We are Oakwood Community School
We are delighted to serve you through a Great Education Experience
Oakwood Community School is a community of children, families, and teachers committed to learning and growing through a process of research and discovery. We seek to strengthen our connection to resources in our world, including our community, neighbourhood, city, and natural and found materials. Oakwood Community School children will deepen their love of learning, develop a thoughtful awareness of themselves and others, and have the confidence to pursue their passions.
Background Story History
Oakwood Community School was opened in 1994, in a small house in the suburb of Tema. It was solely set up to be a daycare centre for working mothers in the immediate vicinity. It was started by the late Mrs Susuana Tetteh, with the full support of her husband, the late Mr J.C Tetteh.
Both of them loved children, as they had seven of their own, and some great-grandchildren at the time. For them, their main idea to set up the school was to be a reliable, safe and secure child centre for working mothers.
For two years, after opening, there were no learners, until one of the great-grandchildren started school and a school bus was purchased to offer transport services to the learners in and around the Tema and Ashaiman Municipality.
Enrolment increased to one hundred and twenty children within that period.
With the early demise of Mr J.C Tetteh, and the unreliability of the school’s bus drivers, enrolment dwindled again to about half the existing enrolment, which saw most of the learners who attended the school to only those residing in the Tema Metropolis.
In 2008, one of the daughters of the founders, who had been working in an international school nearby, decided to join the school to help run it and improve its services with the experience and exposure gained.
Within six months of joining the Parents’ school, enrolment increased from thirty-two children to eighty-seven children. A year later, enrolment increased to one hundred and twenty learners again, in the limited space of the house at the time. This new enrolment was possible because of the transformations to the building structure, the ambience and the teaching strategies – especially the aggressive and passionate introduction of a reading culture of all children, beginning from age three, something that was not common among the schools in the vicinity.
In 2012, the new Management of the school thought of growing the school into a Primary department, instead of graduating the Kindergarteners to other schools, and hence found a bigger space for continuity.
The school grew with primary classes filling up to the Junior High Department. The school passed out its pioneer graduates after excelling in their external BECE exams in the year 2021.
Subsequently, the school has currently passed out three batches of BECE graduates and is going strong, God being its help.
Our Values
We are delighted to serve you through Great Education Experience
Responsibility
Integrity
Discipline
Excellence
Respect
Service
Mission
The Heart of Our School
To provide a Christ-centered, high-quality education that prepares and motivates our students for a rapidly changing world by creating relevant learning opportunities that will have students develop character necessary to succeed in a technologically advanced world with a global perspective.
Vision
The Heart of Our School
To become a nationally preferred and internationally recognized center of education, producing creative and global minded learners.
Goal
The Heart of Our School
To be a solution centre that meets Parents’ quest for academic grooming in making their children Inquirers, Knowledgeable, thinkers, communicators, principled, open-minded, caring, risk-takers, balanced and reflective.
Meet Our Awesome School Management
Ms Deborah Tetteh A-A
Proprietress
Ms Yvonne Adjei Owusu
School Manager
Message from The Head
Welcome to our wonderful school set in the quiet part of the Tema Metropolis. The school offers fantastic facilities for every child. At Oakwood Community School, we believe that treating everyone equally and developing a culture of mutual respect is essential to create a bond between staff and learners and between learners and their peers. We are a Christian School that upholds biblical values in nurturing our learners and the school community as a whole.
The school has developed a rich and varied curriculum that is delivered in three main areas, which we define as Head, Heart and Hands.
- Head; A challenging academic area of study from the National Curriculum and accredited courses.
- Heart; A therapeutic curriculum designed to support mental health needs and develop social and emotional growth.
- Hands; A vocational curriculum to develop the life skills needed to meet practical career aspirations.
Our highly skilled, and experienced, staff offer bespoke educational packages to match each learner’s needs and aspirations, preparing them for the next stage of their education. We believe that our learners must be educated for life, and not to pass examinations.
Our aim is always to get our young people ready for a successful and fulfilling adult life. Complementing our educational approach, we have high standards and expectations of the all-round development and behaviour of our learners, and we celebrate achievement and success at all levels.
We also champion building effective, positive, relationships with families and professional bodies, often working in partnership with key professionals that assist, as appropriate, when a learner develops specific needs. Examples might be speech and language therapists, educational and clinical psychologists, routine school health services, counselling and specific intervention therapies tailored to fit.
Ours is very much a holistic approach to the well-being and development of any child that comes to the school. I hope you find all the information you require on our website. If you have any questions or would like to talk about your ward and how we can support your family, then please get in touch.
Leading the Way in Education
Why Choose Oakwood Community School
Conducive
Envronment
Your child will bloom in an environment that is conducive for academic learning and life skills.
Literacy
Skills
Your child reads fluently by age five and by their primary years, develops love for literacy skills.
Clubs
and Activities
We have a host of Clubs (Entrepreneurship club and others) and Activities including Spelling Bee and Reading festivals, available to all pupils after school.
Top-Notch
ICT Lab
Our ICT lab is fully functional and used by all our learners
Great
Principal
Our Principal’s door is always open to parents, pupils, staff, etc.
Great
Reading Culture
All learners have access to e-readers to facilitate the reading culture of the school
Care
For Children
The child is the most important personality on our premises.