Oak Tree School
Free schools special school in Wokingham (Wokingham).
Location
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Welcome to Oak Tree School, where your children are our utmost priority. With a very experienced team, therapist support and purpose-built classrooms, Oak Tree School has everything you need for your child to thrive and learn independence from the beginning, fulfilling our school motto: nurturing potential, encouraging independence .
We aim to make sure your child is provided with personalised strategies to attain and maintain their educational development. We are proud to support families in Reading and Wokingham, and work closely with our parents to realise the true potential of every child in our care.
Having grown up in this area myself, attending local schools, I feel an enormous sense of pride and responsibility to provide a welcoming and stimulating environment for our learners.
In the school’s own words, from the school website.
Key facts
- URN
- 149839
- Type
- Free schools special
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Ages
- 5 to 19
- Gender
- Mixed
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Sixth form
- Has a sixth form
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Local authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Wokingham
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Opened
- 2023
Governing body (9 current, 5 former)
iAcademy trust: local governing body and trust board.2 governors are linked to a profile (all confirmed).
Governors marked “Confirmed same person” have exactly the same forename and surname as the only officer of that name at the school’s own academy trust company on the Companies House register, so we treat them as the same person. The governance record itself comes from DfE.
Leadership
| Name | Role | How appointed | Term |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christine Jones Confirmed same person | Chair of Local Governing Body | Appointed by foundation/Trust | since 2026 · until 2030 |
| Brian Poxon Confirmed same person Former | Chair of Local Governing Body | Appointed by foundation/Trust | since 2025 · term ended 2026 |
Full governing body
| Name | Role | How appointed | Term |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claire Willmott | Local Governor | Ex-officio by virtue of office as headteacher/principal | since 2026 |
| Jane Hodgson | Local Governance Professional - Individual Academy or Free SchoolGovernance professional | since 2026 | |
| Alan Draper | Local Governor | Appointed by GB/board | since 2026 · until 2030 |
| Zoe Willows | Local Governor | Elected by school staff | since 2026 · until 2030 |
| Himanshi Mundeja | Local Governor | Appointed by GB/board | since 2025 · until 2029 |
| Sarah Brown | Local Governor | Elected by parents | since 2025 · until 2029 |
| Mohammed Asghar | Local Governor | Appointed by GB/board | since 2024 · until 2028 |
| Shannon Smith | Local Governor | Elected by parents | since 2023 · until 2027 ends 2027 |
| Beth Poole Former | Local Governance Professional - Individual Academy or Free SchoolGovernance professional | since 2025 · term ended 2026 | |
| Jasmine Latchman Former | Local Governor | Appointed by GB/board | since 2024 · term ended 2026 |
| Chloe Jenner Former | Local Governor | Elected by school staff | since 2023 · term ended 2026 |
| Julia Bray Former | Local Governor | Appointed by foundation/Trust | since 2023 · term ended 2026 |
Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools (governance records, as at 25 October 2026). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Names are shown as published; there are no addresses or contact details. Current and former are worked out from term end dates when the page loads. Object or ask for removal · Report an issue with this record