Latest News

Oakham’s 1st VI has successfully qualified for the National Indoor Hockey Finals, after being crowned Midlands champions in an incredibly fierce regional tournament held at the weekend.

The Art department welcomed teachers and support staff this week to a Christmas wreath workshop.

Oakham’s Netball teams have completed a clean sweep at the Leicestershire and Rutland County Championships by winning all three titles: the U14, U16 and U19s.

A group of Form 4 pupils studying German attended an event hosted by Business Language Champions and GCHQ. 

It has been another successful season for Oakham’s rugby players, both past and present.

November brought another array of great Music at Lunchtime concerts.

Congratulations to Form 4 pupil Will who has won the Leicestershire County Cricket Club Batsman of the year award for the second year running and Rutland League Performance of the Year for a century in the league.

It has been a busy and interesting term for Oakham’s Politics Department - keeping pupils up to date with all of the latest political developments, as well as arranging a snap mock election!

On Saturday a small group of Oakham pupils attended a tree-planting event in Derbyshire as part of the Woodland Trust’s “Big Climate Fightback”; a national event providing opportunities for people to get involved in tree-planting activities across the country to help reduce the effects of climate change.

Oakham is delighted to be celebrating 25 years of the Smallbone Library all day today with a series of events and lectures.

This year’s Form 7 Spanish Immersion trip returned to Mallorca during October Half Term.

Well done to the U18 Boys Indoor Hockey team for qualifying for the Regional Finals following their success in the Zonal tournament.

The Art department welcomed staff and pupils to a Christmas Craft event at lunchtime in the Smallbone Library.

Well done to Arthur, Thomas and Joshua for winning the book-themed composition competition launched in collaboration with the Music Department.

Form 7 pupils studying for an IB Diploma in Visual Arts held a mock exhibition showing their fantastic key work to date in the Wheelhouse Gallery.

Old Oakhamians gathered from across the UK to attend the annual Old Oakhamian President’s Dinner, which this year took place in the Barraclough Dining Hall at the School.

Kat Klohe (OO ’07) visited the Social Science Faculty on Friday before the OO President’s dinner to share her experience of Oakham School, her life experience after Oakham and to raise awareness of neglected tropical diseases and how they hamper the development of Less Economically Developed Countries (LEDCs).

The Autumn Concert got under way with a fiercely intense performance of Ravel’s Bolero.

Izzi, Joanna and Evie (Form 3) as well as Zara, Alice and Milly (Form 4) have been picked for the U15 Loughborough Lightning hub.

Congratulations to Barrow House who won the ‘Champion of Champions’ inter-house debating competition. Barrow House is only one of two Middle School houses to have ever defeated their Upper School opponents in the Champions final!