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The Modern Foreign Languages Faculty is delighted to announce that two Oakhamians, Grace (Form 3) and Hattie (Form 6) have been recognised by Oxford University for their entries in the Anthea Bell Translation Competition, run by Queen’s College, Oxford.

This week saw pupils in Lower 1 taking part in a ‘Protect our Planet Environment’ day. 

Showing Oakhamians that spontaneity is the spice of life, a ‘pop up’ feria came to Oakham School this term!

Oakham’s Head of Piano, Anne Bolt with violinist Annebeth Webb, from the prestigious Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Holland.

A group of Form 6 Oakham engineers have been awarded the ‘Best Teamworking’ prize for their work in the Industrial Cadets Gold Engineering for the East Midlands. 

Oakham School library has put on a wonderful Queen’s Platinum Jubilee themed display for pupils and staff. 

Pupils captivated audiences at the School’s Queen Elizabeth Theatre with their rendition of the most tragic love story ever told.

It has been a successful two weeks for our busy Oakham athletes, who have seen competition wins, personal bests and broken records. Talented Oakhamian, Izzy, has also been selected to represent GB in the upcoming Loughborough International.

Oakham’s Form 6 Voluntary Action pupils recently welcomed disabled young people from their local community to the School and enjoyed a range of Easter-themed crafts and activities.

All four Lower School houses have been preparing hard in recent weeks for the annual inter-house singing competition, which this year offered them the opportunity to pick a song from the hit animated film, Sing!.

Eleven talented musicians from Forms 2, 3, 4 & 6 performed in the Thistleton Music Festival

Citizenship pupils have put their questions to MP for Rutland and Melton, Alicia Kearns, recently as part of a project they are doing on a local solar farm proposal.   

An exhibition featuring personal artwork by Oakham School’s Art staff, showcasing the talents within the department, opened last week in the Oakham School Library.

Paul immediately conveyed the work’s tragic grandeur with a strong opening bass line and poised chorale-like chords.

Oakham's Modern Foreign Languages Faculty has recently introduced the Business Language course DELF (Diplôme d'Etudes en Langue Française) as part of Oakham's activities programme and is delighted to see its first student becoming certified.

Eliza displays a linguistic flexibility

Form 6 A-level students of Spanish, Poppy, Polly, Lotte, Georgina and Sidonie played hosts to their parents on Friday with a ‘degustación’. 

Congratulations to all the musicians who took part for entertaining us so brilliantly after just a couple of weeks of the Summer Term!

Old Oakhamian Rupert Fell’s awarded a Vice-Chancellor’s Scholarship in Music to Bristol University.

The Careers department recently hosted a Higher Education Fair in the Library.

Form 7 pupils who started Oakham School at the age of 10 reunited with their former teachers to enjoy a trip down memory lane and celebrate their status as the School’s longest-serving pupils.

Feuding families, star-crossed lovers and a whole lot of tragedy. As Oakham School gets ready to perform the stunning tale of Romeo and Juliet, we spoke to some of the cast behind the scenes to get their insight into the production.

Oakham School scuba divers have been enjoying perfecting their Open Water diving skills.

A packed audience in All Saints’ Church enjoyed the first lunchtime recital of the Summer Term

Yesterday evening saw the French Department holding a cheese tasting event to promote French culture.

With school field work trips finally able to resume, there was definite excitement in the air as Form 3 headed off on their Geography field trip to Skegness and Hunstanton. 

"Pien’s talents and tireless commitment to choral singing have been recognised by the prestigious choral scholarship scheme..."

Over the Easter break, Oakham’s Director of Art, Elinor Brass, organised a residential course in sunny Margate for Art teachers across the UK.

Lucy and Pien kept the audience engaged through their range of repertoire featuring French Art Song and Gilbert & Sullivan.

Form 4 GCSE Citizenship Students spent a useful day putting their learning into practice at the Nottingham Galleries of Justice Museum. 

A group of Lower and Middle School pupils spent a week of their Easter holidays enjoying the snowy slopes of Madonna di Campiglio in Italy. It was the first ski trip organised by the school since the beginning of the pandemic.

As Oakham School celebrates 20 years of offering the IB Diploma, the latest edition of The Oakhamian Magazine explored what the qualification means to current and former pupils at different stages of their life and education.

Congratulations to Lauren (Form 6) who has been selected as one of 16 players to represent Bermuda in their upcoming qualifying tournament for next year’s Central American and Caribbean Games in El Salvador. 

Yatfei has gained valuable work experience this Easter work shadowing Dr Craig in the Acute Medicine Unit (west) at the Leicester Royal Infirmary. 

F6 Psychology students visited Chester Zoo on 31st March to attend two workshops; Animal Behaviour and Primate Behaviour.

Form 7 students rounded off the Spring Term in style with a black tie dinner at Barnsdale Lodge Hotel.

Oakham School pupils have been ‘digging in’ to the celebrations for Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee by planting trees across the campus for The Queen’s Green Canopy.

This term boarding has seen a perfect balance of work, rest and play. 

Well done to Form 6 trombonist Archie who recently won the National Youth Championships of Great Britain with the Youth Brass 2000 band. 

A team of spirited Oakham School pupils have been fundraising for the Red Cross’ Ukrainian refugees aid with a badge and doughnut sale.

Oakham’s Form 6 recently visited Boots HQ in Nottingham to explore how the retailer has morphed from its ’bricks and mortar’ shops to have a growing online presence. They were the first pupils to be invited post Covid.

After a break of three years, Oakham’s Academic Scholars from Forms 1 to 7 gathered for their annual formal dinner, an opportunity to enjoy a fine meal and conversation in the convivial surroundings of the School’s Barraclough Dining Room.

Oakham School Form 7 IB Visual Arts students opened their final exhibition yesterday, sharing with their friends and family the superb work that they have been creating over the last two years.  

Oakham’s Form 3 pupils participate in the launch event of the MYP Community project which is an integral part of the IB Middle Years Programme (MYP). 

Congratulations to the Upper School winners who gained three bronze and four silver awards in the Chemistry Olympiad this year.

On the 29th of March a group of Upper School students, taking Classical Civilisation or Greek A-level, gathered together for an animated table reading of Oedipus the King by Sophocles. 

Oakham’s U18 rugby sevens team played some magnificent rugby to finish Runners Up of the Vase Competition at the Rosslyn Park National Schools Sevens Tournament; the first Oakham School side to achieve this feat since the competition began in 1939.

Oakham School has seen outstanding netball success this term with the teams achieving fantastic results in various netball tournaments.

Oakham’s hockey players, both past and present, have seen continued success this term.

Well done to the 5 Oakham physicists who received awards in the latest national Intermediate Physics Olympiad exams.