Mark Your Calendar
Athletic Banquet Thursday, May 17.
Field Day and Middle and Upper School Awards Night May 31st.
Graduation Friday, June 1st .
we believe in respect, responsibility,
and honesty to self and others.
We seek to instill in our students the strength of character,
the creativity, and the wisdom to make a difference in the world.
Letter From Mr. Peterson
May 15, 2012: The calendar has turned to the last month of the school year, and this inevitably means hiring staff to replace teachers and administrators who plan to leave at the end of the year. This year is no different.
read more...College News
$893,900 in merit, academic, and athletic scholarship offers thus far for Class of 2012. Senior Brian Schroeder selected as National Merit Scholarship Winner and Go Daddy .ME $10,000 scholarship winner and NFIB Young Entrepreneur recipient of $5000 finalist award. Click here for College Resource Center See also '11-'12 acceptances and more scholarship recipients to date.
read more...News Around Campus
Math Olympiad Students Awarded. read more...
Student Athletes Sign Letters of Intent.
Seniors Teamber Burke and Tre Hill have signed letters of intent to play women's basketball and baseball respectively on the college level. These are the first two students in Oakwood's short history to reach such a milestone. See news clip.
read more...Congrats to 7th grade Duke TIP honorees Syona Ayyankeril, Matthew Cahill, Jack Heins, Lily Huo, Christopher Lindbeck, Josh Lopez, Emma Mehlhop.
Meanwhile, 72% of current 6th graders qualified to take the SAT/ACT in their 2012-2013 7th grade year for the Duke TIP program.
read more...7th grader, Lily Huo placed 8th in the Algebra I category of the NC State High School Math Contest. read more...
Dwight Rish's "Camo Bird" ceramic piece was selected for the North Carolina Pottery Center High School Exhibit in Seagrove, NC and will be on display from May 11-July 28. read more...
Accreditation Team Visit Completed.
Oakwood is proud to be a dual-accredited school. This is reviewed every 5 years by an objective, outside team comprised of educators and administrators from across the southeast.
read more...Weekly Bulletin
May 16, 2012. Eleven more days...do you have your summer camps lined up? Don't panic, Oakwood is here! Dance, sports, art, lots of fun...half days or whole days. Talk to Lisa Thomas Harner and look under MyOakwood for the brochure. Hurry before they fill up...the horseback riding camp is particularly popular!
read more...The Oakwood Oracle
The second edition of The Oakwood Oracle for 2011-2012 is here! The Oakwood Oracle student newspaper is published 3 times per year in the fall, winter and spring. Click for the latest edition.
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Weekly Calendar
Tue, 12/6-Tue, 06/5: M & A Mtg. /Band Rm 8:15am
Sun, 05/20: Class of 2012 Parent's Social/Peterson's Home 6:30pm
Wed, 05/23: End of Year Assembly/8:30am
Wed, 05/23: Class of 2012 Senior Luncheon at Rock Springs 12:00pm
Thu, 05/24-Fri, 05/25: End of Year Exams for Middle/Upper School
Thu, 05/24: 4th & 5th Grd. to Roanoke Island/ 7:00am-8:00pm
Fine Arts Calendar
more fine arts coming soon...
Photo Gallery
Events galore! See the photo gallery for pics from the Kapok Tree play, Prom, Upper School Pottery Class visit to Dan FInch Studio, Lower School spring concert, Shad release day, girls soccer games, the Eagle Club Chicken Dinner, annual Blood Drive and most recently the State Shooting Team Competition! see more...
Academic Accolades
A plethora of awards so far this year. Brian Schroeder and Jon Schwartz named National Merit Scholarship finalists. Brian announced as a winner! Jr. Rebecca Rodriguez has met the requirements to enter the 2013 National Merit Scholarship Program! She is among the 50,000 highest-scoring participants out of approximately 1.5 million program entrants. Check out Math Olympiad Results, Duke TIP honorees, ECU and AMC Math Competitions, Science Olympiad participants and awards, latest on Math Olympiad, individual awards for art and summer programs, Mu Alpha Theta math society and National Honor Society inductees, Pitt County Chamber of Commerce Teen Leadership Institute selectees and more.
read more...Fine Arts Features
MIDDLE SCHOOL CONCERT THIS THURSDAY at 7:00 pm : read more...
The students had a blast at WICKED : read more...
Eagle Scoreboard
Spring Sports in full swing. Baseball, Golf, Soccer, Softball, Tennis scores and schedules, click here. Tennis reg season and conf tourney champs. Seeded #3 for States this wkd. Softball seeded #4 in State and advances to Qrtrs of State on Friday. GO EAGLES.
Boys basketball conference tourney champs and Girls Basketball conf reg season champions. Swimming 2nd in conference with 10 swimmers qualifying for state competition, three all conference swimmers and the Male Conference Swimmer of the Year, Jon Schwartz. Click here to see Jon as the WITN Student Athlete of the Week. See also fall and winter sports results along with team and individual awards for the regular season, conference and state tournaments.
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Watch Oakwood Eages LIVE!
Oakwood Senior Brian Schroeder SoarsFollow the travel blogs of our Upper School students
Check out details from the annual Upper School Off Campus Education Week trips around the country and globe that take place each February. Click on the links below to travel vicariously.
