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  • The Oratory Celebrates its Rugby Centenary

    Published 18/10/22
    On 18 October 1922, The Oratory School played against Sandhurst Old Soldiers. The Oratorian School Magazine published that year gave the following report: “Three weeks after first starting Rugger we played our opening match. The form
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  • L6th Form English Literature and Theology: Hamlet talk

    Published 17/10/22
    L6th Form English Literature and Theology pupils were treated to an excellent talk by Fr Elliott on the status of ghosts in Shakespeare and early modern England this weekend. Fr Elliott began by putting the pupils on the spot to develop a tim
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  • U6th Form Geography and Biology Fieldwork in The Gower, Wales

    Published 10/10/22
    The U6th Form Biologists and Geographers travelled to The Gower Peninsula last week to carry out their respective field work projects for A Level study. On arrival, the whole group went on an orientation walk in Port Eynon along the pathways neigh
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  • Musicians' trip to see Tosca at the English National Opera

    Published 09/10/22
    On Saturday 8 October, Oratory Music took a group of young musicians to the Coliseum in London, the home of English National Opera, to hear Puccini’s masterpiece, Tosca. The pupils were fortunate to have allocated some of the best sea
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  • 5th Form English Literature: Macbeth Performance and Workshop

    Published 09/10/22
    The entire 5th Form was treated to an afternoon of Shakespeare produced by the theatre company, Drama Impact, who The Oratory have worked with for the past few years.   The group thoroughly enjoyed an inspiring performance of Macbeth fro
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  • 6th Form English Literature Pupils visit Keats' House

    Published 05/10/22
    A-Level English pupils went on a trip to the house where the Romantic poet, John Keats, lived in the early nineteenth century. They enjoyed strolling through the leafy suburbs of Hampstead, a tour of the house, and a workshop on the poem The Eve
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  • U6th Form Historians visit the Holocaust Galleries at IWM

    Published 03/10/22
    U6th Form Historians visited the Holocaust Galleries at the Imperial War Museum on Friday 30 September, to further their understanding of the Holocaust to support their A level coursework studies.  The brand new galleries were an im
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  • Oratory Racquets' Real Tennis East Anglia Tour

    Published 30/09/22
    Exeat weekend saw a group of 16 pupils make their way to East Anglia for their first racquets tour.  First stop was Prested Hall Rackets club, where the students were able to play Real Tennis, Tennis, Padel Tennis and table tennis.  A gr
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  • 4th - L6th Form's Classics Trip to Hadrian's Wall

    Published 28/09/22
    Over the September exeat weekend, the Classics department took a group of Latin students up to Hadrian's Wall to celebrate 1900 years since it was built. We travelled up on Friday via Barnard Castle to get supplies for dinner before heading
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  • The Oratory's Real Tennis Exhibition

    Published 26/09/22
    On Sunday 25 September The Oratory School hosted a Real Tennis event for its parents, pupils and Old Oratorians (OOs). It was a fantastic afternoon, featuring parents and OOs playing a mixture of singles and doubles, with no less than three ex-s
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  • The Oratory's U10s & U13s Rugby Festival

    Published 22/09/22
    On Wednesday 21 September, The Oratory hosted its annual Rugby Festival. This year we expanded the competition to include both the Under 10s and Under 13 age groups as part of the school's wider Rugby Centenary celebrations.   With a
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  • 1st Form: Art & Science Trip to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

    Published 21/09/22
    Oratory 1st Form attended the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew for a joint Art and Science trip on Tuesday.  In Science, pupils took a turn at solving a forensic science “crime” committed in the Temperate House, also known as the Gold
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