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 […]
Celebrating outstanding GCSE results
In a year of change for GCSE qualifications, students at Chipping Norton are celebrating some outstanding GCSE results. “These results reflect the real quality of our students and their teachers. Such outstanding outcomes do not occur by chance…
Outstanding A Level results at Chipping Norton School
Once again students at Chipping Norton School are celebrating some fantastic A level results. One quarter of all grades achieved were A* – A grades and the headline A* – B percentage figure is 54%. Headteacher Simon Duffy said “I am delighted that our A level students have done so well again this year. Such […]
Sports Tour 2017
Following over 2 years of preparation, fundraising and training on Saturday 22nd July 49 students and 5 staff made the 11 hour overnight flight from Heathrow to South Africa on our 2017 Sports Tour. This is the third time a group of our students have made the trip following previous visits in 2012 and 2014. […]
Year 9 Science Trip
Keen Year 9 scientists attended a Medicine and Materials day at Oxford University’s Chemistry laboratories where they were invited to use the lab’s sophisticated equipment to extract limonene from orange peel. They also visited The Botanic Gardens, to find out about the use of plants as a source of medicines, and The History of Science […]