Congratulations to Alex Smith on becoming the Oxford Squash club champion at U13 and U15, the five counties champion at U13 which includes Oxfordshire, Berkshire and beyond. This means he is the highest nationally-ranked player in NCS history with an U11 ranking of 21.
Alex also represent the school in the IAPS National Championships and managed to get all the way to the last sixteen players in the country.
Having already read the play in our English lessons, Year 8 and 8S were excited to see the Royal Shakespeare Company production of Romeo and Juliet.
We were thrilled to host historian Lyndsey Jenkins and Fawcett Society trustee Dinti Batstone to talk to NCS boys about the history of women’s suffrage and the future of gender equality.
Timon and Kian in Year 4 took part in the IAPS U9 Chess National Finals. Both boys played fantastically well, and Timon emerged the winner. Well done both!
Christopher Brain has been named a finalist in the 18 and under category in the National Centre for Early Music Young Composers’ Competition, with a short work inspired by Renaissance Venice. The finalists’ entries will be performed in York on 10th May by The English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble. The concert will also be live streamed at http://www.ncem.co.uk/composersaward2018.
We were delighted to welcome back to NCS the BAFTA- and EMMY-award-winning screenwriter, Adrian Hodges.
Alex in Year 6 reached the quarter finals of the IAPS Sport national squash championships over the Easter holidays, moving in to the top 8 in the country for U11 squash. Well done, Alex!
The Townsend-Warner History Competition is proud of being the longest-running competition in the prep school world.
Our annual College Day is always a highlight as Hilary Term draws to a close.
This year’s British Science Week was celebrated with much enthusiasm at NCS.
We were delighted that NCS's Shakespeare productions featured in The Week's Independent Schools Guide (Spring/Summer 2018)
The snow that characterised the beginning of March provided an appropriately Narnian backdrop for this year’s World Book Day.