Preparatory School News
The Dragon girls’ Judo team has had its most successful outing to the Independent Schools Judo Competition on record. In February, the Dragon brought home four medals from the event at the Wycombe Judo Centre. Ten girls represented the school in various weight categories, each facing a number of very tough opponents. One Dragon competitor made it to the final, beating all theRead More
Year 8 Dragon musicians returned happy and triumphant from the Oxford Music Festival at the beginning of February. Two pupils received the highest mark in the Festival for their piano duet, winning (for the 2nd consecutive year) the 'Oxford Times Duet Cup'. Meanwhile, the Saxophone Quartet won the Gordon Woodward Memorial Cup awarded for the Ensembles. All other musicians who tookRead More
We prepare children at scholarship level for a host of different schools.
A summary of the awards won so far this year by Dragon pupils is asRead More
Year 6 children took part in a survey in January to help create a 'scale for happiness' for young people. The event, hosted by Ofsted was held at Oxford's Vue Cinema and involved children from schools all over the city. The research will contribute to the Prime Minister's initiative to try and assess the nation's wellbeing.
Children were given electronic voting pads with which to recordRead More
Olympic Badminton player Gail Emms MBE visited the Dragon in January to talk to pupils as part of the weekly 'Spectrum' cultural programme. Gail, who is a Commonwealth Gold and Olympic Silver medal winner, came to explain exactly what it takes to become an Olympian. She spoke to the children about her journey to the top of her sport and had them enthralled with her experiences of the thrillsRead More
In December a group of Year 5 Dragons had the honour of being the first to play football at Oxford's new Community Arena as a thank you for helping to raise money for the project.
Earlier in the autumn the children organised a Fayre which raised nearly £900 for the Arena. The new, much needed facility, which boasts a full-sized artificial grass pitch, pavilion and six floodlitRead More
The Dragon has had one of its most successful rugby seasons on record. Nine of the school's teams were unbeaten in all their games, including the U12A side (10 wins and 2 draws), whilst the 1st XV won 13 of their 14 matches. Across all the age groups the school notched up an impressive 99 wins in total, the highest number in the history of the school.
"These results represent aRead More
A recent report by Ofsted has selected the Dragon as an example of good practice teaching in maths; one of only ten independent schools across the country, the only one in Oxfordshire, to be highlighted in this way.
The report praised both the Dragon and its Pre-prep, Lynams, for the standard of their Maths teaching and the methods used, which other schools could adopt toRead More
One day in November the Dragon stepped back more than 2,000 years. Year 5 children and their teachers spent a full day living, dressing, eating and even talking like citizens of ancient Rome. Shortly after dawn, the school was invaded by 120 centurions, noblewomen, charioteers and gladiators all wearing full period dress! The day’s programme included a Roman theme across theRead More
This year marked the Dragon’s 10th annual exchange with two schools in New York. Over half term 18 Year 8 pupils were excellent ambassadors for the Dragon school on their trip to the USA. During the day the group visited all the popular sites including the Empire State Building, the Rockefeller Center, Ellis Island, the Sony Wonder Technology labs and the site of the TwinRead More
Over half term, 14 intrepid Dragons went on an 11 day adventure to Japan as part of the school’s exchange programme. The children stayed with host families and earned much praise for their politeness and willingness to join in many new and unfamiliar things. During their visit the Dragons climbed a volcano, travelled on the bullet train, toured Tokyo, visited shrines andRead More
The Dragon hosted its annual Eco Conference on Thursday 13 October. Year 5 and 6 children from 11 state primary schools and independent prep schools joined the Green Dragons on the Eco Team for a day of workshops, discussions and talks. This was the third running of this event, which encourages children to come together and discuss their ideas and initiatives on sustainability. TheRead More
As part of the recent children’s Eco Conference at the Dragon, two speakers came to address children from local primary and prep schools.
Gabriel Hemery from the Sylva Foundation captivated children with news from the OneOak project: an initiative that involved children from local primary schools in following the life story of a 200 year old oak tree from the Blenheim Palace estate.Read More
We had great pleasure in recently welcoming back, at this year’s Oxford Dragon Lecture, OD Cressida Dick, Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and now acting Head of Counter Terrorism. Cressida spoke to a packed audience in the Lynam Hall and greatly amused everyone with her fond memories of the Dragon. Despite her truly impressive career, she admitted that it was aRead More
On Tuesday 4th October three of our Upper School boys attended the prizegiving ceremony for the prestigious John Betjeman poetry competition. This was held at St Pancras station next to the statue of John Betjeman, an OD. Joanna Lumley presented the certificates and the boys then enjoyed tea with their fellow prizewinners.
The winning poems can be found below:
The Laxey Wheel
I lookRead More
St Ives in Cornwall welcomed 27 A Block art scholars, three art teachers and a mathematician from the Dragon on the first weekend of October – the hottest since records began. A very warm weekend included great art, cool water and traditional seaside delights.
After seeing an exhibition of recent paintings by internationally renowned local artist Kurt Jackson on route, the childrenRead More
The Dragon has been selected to join a special community of schools who demonstrate a commitment to the Olympic and Paralympic Values: respect, friendship, equality, excellence, inspiration, courage and determination. Membership of the ‘Get Set Network’ gives the Dragon a number of benefits including the chance to meet 2012 Olympians, to tour the Olympic Park and be first in line forRead More
