Senior Students share stories with the CNPS Primary Schools
We are very grateful to 10 of our Senior Students in Year 13 who video recorded themselves reading 10 brilliant and funny picture books. The videos were sent to 10 local primary schools for them to share with their youngest pupils on World Book Day. The Sixth Formers read with great enthusiasm and creativity and […]
Staff Shelfie Competition
We challenged our students to identify twelve members of the teaching staff by scouring the contents of their book shelves for cryptic clues. Many students submitted correct entries (our students certainly know a lot about their teachers!) but a joint entry by Molly Smith and Rio Dumbleton (both Year 11) was picked as the winning […]
Mr Potato Head Competition
Students were asked to transform humble potatoes into well known book characters for World Book Day. The standard of entries was very high and we loved seeing your photos. The judges decided to award prizes to two winners, Dolly (Katniss Everdeen) and Isabella (Three Little Pigs) in Year 7. Well done to everyone who took […]
Book Week @ CNS
Year 7, 8 and 9 have enjoyed author talks by Liz Pichon, Victoria Schwab and Lisa Thompson this week as part of our Book Week celebrations. Liz Pichon gave an entertaining talk about how her journey to becoming a world famous author started from being a keen writer as a child. She also demonstrated how […]
Christmas Celebration Assembly
As a school we encourage students to develop compassion, courage, creativity and curiosity – our House mottos and in the last week of term were delighted to recognise and celebrate all forms of student success and achievements in a series of special Celebration Assemblies for Years 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11. Tutors were proud […]
‘Faces in Windows’ photography exhibition
Our A Level Art students worked with professional photographer Andrew Ogilvy to produce a series of portraits to brighten up empty shop windows in Chipping Norton as part of the new Illuminate Chippy event. The students were inspired by award winning photographer Agnès Varda’s film ‘Face Places’, in which the photographer and muralist, JR, travel […]
Classrooms to Care Homes
This lovely initiative has been launched by the Times Educational Supplement and is happening in many schools across the country. It is a way for our students to connect with care home workers and residents this Christmas, to spread a bit of festive joy and cheer. We asked our students to write to care homes […]
Aspire Enterprise Challenge
Immediately before lockdown, the Year 9s were given £50 and challenged to come up with an enterprising idea to raise funds for Aspire. Although many students were unable to complete their projects, three teams were very quick off the mark and managed to raise £576.37 for the Aspire charity with activities such as cookie kits, […]
Christmas Shoebox Appeal for Aspire
Over the past few weeks, tutor groups have been filling up Christmas shoeboxes with gifts for homeless adults as part of Aspire’s ‘No one left behind this Christmas’ campaign. Mrs De Bruyn was delighted to fill up a school minibus with 226 shoeboxes and deliver them to the charity’s headquarters in Oxford. On the last […]
CNS Santa Fun Run
The PE Department challenged our students to take part in a series of Santa Fun Runs in aid of Katharine House Hospice. Students were asked to run between 3km and 5km around the school fields in one of their outdoor PE lessons. Every student was provided with their own Santa hat for £1 and families […]