Sports Tour to Malta

On Friday 25th October 53 students and 5 staff made the very early 6.30am start from Chipping Norton to Malta for our latest Sports Tour. Under strict instructions to only bring small bags you would be forgiven for thinking some students were planning to stay there for the winter to escape the British weather given […]

Reading Club News

Ms Bovington and Mrs Blundell were delighted to take a group of Year 8 Reading Club members to the annual Oxfordshire Book Awards at Magdalen College School on November 7th. Last year our Reading Club read the six novels shortlisted for the Secondary Novel prize and along with more than 80 other Oxfordshire schools, voted […]

CNPS October Events

The ten partnership primary schools have attended several events at Chipping Norton School this term.  So far, some Year 5 pupils were invited to learn to become Young Leaders. They are now equipped to help many young pupils with sports activities in their own school.  The first tournament of the year was Football at the […]

GCSE and A Level Geography Field Trip

Our Year 11 GCSE Geographers have been ‘out and about’ this term – they have successfully carried out two fieldwork visits. The students first visited Swanage to complete physical geography fieldwork in a coastal landscape and the next week travelled to Longbridge to carry out human fieldwork. It was great to be see the students […]

National Piano Month

On Tuesday 24th September, we were invited to take part in National Piano Month at the Beech Haven Care Home in Chipping Norton. Six students played a variety of pieces, including some Elton John, Beethoven, Joplin and Clementi. Mr Brown even played a couple of pieces as well! The residents were beaming in delight, and […]

Winners of the Oxfordshire Cricket County Cup

Congratulations to our Year 7 and Year 8 Cricket teams. The Year 7s recently beat Burford School by 3 runs in the rain to become winners of the Oxfordshire Pairs League. The Year 8 team are winners of the Oxfordshire County Cup by virtue of their tremendous performance beating Wheatley Park School. Wheatley Park finished […]

Sports trip to Twickenham

On Saturday 14th September, 46 students and 5 staff members once again made the journey to Twickenham Stadium to watch the Red Roses v New Zealand international. On a glorious sunny day the conditions were excellent for running rugby with England eventually overcoming New Zealand scoring 4 tries with the score of 24-12 in front […]

CNS welcomes our new Year 7

The new Year 7 made a smashing start to the new school year with an Induction Day including taster sessions with our fantastic Extra Time Coaches and staff. Students baked, created digital music, wrote short stories, took part in teen fitness, table tennis, tennis, squash as well as art classes and origami. Once timetables and […]

GCSE and BTEC Results

On the back of last year’s stellar results, we are now celebrating the second-best results in the school’s history. We are pleased to share the news that English, Mathematics, Science, Humanities and Languages continue to celebrate another set of outstanding results, and that students of Design & Technology, Textiles, Business Studies, Music and Drama are […]

Our best A Level results ever!

We are delighted to share news that we can celebrate our best ever A level results this year. Our record-breaking headline figures represent and celebrate the remarkable efforts of our highly talented students and their super teachers. 31% of all grades were A* or A 57% of all grades were A* to B 82% of […]