Senior School News

On Friday 6th May pupils, staff and parents of Nelson House successfully ran 970k in aid of Nelson’s Journey and the RNLI.

As Norwich School’s Reading Group heads towards the end of another year, our members are looking forward to the literary highlight of the academic year, the sixth Norfolk Children’s Book Festival, hosted by Norwich School in the spectacular Norwich Cathedral.

Kian Moghaddas and Arjun Kamath awarded 1st and 3rd prizes respectively in the regional competition.

The team have progressed to the last 16 of the Lord's Taverners Cup after a hard fought win over Bromsgrove School.

Over the Easter weekend the school took 2 senior squads to Holland to take part in an International tournament held at WFHC.

On Thursday 27 April, Upper Four were treated to a storytelling session by professional storyteller Kevin Graal, followed by a morning of creative writing workshops with tutors from the Writers’ Centre Norwich and UEA’s Creative Writing School.

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Sixth formers have been raising money and awareness for the charity La Casita as part of the pupil’s weekly community outreach programme. The pupils have raised the money through their ‘Buy a Brick: Build a School’ project.

With the local elections approaching and a snap election recently announced the Debating Society brought together representatives from the major parties for a Question Time style debate.

Norwich School entered 5 teams into the Eastern Region Snowsports Association Schools Championship event on an extremely busy day at Norfolk Snowsports Centre. Around 400 athletes attended the biggest ever ERSA Schools Race on a fine spring day.

The girls finished joint top of their group but lost out on a place in the final by just 13 runs on overall run rate.

Norwich School’s affiliated troop hosted groups from across the East Norwich District for a day of celebrations at the Lower School.

Inceptum were by far the most financially successful business at the finals, winning the Aviva trophy for Enterprise and another for Customer Focus. Despite these successes, the company wasn't selected to represent the county at the East of England finals.

On Saturday 22nd April a J15 coxed four and J16 coxed four raced in Nottingham at the prestigious Junior Inter Regional Regatta. The crews represented the Eastern Counties having been chosen as the fastest from boat clubs across East Anglia.

Making Musicians is a series of recitals given by pupils from Norwich School and occasionally other local schools. It is an opportunity for exceptional musicians to perform in front of an audience in an intimate, but impressive setting.

The play by Sue Townsend is directed by L6 Eloise Cubbin and features pupils from Lower 6 and Upper 5.

Pupils at Norwich School have raised over £300 for the Norwich based charity Care for Children. The money has been raised whilst also increasing awareness and helping with important research for the charity as part of the pupil’s weekly community outreach programme.

76 boys and girls from the boat club and 10 members of staff together with two boat trailers and a box trailer travelled to the Lac du Causse, Brive, over the Easter holiday.

From April 21st to 23rd, Norwich School hosted a unique event – the Norwich Model Arctic Council or NORMAC, which is the only conference of its kind at secondary school anywhere in the world. For two-and-a-half days, pupils from schools across Norfolk, London and from as far afield as Bilbao, Spain, played the roles of diplomats attending the Arctic Council as part of an innovative experiential learning programme.

All pupils studying Spanish in L4 and U4 (approx. 124) enjoyed an hour long Spanish play in the new Blake studio on Friday afternoon.