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Hitchens meets Oratory pupils
24/02/14
AUTHOR and journalist Peter Hitchens spoke to pupils at The Oratory School in Woodcote. The Mail on Sunday columnist gave a talk called The Strange Death of Christian England as part of the school’s JRR Tolkien Memorial Lecture series. He discussed ...
Free gym membership offered to best PE students
02/06/14
PUPILS at the Piggott School in Wargrave have an extra incentive to do well in their PE exams with a year’s free gym membership on offer. Nuffield Health is offering the prize to the top student in each GCSE PE class. The charity, which has a ...
Pupils decide their own children’s literature awards
30/06/14
STUDENTS at the Piggott School in Wargrave held their own book awards. They selected from a list of nominees for the the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Awards for children’s books and were joined by students from the Forest School in ...
Parents warned of school closures
07/07/14
PARENTS across Oxfordshire are being urged to plan ahead for the teachers’ strike that is set to take place on Thursday. The Henley College has said it will not be affected by the industrial action but some schools could be affected. A ...
Blue Coats try their hand a film making
21/07/14
A group of 60 students from Reading Blue Coat School made their own short films last Friday (13). The Year 12 students wrote and shot the films at the One Day Film School, run by the Young Film Academy at the school in Sonning. ...
Time to apply for school places
22/09/14
PARENTS of children due to start primary or secondary school in September next year can now apply for places online. Oxfordshire County Council says it will still accept postal applications but recommends that families apply ...
Suez victim remembered
06/05/14
CADETS from the Oratory School in Woodcote held a service of remembrance for a former pupil who died during the Suez crisis. Peter McCarthy, who attended the school from 1950 to 1955, was killed in action at Port Said on ...
Time to apply
27/10/14
PARENTS with children due to start secondary school next September are being urged to apply online before the deadline of October 31. Oxfordshire County Council still accepts postal applications but says that applying ...
Apply online for secondary school places
26/10/14
PARENTS with children due to start secondary school next September are being urged to apply online before the deadline of October 31. Oxfordshire County Council still accepts postal applications but says that ...
GCSE students set school records
01/09/14
THREE schools in the Henley area have celebrated their best-ever GCSE results. Gillotts School, Langtree School in Woodcote and Highdown School in Emmer Green all beat their own previous best performances. ...
Independent schools buck national trend for results
THE Oratory School in Woodcote was one of a number of independent schools in South Oxforshire and Berkshire which recorded impressive GCSE results. Eight-five per cent of pupils achieved five or more A* ...
New pitch
10/03/14
PLANNING permission has been granted for a new full-size football pitch at the Piggott School in Wargrave. The pitch will have an artificial surface and will be floodlit. There will also be three ...
School loses ‘outstanding’ rating
THE Piggott School in Wargrave has been rated “good” by Ofsted. The secondary school in Twyford Road was inspected in January and received a good rating for pupil achievement, quality of ...
School performs at Jazz Day
24/03/14
MORE than 20 musicians, including five singers, from the Piggott School in Wargrave performed at this year’s Schools Jazz Day at Norden Farm in Maidenhead. The school was one of three ...
Michelin-starred chef gives students cooking lesson
A MICHELIN-starred chef gave pupils at the Piggott School in Wargrave a cooking masterclass. Alan Murchison, head chef at L’Ortolan restaurant in Shinfield, showed the food ...
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