Personal Safety:

• Look confident

You are less likely to be targeted if you look confident. Move with purpose and try to be aware of your surroundings.

· Know where you’re going

Plan your route and think about what to take with you, especially if you’re going somewhere you haven’t been before. Keep to busy, well-lit streets, walkways and paths which are more likely to be covered by CCTV. Only take licensed taxis or minicabs booked by phone or a mobile phone app.

· Keep your distance

When walking behind someone, particularly at night, try to leave a good amount of distance between yourself and the person ahead of you. Remember that the closer you are, the more threatening you might seem. 

· Cross the road

Somebody running up behind you, particularly at night, can be frightening.

If you’re out for an evening run, or walk, and see someone walking ahead, cross the road, call out to let them know you’re about to run by them or make sure to leave a good amount of space when you pass them.

· Keep comments to yourself

What you might think of as just a bit of fun, or flattery, can be insulting, upsetting or even scary to someone else. Keep any comments or opinions to yourself.

· Keep your friends in line

If you’re in a group of people where someone is harassing another person on the street, try to calm the situation. They may just need to be told that they’re behaving inappropriately.

Protect your mobile phones:

· Don’t leave your phone, iPad, tablet or camera unattended, out of your sight, or left on a table. Thieves can grab a phone from a table in seconds.

· Be aware of your surroundings and only use your mobile when it feels safe to.

· When you’ve finished using it, put it away.

· Secure your phone

Use your phone’s security features to stop someone using your phone if it’s stolen. Choose a strong PIN, passcode, password or pattern.

· Get your IMEI number

Get your phone’s IMEI number by typing *#06# on your phone keypad. Keep a note of it somewhere other than on your phone. The IMEI can help track the phone down if it’s lost or stolen.

· Use a tracking app

Set up a tracking app on your phone so you can see where it is from another device like a laptop. Use it as soon as possible, before thieves have a chance to disable it.

Please find our response to an Ofsted inspection conducted in April 2025.

We have published our 2025 exam results day information HERE.

If you have any queries please contact the school office.

Congratulations to all our students who did so well in their exams this summer. There was significant improvement in A Level grades with 51.2% achieving A– C and 26.8% achieving A– B. The average grade in BTECs was Merit – and the average grade for technical subjects was Distinction. Ten out of seventeen students achieved grades that surpassed their targets.

We are thrilled that 9/11 students were accepted on to their first choice University courses. Students will be studying for degrees in subjects such as Geography, Music Performance and Industry, Sports Psychology, Fine Art, Drama and Musical Theatre and Biomedical Science at Glasgow University, Liverpool Media Academy, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool John Moores University and the University of Chester.

Good luck to them all!

Open Evening – 17TH September 6-8pm- all welcome no booking required.

We welcome all year 6 students, parents and carers to attend either of our open events to see what we offer here at Oldershaw. Our evening event is a chance to hear from our Head of School, review our curriculum offer and tour the school facilities.

Open Morning 16th September 9-11 – Booking only parents only

Open Morning 23rd September 9-11 – Booking only parents only

Booking is essential on 0151 638 2800

A Level, BTEC, AS Level, Functional Skills Results Day Thursday 15^th August 2024 – 9.00 – 11.00am

Students collecting A Level and BTEC results (Year 13) – 9.00am -10.00am

Students collecting AS Level and Functional Skills Maths and English results (Year 12) – 10.00am -10.30am

GCSE Results Day Thursday 22^nd August 2024 – GCSE examination results will be available for Year 11 students 9.00am – 11.00am

GCSE English and Maths resit and Level 2 results will be available for Year 12 and Year 13 students from 11.00am

• Students should enter the site via the Valkyrie Road, Main Hall entrance
• Students will enter the Hall and collect their results
• Students will then move to the tables in front of the stage for destination/careers guidance. Representatives from Wirral Met and Career Connect will be present.
• On the way out students must confirm their intended destinations.

Unfortunately, this year the School will only be able to allow parents/carers on site by appointment. If you would like to accompany your child please contact Mrs D Miller, Exams Officer.

If you would like to collect your child’s results on their behalf you may do so by appointment and you must provide a signed letter authorising you to do so, written by your child.  You must be able to provide a recognisable form of identification.

Please note that we are unable to email results to students or their representatives.

For full details please see relevant letters HERE

Exam Certificates for GCSE exams completed Summer 2023 are available for collection from Main Reception, Monday-Friday 8.30am – 3.30pm.

Certificates must be signed for and suitable ID provided.

Certificates will be at Main Reception until Friday 16th February 2024 and will then be archived in line with our retention policy.

Last night the Oldershaw School Trust Board met to discuss all matters, opinions and feedback connected to the consultation over proposed closure of the sixth form.

After due consideration, the trustees voted to proceed with the closure of the Oldershaw Sixth Form, agreeing that there was a lack of financial viability and that the trustees could no longer justify the high subsidy required to support it, preferring instead to reinvest this money to enhance the 11-16 provision. They will now submit the full business case to the Department of Education at the earliest opportunity. This business case in the current climate of national closures of small sixth forms is seen as a formality, and the trust’s legal advisors expect the trustee decision to be fully ratified by the Department of Education.

This in effect means there will be no Year 11 into Year 12 in September 2024. Year 12 will go into Year 13 and full closure will take place when these students leave in Summer 2025.

The school intends that all students in the 11-16 provision of the school are well informed in making their post 16 choices and we will shortly be announcing plans to run a range of careers events beginning in early January 2024. We intend to support those Year 11 students still to choose a further education provider, and the small number who may have been displaced by this decision, in making a more informed choice about the other sixth form providers in the Wirral and Liverpool; further information on this will follow.

Steve Fisher – Executive Headteacher

The trustees of The Oldershaw School, have made the decision to go to consultation regarding the proposed closure of the school’s sixth form. The proposal is made in recognition of a changing educational landscape on the Wirral, which sees a number of small in-school sixth forms with very low numbers, increasingly unable to compete with the excellent facilities and offer of Birkenhead Sixth Form College, and the vocational offer from Wirral Met College. Nationally, schools with small sixth forms are finding it ever more difficult to compete with dedicated sixth forms and still deliver a wide curriculum offer, this has resulted in a large number closing over recent years. Of those that still exist, many run with non-viable class sizes and that requires a large subsidy that impacts heavily on budgets, this has increasingly been the case at Oldershaw.

After careful consideration the Trust Board and Leadership Teams feel that the monies subsidising the current sixth form can be better invested in developing teaching and learning and facilities for mainstream 11 to 16 learners. This will enable the school to have a clear focus on compulsory education to ensure that those pupils moving onto the next phase of their education have all the skills and academic support that they need to achieve the best outcomes and be best prepared for the next stages in their development.

Oldershaw School (Ofsted ‘Good’ March 2022) continues to be a heavily oversubscribed school, and in September 2023 only 85% of Year 7 parents who made the school their first choice were able to secure a place. Freeing up the space currently used by the school’s sixth form, would allow the school to admit an additional number of students into Year 7 over coming years and help to meet the demand that exists.

We have provided all our families and school partners with detailed information about the reasons for the consultation and welcome their views which can be given by written response or attending a public consultation on Wednesday 8 November 5.30pm to 7pm. Further information can be found in the letter below along with the designated contact email address.

Steve Fisher – Executive Headteacher