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  • Year 6 Insects and their Habitats Workshop

    Published 02/06/21
    Once again this year, the boys in Year 6 attended a fascinating workshop at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History on insects and their habitats. We had been learning all about classification of invertebrates and their adaptat
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  • Year 5 Skeleton Workshop

    Published 02/06/21
    Year 5 had an exciting outing to the Oxford University Museum of Natural History in Trinity. They enjoyed a workshop where they investigated the major types of animal skeleton: from hydrostatic skeletons of worms, to the exoskeletons of art
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  • Incredible Eggs

    Published 25/05/21
    Once again this year, the Science lab welcomed delivery of a clutch of eggs from Incredible Eggs, who provide ethical hatching kits for schools. This year we had chicken eggs and because the farms the eggs come from aim
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  • Royal Observatory Workshops

    Published 14/05/21

    Year 5 and Year 7 were fortunate enough to attend live webinars from the Royal Observatory in Greenwich.

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  • Year 5 Folk Music Workshop

    Published 03/05/21

    As part of their Folk Music topic, Year 5 were delighted to participate in an online presentation given by Scottish fiddle player, Isla Ratcliff.

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  • World Book Day

    Published 03/05/21

    World Book Day was a virtual affair this year, with boys and staff dressing up as their favourite characters on Zoom and taking part in Mrs Hess's famous quiz online!

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  • Poetry Competition

    Published 03/05/21

    The annual NCS Poetry Competition went ahead as usual this year (albeit over Zoom), with six finalists selected from each year group across Years 3-8.

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  • 'Beowulf' Masterclass

    Published 03/05/21

    Year 6 put on their armour, grabbed their swords and prepared to do battle with Grendel and his mother when they studied Beowulf in English lessons during Hilary term.

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  • British Science Week

    Published 11/03/21
    The boys at NCS love celebrating all things scientific so we weren’t going to miss out on British Science Week, even if current Covid-19 restrictions limited what we could do. Some of the boys in 8S acted as science ambassadors a
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  • Science visitors

    Published 11/03/21
    We were thrilled to welcome Cream and Crumble, two mini lop rabbits, to the Science lab at the end of Michaelmas. They belong to the Showell-Rogers family who are mini lop breeders and we were thrilled to have two of their adorable rab
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  • Year 5 Science Webinar

    Published 11/03/21
    Year 5 were delighted to have the opportunity to attend a live webinar run by Rutherford Appleton Laboratory on Space Physics. The session was presented from the Boulby Underground Laboratory which is located 1.1km below
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  • The Tempest

    Published 20/11/20

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

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