PUPIL ACHIEVEMENTS – Spring Term 2019
ACADEMIC
13+ Internal Scholarship Awards:
Many congratulations to the following Lower School students who were awarded 13+ Scholarships which take effect in September 2019 when they enter the Middle School:
Gracie Blanksby Art Exhibition Livvy Burgess Art Exhibition Ollie Clarke Sport Scholarship Freddie Collins DT Exhibition Charlotte Cousley Sport Scholarship Teddy Crooke Sport Scholarship William Graff-Baker DT Exhibition David Harrison Drama Scholarship Charles Hopkinson DT Exhibition Daisy Jackson Sport Scholarship Mesi Johnson Drama Scholarship Flo Lissaman All-Rounder Scholarship Violet O’Neill Sport Scholarship Fergus Simpson All-Rounder Scholarship Phoebe Skelton Drama Exhibition Evie Smith Sport Scholarship Daisy Styles Drama Exhibition Eric Walker Sport Scholarship Snow Yu Art Scholarship & Music Exhibition
11+ Internal Scholarship Awards:
Many congratulations to the following Lower School students who were awarded 11+ Scholarships which take effect in September 2019:
Mufaro Dzingirai Music Scholarship George Marshall Music Exhibition Owen Nutter Academic Exhibition Finlay Sandham Academic Exhibition
For students in the Lower School, 13+ Academic Scholarships are awarded at the end of the academic year (June 2019).
Debating
Congratulations to both Clipsham and Haywoods who tied (a rare event) in the Junior Interhouse Debating Final. The teams were; Thomas Fagan, Ranulph Wheway, James Grace and George Nicholson of Clipsham, and Obi Osuji, George Wood, Felix Pinder, Will Norris and Alfie Borrill of Haywoods.
Congratulations to Obi Osuji for his outstanding individual contribution to Debating.
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French, Spanish and German
Six Oakhamian linguists spent a fantastic day at Nottingham Girls, High School. They joined girls from NGHS and Stamford School and were tasked with writing, directing and acting in a play on a topical issue in their target language. The French plays all used the Gilets Jaunes movement as inspiration, and the Spanish teams focused on the financial crisis and its effects on the traditional Spanish family model.
All six students put in excellent performances on stage at NGHS’s Squire Theatre and showed an incredible command of their respective languages. Oakham students swept the board in the awards ceremony which followed the performances. Congratulations to the following:
Emma Hearn won Best Stage Presence. Tess Davenport won Best Language. Elizabeth Glynn won Best Projection and Body Language. Elizabeth Glynn and Janhavi Modak made up half of the team who won Best Play. Emma Hearn was in the team who were runners-up in the Best Play category.
Library (and Computer Science)
TeenTech Awards
The TeenTech Awards were established to help students understand how they might apply STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Technology) to real-world problems. The following students have submitted Innovation Logs for the qualifying round of the competition and, will receive a Bronze, Silver or Gold certificate and potentially progress to the final round of judging at the Royal Society in London:
Middle School
AutoBins: Adam Drew and Rory King (Form 3) - Autonomous garbage collection
FOSILTT: James Grace (Form 3) - An online tool for teaching the FOSIL Cycle of inquiry
SMG: David Olotu (Form 3) - An autonomous glider to combat poaching
Upper School
MINDSTORMS: Emma Hearn, Paul Chang and Robert Hoppe (Form 6) - An inquiry into increasing access to STEM through robotics competitions such as FIRST LEGO League Junior
The Smallbone Library Short Story Competition
1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place
Konstantin Shmarko Sam Riley Hope Wheway
Oakham School 2 Mathematics
UKMT 2018 Intermediate Maths Challenge
56 students won awards in the UKMT Intermediate Maths Challenge with 12 students being awarded gold awards . Ryan Smalley was awarded a Gold certificate, ‘Best in School’ and also qualified for the Pink Kangaroo.
Gold certificates were awarded to the following students who have also qualified for the Pink Kangaroo:
Bethany Davis Lizzie Beamish William Ryder Zsolti Johnson April Ji Oli Ricketts Will Norris
Sid Banerjee was awarded a Gold certificate.
Gold certificates were awarded to the following students who have also qualified for the Grey Kangaroo:
Hattie Tyler Ben Nutter Aashish Reddy
Silver certificates were awarded to the following students who have also qualified for the Grey Kangaroo:
Albert Wei Obi Osuji
Additionally, 13 students qualified for the follow-on European Kangaroo papers.
Invitation to the 54th National Mathematics Summer School
As a result of his excellent ‘Best in School’ performance in the IMC, Ryan Smalley has been selected for an invitation to the UKMT National Mathematics Summer School. This is a week’s residential course for outstanding young mathematicians, to be held at Woodhouse Grove School in Leeds over the summer holidays. Such an invitation is relatively rare and represents an outstanding achievement by Ryan.
Maths Team Challenge 2019
Our team of Hattie Tyler, Ben Nutter, Arthur Scott and Edward Marshall were placed runners-up in the Regional Final held at The Kings School, Peterborough in early March. At the time of writing, we are waiting to hear if their score is enough to qualify for the National Final as one of the highest scoring runners-up.
Oakham School 3 Politics
Model United Nations (MUN)
MUN students have made huge advancements in the last five years and have significantly improved the School’s academic reputation for debating current political issues.
Congratulations to the following students who have performed particularly well;
Rosalia D’Agostino (Form 6) received the Top Delegate Award from the Economic Committee at the recent International conference held at Kingswood, Bath.
Charlie Jones (Form 6) was highly commended for his debating skills within the Middle East Committee at the same conference.
Janhavi Modak (Form 6) has just been offered the prestigious role as Chair of the General Assembly at the International debating conference in Holland.
Science
Biology
The Biology Olympiad is a prestigious competition taken by Form 7 students with over 8000 entrants. Congratulations to Loewe Lee for gaining a Silver Award, Amir Ayazbayev and Nikhil Rikhye for gaining a Bronze Award, Amy Wheeldon for Highly Recommended and Alex Cooper and Douglas Ng for Commended.
Elite courses news
Vienna Chan (Form 7) - Is only the third Oakhamian in recent years to have been offered a place to read Medicine at one of only two Hong Kong medical schools, both among the most competitive in the world (MBBS course, University of Hong Kong, HKU)
Kevin Chan (OO 2018) - Is now studying at Sydney School of Veterinary Science, Australia; possibly the first Oakhamian to gain entry onto that course
Chemistry
The Royal Society of Chemistry also held the 2019 Chemistry Olympiad for Forms 6 and 7 students. Congratulations to Anand Raghavan, Oliver Neville and Loewe Lee in Form 7 who all achieved a Silver Award and Gleb Butyagin in Form 6 who gained a Bronze Award.
Physics
Forty-five of our top Form 5 Scientists completed the GCSE Physics Challenge paper. Ten received awards.
Congratulations to Ryan Smalley who performed within the top 100 students in the country, achieving a Gold Award.
Silver Awards were received by Rupert Fell and William Ryder.
Bronze Awards were received by Will Topper, Liberty Petit, Callum Wass, Harry Baker, Annabel Grace, James Stitt and Matthew Nagel.
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PERFORMING ARTS
Drama
Scholars’ Production
The Scholars’ Production always brings mixed emotions as it is the swansong for Form 7. This year, our wonderful Scholars presented Handbagged by Moira Buffini. This was a most challenging play even for actors of this stature and only at Oakham would this be attempted! The play is a fictional account, inspired by true events, of the relationship between Queen Elizabeth II and her first female Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. The towering performances of Clara Hallam and Clo Farmer as the Queen and Mrs T were truly extraordinary and were their last on the stage of the QET. They have graced so many wonderful productions over the years and will be sorely missed both as extraordinary performers and as exemplary ambassadors for theatre at Oakham. Our splendid Form 6 Scholars in the shape of Kitty McNeill, Sam Riley and Charlotte Wilson also performed with consummate skill and great maturity and look set to carry on the work and uphold the standards set by Clo and Clara. Isolde Small a Middle School Scholar, also joined this cast and was equal to the job in every way; promising so much for the future of theatre at Oakham.
Music
The highlight of this term’s music calendar was the annual Gala Concert, which took place on Sunday 3 March in the Albert Hall, Nottingham. Nearly 300 pupils were involved in the performance, which celebrated both the collective and individual talents of Oakham School pupils. The Chamber Orchestra, Concert Band, Symphony Orchestra and Chapel Choir gave spectacular performances of a varied and eclectic mix of music. The whole of Form 3 joined the Chapel Choir for a choral performance of the iconic music theatre song, You’ll Never Walk Alone, from the musical Carousel. Special congratulations must go to Alina Maries-Reim, who gave an accomplished performance of Vivaldi’s ‘Cello Concerto in A minor, RV418, and to Vienna Chan whose exhilarating and inspiring solo in two movements from Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 2 captivated the audience. We also extend our thanks to our soloists in Mendelssohn’s Hymn of Praise, tenor William Collison and sopranos Lily McNeill and Beth Whitlock.
Oakham musicians performed in three successful major concerts in Chapel: Ensembles Around Europe, which featured soloists Grace Muris violin, and Vienna Chan piano, the Lower School Showcase, and Friday Night with the Bands, in which Sophie Beeston, Laura Crowley and Lily McNeill gave exceptional performances as vocal soloists with the Big Band. This term has also seen students give ten Music at Lunchtime concerts at All Saints’ Church and perform at four Informal Concerts. Our March concert in the Professional Music in the Chapel series welcomed back the remarkable funk jazz group Resolution 88 led by keyboard player and former Oakham teacher, Tom O’Grady.
In January, the Chamber Choir were invited to perform once again as part of the Brandenburg Choral Festival of London, one of the UK’s biggest and most prominent choral celebrations. Their concert in St Stephen Walbrook, Bank, included stunning performances of works by Darke, Ešenvalds and included Rutter’s Requiem.
Oakham School 5 Beyond Oakham School, Eloise Snape got through three stages of the Vocal Class to win on the day and gain a place in the Final of the Rotary Club Regional Competition.
Oakham School students also performed in the Oakham Choral Society’s concert, Splendours of the Baroque, in March. Congratulations to Alina Maries-Reim and Emilia Hubbard who featured as soloists in this concert, performing concertos by Marcello and Vivaldi, and William Collison who performed the tenor solos in the major choral works by Bach and Vivaldi.
A special congratulations to Maisy Shand who has achieved 100% in her LCM Music Theatre Grade 6 exam.
Oakham School’s eleventh annual English Song Competition was another fantastic festival of solo singing in Chapel and Old Hall, and we were joined by two distinguished adjudicators – professional singers Nicholas Folwell, and Susanna Tudor-Thomas. The standard of the performances was highly praised throughout the day, and all performers are to be congratulated on their involvement. The following were selected as overall prize winners: Beth Whitlock (Overall Winner), Holly Frostwick (Overall Runner-Up) and Evie Holder (Most Promising Young Singer).
Winner Runner-Up High Commended
FORM 7 Lily McNeill Beth Whitlock
FORM 6 Holly Frostwick William Collison Grace Muris Phoebe Ryder Tristan Small
FORM 5 Fabia McAlindon Bethany Davis Rupert Fell Callum Wass
FORM 4 Maisy Shand Sid Banerjee Zsolti Johnson Henrietta Morris
FORM 3 Hattie Tyler Daniel Kelly Rosie Manning George Nicholson
FORM 2 David Harrison Livvy Burgess Will West-Sadler
FORM 1 Henry Bluff Evie Holder Simi Hirani Eloise Snape
LOWER 1 Sasha Nicholas
Oakham School’s annual Piano Duet Competition also reached its eleventh year. The competition featured over 90 pianists of all ages and was adjudicated by Kathryn Page. Special thanks must go to Anne Bolt, Head of Piano, for organising this event. The following duos won their classes:
Higher Grades Class Winners - William Collison and Bethany Davis Runners-Up - Rupert Fell and Ryan Smalley Highly Commended - Natasha Erdmann and April Ji
Oakham School 6 Intermediate Grades Class Winners - Henry Bluff and Patrick Donnelly-Cullen Runners-Up – Felicity Branton and Snow Yu Highly Commended - Josh Everett and Millie Parr Commended - Ana Chen and Daniel Kelly, Matthew Everall and Ivan Vlasenko, and Maya Mbogo and Halldis Stone
Lower Grades Class Winners - Fred Cox and Ollie Marr Runners-Up - Anna Kongpatanakul and Yat Fei Lang Highly Commended - Riya Hirani and Simi Hirani Commended - Betsy Healey and Bibi Healey
SPORT
Cross Country
The Oakham teams performed very well in the Leicestershire and Rutland County Championships:
Girls Teams (with individual placings also listed)
Senior Girls – 2nd Overall Inter Girls – 4th Overall
Isobel Stitt 15 Amy Riddlesdell 19 Saoirse Mason 11 Izzy Skelton 12 Alice Locke 14 Helen Braybrook 9 Holly Healey 13 Ella Turner 20 Ella Thomas 12 Clarissa Brown 23
Junior Girls – 2nd Overall Year 7 Girls – 1st Overall
Flo Lissaman 5 India North 14 Charlotte Cousley 12 Betsy Healey 6 Emily Burlison 29 Sofia Barrett 4 Zara Brown 26 Halldis Stone 17 Alice Smith 11
Boys Teams (with individual placings also listed)
Inter Boys – 3rd Overall Junior Boys – 3rd Overall
Peter Braybrook 10 Magnus Astill 31 Ewan Rodell 6 Eric Walker 32 Oli Ricketts 20 Henry Holt 27 Rupert Fell 22 Freddie Gwinnett 27 James Stitt 21 Will Middleton 15 Monty Lovell 29
Oakham School 7 Year 7 Boys – 1st Overall
Maxie Weir 23 Freddy Astill 33 Ernie Jackson 7 Harry Dadd 2 Eddie Ricketts 19
In the Inter Counties Club Championships, there were two notable performances. Many congratulations to:
Rori Rodell - U17 Inter Counties Club Championships (Nationals) was 4th for Lincolnshire, 5.8km in a time of 22.18min.
Ewan Rodell - U15 Inter Counties Club Championships (Nationals) was 2nd for Lincolnshire, 4km in a time of 15.02min.
In the IAPS Inter Counties National Championships, there were some terrific individual performances. Congratulations to the following:
Sofia Barrett - 30th (186 Runners) Betsy Healey - 59th (344 Runners)
Harry Dadd - 11th (186 Runners) Ernie Jackson - 29th (186 Runners)
In the Maidwell Hall 3 Mile Chase, the Junior Girls (U13) and the Junior Boys (U13) both took the team Silver Medals.
In the East Midlands Cross Country League, there were three excellent final standings (from all the individual races combined across the term). Congratulations to the following:
Rori Rodell, Inter Boys - 3rd (Bronze Medal) Izzy Skelton, Open Girls - 3rd (Bronze Medal) Flo Lissaman, Open Girls - 4th
From five schools, 150 Runners competed in the Oakham Rutland 4.5KM Challenge.
Congratulations to Flo Lissaman who finished 2nd in the senior girls race in a time of 23.05min.
Football
Girls Football
The girls 1st XI have had another great season, reaching the ISFA National Final once again this year. They will play Alleyn’s School at Bisham Abbey National Sports Centre on Wednesday 1 May 18.00 KO.
In the popular Midlands Sevens Tournament, they were the highest placed Independent School and Runners-Up overall.
Many congratulations to Jenny Mathiesen (Form 6) who has continued to play for the ISFA National Representative team with games against Scotland and the English Colleges.
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It has been a very successful football season for the boys’ sides with the 1st XI playing some of the best football from an Oakham side for many years. They reached the LB Cup final and agonisingly lost 7-6 on penalties after extra-time against Wellingborough. They were also runners-up in the league.
Hockey
In a very successful term, the U12 Girls & Boys and the U13 Girls & Boys reached the Regional Finals. The U13 boys finally went out in the semi-finals, but the U13 girls finished runners-up (by the narrowest of margins losing a penalty shoot-out) and will now go to the National Finals next term.
The U14 Boys teams have fully embraced participation and success, with virtually every boy in the year representing the School across multiple Saturdays. The U14E team had a tremendous season being almost entirely un beaten until the final match which was lost. The U14B team were the pick of the year group going the entire season unbeaten. The U14As finished runners-up in the Regional Finals and will now play Ipswich School early next term for a place at the National Finals.
At senior level the 1st XI squad had another successful season, playing across two league competitions following a restructure of the National competition. The team finished second in their National League, including most notably a superb victory against Repton. The 1st XI had success in the Independent Schools Hockey League, a superb 10-0 victory against Trent College in the first match of the season set the tone for the term. The team was undefeated in the league, beating Oundle and Repton, to set up the final winner takes all game against Stamford. With both teams level on points going into the last fixtures of the season, it was a straight shootout to see who would claim the title. Having trailed 2-0 for most of the game, the boys were outstanding and scored 3 goals in 5 minutes to win the game and not only secure the league title but extend their impressive unbeaten home run to 3 years.
Hockey Representative Honours
Congratulations to the following boys for being selected for the Performance and Academy Centres:
Boys Hockey
PERFORMANCE CENTRE U15 Will Begy Nottingham
ACADEMY CENTRE U14 Leo Breag Leicestershire & Rutland Adam Drew Leicestershire & Rutland Eric Walker Leicestershire & Rutland Ollie Clarke Leicestershire & Rutland Oliver Rubins Leicestershire & Rutland Thomas Samworth Leicestershire & Rutland Fergus Simpson Leicestershire & Rutland Mees Timmermans Leicestershire & Rutland
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U15 Joe Johnson Leicestershire & Rutland Jonathan Hedley Leicestershire & Rutland Danny Rumble Leicestershire & Rutland Joe Cooper Leicestershire & Rutland Tom Davison Leicestershire & Rutland Tom Gullan-Whur Leicestershire & Rutland Ewan Rodell Leicestershire & Rutland
Girls Hockey
Congratulations to the following girls for being selected for the England Training Squad, Performance Centre and Academy Centre:
ENGLAND TRAINING SQUAD U18 Becca Malyon
PERFORMANCE CENTRE U15 Violet O’Neill Nottingham Tilly O’Brien Nottingham Jasmine Cassidy Nottingham India Norwood Nottingham Immi O’Neill Nottingham
U17 Becca Malyon Nottingham
ACADEMY CENTRE U13 Daisy Jackson Leicestershire & Rutland Alice Smith Leicestershire & Rutland Mima Wardle Leicestershire & Rutland Monica Augustine-Ohwo Leicestershire & Rutland Scarlett Blackman Leicestershire & Rutland Felicity Branton Leicestershire & Rutland Izzie Clarke Leicestershire & Rutland India North Leicestershire & Rutland Eloise Snape Leicestershire & Rutland
U14 Tash Mountain Lincolnshire Emily Burlison Leicestershire & Rutland Gracie Blanksby Leicestershire & Rutland Charlotte Cousley Leicestershire & Rutland Evie Smith Leicestershire & Rutland Orla Frankland Leicestershire & Rutland Georgina Sheppard Leicestershire & Rutland Daisy Styles Leicestershire & Rutland
U15 Gabi Gelderbloom Leicestershire & Rutland Rosie Sly Leicestershire & Rutland
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Netball
Congratulations to the 1st VII Netball squad who were crowned Regional Champions and the U14A team who were Regional Runners-up and represented the East Midlands at National Finals.
The U14s finished 15th in the Country. The U19s finished 9th in the UK in the final rankings.
The 1st VII also had a superb unbeaten season and finished 1st in The SOCS Independent Schools U18 Netball League.
Well done to the U15C team who also had an unbeaten season and finished top of The SOCS Independent Schools U15C Netball League.
Netball Representative Honours
Congratulations to the following girls have been selected in Wasps Pathway Squads:
U19 Daisy Healey Olivia Brown Sophie Sutton
Congratulations to Daisy Healey and Olivia Brown who have been selected for the Wasps U15 Academy squad.
Congratulations to the following girls have been selected in Loughborough Lightning Pathway Squads:
U15 Evie Smith Milly Bairstow
Congratulations to Zara Brown who has been selected to join the Leicestershire County U15 Squad.
Rugby
The Spring Term Sevens always culminates in the National Sevens at Rosslyn Park. Having won the Leicester GS Sevens tournament and the Trent Tens, the 1st VII finished the season by, for the third year in a row, going out in the semi-finals of the National Sevens losing by one score to the eventual winners, Bromsgrove.
The U14 Sevens teams reached the quarter final of the plate competition at the Nationals.
Rugby Representative Honours
Congratulations to Sam Costelow who has played in a full Six Nations campaign for Wales U20s giving the winning pass against England in their 11-10 victory. Look out for his name for the World Cup in Argentina in the summer.
Oakham School 11 Congratulations also to 1st XV captain Jack van Poortvliet who was selected for two England U18s games in March.
Many congratulations to the following on their selections:
Leicester Tigers Academy Kit Smith Charlie Titcombe Harry Glynn Callum Matthews
Wasps Academy Will Ramsay
Leicester Tigers Performance Development Group U16 and U16 County Rugby Honours Jed Gelderbloom Henry Joule Ben Whyman
Leicester Tigers U15s George Emmerson Paul Augustine-Ohwo Edward Benson Alfie Ingamells
Leicester Tigers U14s Will Begy Lawrence Pugh George Bland Julius Timmermans George Hopkinson Obi Osuji Felix Pinder Edward Houston Seb Fernandes Smith
Northampton Saints U14s Toby Cousins
Sailing
Congratulations to Maddy Kirk who has been accepted into the Nacra 15 GBR squad, with extra support from Leicestershire and Rutland Sport as part of their ‘Go Gold’ funding.
Well done also to Oliver Neville, Tomo Gale, Oliver Bunce, Liberty Petit, Archie Baker and Isabelle Heller, who, sailing as ‘Oakham Red’, beat 15 of the 21 University sailing teams at the Nottingham Uni ‘Snakebite’ regatta and continue to race against teams well above their age.
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England BSSRA Selection
Congratulations to both Caspar Dingerkus and Angelina Zhu who were selected and have shot for England in The British School Small-bore Rifle Association international event against Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland and the Channel Islands.
Wales BSSRA Selection
Congratulations to George Baxter who was selected to shoot for Wales in the BSSRA international event.
BSSRA Association Finalist
Congratulations to Caspar Dingerkus who has qualified for the British Schools Small-bore Rifle Association Championship individual Final.
NLRTSA Junior Finalist
Congratulations also to Angelina Zhu, Varvara Tebieva and Michael Smith who have all qualified for the Northamptonshire, Leicestershire and Rutland Junior Championship finals.
Midland Schools Small-bore Shooting Competition.
Oakham School’s team of VIII and team of IV are unbeaten (12 matches) this term and have qualified for the final.
Clay Shooting
Congratulations to William Moore who finished 3rd at The Schools Challenge clay shooting competition at the Oxford Gun Company.
Congratulations also go to Harry McEuen, Angus Watkin, Alex Telfer, Max Moore and William Moore for placing 3rd as a team in the same competition.
Swimming
Congratulations to Adam Drew who achieved three Golds and three Silvers at the Country Championships and also six Midland Qualifying times.
Squash
Congratulations to Freddie Marlow who remained undefeated throughout the squash season in all eight matches as girls’ 1st team number one.
Crufts
Congratulations to Clare Maitland, who with her dog Tia, came 3rd in the semi-final of the Young Kennel Club Agility Dog of the Year, qualifying for the final in the main arena.
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As part of his work experience, George Icke has been working at 103 The Eye Radio Station in Melton Mowbray. Earlier this year George had to step into to cover the ‘Sports Eye’ slot on a Saturday afternoon at a moment’s notice on his own. Since then he has been involved to co-host this slot every Saturday, which according to his manager, makes him the youngest FM radio host in the country.
Duke of Edinburgh
The following pupils have achieved their D of E Awards this term: Bronze 8 pupils Silver 7 pupils Gold 11 pupils
Current Oakham Pupils who have achieved their Gold Award this term: Rebecca Alston, Amy Wheeldon, Isobel Gibbs, Laetitia Lang
Chaplaincy
The Rt Reverend Donald Allister, Bishop of Peterborough confirmed the following students and staff in the School Chapel on Saturday 19 January 2019.
Alex Anthony Jasmine Cassidy Rose Cassidy Mrs Emma Durston Matthew Everall Josh Everett Mr James Farrar Bunty Garland Hattie Gullan-Whur Cloé Habib Sophie Jacques Jessica Macdonald James Mansfield Saoirse Mason Gentian Mouron-Adams Somke Onuigbo Elliot Rice Amy Riddlesdell Zara Sharp Jess Sheldon Emily Wolstenholme Mr Duncan Wright
Oakham School Charities Association (OSCA)
OSCA activity this term has perhaps been a little more modest compared to its usual stratospheric standards. However, there is a lot planned for the Summer Term, especially events organised in Houses. The largest fundraiser was our non-uniform day on March 22, raising money for Rainbows Hospice for Children and Young Adults. The OSCA winning performers this term, have been the Lower School: On Saturday 23 March, the girls of Ancaster and Lincoln Houses ran their own "Danceathon" in aid of Comic Relief. Inspired by the recent efforts of various celebrities, the girls aimed to keep both Houses dancing for two hours after school finished. Also for Comic Relief, Sargants and Peterborough Houses held a gargantuan cake sale, combined with a non-uniform day raising more than £1000. In the final week of term, Upper School pupils held a charity hockey match to raise money for the Motor Neurone Charity. Well done to all!
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