Year 11 Prom

The Year 11s had a fantastic prom at Cotswolds Hotel. The students looked amazing as ever and had a fabulous time. Thank you to Mrs Gannon, Mrs Lee, Miss Skill, Mrs Huddleston and all of the Prom committee for organising such a brilliant evening.

The Brilliant Club

This term six of our Year 9 students have been working with Mrs Jackson and Ms Bovington as part of the Brilliant Club Scholars Programme. This is a university charity which seeks to increase the number of students who can access highly selective universities. The Scholars Programme “provides students with the opportunity to engage in […]

Term 6 Sports News

Despite the postponement of our annual Sports Day until the start of next term, our students still had plenty of opportunities to enjoy sports this term.  Our Year 7 Cricket team finished runners-up in the County League, after a loss against a very strong Burford team. Year 8 Cricket teams beat Lord Williams School in […]

Young Fashion Designer UK Competition

Our Year 9/10 Textiles GCSE students entered this year’s competition which asked our young designers to think responsibly about the impact that we all have on our environment.   Every year the standard of work in the competition is exceptionally high and all the students should be very proud producing outstanding work. Congratulations to Eva […]

Oxfordshire High Sheriff Award for Engineering Excellence

It was another great night for Chipping Norton School at Abingdon & Witney College where the Oxfordshire High Sheriff Award for Engineering Excellence 2022 ceremony took place. A number of students at CNS were nominated for the prestigious award this year, competing against other schools across Oxfordshire. We are delighted to announce that Felix Keeling […]

Year 10 Work Experience

Having not been able to run Year 10 Work Experience for the last two years, we were delighted to be able to go ahead with it this year. It was great to see all our Year 10s on work experience this month. We had students out at over 144 companies in Oxfordshire and also as […]

LAMDA group performs at Chipping Norton Music Festival

Our Year 7  and Year 9 LAMDA groups performed their plays at the Chipping Norton Music Festival last week; they all performed brilliantly and received great feedback. One of the Year 9 groups was asked back to be part of the Festival Concert which rounds up the festival and is put together from some of […]

Engineering Careers Workshop with The Dyson Institute

On Thursday 17th of February, The Dyson Institute visited CNS to host an Engineering careers workshop for a selected group of students from Year 11 and 12. Students were told about the huge variety of job roles involved in creating the Dyson Heurist – a robot vacuum cleaner.   After learning about the huge range of […]

Chipping Norton School beat Burford in a 6-2 Football thriller!

On February 9th, Chipping Norton School competed against Burford in a thrilling Football match. Tension was high as the Burford team entered the pitch, nobody knew what the outcome would be. In the first five minutes of the game, the ball went up and down the pitch, raising cheers and boos from the crowd. A […]

Term 2 House Competitions

We are organising a fantastic range of events and competitions throughout the year. Many of these activities are linked to our core values; Character, Curiosity, Compassion, Creativity. This term we focused on ‘Compassion’, by running a Philosophy competition, a Santa Run in aid of Katharine House Hospice, and raising funds for Aspire. Students are excited […]