Independents keep standards high

INDEPENDENT schools in the Henley area celebrated another excellent year of GCSE results by their pupils. The vast majority of year 11 students achieved at least five passes at grades 9 to 4, which are the equivalent of A* to C under the old marking...

Girls row through night to fund camp

A GROUP of junior rowers have completed a 24-hour ergo challenge.
The challenge, which started on Saturday at noon, saw the 10 rowers from Shiplake Vikings Rowing Club, row non-stop until 1pm on Sunday.
The crew of nine girls from the club’s WJ15 squad along with one rower from the WJ17 squad, rowed a combined 240,000m.

Children are quick off the mark

A TOTAL of 118 pupils attended the fourth annual Schools’ Cross Country Competition held at Shiplake College. Pupils from Years 1 to 6 from 23 primary schools in the area competed in events of varying lengths on the sports field on Saturday morning....

Pupils bring outside in for care home residents

A GROUP of A-level art pupils at Shiplake College have been visiting Lashbrook House care home in Shiplake to paint a mural on the walls of the residents’ day room. Daniel Coles, Oscar Smaje, Poppy Parsons, F Stewart, I Syms and Sabine Bathe-Taylor...

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Charlie Anderson-Jeffs, from Harpsden

Charlie Anderson-Jeffs, from Harpsden

WHEN I was 13, I worked at Bix Manor and met Katie, who worked in the kitchen. Our friendship blossomed and I used every excuse to go to the kitchen. We even used to pretend to be boyfriend and girlfriend to get each other out of sticky situations. I...

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