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St Clare’s theatre group perform “The Comedy of Errors”

In March the IB16 theatre group put on three fantastic performances of William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors. Reciting Shakespeare prose is no easy feat for native English speakers, so for our...

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St Clare’s – Litter picking in North Hinksey

Our IB students recently joined the North Hinksey Conservation Volunteers to do a lot of litter picking as part of the OxClean campaign. They picked up bags full of rubbish and the...

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St Swithun’s junior Song Academy finalists

Five girls from St Swithun’s Junior School, Winchester have reached the final in a national songwriting competition. Sofia Goodale and Annabel Yeatman, both aged 10 from Winchester, and Lucy Benton, aged 11...

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Cross-fit Challenge at St Swithun’s Junior School

St Swithun’s Junior School has recently become involved in an international junior version of the CrossFit Challenge. The junior challenge has been developed and initiated by eight like-minded schools from Australia, Canada,...

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Sibford School sponsors talk at literary festival

Head of Sibford School, Michael Goodwin, is pictured with actress and author Sheila Hancock. The pair met at the 2015 Chipping Norton Literary Festival where Sheila was speaking about her recent novel...

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St Edmund’s College Charity Week raises £14,000 for St Elizabeth’s

Every year St Edmund’s College selects a charity which for a week of fund raising activities and this year St Elizabeth’s, Much Hadham, was the chosen charity. On Wednesday 25th March we...

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Prior Park Schools Expands to the Mediterranean

 Prior Park Schools’ Governors and Headmasters have much pleasure in announcing that the Prior Park Educational Trust will be opening a new Catholic independent senior school in Gibraltar in September 2016. In...

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Kilgraston’s new Principal champions ‘exciting, world class education’

Kilgraston school for girls, Perthshire, has welcomed Mrs Dorothy MacGinty to the role of Principal. Mrs MacGinty joins Kilgraston from St. Francis’ College, Hertfordshire, where she held the post of Headmistress since...

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St Swithun’s juniors compete at the Independent Schools Ski Racing Indoor Championships

A team from St Swithun’s Junior School, Winchester competed at the Independent Schools Association Indoor Ski Championships at Snow Centre, Hemel Hempstead on 20 April. The inaugural ISA event brought together 50...

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