Bloxham Four Hit Gold at St James' Palace

On Tuesday 8^th November four recent leavers, pictured here, met HRH Prince Philip to receive their Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award at St James’ Palace. The four boys, Harry Cox, Will Powell, Callum Roberts and Chris Boyle, are amongst 14 pupils from Bloxham who have been awarded their Gold Award over the past 12 months. Meeting the Duke of Edinburgh was a great reward for the boys’ efforts in completing their Gold DofE; in addition to volunteering in the community for 12 months, learning a new physical activity and a new skill the boys also completed 12 days of expeditions, walking 216km in total.

Congratulations to them all; if the present cohort ever needed the motivation to complete their DofE here it is!

Olympic Medal Hopeful Visits Bloxham

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On Thursday 2^nd February, Heather Stanning came to Bloxham School to give a talk on her success as a Team GB rower. Heather described her story of simply joining her universities boat club to eventually rowing for England.

Heather spoke about how rowing was simply more of a past time than a competitive sport however began to realise that she was naturally talented at the sport and decided to pursue it. However a change of heart led her to join the army and she was commissioned in 2008 into the Royal Artillery. She was then released from Army duties to allow her to train full time. Since then, Heather has had various successes, one of the most notable ones being when she raced in the women's pair with Helen Glover at the World Rowing Championships in Bled. The duo once again took silver behind New Zealand, but this year closed the gap to less than one tenth of a second. Other successes include the pair winning gold medals at the 2011 World cup series and in the 2010 World Rowing Championships gaining a silver medal.

Team GB for 2012 shall be picked shortly and Heather looks as though she will be in the boat along with Helen. We wish her all the luck for the future and wanted to thank her for finding the time to give such an insightful and inspiring talk.

Emily Miller L6th

Public Speaking News

Winchester House School held their third Inter-School Public Speaking Competition last Thursday. Winners were Magdalen College School, Brackley, Year 8 Team, on that favourite topic, “Stereotyping”. They were against it. Our team of Hannah Marshall (Speaker), Hannah Andrews (Chairman) and Cordelia Gardiner (Proposer of Vote of Thanks) did us proud with a confident reprise of their talk “Recycling: An Olympic Challenge.”

The Youth Speaks competition for our senior team was postponed to March 1^st because of the forecast weather.

Open Day March 3rd 2012

The Spring Term Open Morning at Bloxham is being held on Saturday 3rd March 2012 at 11.00a.m. when once again all visitors will be invited to stay to have lunch at the school after the tours and Headmaster’s address.

If you would like to attend this Open Morning please contact the admissions Team on 01295 724301. We will need to take afew details from you and to ascertain how many of you will be coming and whether or not you will be able to stay for lunch.

During the morning you will be given a tour of the school by a current pupil and will see, as far as is possible, a normal working day at the school. You will see many of the school’s impressive facilities, see classes in action and get something of a feel for the atmosphere of Bloxham – and why it is known as the small school with the great spirit.

We look forward to hearing from you and to welcoming you here on the 3rd March.

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