New College Oxford - Beyond the Classroom
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While, of course, academic lessons are a crucial part of New College School life, we also want to develop pupils who have a wide variety of interests and who want to engage with the world around them. To that end, we have a lively enrichment activities programme, a large number of trips to places both locally and abroad, and a healthy programme of visiting speakers.
Enrichment Activities
At NCS we run both lunchtime and after-school enrichment activities sessions. Lunchtime enrichment activities are run every day apart from Wednesday and the after school programme operates on Monday - Friday evenings. For more information about the enrichment activities on offer each term, please contact our Director of Enrichment (isobel.rose@newcollegeschool.org). Recent activities have included:
• Photography • Senior Play • AV Club • French Play • Creative Writing • Mandarin • Cooking Club • Historical films • Table Tennis • Drama • Basketball • Chamber Choir • Archery • Pottery • Board games • Classics Club • Recorder Club • Chess • Junior Strings • Yoga • Ukulele Club • Judo • Indoor Football • Fencing • Health Related Fitness • Museum Visiting • Karate • Choir (junior and senior) • ICT, Coding and Electronics • Greek •Model Railway Club • Public Speaking and Interview preparation
Trips & Outings
NCS also offers a large variety of day and residential trips to our pupils, substantially enriching classroom teaching. Being in the centre of a cultural hotspot like Oxford, we make excellent use of the local sights; from world-class museums, libraries, music venues to college archives, churches and natural spaces. Our trips begin in Year 3 and give the boys the opportunity to learn in a more liberal and experiential context. The trips start with a day away locally and then develop to destinations such as the Malvern Hills, Snowdonia, France and Italy. The majority of the trips have an academic focus with particular interest in Geography, History, Classics and Languages, but the boys also get the chance to let their hair down or go paddling in the Mediterranean.
Recent ncs trips
Rome, including St Peter's, the Vatican, Castel Sant'Angelo, the Pantheon, Il Gesu, the Forum and Colosseum, the catacombs of San Callisto, Circus Maximus, Piazza Navona, Trevi Fountain and Spanish Steps
Sicily, including Siracusa, Noto, Piazza Armerina, Valley of the Temples, Segesta, Selinunte, Palermo, Monreale and Mondello
Normandy, Avranches, Mont St Michel and Bayeux
USA, including New York, San Francisco, Stanford, Tulsa, Dallas, Charleston, Pittsburgh, Columbia, Atlanta
Wittenham Clumps
Malvern Hills
Merton College, Oxford
Christ Church Picture Collection
Harlech and Caenarfon Castles, Wales
The Science Museum
Natural History and Pitt Rivers Museums, Oxford
Exmoor National Park
New College Archives
Bate Instruments Collection
Sheldonian Theatre
The Andrew Marr Show, BBC
Royal Opera House
Hill End
'Little Canada', Isle of Wight
Chedworth Roman Villa
Condover Hall
British Museum
Snowdonia
Grosvenor Hall
Imperial War Museum
National Space Centre
Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
Westminster Abbey and St Paul's Cathedral
Houses of Parliament
Oxford City Museum
Pensarn Outward Bound Centre
The Ashmolean Museum
Cadogan Hall
Dorchester Abbey
Nuffield Place
Youlbury Scout Centre
Milton Keynes Theatre
Woodstock Museum
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Watermill Theatre, Newbury
The Swan and Royal Shakespeare Theatres, Stratford
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Woodstock Museum
Cotswold Wildlife Park
Grosvenor Hall
Oxford Castle
Bletchley Park
Talks & Lectures
At NCS we provide a number of different forums for talks and lectures. We host the annual Holloway Lecture, to which pupils from all local schools are invited. We also host guest preachers in Chapel most Wednesdays, as well as inviting speakers into school on an ad hoc basis. These speakers are very generous in telling us about their research, careers, and world affairs more generally.
recent ncs talks and lectures
Colonel Chris Hadfield: Astronaut
Professor Ashleigh Griffin: Professor of Evolutionary Biology, University of Oxford
Professor Judith Weir: Master of the Queen's Music
Professor Marcus Du Sautoy: Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science
Professor Eric Clarke: Oxford University Heather Professor of Music
Professor David Clifton: Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford; Research Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering; Visiting Chair in AI for Healthcare at the University of Manchester; Fellow of Fudan University, China.
Professor Guy Cuthbertson: Professor of British Literature and Culture
Professor Sarah Blagden: Professor of Experimental Oncology
Professor Lucie Cluver: Professor of Child and Family Social Work
Lord John Krebs: former President of the British Science Association
Ms Emily Gee: Director for Cathedral and Church Buildings, Church of England
Mr Oliver Holt: journalist, sports writer and broadcaster
Dr Dominic Sandbrook: historian and broadcaster
Mr Tim Harford: economist, journalist and broadcaster
Mr John Simpson: foreign correspondent and BBC world affairs editor
Mr Jerome Monahan: teacher and journalist
Mr Andrew Graham-Dixon: art historian and critic
Mr Alexander Armstrong: comedian, presenter and singer
Mr Adrian Hodges: BAFTA-winning screenwriter
Ms Griselda Heppel: People's Book Prize-winning author
Ms Joanna Trollope: author
Ms Jess Leydon: Great Britain rower
Mr Piers Torday: author
Dr Liz Jenkinson: Chief Technical Officer, Green Biologics
Mr Christopher William Hill: author
Mr Rupert Allen: commercial barrister, Fountain Court Chambers
Professor Steven Balbus: Savilian Professor of Astronomy, Oxford
Mr Ralph Allwood: former Director of Music, Eton College
Mr Carll Cneut: children's book illustrator
Dr Clive Holmes: emeritus Fellow in History, Lady Margaret Hall
Dr George Southcombe: Director of the Sarah Lawrence Programme, Wadham College
Dr Cory Way: Dean of Kirkland House, Harvard
Dr Nik Sabharwal: Consultant cardiologist
Professor Richard Katz: Professor of Geodynamics, University of Oxford
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Beyond the Classroom
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While, of course, academic lessons are a crucial part of New College School life, we also want to develop pupils who have a wide variety of interests and who want to engage with the world around them. To that end, we have a lively enrichment activities programme, a large number of trips to places both locally and abroad, and a healthy programme of visiting speakers.
Enrichment Activities
At NCS we run both lunchtime and after-school enrichment activities sessions. Lunchtime enrichment activities are run every day apart from Wednesday and the after school programme operates on Monday - Friday evenings. For more information about the enrichment activities on offer each term, please contact our Director of Enrichment (isobel.rose@newcollegeschool.org). Recent activities have included:
• Photography • Senior Play • AV Club • French Play • Creative Writing • Mandarin • Cooking Club • Historical films • Table Tennis • Drama • Basketball • Chamber Choir • Archery • Pottery • Board games • Classics Club • Recorder Club • Chess • Junior Strings • Yoga • Ukulele Club • Judo • Indoor Football • Fencing • Health Related Fitness • Museum Visiting • Karate • Choir (junior and senior) • ICT, Coding and Electronics • Greek •Model Railway Club • Public Speaking and Interview preparation
Trips & Outings
NCS also offers a large variety of day and residential trips to our pupils, substantially enriching classroom teaching. Being in the centre of a cultural hotspot like Oxford, we make excellent use of the local sights; from world-class museums, libraries, music venues to college archives, churches and natural spaces. Our trips begin in Year 3 and give the boys the opportunity to learn in a more liberal and experiential context. The trips start with a day away locally and then develop to destinations such as the Malvern Hills, Snowdonia, France and Italy. The majority of the trips have an academic focus with particular interest in Geography, History, Classics and Languages, but the boys also get the chance to let their hair down or go paddling in the Mediterranean.
Recent ncs trips
Rome, including St Peter's, the Vatican, Castel Sant'Angelo, the Pantheon, Il Gesu, the Forum and Colosseum, the catacombs of San Callisto, Circus Maximus, Piazza Navona, Trevi Fountain and Spanish Steps
Sicily, including Siracusa, Noto, Piazza Armerina, Valley of the Temples, Segesta, Selinunte, Palermo, Monreale and Mondello
Normandy, Avranches, Mont St Michel and Bayeux
USA, including New York, San Francisco, Stanford, Tulsa, Dallas, Charleston, Pittsburgh, Columbia, Atlanta
Wittenham Clumps
Malvern Hills
Merton College, Oxford
Christ Church Picture Collection
Harlech and Caenarfon Castles, Wales
The Science Museum
Natural History and Pitt Rivers Museums, Oxford
Exmoor National Park
New College Archives
Bate Instruments Collection
Sheldonian Theatre
The Andrew Marr Show, BBC
Royal Opera House
Hill End
'Little Canada', Isle of Wight
Chedworth Roman Villa
Condover Hall
British Museum
Snowdonia
Grosvenor Hall
Imperial War Museum
National Space Centre
Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
Westminster Abbey and St Paul's Cathedral
Houses of Parliament
Oxford City Museum
Pensarn Outward Bound Centre
The Ashmolean Museum
Cadogan Hall
Dorchester Abbey
Nuffield Place
Youlbury Scout Centre
Milton Keynes Theatre
Woodstock Museum
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Watermill Theatre, Newbury
The Swan and Royal Shakespeare Theatres, Stratford
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Woodstock Museum
Cotswold Wildlife Park
Grosvenor Hall
Oxford Castle
Bletchley Park
Talks & Lectures
At NCS we provide a number of different forums for talks and lectures. We host the annual Holloway Lecture, to which pupils from all local schools are invited. We also host guest preachers in Chapel most Wednesdays, as well as inviting speakers into school on an ad hoc basis. These speakers are very generous in telling us about their research, careers, and world affairs more generally.
recent ncs talks and lectures
Colonel Chris Hadfield: Astronaut
Professor Ashleigh Griffin: Professor of Evolutionary Biology, University of Oxford
Professor Judith Weir: Master of the Queen's Music
Professor Marcus Du Sautoy: Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science
Professor Eric Clarke: Oxford University Heather Professor of Music
Professor David Clifton: Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford; Research Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering; Visiting Chair in AI for Healthcare at the University of Manchester; Fellow of Fudan University, China.
Professor Guy Cuthbertson: Professor of British Literature and Culture
Professor Sarah Blagden: Professor of Experimental Oncology
Professor Lucie Cluver: Professor of Child and Family Social Work
Lord John Krebs: former President of the British Science Association
Ms Emily Gee: Director for Cathedral and Church Buildings, Church of England
Mr Oliver Holt: journalist, sports writer and broadcaster
Dr Dominic Sandbrook: historian and broadcaster
Mr Tim Harford: economist, journalist and broadcaster
Mr John Simpson: foreign correspondent and BBC world affairs editor
Mr Jerome Monahan: teacher and journalist
Mr Andrew Graham-Dixon: art historian and critic
Mr Alexander Armstrong: comedian, presenter and singer
Mr Adrian Hodges: BAFTA-winning screenwriter
Ms Griselda Heppel: People's Book Prize-winning author
Ms Joanna Trollope: author
Ms Jess Leydon: Great Britain rower
Mr Piers Torday: author
Dr Liz Jenkinson: Chief Technical Officer, Green Biologics
Mr Christopher William Hill: author
Mr Rupert Allen: commercial barrister, Fountain Court Chambers
Professor Steven Balbus: Savilian Professor of Astronomy, Oxford
Mr Ralph Allwood: former Director of Music, Eton College
Mr Carll Cneut: children's book illustrator
Dr Clive Holmes: emeritus Fellow in History, Lady Margaret Hall
Dr George Southcombe: Director of the Sarah Lawrence Programme, Wadham College
Dr Cory Way: Dean of Kirkland House, Harvard
Dr Nik Sabharwal: Consultant cardiologist
Professor Richard Katz: Professor of Geodynamics, University of Oxford
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