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This term has seen pupils of all ages throughout the School raise over £17,000 for good causes.
The inaugural Shakespeare Verse Monologue Competition took place in the Queen Elizabeth Theatre during the afternoon of Sunday 9 December.
Oakham School netball is excited to announce that the U15 team will be representing England in the World School Netball Cup in June 2019!
Congratulations to the U18 boys 1st VI who have qualified for the National Indoor Hockey Finals for the 6th time in 9 years.
Old Oakhamians Harry Smith (16) and Jack Cornes (16), founders of the revolutionary company ‘Hausbots’, returned to the School to run a ‘Build Your First Robot’ workshop for Lower, Middle and Upper School students.
Oakham School librarians have organised a Secret Santa Book Borrowing event giving pupils the opportunity to read books they would not otherwise have chosen.
Steve Mackenzie and Alisha MacIntyre from LEGO Education in Billund, Denmark, which is also the birthplace and home of the LEGO Group, visited Oakham School during their week-long UK tour.
Members of staff recently enjoyed taking part in a Christmas wreath making workshop organised by the Art Department with donations being given to Cancer Research.
Form 6 language students were invited to take part in the Lancaster University Modern Language Essay Competition for the second year running.
Two of Oakham’s cricket coaches have written, illustrated and launched a new book on the sport, which focuses on the role of the captain in the game.
Oakham’s actors wowed audiences and received a standing ovation for their outstanding rendition of Dicken’s ‘A Christmas Carol’.
Our Lower School pupils have been busy embracing the festive spirit, decorating their Houses and taking part in seasonal activities to celebrate the start of Advent.
Form 6 art students were delighted to welcome A-level artists from Harington School to view their joint exhibition in the Wheelhouse Gallery, which runs from 3rd December to 19th December.
Jessica Gilbert is Oakham School’s Artist in Residence, during the 2018-2019 academic year. We asked her some questions about her work and studio practice.
Holly performed a varied and beautifully executed programme, featuring music by Scarlatti, Chopin and contemporary composer Gubaidulina.
Oakham’s rugby teams have seen a strong run this season with some excellent performances.
Two Old Oakhamians have been selected to represent Great Britain at the World Championships of Full-Bore Shooting.
Oakham’s annual interhouse Steeplechase saw an overall tie for first place between Barrow and Wharflands with Barrow winning both the Junior and Senior races and Wharflands winning the Inters race.
Well done to Oakham School’s talented mathematicians for achieving 6 golds, 8 silver and 8 bronzes in this year’s UKMT Senior Maths Challenge (SMC).
Last Friday Oakham School’s Charity Rock concert, featuring student and staff bands, raised £195 for the School’s charity of the Year, Rainbows Hospice.
Congratulations to Buchanans House who won the Middle School interhouse debating competition.
Author, film-maker and mountaineer Matt Dickinson visited Oakham School last week.
Multi-instrumentalists from Form 4,5 & 6 wow audience with Dvorak Sonatina in G.
Congratulations to the U14 girls' hockey team for reaching the Midlands Finals.
For the 17th year running, pupils at Oakham School have hosted a ‘Children in Need’ cake stall to raise money for this fantastic charity.
Lower School girls in Ancaster House have been busy filling old shoeboxes with presents for the Samaritan's appeal.
Oakham School Geography Society welcomed four University of Nottingham lecturers to give Upper School Geography students a taste of university lectures and current research in their fields.
Oakham Philosophy students took part in Stowe School's inaugural open Philosothon this week, discussing ideas surrounding trust, identity, property and environmental ethics.
Congratulations to Form 6 student Laura who has received a Gold International Global Citizen’s award, recognising her commitment to finding out about other cultures and outlooks and helping to make the world a better place.
Pupils in Form 1 started the Bookbuzz reading programme today by collecting their chosen books, discussing them with teachers and enjoying some breakfast treats in the Smallbone Library.
Form 7 IB Higher Level geographers recently visited the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London as part of their studies on sport and tourism.
This Wednesday we welcomed Grace and Freddie to continue our Music at Lunchtime recitals, following a restful half term.
The U19 netball team had an incredibly successful afternoon at the County round of the National Schools’ Netball Tournament winning a place in the Regional Tournament for the 7th year running.
Pupils from Forms 5 to 7 were invited to attend the annual Careers Fair, which took place just before the half-term break.
The poppies that Oakham’s Lower School pupils helped to create, as part of the Rutland Poppy Project, can now be seen in the magnificent display in the grounds of Oakham Castle.
Upper School geographers are visiting the Kingdom of Morocco.
Congratulations to Old Oakhamian Matt Ramshaw (18) who has won the Sultan of Johor Cup 2018 with the GB U21 side and as part of the Elite Development Programme.
A group of students and staff have travelled to the Dominican Republic to enjoy an unforgettable underwater experience.
Beth and Luke treat us to the first duet of the year.
Form 3 students took inspiration from a recent trip to the Imperial War Museum and the Lowry Cultural Centre in Manchester.
Despite the unsettled weather conditions, Oakham pupils overcame their D of E, CCF and Voluntary Action challenges admirably for Service Weekend.
On Friday 12 October, the East-Midlands’ only professional and Grammy-nominated Orchestra, Sinfonia Viva come to Oakham School Chapel to perform The Italian Symphony, a balanced programme of virtuoso musicality.
On Monday of service weekend, Lower One pupils spent the day with Clan Wulfhar, a Viking re-enactment group from Peterborough.
Oakham’s U14 netball team are celebrating after winning all 6 of their games at the County Tournament to secure their place at the Regional Finals in December.
On Tuesday 2 October, Oakham School welcomed over 170 students from 13 prep schools for a fun-filled day of music-making. This year’s theme for Prep Schools’ Music Day was Flavours of Folk, involving string players and singers.
Congratulations to the U14 Girls Hockey team who have been crowned champions at the Tier 1 County Hockey Finals.
Twelve Form 7 Oakhamians perform well at the Model United Nations Conference held at Cheadle Hulme School in Manchester.
On Wednesday 3 October, Emilia performed a beautifully curated oboe recital, with music from Britten, Grovlez and Mozart.
Congratulations to Jenny in Form 6 who has been selected to join the Independent Schools’ Football Association National Representative Squad!
Always a highlight in the Oakham School calendar, activities for Service Weekend are due to get underway.
Lower School pupils have been busy collecting food to send to Rutland Food Bank as part of their harvest celebrations.
Form 5 Religion & Philosophy students visited Cambridge Buddhist Centre and Ely Cathedral as part of their GCSE course.
Crista Cullen captained a specially selected OO squad against a team of current students in an ‘All-Star’ hockey match played on the newly opened Crista Cullen Astro!
We were honoured to welcome double Olympic medal winner, GB Hockey player, and Old Oakhamian (03), Crista Cullen MBE back to Oakham School to officially open our new hockey astro.
The new Form 6 IB Diploma students have recently returned from their annual start-of-programme retreat held at Hothorpe Hall, Leicestershire.
Upper School Philosophy students were delighted to welcome Professor Angie Hobbs to the first Philosophy Society of the year.
Form 1 celebrated European Day of Languages by participating in a variety of fun taster lessons in four different languages instead of their usual French lesson.
Oakham’s youngest Drama scholars and special invitees performed in Oakham’s first Middle School Scholars’ Production.
Oakham School’s Duesbury Society recently welcomed Dr Nicholas Morton, a history lecturer at Nottingham Trent University and specialist in the history of crusading and the Medieval Mediterranean between the tenth and thirteenth centuries.
The Modern Foreign Language Society gathered yesterday evening for dinner and an address from Old Oakhamian Abigail Chell.
The second of our Lunchtime series saw newly appointed Oakham organist, Harry Jacques, give a blindingly impressive organ recital.
Model United Nations (MUN) students are delighted to have accepted an invitation to represent Germany and Egypt at the esteemed Cheadle Hulme International debating MUN conference in October.
Our very own Director of Music, Peter Davis, launched the Music at Lunchtime series 2018 with a lively and energetic performance of Chopin and Schumann
Oakham’s first team sailors emerged victorious at the Rutland Trophy Firefly sailing competition held at Rutland Water last weekend. Oakham’s second team also finished a respectable third.
Huge congratulations to Form 6 student Evan who won two Golds at the 2018 School Games, a major multi-sport event for the most talented young athletes across the UK.
Oakham School U14 cricket team have been crowned champions at the County Cricket Finals against Leicester Grammar School, which was held at the Oakham Cricket Club.
The Smallbone Library has seen the installation of a beautiful, unique ‘tree of knowledge’, the concept of which is based on Biophilic Design
Professional musician and Old Oakhamain Maddy Aldis-Evans, returns to Oakham to perform in a concert entitled ‘The Italian Symphony” with Sinfonia Viva, the orchestra of the East Midlands, on Friday October 12.
Form 5 student Evan continued his incredible season with a fantastic performance at the England Athletics U17 Championships.
Congratulations to Form 5 student Evan who represented England at the SIAB (Schools International Athletic Board) championships claiming a Silver medal in the 200m as well as a Gold in the 4 x 400m relay race!
Oakham School has been helping out with the Rutland Community Art Poppy Project, inspired by the 2014 installation at the Tower of London.
As part of the Form 4 project week, 20 Oakhamians chose to take part in the Journey to Japan Business and Language challenge.
Knossington and Somerby Pre-School Exhibition held at the Wheelhouse Gallery last Sunday was a great success!
The end of the summer term saw perfect conditions for the Lower School annual Sports Day.
Children from Knossington and Somerby Pre-School will be exhibiting and selling their creative artwork this Sunday at Oakham School’s Wheelhouse Gallery, raising money for their School.
Lower School pupils have enjoyed standing ovations this week in their productions of Beauty and the Beast and The Magical Voyage of Ulysses.
Form 6 Art students were delighted to meet with the influential British artist, Linder Sterling, during their visit to her exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary.
For the third year in a row Oakham triumphed at the TeenTech Final, with Form 6 student Holly winning the Best Research Award Project for her inquiry into the causes of the underrepresentation of women in computer science.
The boys of Peterborough House were delighted to welcome Jess Dixon of Rainbows Children’s Hospice to the Lower School, where they presented her with a cheque for £1,000.
This Wednesday’s lunchtime concert in All Saints’ church was a stunning recital of French mélodie and English song performed by Beth.
On Monday lunchtime for a peaceful hour Lower 1 and Form 1 pupils enjoyed a session of French stories in the Smallbone Library.
Form 6 student Khalid successfully chaired the General Assembly Committee at the International Model United Nations (MUN) Conference in Alkmaar, Holland.
Lily delivered a spellbinding performance of a song cycle by Aaron Copland in this week's lunchtime recital.
Old Oakhamian Kathryn Lane (13) and her former Oakham PE teacher Ellie Watton are featured in the powerful England Hockey #BehindEveryGreatPlayer campaign, which celebrates the importance of supportive role models in achieving sporting success.
Oakham A-level and IB Design and Technology students visited Rutland Plastics to look at the industrial processes of manufacturing plastic products.
Oakham School’s exceptional grounds team are busy preparing Doncaster Close for the return of County Cricket this Thursday (May 31).
Four budding scientists from Form 2 recently attended the Salters’ Chemistry Festival at Nottingham University.
It has been a record-breaking term for Oakham athletes with six students beating previously set School records.
Students of GCSE Citizenship are working teams to campaign awareness, or bring about a change, on a chosen topic linked to Human Rights.
This week's lunchtime concert comprised a selection of performances by Oakham string players.
Form 5 and 6 students recently spent an afternoon attending interesting activities and seminars giving information and advice about University.
In beautiful spring sunshine, Oakham’s Lower School boys from Peterborough (PH) and Sargants Houses joined forces to cycle around Rutland Water to raise money for charity.
Lower One have set off on their annual residential trip to Lea Green Development Centre near Matlock in Derbyshire.
Middle School Boarders had a fantastic day in Cambridge as one of their weekend trips this term.
For the third year running, students from Oakham School have been selected to take part in the TeenTech final!
Pupils in Lower One have recently visited the National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield.
Oakham’s Firefly sailors have been learning from the best, having had the chance to train with the New Zealand international team!
Oakham’s cricketers have got off to a strong start in the first few weeks of the Summer Term, especially now the summer weather has finally arrived!
With another glorious day in Oakham and a piano programme of the famous “Three B’s”, Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms, this week's lunchtime recital was set to be a cracker!
Last Saturday saw the exciting spectacle of the Middle and Upper School Sports Day at Oakham School.
Computer Science students are taking part in Oakham School’s first ever Hackathon!
IB geographers have recently returned from Stamford where they collected primary data for their internal research question and assessment.
Politics students enjoyed an evening of political discourse on Friday when the Rt Hon David Lidington MP visited the School.
Congratulations to Middle School students and talented footballers Emma W, Emma G and Phoebe B for being selected to represent the Midlands region at the inaugural Independent Schools Football Association (ISFA) Girls U15 Regional Representative Festival.
Congratulations to Old Oakhamian and Rugby legend, Tom Croft (04) who has just won Leicester Tigers’ Outstanding Service Award.
Congratulations to Form 5’s Emilia who has recently received the news that she has been accepted into Opera North’s Orchestra Academy as co-principle oboe.
This term’s ‘Friday Night Classics’ was a superb concert, filled with an array of ensembles that showcased the high musical standard that the students of Oakham School work hard to achieve.
Form 6 and 7 Form students watched a wonderful French film called Les Intoucheables.
On Sunday six girls from Form 2 took part in the first round of the U14 Road to Wimbledon competition.
The U18 Boys Hockey team have been awarded Silver Medals in the National Schools Outdoor Championships held at the prestigious Olympic Stadium, Lee Valley this week and are now runners up in both the Indoor and Outdoor National Finals 2018.
We are delighted for Form 4’s Lizzie who has achieved yet another win as a part of Youth Brass 2000.
Last Sunday saw a team of Oakham School Cadets compete in the Cadet Target Rifle Meeting (CTRM) on the ranges at Beckingham.
This week we were treated to a concert of highlights from last term’s Piano Duet Competition. This was a special event in itself as we celebrated the competition’s tenth anniversary, and featured new duets specially composed for Oakham students.
Two pupils from Oakham School have placed an impressive 12th in the world after competing in the 2018 RS Feva World Championships!
Congratulations to Oakham’s U18 rugby sevens squad who made it to the semi-finals of the Rosslyn Park Schools National Sevens competition for the second year in a row.
On the 12th April, 24 Politics & International Relations students attended the Euroscola conference in Strasbourg, France.
A former Oakham School student and her teacher have played alongside each other in the England Women’s Hockey team to win Bronze medals at the Commonwealth Games this weekend!
It’s been an exceptional few weeks for Old Oakhamians’ and Oakham’s top hockey players – playing in matches with their national and club teams:
The Economics Department was delighted to host the Institute of Economics Affairs (IEA) Sixth Form Conference towards the end of last term.
A group of Lower School pupils are spending a week of their Easter holidays enjoying the snowy slopes of Madonna di Campiglio in Italy.
Last week saw the fourth outing of the year for the Oakham School Geography Society.
Congratulations to Oakham’s Girls Football 1st XI who have been crowned the ISFA Midlands League Champions.
Wednesday’s lunchtime recital by Form 6 Vienna featured two virtuoso showpieces from the Romantic piano repertoire.
Last Friday saw teams of Form 6 students put their creative talents and their crafting skills to the test, as they made a fashion garment within a short period of time for the inaugural 'Anna and Anastasia Fashion Show'.
Lower School netballers battled terrible weather conditions to place second in a netball tournament held at Condover Hall in Shropshire.
Oakham School runners have been selected to represent Leicestershire and Rutland in the English Schools Cross-Country Championships in Leeds this Saturday.
As part of the March Service Weekend a group of Voluntary Action students helped in a number of different areas within the community.
Oakham's A-Level and IB Politics students have been selected by the EU Parliament to represent the UK out of a possible 3,500 Schools in the UK at the 2018 Euroscola Conference.
Undaunted by the ‘Beast from the East’, the Form 4 DofE Bronze canoeists have recently returned from an afternoon's pre-practice canoeing expedition on the River Nene at Wansford.
Form 7 student Vanessa has been selected to represent England in the British Schools Small-Bore Rifle Association (BSSRA) International match 2018.
Oakham will send out a team of students next week to the International Model United Nations (MUN) conference in Bath, where they will be debating current global issues from an assigned country's viewpoint.
Lower School pupils take part in the Inter-Schools Team and Individual Show Jumping event.
This week’s recital, given by Form 7’s Tom, was on a sunny but chilly Wednesday in All Saints’ Church and concluded the lunchtime recitals for this busy half of term.
Form 6 A-Level Business students recently toured the Jaguar F-Type factory to gain an insight into how cars are built in relation to the resource management component of the A-level course.
The Art, Design and Technology department hosted a successful Guest Night for students studying these subjects in Forms 5, 6 and 7.
Oakham School’s Business Department welcomed Giles Brook, CEO of Vita Coco, the leading global Coconut Water business, for a fascinating talk on how to build a challenger brand.
Form 6 CCF cadets started the expedition section of their Gold DofE Award recently with a navigation and mountain skills training weekend.
On the second weekend of the Spring Term, the Form 6 boarders were treated to an entertaining night of Scottish dancing and eating to celebrate Burns Night.
Form 6 Spanish students enjoy Spanish breakfast.
A hockey player from Oakham School has won the U18 Hockey Writers’ Club National Youth Award. Matt Ramshaw, a Seventh Former at Oakham, received his award at a presentation on Wednesday evening at the Royal Thames Yacht Club in Knightsbridge.
A talented Oakham Sportsman was captain of the Leicester Tigers Academy team for the first time last weekend and led his team to victory against the Worcester Warriors 42-14.
As part of the prestigious Brandenburg Choral Festival, on Thursday evening the Oakham School Chamber Choir performed a spectacular concert in the delightful setting of St Paul’s Church, Covent Garden.
In the second lunchtime recital of the Spring term, talented Form 4 music scholar Alina performed a programme of vibrant ‘cello music by two Italian composers from contrasting musical eras.
Three Upper School pupils Oliver, Francesca and Loewe recently attended the Midlands Heat of the RSC Schools Analyst Competition held at Nottingham University.
A group of Upper School Geography students travelled to Stamford Arts Centre to hear a talk entitled “The Land Beyond” by Leon McCarron as part of this term’s Oakham Geography Society events.
It has become a tradition for Oakham’s Graduate Musician to give the first recital of the Spring Term, and so, this week, it was a real treat to hear baritone, George Cook, performing a selection of songs accompanied by Anne Bolt at the piano.