Senior Boys’ Rugby team make it to County Cup final
Congratulations to the Senior Boys’ Rugby team on their win against a tough team from Lord Williams. The boys are looking forward to representing the school at the County Cup Final on 29th November at Chipping Norton Rugby Club.
Year 11 Careers Fair
Our recent Year 11 Careers Fair was well attended by students and their parents. They found it really useful to be able to talk to the local education and training providers in the hall as well as local employers who could discuss specific career routes such as medicine, public services, law, trades in the construction […]
Night of the Musicals
Our annual ‘Night of the Musicals’ is always a special event and this year’s performance was no exception. The Year 7 choir were magnificent; performing songs from ‘Matilda’ and ‘Oliver’ with great skill and enthusiasm – no mean feat when you consider that they have only been at school for 5 weeks. The soloists Holly […]
Jack Turner and the Black Knight: a novel by CNS young authors
Last year English teacher Mr Long decided to bring together a group of Year 7 boys with varying degrees of interest in reading to look at why many boys are reluctant readers and to try to enthuse the reluctant readers in the group to become more involved with reading. The group of boys met for […]
Reading Club members meet Jonathan Stroud
Members of Reading Club attended a talk by best-selling author, Jonathan Stroud at Burford School. Jonathan is on a nationwide tour promoting his latest book ‘The empty grave’ and all the students loved hearing about both his ‘Lockwood & Co’ and ‘Bartimaeus’ series of books. After the talk, the students were able to meet the […]
Sixth Formers get involved with ‘Growing Older’ project
Over the past few months 20 Sixth Form students have been involved in the “Growing Older” research project with Paul Cann. The project aims to look at how to develop the community in and around Hook Norton, and the possibility of setting up a “Good Neighbour Scheme”. The students interviewed key members in the community […]
Year 3 CNPS Dance Festival
Chipping Norton School Year 12 Dance Leaders, accompanied by Mrs Du Cros, went along to St Mary’s School to lead a Dance Workshop with Year 3 pupils.The workshop was based on the book ‘Giraffes can’t dance’ by Giles Andreae and the pupils were split into groups and taught a short dance which they then performed […]
AGT Design & Technology workshop
We were delighted to welcome thirty Year 4 and 5 pupils from our primary partnership schools to take part in our first Able, Gifted and Talented workshop with Mr Crudge and teachers from the Design and Technology department. Before the workshop the pupils were asked to find out about tthe meaning of ‘anthropometics’ and ‘ergonomics’. […]
U11 Football tournament
We were delighted to host the annual CNPS U11 Girls and Boys Football tournament, which is run by our Year 12 Sports Leaders. Our students enjoyed the challenge of making this tournament a great success with each leader demonstrating great leadership skills. The younger pupils played exceptionally well and congratulations are due to everyone who […]
Sports Awards 2017
On September 13th we celebrated outstanding sporting success and effort at our annual Sports Awards celebration – now in its 9th year! Over 200 students, parents and teachers were present to witness the awards being handed out, including dedication to sport awards, sportswomen and sportsman of the year awards and team of the year. We were fortunate […]