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Top School Records Outstanding a Levels & ‘Best Ever’ Gcses Issue 401 October 2017 50p On top form! Top School records outstanding A levels & ‘best ever’ GCSEs Students, parents and staff at Chipping Norton excelled with head Simon Duffy reporting ‘the School were celebrating last month after some best GCSE results we have ever achieved’. The terrific summer exam results – in spite of new percentage of ‘Grade 9s’ in the new Maths & rigorous GCSE and tougher A level standards. English tests was nearly double the national When all the nail-biting was over, A level average. The GCSE Attainment levels, across all students saw 55% of their grades as A*-B and abilities, ranks Chippy as 3rd best amongst the outstanding sixth form’s ‘value add’ Oxfordshire’s state schools and, as Mr Duffy measure puts them in the top quarter of says,‘back as one of the top performing schools schools nationally. But it was the Year 11s that in Oxfordshire and the Cotswolds.’ School Open Evening 5 October for prospective parents & students for 2018. More on p2 Chippy Better News this month: Fun at the Mop! Health Day • Town Council looks at HGV ban again • Walterbush Road’s forlorn football pitch • Blue bin recycling starts in October! • Local man awarded Town Hall showcase event on the Legion d’honneur A taste of the Mop for a new 11 October to find out more Plus all the usual Local generation of youngsters – about local health services. News, Arts, Sports, Clubs, candyfloss to eat, goldfish to See centre colour feature. Schools and letters win ... see back page. LOCAL NEWS Chipping Norton School on top form Top School’s Open Evening, on 5 October, for prospective 2018 new parents and students, should be a busy and exciting event, after latest reports of terrific A level and GCSE results. More details here – plus first hand comments from some new Year 7 students! Impressive A level and GSCE results the best results ever achieved. The Attainment 8 figure Chipping Norton (calculated by attributing a point score to each GCSE grade a School ‘soutstanding student achieves across 8 different subjects) was 53, the third summer exam results best in Oxfordshire. 8 out of 10 students met the threshold saw plenty to standard of a grade 4 or better in both English and celebrate. With more Mathematics. Headteacher, Simon Duffy said, ‘It has been a rigorous GCSEs and challenging few years for our school, but the determination tougher A levels, the shown by both students and staff has been truly inspiring. Set examination bar has this in the context of the new, tougher GCSEs and the once again been achievement is all the more impressive.’ The GCSE measures raised. Top School’s actually place the School third or fourth in the County, students were depending upon the measures used. Mr Duffy was particularly obviously up to the impressed with the results of some of the most able students. challenge and have ‘Before the results were published there was talk of a real cleared the bar with paucity of top grade 9s. Nationally, only 3% of grade 9s were room to spare. At A awarded in English and Mathematics. At Chipping Norton level, the School has School, our figure was almost double this, and over 30% of maintained its grades were 9-7/A*-A. This represents exceptional reputation for high performance, with over a quarter of our students achieving quality results with Headteacher Simon Duffy joined five or more of the very top grades’. students on results day over 55% of all grades The School, parents and supporters are all hoping that at A* - B. In addition, the A level progress measure, showing the excellent A level and GCSE results will put the School in progress made from KS4, places the School’s performance in a great position this term for any further Ofsted inspections the top 25% of schools nationally. to be firmly on track for good overall ratings in the future. At GCSE level, the picture is even more impressive with Our first week in Top School Six summer holiday weeks of a mix of nervous anticipation and excitement ended on 4 September when Top School opened its gates to Year 7s who had the School practically to them-selves for the first day. Here’s what three Emily, Josh & Jack settling into school excited newcomers told the News. Emily said ‘I've had a fantastic first week – initially I was worried I would get lost but everyone has been so friendly it doesn't really matter if you do. It has been very exciting going to all the different lessons and I'm really looking forward to the challenges that lie ahead’. Josh added ‘It was a bit intimidating. I really liked it on the first day on our own and I really like the lessons. They seem calmer than at primary school with no time limits, so if you don't finish you can do it as homework’. Jack continued ‘The school lunches are brilliant, especially the paninis! Also it has been really good making new friends’. Emily agreed and also said ‘I'm looking forward to participating in all the clubs and activities’ So these three at least seem to have settled in well and with a fresh start and plenty to do both in school and afterwards, coupled with the School's growing success with GCSE and A Levels for the older kids, there seems to be plenty to look forward to as they settle in and progress through the years. 2 LOCAL NEWS future, helping those who work in the week.’ The Health Lido auction: Binkie on form Centre will be there in force and one key objective is to get With Jeremy Clarkson recovering from pneumonia and trying, more people to sign up to online access. Visitors to the event at the same time, to maintain a busy schedule, Binkie de Sluice can sign up to this if they bring along a form of photo ID. Chris (aka comedian and Bean, Practice Manager, says, ‘People are just not aware of all magician Jasper the added services we offer, we need to get out there and Blakeley) stepped communicate with our 15,000+ patients and this event is a into the breach on 8 great way to do that.’ The Co-op will be offering blood September as pressure tests. More details are in the centre pages. auctioneer at the Town Hall for The Lido’s big annual More debate on HGV ban fundraising auction. The old tongue twister ‘Red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, He was absolutely yellow lorry’ (repeat until you are in a total muddle), sums up superb and coined the situation with HGV traffic in Chipping Norton. The HGVs the phrase for the come in all colours, all sizes, at all sorts of speeds, singly and increasingly well- in convoy at all hours of the day and night, using a road system oiled punters – ‘What's the time?’ to which we replied ‘Hammer time!’ – Binkie selling a Pony Morning, one of funny if you several equestrian and general remember MC countryside delights on offer Hammer, of course (ask your parents, youngsters). The lots ranged from a ton of manure joyfully won early on by MC Ken Norman himself, to a week in Tenby, a Mini for the weekend, bio-mechanical horse riding (in one’s own yard optionally), a visit to Enstone’s Spitfire Hangar and a flight, hypnotherapy, a day's beekeeping and, by the end of the evening, even Mr Clarkson's latest written masterpiece went for a tidy sum. Binkie was HILARIOUS and, after the hammer had come down for the 40th time, £4,800 had been raised for the Lido. This Mop-stuck lorry was actually red and blue! The crowd was smaller than usual as perhaps Binkie isn't as primetime as JC, but you missed a treat by staying away and never built to deal with them. Chippy people have known for the quality of lots on offer was awesome. A truly memorable years about the noise, the regulation busting levels of evening and well done to everyone involved in staging it. pollution, the dangerous proximity to vehicles in Horsefair, and the effect of vibration on houses and shops. We’ve seen various proposed solutions (including the County putting an Chippy – best for women? HGV weight restriction in their plan years ago) come and go, BBC’s Woman’s Hour on 12 September revealed an intriguing but never had any actual action. survey result. West Oxfordshire was rated in the top three Burford Town Council has now allocated £50,000 to places in the country as ‘the best place to be a woman’. Our cover the cost of altering signage to impose a weight limit on area just lost out for the top place to Dunbartonshire and HGVs going through their town centre on the A361 and, with Renfrewshire in Scotland. But, for younger women, Chippy the County, have just completed a consultation process. and West Oxfordshire were rated right at the top. For the Prompted by this action, at their September meeting Chipping record, Islington, Corby and Blackpool came bottom. ‘What Norton Town Council decided to liaise with Burford to on earth …?’ you may say. The survey was a piece of social research done by NatCen, a research think tank. They looked at culture, housing, life expectancy, environment, education, income, safety and happiness – and we did particularly well on ROTARY GALA CONCERT the last four items. Islington fared badly on things such as Saturday 21 October personal wellbeing and crime.
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