Special Olympics Great Britain (SOGB) is a charity which promotes access to sport for individuals with learning disabilities. I recently had the pleasure of meeting the St Albans group, Special Olympics St Albans or SOSA for short.
SOSA is a charity in its own right, running weekly sessions in athletics, basketball, boccia, swimming, equestrian, and a [...]
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Special Olympics St Albans
November 3rd, 2011 · No Comments · Sandy's blog
Tags:boccia SOSA·Loreto School·Mentmore Road allotments·Nicholas Breakspear school·Oaklands College·Sandy Walkington·Special Olympics St Albans·Townsend School·Westminster Lodge
Oaklands hosts SkillBuild
April 12th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Sandy's blog
I have just spent a fascinating morning at the Alban Park campus of Oaklands College, where they are hosting the Eastern Region heat of SkillBuild 2011. Skillbuild is a competition for young students and apprentices and today’s Oaklands heat covered bricklaying, painting and decorating, carpentry, joinery, and plastering. Entrants came from across the six counties [...]
Tags:Alban Park·Oaklands College·SkillBuild·Smallford·sustainable building
Why voting Yes in the referendum on the Alternative Vote makes sense
February 4th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Sandy's blog
I’ve just come out of a debate at Oaklands College on the merits of the Alternative Vote (AV). Putting the opposing case was my old sparring partner Anne Main. It was a lively debate and I’m looking forward to feedback on what the students thought.
I summarise my opening speech below:
On Thursday May 5th, you will [...]
Tags:Alternative Vote·Anne Main·AV·Oaklands College·Sandy Walkington·Yes to Fair Votes
Bureaucratic blunder wastes £12.5 million
April 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Sandy's blog
After a month where the Oaklands College plans for a new Smallford campus have been put in great peril and when local secondary head teachers were suddenly threatened with last minute sixth form budget cuts, we now learn that the funding body responsible – the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) – is about to incur [...]
Funding threat to Oaklands College Smallford scheme
March 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Sandy's blog
I could not have chosen a better day to make a return visit to Oaklands College’s beautiful Smallford site as my photo of the main building shows! I last came here in the 1980s, some things have changed but the attractiveness of the environment has not.
I was shown round by Mark Dawe, the Principal. For [...]
Tags:further education·Learning and Skills Council·LSC·Mark Dawe·Oaklands College·Smallford