Inn farm, Apple of My Eye and Park Lodge.

Some information for the forthcoming term:

Contact details for school -
Tel: 01704 566173 or email: admin@merefieldschool.co.uk
(Main reception – attendance, money, school information/letters etc).

Class teacher email: l.hall@merefieldschool.co.uk (Class queries) or message on dojo.

We politely request a contribution of £2 per week to go towards purchasing additional snacks, drinks and food technology items which we provide throughout the week. Any money should be sent into school in a clearly labelled envelope and can be paid on a weekly or half termly basis.
• Our class swimming session to Dunes will be on Tuesday afternoon and school swim on Friday mornings, please send in a kit and towel on that day. We also have active/sports sessions on Thursday mornings so appropriate clothing and footwear should be worn that day.