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October 2022

  • The Oratory U14 Hockey Team become Berkshire Plate Winners

    Published 31/10/22
    The Oratory U14 Hockey team were delighted to be crowned Berkshire Schools’ Plate Winners this month at The Berkshire Schools’ Hockey Tournament, which took place at Bradfield College. The team played 7 games against Downe House,
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  • The Oratory 1st XV's Rugby Tour, Dublin

    Published 27/10/22
    Over the half term break, the Oratory Rugby Club travelled to Dublin for its annual senior squad tour. On Friday evening they played against St. Gerard's in Bray. In a back and forth contest, they were eventually defeated by 27 points to
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  • Oratory Rugby's Centenary Fixtures v London Oratory

    Published 20/10/22
    The Oratory School marked its Rugby Centenary with matches against The London Oratory at Grasshoppers RFC in London on Wednesday 19 October. Matches were played throughout the day from U14 level to 1st XV and were live streamed on YouTube by
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  • 6th Form English Literature: Theatre Trip to The Woman in Black

    Published 19/10/22
    On Tuesday 18 October, L6th and U6th English Literature pupils went to London to see The Woman in Black. Susan Hill’s acclaimed gothic horror has been performed at the Fortune Theatre in Covent Garden since 1989 and the group were thrilled
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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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  • Oratory Art welcomes Graffiti Artist Stenz

    Published 07/10/22
    Oratory Art was delighted to welcome Old Oratorian and professional Californian artist stenz.co.uk (OS: 1998-2003) on Thursday 6 October for a spray-painting workshop with A level and GCSE Art and Design pupils. Pupils were shown ho
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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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