Download a Christmas reading list here.

These are popular books with years 5-9 in the library at the moment; they may help as a useful reading guide for the Christmas holidays or to give as presents.

Sian Munford
Librarian

The Midlands region has now announced its shortlist of four talented young writers including Oswestry School's own Louise Aust (Yr 12).

he Carol Service will take place on Wednesday 15 December at 3.15 p.m., in St Oswald's Parish Church and all parents are most welcome to attend the service. Children may be collected from the church, after the service, at approximately 4.15 p.m.; if this is the case please ensure that your child informs his/her Form Tutor before leaving the church. All other pupils will be escorted back to School and be ready for collection at approximately 4.30 p.m. For those pupils who use the School buses, these will run at the normal time.

There will be an instrumental concert on Thursday 9th December in the Bellan hall at 2:00pm, to which parents are warmly invited.

The Orchestra will perform some short pieces along with some individual instrumental pieces.

Any children who have their instrumental lessons outside of school and who would like to perform a short piece are welcome to take part. If you wish to do so please bring in the piece of music for Mr G to see and run through with your child.

The results of the House Drama are

1 Burnaby 40pts

2= Oswald 20pts

2= Spooner 20pts

4 Donne 8pts

Click here to see the latest House Competition table.

The 2010-2011 edition of The Oswestrian is now available to download here.

Last Thursday Mr Lee Tracey spoke about his latest invention (a unique high-definition security camera) and explained how he had brought it to the market.

Oswestry School's team entered the Rotary Club of Oswestry's annual round of Youth Speaks at Oswestry Library tonight. Other teams taking part were from Moreton Hall and Walford and North Shropshire College.

As part of their work they constructed a large rhinoceros in the art room.

We had a very good performance at the BPW public speaking competition tonight.

Alister Talbot gained best chairman on the night and Louise Aust delivered a fantastic speech. Sadly the team just missed out on going through to the next round but I have high hopes that Alister, Louise and Ruth Reynolds will do well at next week's Rotary Youth Speaks competition.

ABL

Here is the GCSE Controlled Assessment Grid for the academic year 2010-2011 which is provided so that both parents and pupils can see what tasks they should be expecting for their controlled assessments and when they should be taking place.

You may also download this from the Educational Resources tab on the left hand side of each page on the site.

RGE

ADO

Photos: ADO, Maria Martoccia and Ali Tickner

SIXTH FORM INFORMATION EVENING

This evening will be open to students currently in Year 11 and their parents. Visitors from other schools are also very welcome. Discover the wide variety of opportunities and support offered by the Sixth Form at Oswestry School. The Headmaster, Head of Sixth Form and subject Heads of Departments are on hand to offer advice/guidance.

Year 11 pupils do not need to wear school uniform.

For further information please contact our Registrar on

01691 681104 or admissions@oswestryschool.org.uk

Here are some pictures showing a session we had today at Bellan.

Neil Ruby, a parent of a Reception pupil, came into school in his role as a representative of the Rotary Club of Oswestry Borderland, to demonstrate how a Shelterbox works.

For example, a student's username is (First name initial).surname followed by the year of school entry e.g. k.jackson08.

Please visit the Library if you are having difficulty using this facility. Happy searching!