The Tempest
This year’s Year 7 and 8 Shakespeare production was rather different from our normal performances.
This year’s Year 7 and 8 Shakespeare production was rather different from our normal performances.
Year 4 were able to take full advantage of the amazing resources Oxford has to offer when they went to the Bodleian Library’s Talking Maps Exhibition.
NCS boys enjoyed a number of educational partnership opportunities in the 2019-20 academic year.
We enjoyed supporting a number of different charities over the 2019-20 academic year.
The choir joined up with production company, Positive Note, to produce a poignant call for attention, as the pandemic threatens the future of choral music in Britain.
Kept apart, they sang together, Bach’s Letzte Stunde. Not a Zoom performance, but a recording of voices and instruments to concert standard in isolation, then brought together by Positive Note into a seamless performance: https://youtu.be/5iKybQNXEak
In the course of their dig, in preparation for our new building, archaeologists have found a number of Roman items of interest.
Year 8S were delighted to welcome Dr Sarah Blagden in January.
We were thrilled to take delivery of a clutch of duckling eggs in March from Incredible Eggs, ethical providers of a variety of hatching kits.
2020 saw NCS celebrating our first ever SHTEAM festival celebrating the connections between Science, Humanities, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths.
To support their lessons on invertebrate classification, Year 6 visited the Oxford University Museum of Natural History for a workshop on insects and their habitats.
NCS features in the 2020 ‘The Week’ Schools Guide under the category ‘great for music’.
This year’s Holloway Lecture was delivered by Professor Judith Weir CBE, Master of the Queen’s Music.