Guest lecturer Dr Adrian Green from Durham University ran a seminar for Year 12 and 13 Historians entitled ‘The First Industrial Region’ which helped students realise the pivotal role of their home town.

A group of Year 13 students had the opportunity to take part in Oxford University’s OxNet Summer School where delegates from Southmoor and around the region travelled to Oxford to take part in the ‘Ordered Universe’ project. You can view student’s thoughts from the visit in this video.  

Continuing the Oxford theme, we welcomed Eylan Ezekiel from Oxford who wanted to find out the views of teachers about barriers to students applying to Oxford. Staff discussed a variety of issues including the fact that 43% of state secondary school teachers rarely or never advise their most able pupils to apply to Oxbridge – …

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