Oakside/Woodside

Oakside and Woodside are the classes that make up our sixth form, which is set within Aylesford School-Sports College, a mainstream secondary school.  We regularly use the canteen, sports and library facilities and join in with many shows and activities throughout the year, enabling both sets of students to learn from each other.  Our curriculum is based around developing Functional (English, Maths, ICT) and Vocational skills together with Personal Social Development. All students work towards recognised accreditation and follow a personalised learning pathway.    In their own words, our students have written about what they like about life at school.

House System

Our house teams are Hever (blue), Rochester (red), Dover (green) and Leeds (yellow). Throughout the year we compete in a range of activities ending in a big sports day that our parents come to. We also earn points for our houses for being helpful, thinking of others and doing good work.

Transport Awareness

Every week we go out to shop for our cooking lessons, we travel by public bus, minibus or train. We go to all different places like Tesco, Sainsburys, Asda and Maidstone town centre.

Duke of Edinburgh

A group of students will be working towards completion of their Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award this year. Throughout the year they will working on Volunteering (fundraising) and some students are looking forward to developing their cycling skills as part of the physical section. An overnight expedition (under canvas) is planned for the Summer Term.

Residential

Once a year we go to Butlins on our residential trip. We plan our meals; do our own shopping, all the cooking and the washing up after! We also go swimming and bowling and have lots of fun at the disco!

Activities

The extra activities we do are bowling, cycling and after school football club. We also take part in the Kent School Games and Panathalon Challenge, where we came 2nd in 2013. At Christmas we go to the pantomime and Christmas shopping. We go to Larkfield Leisure Centre for our swimming lessons.

Options

We have studied lots of subjects in our Options lesson on Friday afternoons including car maintenance, singing, hair and beauty and space.

Work experience

Each year we have a careers week, when we do work experience. We have been the Vine Café, Tuck by Truck, Spadework and Five Acre Wood main site.

Prom
We have a school Prom at the end of each school year to say goodbye to the leavers. We have a competition to design the tickets and vote for the Prom King and Queen enjoy the night with our friends, teachers and parents.