Netball Trip to LA

15/07/2008

The school netball team has just returned from an inspiring trip to Oasis USA.

The team of nine Year 10 students and three members of school staff (with one staff member from Oasis Community Learning) went to Los Angeles for a week where they taught netball skills, helped disadvantaged young people with literacy and numeracy, worked with the homeless and had a day at Disney. Before leaving the UK the group were excited by the thought of going to the Californian beaches, when asked on their return what the best thing was about the trip the answer was a unanimous, ‘Working with the homeless!’ The trip made a huge impact and some of the girls now want to explore working with the homeless here in the UK.

Julie Winterman, Head of the predecessor school and Principal Designate of Oasis Academy Brightstowe, said,

I am delighted that our partnership with Oasis Community Learning has resulted in this trip even before our opening as Oasis Academy Brightstowe. The visit to LA both celebrates the wonderful talent of our girls’ netball team – they are Bristol champions – and gives students and staff the chance to support an educational initiative as representatives of the wider Oasis family. This is just the start of a very exciting future.