OHS News
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Head's Letter - July 2005
July 2005 end of term letter. more... |
| Back
to School for an Afternoon - July 2005
On Tuesday 5th July members of the Oxford High School Alumnae Association came back to school! Read an account by an old girl here. |
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Midsummer Night’s Dream
For three days this term the Main School Hall was turned into a magical woodland scene for our Lower School Production of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream.’ more... |
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BBC One Night of Shakespeare
BBC One Night of Shakespeare on Sunday 3rd July is the biggest BBC off-air event ever. One hundred theatres, four hundred schools and ten thousand performers are involved. more... |
| ‘Once
upon a time at OHS…’ - June 2005
To mark the last day of their official schooling, the year 13s held their annual farewell to the school. The theme for the day was ‘Fairy Tales’ and there was an abundance of water, ice cream and a new and novel way of arriving at school! more... |
| Claire
Lasko wins Feva Nationals - June 2005
Claire Lasko in Year 10 won the Feva Nationals at Hayling Island in June this year. She was competing in an open age event. more.. |
| Year
10 Residential Trip
A large group of Year 10 students took a break from exams to visit the Forest of Dean for two days. The time was spent canoeing, climbing, caving and problem solving. more... |
| Year
8 Trip to Hadrian's Wall
From the 27th of June to the 1st of July year 8 went on a visit to Hadrian’s Wall and the North of England. This trip was intended as a cross-curricular activity encompassing Classics, Science, English and Music. more... |
| National
Schools Regatta
The Parsons sisters, Lydia (Year 9) and Tor (Year 10) came 8th in the National Schools coxless four J16 class. more... |
Oxford High School Student wins TES Write Away 2005
Lauren Pigott (Year 8) has written a winning autobiographical piece on her childish dreams of flying
in this year's Times Educational Supplement/National Association for the Teaching of English
Write Away Competition.more... |
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Time2Change at J8 Summit
A group of 16 Year 10 students have been participating in the J8 Global Citizen programme, a Department for Education and Science-sponsored citizenship activity linked to the G8 Summit. more... |
| The
Good Schools Guide A Level Awards
Oxford High School recently received an award presented by “The Good Schools Guide” as the Best Independent School for Girls for Government and Politics at AS Level. more... |
| Textiles
Fashion Show - May 2005
GCSE and A Level students organised and presented a fashion show that illustrated over 70 different pieces, from handprinted and dyed fabrics to stitched corsets and full length dramatic ballgowns. more... |
| MINT
Wins 5 Young Enterprise Awards
MINT recently participated County Finals of the Young Enterprise Awards held at Culham on 04/05/2005. MINT was competing with 7 other finalists, and won a total of five awards... more... |
| International
Hockey honours for Oxford High
Emma Batten (17) has been selected for the Welsh U18 hockey squad that will be competing in the European Championships held in Lithuania this July. more... |
| Year
Seven Visit Windsor Castle - April 2005
On the 26th of April, year seven visited Windsor Castle as part of their project on Castles. Highlights of the trip included the Changing of the Guard, the State Apartments, Queen Mary's Dolls House and St. George's Chapel. more... |
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Girls Crack Code and Win National prize - March 2005
A team of 5 girls, aged 11 to 15, from Oxford High School, have cracked a secret code and won ?1000! more... |
| Back
to School - Tuesday 5th July 2005
Alumnae and Former Staff will be able to visit former haunts, and take part in a lesson. more... |
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Trips Abroad over Easter Holidays
We had three foreign trips over the Easter Holidays to Russia, France and Italy. For further details please click here... |
Sixth Former Designs Sculpture for University
Rebecca Wolfensohn has produced a sculpture for Oxford University's Centre for Clinical Vaccinology
and Tropical Medicine at the Churchill Hospital.more... |
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FOxHS Quiz Night or The Parents' Revenge
As the masses milled around the assembly hall, an unexpected hush fell. Miss Lusk was at the microphone. “ Testing, testing…” Testing indeed, we were shortly to find as the quiz began and the questions were fired at us. more... |
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Naomi to represent England in World Chess Championships
Naomi Miller 10H has been selected to represent England in the Under 16 category at the World Chess Championships in France this July. Naomi is the only female representative in her age group. |
| Head's
Letter - April 2005
April 2005 start of term letter. more... |
| Filming
at Oxford High School - March 2005
It wasn’t quite Hollywood, but for two days last term OHS became acutely aware of “lights, camera, action!” The school hosted a small film crew for the making of a promotional DVD which will be used at Open Evenings to show prospective parents all the terrific things that go on at Oxford High. Staff and students soon became immune to a camera and microphone a few inches from their noses. Now we are bracing ourselves for the inevitable disappointments as 2 days of shooting are condensed into 5 minutes of film; some of us will have our first experience of ‘the cutting room floor’. |
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Head's Letter - March 2005
March 2005 end of term letter. more... |
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SENIOR CONCERT ST. ANDREW’S CHURCH - 18TH MARCH 2005
On Friday 18th March, the Music Department held their termly Senior Concert. This concert was a concert with a difference! String Orchestra opened the performance beautifully with an exhilarating rendition of Basse Danse and Mattachins (Sword dance) from Peter Warlock’s Capriol Suite. more... |
| Another
Enjoyable Senior Chamber Concert - February 2005
Our Senior Chamber Concert of the Spring Term was held on the 9th February 2005. It featured accomplished solos from girls in years 10-13 and represented a variety of music... more... |
| INAUGURATION
OF NEW PREFECT TEAM - FEBRUARY 2005
The final Friday of the first half of the Spring term at OHS always sees the inauguration of the new Prefect team. more... |
GOLDRUSH
VISIT OHS - February 2005
On Monday 6th February, the acclaimed band, Goldrush held a Rock and Roll workshop at OHS...more... |
| TSUNAMI
CONCERT - January 2005
Our close harmony group, The Barberinas, were invited to perform at a Tsunami Relief concert in the Holywell music room in Oxford.... more... |
| STUNNING
TOWN HALL CONCERT - January 2005
On the 26th of January over 180 girls took part in the Oxford High School Town Hall Concert... more... |
| MUSIC
ACROSS THE AGE GROUPS AT OHS - January 2005
The year 13 musicians visited The Squirrel, our Junior School as part of their Music Week... more... |
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Oxford High School triple success! - January 2005
The Year 9’s at Oxford High School have achieved a major sporting success... more... |
| OXFORD’S
HEADMISTRESS RETURNS - January 2005
The Headmistress, Felicity Lusk, spent the autumn term 2004 in a dual role as Acting Head of Oxford’s sister school South Hampstead High School... more... |
| Head's
Letter - January 2005
January 2005 start of term letter. more... |
Tatler's
Schools Guide - November 2004
Tatler describes OHS as 'about the best day girls' school in the country' and 'famous for focusing
on the individual rather than educating en masse'.
more... |
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The World Junior Chess Championships - November 2004
The World Junior Chess Championships 2004 were held in Heraklion, Crete from the 3rd to the 13th of November... more... |
| Gifted
and Talented - November 2004
Deputy Head, Rebecca Mallard, and Director of Studies, Peter Secker, have been thinking about how the school caters for Gifted and Talented students. more... |
Ada
Benson Memorial Lecture - November 2004
The scene was set by Miss Lusk who gave a summary of the remarkable and pioneering life of Ada Benson.more... |
| Y12
Student wins Royal Geographical Society Award - November 2004
Katy Hope, Year 12, has been awarded the Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers’ prize for the best results in GCSE Geography within the AQA Syllabus A last Summer. Katy wins £25 and many congratulations. |
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New Role for the Headmistress - October 2004
The Girls’ Day School Trust recently announced that OHS’s Headmistress, Felicity Lusk, is to take on a dual role for the autumn term as Acting Head at South Hampstead High School. more... |
| 1000
visitors attend open evening - October 2004
The High School’s annual Open Evening once again proved a great success with approximately 1000 visitors joining us to see the school at work. more... |
| New
Website - October 2004
Oxford High School has launched its new website. more... |
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Farewell Dinner for Retiring Chair of Governors, Her Honour Judge Ann Campbell - September 2004
Sixty members of the OHS community gathered to thank Ann Campbell for her outstanding service to the school. more... View the image gallery... |
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Summer Refurbishment - September 2004
The Senior Department greatly benefited from major refurbishment in time for the new academic year. more... |
New
Prospectus Launched - September 2004
Oxford High School launched its new prospectus for the academic Year 2004 / 2005.more... |
| New
Health Centre Opens - September 2004
The new Health Centre endorses the school's emphasis on student health and pastoral care. more... |
| ANOTHER
RECORD YEAR FOR STUNNING EXAM RESULTS - September 2004
The GCSE results were the best ever with 93.25% Grade A*/A and 61.82% A*! These results placed OHS between 4th and 8th in various national league tables. more... |
| Head's
Letter - September 2004
September 2004 start of term letter. more... |
| Barbados
2004
View the image gallery of the trip to Bardados here. |
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Great Fludde - July 2004
It was one of those Biblical moments: the thunder roared, the lightning flashed, the heavens opened...
more... |
| Farewells
to Retiring/Long Serving Staff - July 2004
Farewell to four long standing, highly regarded colleagues... more... |
| A
Relaunch of Oxford High School's Organisation for Alumnae and Former Staff - July 2004
The Headmistress, Felicity Lusk, hosted a reception for former students and colleagues... more... |