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HEADTEACHERS have spoken out on the problems recruiting for cleaners and kitchen staff, citing Brexit and the impact of the pandemic as key factors.

AN OXFORD primary school still ‘requires improvement’ despite progress being made, including an ‘ambitious curriculum’.

AN OXFORD primary school still ‘requires improvement’ despite progress being made, including an ‘ambitious curriculum’.

PUPILS across Oxfordshire are braced to find out their GCSE results tomorrow.

SCHOOLS in Oxfordshire are preparing to ‘unmask’ and move away from the bubbles system within the next two weeks. Both the legal requirement to wear a face covering and bubbles system are set to come to an end on July 19. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said wearing a mask will be a matter of ‘personal responsibility’ – although the removal of Covid restrictions is still subject to confirmation on Monday. However, headteachers in Oxfordshire have said they will keep bubbles as th...

A TREE trail featuring the voices of Jeremy Paxman and Stephen Fry is to go live. The trail at Cheney School is already available virtually but now a live tree trail with student guides will take place on May 22 between 9.30am and 12pm. There is no need to book, with visitors asked to arrive at the school reception. The tree trail sees Mr Fry become a yew tree and Mr Paxman imagine himself as a hawthorn, while local MP Anneliese Dodds impersonates a cherry tree. Meanwhile, Caroline La...

By Andrew Ffrench @OxMailAndyF Business reporter covering Didcot and Wallingford. Call me on 01865 425425 Cheney School in Headington Staff at Cheney School in Oxford are running a breakfast talk series for students to explore science ideas. Every Friday morning in May, the school’s Rumble Museum will run the series of talks for Year Seven students Experts from around the wo...

Moreton was only appointed as the schools headteacher last year following the retirement of John Barrett. In a letter to parents, he said: "I have taken the very difficult decision to resign as Malmesbury School’s headteacher at the end of this academic year in August. "This decision has not been an easy one for me to make as I have really enjoyed working at the school and with our students, staff, parents and carers. "Malmesbury School is truly a very special community. "I have dec...

Martin Stott of Divinity Road Residents Association (DARA) with 11 computers and other IT equipment which he and his team donated to Cheney School. Picture: DARA KIND-HEARTED residents in and around one Oxford street donated dozens of bits of computer gear to deserving local schools in just a day. Street Champions in the Divinity Road Residents Association (DRARA) area are asking people to donate the equipment which is vital to remote learning. Even with many pupils now going ba...

Thanks to an Oxfordshire school, now you can. The duo may be famed for their involvement in Blackadder and QI, Newsnight and University Challenge, but now they have lent their well-known voices to a school project. Their imitations of trees is part of an upcoming virtual tree trail at Cheney School in Headington. Lorna Robinson, director of the Rumble Museum and Iris Classics Centre at the school, said: “All of the trees in the trail have a voiceover – most of them are staff but the...