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 […]
MFL trip to Cologne Christmas markets
Having been unable to travel to Germany since 2019, we were very excited to return this year to the Christmas markets in Cologne. Such was the demand that we decided to run two trips this year, giving 100 students the opportunity to sample this festive cultural experience. As well as visiting many of the Christmas […]
CNS students support local charities at Christmas
At the beginning of December students completed a 5km fun run in their PE lessons, raising money for Katharine House Hospice. All the students that participated in the run received house points for participation. The event may have been cold, but it was great fun too and the school has raised over £750 for an […]
Matilda: Musical Magic!
December saw the eagerly awaited return of Chipping Norton School opening our doors for the school musical, a production of Dennis Kelly and Tim Minchin’s, ‘Matilda’. The students involved worked incredibly hard, dedicating three nights a week to learning songs, choreography and theatrical blocking to create one of the most enjoyable shows CNS have produced. […]
Sports trip to Twickenham
On Saturday 12th November 5 teachers and 47 very excited students made the annual trip to Twickenham to watch the England v Japan Autumn International Rugby match. It was a great match with a huge crowd of over 80,000 people. England scored 7 tries to win 52 points to 13. Overall it was an excellent […]
Everybody Reading at CNS
In the autumn term, the Year 7 and 8 students loved meeting author Stewart Foster when he visited CNS to talk about his award winning books. Stewart talked about his own writing process, his books and some of the issues that affect young children’s lives today. After his talk many students came to speak to […]