New College Oxford

The Tempest

Published 20/11/20

This year’s Year 7 and 8 Shakespeare production was rather different from our normal performances.

Bodleian Library Visit

Published 18/08/20

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.

Educational Partnerships, 2019-20

Published 18/08/20

NCS boys enjoyed a number of educational partnership opportunities in the 2019-20 academic year.

Charities, 2019-20

Published 17/08/20

We enjoyed supporting a number of different charities over the 2019-20 academic year.

New College Choir: apart / together

Published 10/07/20

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

Roman discoveries

Published 30/03/20

In the course of their dig, in preparation for our new building, archaeologists have found a number of Roman items of interest.

Dr Sarah Blagden

Published 26/03/20

Year 8S were delighted to welcome Dr Sarah Blagden in January.

Incredible Eggs

Published 26/03/20

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.

SHTEAM Festival

Published 26/03/20

2020 saw NCS celebrating our first ever SHTEAM festival celebrating the connections between Science, Humanities, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths.

Natural History Museum

Published 26/03/20

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.