Dragon Academic Awards
Up to 20% of boarding or day fees
The Dragon School, Oxford, is a leading co-educational academic preparatory school with an exceptional record of pupil achievement. Dragons go on to the finest independent senior schools, a great many with awards and scholarships – over 100 in the last two years.
The Dragon invites applications for Academic Awards for boarding or day places in Years 4 to 7 for September 2009. Dragon Academic Awards will be offered to girls and boys of outstanding academic promise and will be based on assessment and interview. Awards will have a maximum value of 20% of fees. Pupils from all educational backgrounds are encouraged to apply. The deadline for application is 27 February 2009.
Further details Application Form
| Dragon School Bardwell Road Oxford OX2 6SS E: admissions@dragonschool.org T: 01865 315405 |
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Keio Yochisha Soccer and Netball Tour
The Dragon has enjoyed a unique and successful exchange programme with Keio Yochisha, a prestigious independent elementary school in Tokyo, for many years now. We were happy this year not only to welcome our annual exchange visitors, but also 15 soccer and 11 netball players (plus 6 staff) on their sports tour to England.
On Monday morning the squad arrived at the Dragon, after spending the weekend practising at Elstree and Marlston House and paying a visit to Wembley Stadium. The pupils spent a week training and playing matches against various schools as well as taking a trip to London and exploring Oxford. Both teams had an abundance of energy and team spirit and won most of their matches.
Involving as it did over eighty English pupils from seven schools, the tour was a great success. Thanks to the generous funding of the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, the school was able to both host the soccer and netball tour and maintain the regular exchange programme which remains as popular as ever. To build on the excitement generated by their visit and to further pupils’ knowledge of Japan and Japanese culture, the Dragon will host a Japanese Sports Afternoon for Year 5 in the summer term.
The success of this venture very much depended on the generous support of the parents of Year 7 boys and girls who offered to host the 26 Keio Yochisha children. On behalf of Dragon School, and Keio Yochisha Elementary School soccer and netball squads, domo arigato gozaimasu.
Sparrow Schools Visit
Pupils from the Sparrow Schools in Johannesburg visited Oxford last week, hosted by Dragon families.Sparrow Schools' Educational Trust provides subsidised, pioneering, skills-based education for children and young people (aged 7-20) with learning difficulties and educational backlogs. Many of the children and youth come from difficult backgrounds and during their time at Sparrow individuals are helped to deal with the problems they face and make the most of their abilities. 
While in Oxford they gave a concert in Summertown, ran a workshop at our Dragon Pre-Prep: Lynams and performed their play Lavela Ilanga – The Sun Rose at our Friday night Spectrum evening.The latter was, by turn, a moving and energetic reworking of the history of Sophiatown in drama, dance and song. The vibrant, culturally diverse, musical community of Sophiatown was forcibly relocated in 1955 by the apartheid regime. Today the town is once again a lively mixed community - and it is where Sparrow Combined school is based.
It was a memorable evening, but the lasting impression is of the children themselves. Their conduct and demeanour and the evident joy in their lives is living testimony to the wonderful work of the Sparrow Schools, which the Dragon Sale was delighted to be able to support last year. We wish them well on the rest of their UK tour.
Olympian Inspiration at the Dragon
Amongst the medals awarded to Team GB at the Beijing Olympics was one to make the 
First Frances visited our Pre-Prep: Lynams where she showed a clip of her recent race as well as bringing in her oar, rowing clothes, medals and photos. She inspired the pupils by explaining to them that when she first started rowing she was told it would be difficult for her as she is tall but this did not stop her determination and now she is very glad she never gave up. Her boat is called Arduus ad solem (work hard and reach for the sun) after the Dragon school motto. Each of the thirteen classes at Lynams prepared a question for Frances - read her answers here.
Frances then spent the rest of the day at the Dragon (Bardwell Road) site and captivated children and staff alike with her gentleness and her modesty as she recounted some of her initial sporting and personal memories of the school. She also spoke of the development of her ambition at the age of eleven to rise to the ultimate height in "the one sport I have always loved". All year groups attended a video showing of the Beijing Women's Quadruple Quad Final race and she answered many questions about ambition, commitment, dedication and aspects of her training and the Olympics themselves.
In the afternoon she worked with scullers on the new ergo meters before showing everyone how 100metres should be rowed! A competition followed to see how close the children could get. It was close but not close enough!
Almost two hundred children went away with her autograph, the last one at her car door as she was about to leave the car park at 17:30. We would like to take this opportunity to thank Frances for taking so much time out of her busy schedule to spend this day with us and for being such an inspiration to us all.
Scholarships 2008
A Block children have matched the outstanding record set by their predecessors with 2008 seeing another 50 scholarships and awards achieved. The range of accolades to some of the country's top senior schools includes honours in art, music and sport, as well as academic achievements. Full Scholarships and Awards List 2008
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