Sports Day: a highlight in our sporting year
The highlight of the sporting year is without doubt the annual Sports Day. The students competed in a variety of field and track events throughout the day Not only were many records broken but the spirit of the day was fantastic, with the whole school supporting and encouraging each other to do their best. The […]
Year 10 Work Experience
We are pleased to celebrate another successful work experience programme for CNS students. This year 152 Year 10 students participated in work experience from the 3 – 7 July. 86% of students found places in Oxfordshire businesses with many going to small local businesses. These businesses have been fantastic and continue to support the school, […]
The Yoto Carnegie Book Awards 2023
The Chippy Chapters Reading Club have enjoyed shadowing The Yoto Carnegie Book Awards this year. Students were challenged to read and review the seven books shortlisted for this important international book award. During Reading Club we discussed the themes (including post apocalyptic UK, The Cold War, mental health, Greek myths, and racism) and merits of […]
West Oxfordshire Athletics Tournament
Over 60 CNS students travelled to Oxford to compete at the annual athletics competition between the 7 schools in West Oxfordshire. (Burford, Bartholomew, Wood Green, Henry Box, Marlborough, Carterton and Chipping Norton School). Students in years 7-10 competed in all the throwing, jumping and running events finishing with the 4 x 100m relays. Further to […]
Oxfordshire Artweek
We were really excited that artwork produced by last year’s GCSE and A Level students was exhibited at Wise Investments’ offices at Chalford Park Barns as part of Oxfordshire Artweek. The Artwork on display had been collected from last year’s Year 11 students taking GCSE Art and Year 13 students taking A Level Art. The […]
Girls mean Business
The second Girls mean Business event took place on the 11th May. We had 12 highly motivational women who gave up their time to chat to our Year 9 girls about their careers and roles in the workplace. Our visitors were from sectors ranging from laboratory managers and well-being managers to performing arts and the […]
Chip Lit Festival 2023: Brilliant author visit by Candy Gourlay
We were delighted to welcome award-winning author Candy Gourlay to CNS to speak with a group of Year 9 students about her excellent new book, Wild Song. The students loved hearing about Candy’s journey from journalist to author. Thank you to the Chipping Norton Literary Festival for organising this visit.
An excellent Sports Tour in Edinburgh
From Monday 10th to Friday 14th April, 31 students and 3 members of staff flew to Edinburgh to enjoy our first Sports Tour since the pandemic to a venue that we had not run a trip to before. We were there to play Netball and Football against both clubs and another school – South Queensferry […]
