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The Good Schools Guide Awards
January 22, 2012
Congratulations are due to our Biology Department who achieved a Good Schools’ Guide award for the best GCSE results achieved by an independent school in 2011. This follows on from their award last year for the best AS results! All three sciences are very popular at Pitsford, due in part to the fact that we teach separate sciences from the age of 11, and that these are all taught by specialist staff. Each year well over half of all our Sixth Form pupils study A levels in one or more of the sciences, with many going on to study science or mathematics based degrees in the UK’s most prestigious universities. Also Read More →
Art Gallery
GCSE Art Exhibition
July 2, 2011
If you haven’t already visited the exhibition of GCSE Art in Pitsford Hall you are missing out on seeing some amazing work. Here is just a selection of some of the work on show. Also displayed in the Hall is work from our A level and AS level artists which is also of an excellent standard. The display is now dismantled but see the foot of this post for a slide show of the final pieces and selection of coursework items. Not all pieces are shown but I think we have at least one item from every candidate. The Flash Player and a browser with Javascript support are needed.. var Read More →
Drama
Return to the Forbidden Planet
March 26, 2011
This year’s musical was “Return to the Forbidden Planet”, and the final performance was last Friday. What a great show it was too! Curtis Hodgson as Doctor Prospero was outstanding, the singing was superb (as always), and the dancing was enthusiastically energetic. The script was littered with puns from the great Bard’s works, such as “Beware the Ids that march”, “Is this a monster that I see before me?” and my favourite, “Two beeps, or not two beeps”! Those who had studied Shakespeare would have recognised many more in a script written in his style Read More →
Morocco
Sixth Formers make it to Morocco!
February 26, 2010
Pupils in the Sixth Form escaped from the snow in February and headed to the bustling city of Marrakech and the baron desert of Morocco. At the start of the trip the pupils stayed in a hotel opposite the Mosque and were given an early wake up call by the prayer calls at 5.30am! The pupils had a chance to shop in the famous colourful markets in the capital of Morocco and visited the beautiful Yves St Laurent gardens before commencing on their five day trek through the desert! The pupils pitched their own tents at the end of each day trekking through the Moroccan Sahara in a traditional camel caravan. Read More →
Exam Results
2011 GCSE and A level results
February 5, 2012
Last week the Department for Education released the official school performance data. The A level results were picked up by the BBC and a number of national newspapers. Pitsford School was ranked 28th of the 500 co-educational independent schools in the UK with 1022 points. In fact we are the only school in Northamptonshire of any type achieving a score of over 1000 points, our closest challenger was Oundle School with 990 points. If you compare us to all 3753 schools in the UK offering A level courses, we are 59th, an amazing result were you consider we are up against all the highly selective Read More →
Historical
The Footman Diaries
October 22, 2011
In May 2008 I was lent a diary of one Arthur Collins, a footman employed by Capt. Drummond at Pitsford Hall. Monday 2 March 1931: “all hunting, HRH D & Dss here for tea” Duke and Duchess of York? Monday 23 March 1931: “HRH for tea” Tuesday 31 March 1931: “Princess E & M for tea”. Saturday 4 April 1931: “Duke & Duchess of York, Princesses E & M for tea, Lowthers for tea”. The Lowthers I assume are Col John Lowther and family from Guilsborough Court, where the royal family tended to stay when in the area for Read More →
HM's Blog
Pitsford beats Eton!
The week saw the release of the official Government School Performance data, as used by newspapers to create their “league tables”. Unlike the tables produced after the results are issued to schools and pupils in August which do not include all schools, these most recent tables will include all 728 independent Read More →
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Sports
On Wednesday 25 Jan, our Junior Netball team played at home against Broughton Manor Read More →
On a very cold afternoon the whole school took part in the traditional Pitsford Run. Read More →
Pitsford School’s U11 rugby team took on Bilton Grange last week. The team Read More →
U11 Netball v Winchester House
The U11 netball team visited Winchester House this afternoon to play what was anticipated Read More →
Match Report:- Pitsford 1st XV Versus Moulton 1st XV 12th October 2011 Having integrating Read More →
I took this picture of outside half Matt Wainwright during the U13 game against Read More →
Latest results from the sports fields: Rugby U13 v Moulton: D 12-12 U12 Read More →
Sandwiched between rain showers, the sun shone on this year’s Junior School Read More →
Pitsford 120-4 Fraser Harrop 32* Luke Conyard 15 Tom Haynes 14* Moulton 117-4 School Read More →
NGS athletes qualify for ISA National Finals
Kiaran Brian, Dan Clark, and Angus Johnson all won their events at the ISA Midland Read More →
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General
Lord Boswell visits Sixth Formers
Pitsford School hosted a talk from a member of the House of Lords last week to encourage Read More →
Here is a picture of the new Junior School, The Duckworth Building, nestled into Read More →
This week’s lunchtime concert featured 2 debut performances on the bill. Year Read More →
Funky Hair Raises Money for CLIC Sargent
Funky Hair Day at the Junior School proved a great success today, the pupils turned Read More →
Year 9 visit Imperial War Museum
Year 9 visited the Imperial War Museum in London as part of their study of Twentieth Read More →
House Music Competition 2011/2
This year’s House Music competition took place in the Chapel this week after Read More →
J5 visit the National Space Centre
Yesterday I accompanied Mrs Willmott to the National Space Centre in Leicester with Read More →
The week saw the release of the official Government School Performance data, as used Read More →
J6 have been learning to write play scripts this term and are looking forward to Read More →
Lunchtime concerts resumed in Pitsford Hall last week with performances from Eloise Read More →
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