'Best of the Best'
Published 03/03/26
We are delighted to announce that New College School has been recognised in ‘The Best of the Best Prep Schools’ in the most recent The Week Independent Schools Guide.
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Read MoreYear 6 Ballet Trip
Published 06/08/24As part of the music curriculum, Year 6 studies a ballet. They learn about the history of the art form and study some of the most famous ballets. Each year, the class goes to see a live performance of the ballet they have studied. This year, it was t
Read MoreYear 8 Science Masterclass
Published 06/08/24We were delighted to welcome back Professor Susana Carvalho and Dr Rene Bobe who came in to talk to the boys in Year 8 and 8S in Science. They talked about evolution, linking the topic perfectly to our work in lessons. The boys were fascinated to lea
Read MorePlanetary Interiors Workshop
Published 06/08/24To coincide with their lessons on Space Physics in Science, Year 5 were delighted to receive a visit from Ruth and Charlie from the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford. The boys enjoyed an interactive session, learning about the
Read MoreCharities
Published 06/08/24The NCS community has been most generous in its support of a range of charities across the year including: Muscular Dystrophy UK through the Town and Gown 10k race; Great Ormond Street Hospital through Young Art Oxford; homelessness and the Crisis ch
Read MoreWykeham Day
Published 06/08/24Wykeham Day remains our headline event which brings together generations of NCS families past, present and future. The day began in our first Wykeham Day concert to be hosted in our brand-new auditorium, then continued with the fete. A special evenso
Read MoreSchool Council
Published 06/08/24The school council had a productive year with meetings every half term. Two representatives from each class in the prep school came along with ideas and feedback from the rest of their class on a variety of themes. In January we welcomed Pre-Prep rep
Read MorePartnerships
Published 06/08/24Partnership events started in November when we held our annual Inter-School Debate with Oxford Spires Academy at New College. It was a real pleasure to hear the impressive rhetoric, and more importantly witness the shared experience of all the pupils
Read MoreEco-Committee
Published 06/08/24NCS pupils have contributed with great gusto towards our eco-objectives this year, giving proof to the words of Greta Thunberg that “you are never too young to make a difference”!
Read MoreBach & Haydn Concert
Published 06/08/24The thirty boys of the NCS Chamber Choir (Years 3-8) and the fifty adult voices of the NCS Choral Society joined forces with Oxford’s renowned baroque orchestra, Instruments of Time and Truth, and four professional soloists to perform a program
Read More‘Henry IV, Part 1’
Published 06/08/24Parents of pupils in Year 7 & 8 may have been bemused last summer to overhear their sons muttering about a ‘puke-stocking’, ‘a dried Neat’s tongue’ or a ‘vile standing tuck’. Fortunately, late sixteenth c
Read MoreMock Election
Published 06/08/24Over the course of the last three weeks of Trinity, the boys may have returned home talking enthusiastically about the policies of the ‘Tomorrow’, ‘Improve’ and ‘Progress’ parties. You may not have heard of these p