As part of their post-exam activity programme, the boys in Year 8 spent two afternoons in the company of a team from Sir Robert McAlpine, the contractors who are constructing our new Gradel Quad building.
Years 3-8 were delighted to welcome Jess and Hannah from Zoolab for the day on 19 May.
Towards the end of Hilary 2022, NCS was visited by the Independent Schools Inspectorate.
To mark International Women's Day, Dinti Batstone, Fawcett Society trustee, addressed the whole school in chapel. These were her powerful words:
You could argue that every day is World Book Day at a school like NCS, with the library at the heart of the school, and books suffusing lessons -- and not just those in English.
On Tuesday 1 March we went on a school trip to the synagogue in Jericho.
In Music lessons during the first part of Hilary, Year 6 undertook a score-based analysis of compositional techniques in Igor Stravinsky’s famous ballet, The Firebird (Жар-птица).
New College has rather large medieval city walls bisecting it, with those walls also lining the fantastic garden.
We were delighted to receive this lovely write-up in the most recent Tatler Schools Guide:
Activities Week was a bustling and enjoyable mostly Oxford-based affair this year, with the boys engaging in a number of wonderful activities to get them out of the classroom and trying something new.
This year’s Junior and Senior Recitals successfully took place in a virtual form.