Oakwood Extras

The Oakwood School is more than a school. It is a community that seeks to develop children who will contribute to the world around them and care about making it a better place. What is experienced and learned outside of the classrooms is often just as important as what our students learn in class.
Teachers, administrators and parents have worked side-by-side to create traditions and a school culture that is rich with opportunities that develop the whole child. Community Service is a large belief of our school starting in PK3 through 12th grade where students can “learn that service to others is one of the deepest satisfactions the human spirit can know.” Multiple clubs help students find their niche, summer programs for fun and enhanced learning as well as after school programs and care that will continue to nourish your child after the school day ends. Technology is an important tool for teaching and as well as an integral part of the student’s learning application beginning in PK3. Likewise, parents are a crucial piece of the Oakwood experience and are encouraged to participate and be a part of the school helping to shape as well as experience the family environment that Oakwood is known for.
Clubs and Honor Societies
We want our students to reach beyond their academic classrooms to further their character development. To this end, we offer an abundance of extracurricular programs that allow our students to engage with and be mindful of others, to explore interests and passions that exist beyond the classroom, and to develop leadership and collaborative skills through clubs, seminars, academic bees, student government, academic competitions and Olympiads, cross-grade level mentoring programs, and honor societies.
Community Service
Service is a pillar of The Oakwood School.
Oakwood’s mission clearly states that the School endeavors to teach its students that human beings have an obligation to make the world a better place: The Oakwood School seeks to instill in its students the strength of character, the creativity, and the wisdom to make a difference in the world.
Part of Oakwood’s Philosophy Statement reiterates that our students will learn to value contributing to the world around them: The Oakwood School exists to help our students to learn and to love learning, to value themselves and others, and to become contributing members of ever-larger communities.
Finally, one of Oakwood’s Belief Statements beautifully explains the value of community service: We believe that both within and beyond the school walls, students learn that service to others is one of the deepest satisfactions the human spirit can know.
Our goal is to integrate knowledge and understanding with compassion and social responsibility, while we strive to promote empathy for others through diversity of ideas and experiences. Each division of the School has developed age-appropriate community service programs to nurture in our students a concern for the communities and world at large.
Technology
We pride ourselves on technology at Oakwood. The curriculum is designed to prepare students for a rapidly changing global society and technology as an integral part of class instruction and learning in all grades. Our faculty works to incorporate technology as an effective tool while students learn to purposefully collect and analyze information and to use technology to create, communicate, collaborate, and demonstrate their growing understandings of the world around them.