Oasis academies

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Does anyone have any information about Oasis Community Learning.

Do your children go to Oasis academies? Or do you teach in one?

If so what are your feelings about the places.

Thank you (I am an interested parent/onlooker of a local school that is in the process of being set up and will possibly be backed by Oasis).

I am thinking of sending my child to oasis academy in Enfield I have heard mixed views and read their prospectus and Ofsted report I am anxious to visit the school because I am a recent wheelchair user any views

As this is a "zombie thread" helenn71 you might consider starting a new one with the exact question you want answered in the title.

I dont have any up to date info about Oasis. But their "Christian" connection has always made me wary.

Enfield is a bit unlucky in this respect as it has the awful Cuckoo Hall Academies Trust to contend with as well...

Hi, has anyone got any more up to date information on Oasis and their academies? Are these people merely Christian, or are they fundamentalist crackpots, is essentially the question I want to get an answer to....

There is one near me.

It was a failing school but Oasus have turned it around over 5 years. It is building an excellent reputation and most local kids are going there having chosen anywhere but until a few years ago. They took over a local primary too and it is now ofsted outstanding and best in borough for results.

Go and visit. Talk to the students.

Oasis

Not crackpots. No more religious than local primaries.

Steve Chalke is the least "fundamentalist crackpot" I know. Yes he's Christian. Yes he was a Baptist Pastor. But he has a strong social justice conscience hence wanting to turn schools around, and running a city farm etc. He also run conferences to discuss how to build an inclusive Church, and is involved in active dialogue with other faiths (was good friends with an ex Chief Rabbi).

The charity is Christian, but this isn't felt or practised through the schools at all.

Oasis Academy Sholing - WHAT A HELL HOLE!
If there was a minus rating, I would rate it as - 5+.
We had just moved into the Sholing area, and we thought what could be better than going to the Oasis Academy, which was close to our new home and with Itchen college just up the road, it seemed ideal - so my child joined there. However, it soon became apparent just how bad this school is. My child regularly returned home,saying that she had not been able to learn anything, because of the bad behaviour of the students - some seemed to get away with swearing at staff and walking around all day, going into whatever classes they chose and fight a pupil mid way through the lesson and the leadership only intervened if it made them look bad. No homework set, terrible communication between the school and parents, rude entitled teachers, who argue that they are right, despite being proved wrong. Bullying and racism is ignored, certain ethnic students were isolated, because of racial bullying in their classes, but the racists were left in the classroom? The head and his SLT chronies are useless, and conyrol the PRU bound students on a pal basis to placate them. STAY AWAY FROM THIS SCHOOL, IT IS A WASTE OF YOUR TIME AND YOURS AND TAXPAYERS MONEY!!@! CLOSE IT PLEASE!.