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  • Oratory Racquets wins Real Tennis U16 National Schools Doubles Championship Title

    Published 08/02/24

    The Oratory is delighted to announce that 5th Formers, A. Watson and N. McGarvey have won the Real Tennis U16s Nationals Schools Championship title this weekend at Radley College, the first ever National Doubles Championship title in the school’s history.

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  • Oratory Rugby wins Gordon School’s U16 Invitational Rugby 7s

    Published 08/02/24

    The Rugby Sevens season has got off to an unbelievable start for Oratory Rugby this weekend with The Oratory U16s team winning Gordon’s School’s Invitational

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  • 6th Form A Level Psychology Trip to London's 'Psychology in Action' Day

    Published 31/01/24

    Last term, 6th Form A Level Psychology students attended 'Psychology in Action' by Education in Action at the Emmanuel Centre in London.

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  • Oratory Football Success in the Central Independent Schools League

    Published 30/01/24

    It’s been a fantastic season so far for Oratory Football as they top 4 out of 5 league tables in the Central Independent Schools League.

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  • 'The Challenges of Raising Successful Young People' - a Discussion by Matthew Fogg, Deputy Head Pastoral

    Published 29/01/24

    It was a great pleasure to welcome senior leaders from a wide range of prep schools for a discussion of how we can work collaboratively to raise successful young men and women.

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  • Oratory 3rd & 4th Form Sports Award Students visit GoPerform

    Published 26/01/24

    On Wednesday, 3rd and 4th Form Sports Award Students visited GoPerform in Reading, where they learnt about sports performance and injury rehabilitation.

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  • Oratory Classics Trip to Wales and the West Country

    Published 26/01/24

    Over the weekend, an elite group of 4th and 5th form Latinists went on a Classical trip to Wales and the West Country.

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  • Oratory Maths in Ritangle 2023 Competition

    Published 23/01/24

    Last term, Oratory Maths entered a team into MEI's Ritangle Competition, a maths competition designed for 6th Form students who are currently studying either A level Mathematics, The International Baccalaureate, Scottish Highers or qualifications with equivalent content.

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  • Loquitur Talk by Daniel Philips (OS 2014-2019)

    Published 19/01/24

    This week The Oratory School had the pleasure of welcoming back Daniel Philips (OS 2014-2019), former Captain of Music and Drama, who delivered a hands-on Loquitur to our L6 Form about the importance of learning to network effectively as a student. It was a real privilege for our pupils to receive guidance from one of the Top Thought Leadership Voices on LinkedIn.

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  • Oratory Hockey 1st XI Team become Berkshire Schools’ League Winners for Third Consecutive Year

    Published 19/01/24

    The Oratory is delighted to announce that their 1st XI Hockey team has won the Berkshire Schools’ Hockey League for 2023, a third consecutive year

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  • A call to action. What does Blake’s ‘epic’ poem mean, and is it ‘true?’

    Published 12/01/24

    ‘Jerusalem’ or ‘And did those feet in ancient times’ (1804) set to music by Hubert Parry (1916) and orchestrated by Sir Edward Elgar, is not in its first incantation and intention a hymn. Indeed, neither is it technically a hymn because it is not a prayer. Rather the poem, by William Blake, is from the preface to his work Milton: A Poem in Two Books and is better titled in fact ‘Milton’.

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  • FOS Charity Fundraising - Michaelmas Term

    Published 08/12/23

    Our Friends of the Oratory (FOS) Management Committee have had a busy Michaelmas term. Here's an update on three of their major charity fundraising initiatives:

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