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  • Charities, 2019-20

    Published 17/08/20

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

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  • 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

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  • 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.

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  • Dr Sarah Blagden

    Published 26/03/20

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

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 'The Week' Schools Guide

    Published 11/03/20

     NCS features in the 2020 ‘The Week’ Schools Guide under the category ‘great for music’.

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  • Professor Judith Weir

    Published 11/03/20

    This year’s Holloway Lecture was delivered by Professor Judith Weir CBE, Master of the Queen’s Music.

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  • Music Scholars' Concert

    Published 10/02/20

    The start of Hilary saw the annual Scholar’s Concert in the Holywell Music Room, given by our Year 8 Music Scholars.

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  • Last Supper in Pompeii

    Published 21/01/20

    To complement their study of Pompeii, Year 5 visited the Ashmolean Museum in Michaelmas term. The boys were able to come face to face with objects they had read about and to enhance their understanding of daily life in the ancient world. Ashwin writes:

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  • Optician Talk

    Published 15/01/20

    In January Year 6 were treated to a talk from Mr Brian Whittenbury from Gardiners opticians.

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