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AWARD WINNING AUTHOR VISITS SIBFORD

Jonathan Stroud, author of Lockwood & Co. and the Bartimaeus Sequence and founder of the creativity campaign, Freedom to Think, visited Sibford School near Banbury to chat to pupils about his writing,...

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The first Briton in space wows Devon students at The Maynard School

Students from a number of schools in the Exeter area were treated to an extremely rare talk when Dr. Helen Sharman OBE, the first Briton in space, delivered a fascinating lecture at...

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Finton House School – “Fintonia” Christmas Fair

The school was transformed recently into “Fintonia” – a Christmas village reminiscent of Harry Potter’s “Hogsmeade”. With the playground under a beautiful stretch tent supplied by InTent, the whole area decorated with...

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St Swithun’s Junior School win local netball tournament

St Swithun’s Junior School U9 team won the Portsmouth Grammar School netball tournament last week. The team were placed in a group with Highfield, Hampshire Collegiate, Amesbury, Durlston A and Guildford High....

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Classicists converge on St Swithun’s School

St Swithun’s School, Winchester hosted its second Classics Inspiration Day on 12 November. The event, which aims to give students in years 10 and 11 an idea of the many directions in...

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Jason Gardener MBE Opens Sports Centre at Prior Park College

Jason Gardener MBE, Olympic Gold Medallist (2004) and President Elect of UK Athletics was welcomed by Prior Park College’s Headmaster, James Murphy-O'Connor on Friday afternoon, as the Bury Sports Centre was officially...

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Prior Park student awarded prestigious Engineering Scholarship

Sixth Form student George Rebello from Prior Park College was awarded a sought-after Arkwright Engineering Scholarship recently at a ceremony in London supported by the Institution of Engineering & Technology and the...

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SIBFORD PUPILS PLANT TREES OF KNOWLEDGE

Pupils at Sibford School near Banbury are creating a new heritage apple orchard. Fifteen trees …. of different varieties that have originated in Oxfordshire and the neighbouring counties … have been planted...

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BATH YOUNG MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR: ANOTHER IMPRESSIVE PRIOR PARK PRESENCE

The 2015 final was, as always, a glittering occasion of exceptional musical talent, bringing together an extraordinary 'fellowship' of Prior Park music, featuring both current or ex-students (even one of the judges,...

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