Visit October / November 2016
oakslaurel2017-03-24T11:12:29+00:00Great although very long journey – everything went to plan, marvellous, arriving in Bo 10 pm Tuesday 18th October. Approximately 19 hours door to door!! Angela, Max & [...]
Visit Report. April / May 2016.
oakslaurel2016-05-22T00:32:19+00:00Great journey. Even arrived at the correct terminal at Brussels airport, no going through security again by having to negotiate the change over. Fab. About half an hour [...]
Future Development
oakslaurel2016-04-25T16:20:10+00:00The Vision Thing OAKS Primary school opened for 100 kids from deprived backgrounds in October 2007. Since then we’ve slowly expanded. Class 6 and Sierra Leone’s equivalent of 11+ [...]
Laurel’s visit to Bo. February 2016
oakslaurel2016-03-05T18:22:53+00:00Tuesday 2nd February – Wednesday 24th February Another early start with too much luggage. Checked in for 06.15 flight to Brussels & onward to Freetown, arriving at 6pm. Met [...]
Visit Report. 4th – 22nd November 2015
oakslaurel2016-01-15T10:56:02+00:00PART ONE - Laurel & Anne Flight Wednesday & Journey to Bo Thursday November FOG & Tuesday flight cancelled. Re-routed via Brussels the following day with an upgrade to [...]
Balloon Race Winner from Neston Fair, held on 4th July.
oakslaurel2015-09-02T10:23:18+00:00In a pretty mediocre summer, Neston Fair at Comrades Field was once again a lovely sunny day, thus the whole event was well supported, a fun and friendly family [...]
First Visit post Ebola restrictions. May/June 2015
oakslaurel2015-08-03T20:59:01+00:00Bo has been Ebola free for more than 100 days. Cases in Freetown appear to be very sporadic and falling, under 5 new cases. Schools opened 14th April, so [...]
Spring Ball 2014
oakslaurel2015-02-28T11:46:35+00:00Saturday 15th March 2014. Almost 200 revellers assembled at Thornton Hall for a scrumptious meal, sparkling chat, dancing to Dave Bladen disco and amateur band ‘The Spangles’. Generous [...]
Visit to Rhyl High School
oakslaurel2015-02-26T21:20:49+00:00Members of OAKS Junior Secondary School have been corresponding with a group of Year 10 and Year 11 pupils from Rhyl High School, since October 2013, via ‘Rhyl Football [...]
Leaf Report. Class JSS 1.
oakslaurel2015-02-26T13:16:30+00:00A difficult year of transition. Children from other schools have been noticeably weaker in their English speaking, reading & understanding, by comparison to our OAKS pupils whose command [...]