Wendy & Peter Pan
After months of rehearsals our student actors were delighted to finally be able to perform the play Wendy & Peter Pan. Through a delightful blend of humour and imagination, we were treated to a truly beautiful performance, by turns amusing and whimsical, and then incredibly moving and poignant. Congratulations to Mr Moss and everyone who […]
Supporting Charities at Christmas
We collected over 60 shoeboxes for the charity Teams4U. The shoeboxes are given to vulnerable children in Eastern Europe and contain basic necessities as well as fun Christmas gifts. We asked families to donate Christmas jumpers to help us raise funds for Aspire. Alongside our annual Christmas jumper day, students and staff took to the […]
German Christmas Markets Trip
Our annual trip to the Christmas markets in Cologne this year coincided with Storm Darragh, which made for an interesting journey across the English Channel on the ferry. However, this did not dampen the excitement and enthusiasm of the 55 students and staff who travelled to Germany and, once again, we had a wonderful time […]
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 […]