Senior School News

The Junior Dance Festival 2018 took place on Monday 10th and Tuesday 11th December in the school's own Blake Studio. The annual event provided the opportunity to showcase a variety of dance from both boys and girls.

The annual candlelit Senior School Carol Service, 'A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols', took place on Sunday 9th December in Norwich Cathedral. 

Clear away the winter blues and join the Friends of Norwich School for their annual Comedy Night, Friday 1st February 2019. Doors open at 6.45pm for a 7.30pm start.

 The Sunday Times has published their Parent Power Schools Guide, placing Norwich School again as the top performing independent secondary school in Norfolk and Suffolk, with a ranking of 90^th in the overall table for independent secondary schools in the country.

The school's Business Enterprise department have had the great pleasure to work on their first partnership project with Mile Cross Primary School and City College Norwich, in a Dragons’ Den competition. The Year 5 pupil Dragons’ Den competition saw Mile Cross pupils face real life business dragons, alongside Norwich School Sixth Form pupils.

On Wednesday 28^th November U6 Business Enterprise pupils delivered Business Plan presentations at the Enterprise Centre in collaboration with the Norwich Business School at UEA. 

The Under 14 Rugby Team were crowned county champions last week after wins against Wymondham College (20-0), Langley (26-5), Gresham’s (14-0) and CNS (24-5) secure the trophy.

The world’s best-selling cricket magazine, The Cricketer, has published its Good Schools Guide 2019, featuring the top 100 secondary schools. Norwich School is delighted to have been included in the 'Top 100 Senior Schools' selection.

Dave Rudden, author of the Knights of the Borrowed Dark trilogy, visited Norwich School on Monday 19th November, to speak to Lower 5 about his books and the creative writing process.

The Senior School musical, Chicago, impressed audiences across five sell-out shows at Norwich Playhouse, 14th-17th November 2018. 

Norwich School are delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted for the 'Whole-school community initiative of the year' category in the 2019 Tes Independent School Awards. 

Norwich School are excited to be supporting Norfolk based charity, Explorers against Extinction, by hosting their Sketch for Survival exhibition in the Crypt Gallery from Friday 23 -  Sunday 25 November. This will be the final opportunity that the public have to see the artwork - which was also shown in London, Manhattan and New York - before being auctioned online.

Ten members of the Norwich School orienteering club travelled to Lancashire on Saturday morning for what turned out to be a historic weekend for the club. Everyone ran well, and the squad were a credit to the school over the whole weekend.

Norwich School has a network of tunnels buried beneath the school playground. Built in September 1939, the tunnels served as an air raid shelter for pupils of Norwich School during the Second World War.

Norwich School has been awarded Norfolk Chamber’s highest level of their Young Chamber Enterprise Recognition Award.

Six pupils from the 8th Norwich (Norwich School) Sea Scouts have been awarded the prestigious scouts explorer belt, which is recognised as 'a challenge of a lifetime.' What started as a self-led and planned cycling expedition, through northern France, became a pilgrimage of remembrance when they found the graves of 17 fallen Norwich School "Old Norvicensians" at which they paid their respects.    

On Tuesday 13th November, Norwich School hosted the third Norfolk Mathematics Symposium. The event saw 18 schools from across East Anglia gather to hear from three influential speakers, as well as have the opportunity to ask questions. 

On Thursday 8th November, the Norwich School U14 Girls Hockey team competed in the Regional round of the EHB school’s hockey cup. 

Norwich School pupils were treated to a workshop by Elizabeth Futter, organised by Friends of Norwich School, on Wednesday 7th November. 

On Friday 9th November, the school gathered in Norwich Cathedral for the annual Remembrance Service to commemorate those who have given their lives in the defence of our country. Also on Friday, Norwich School opened its Armistice exhibition 'All Fades to Silence' in the Crypt Gallery. The exhibition  is a collaboration between pupils studying Design, English and Creative Writing. The exhibition is free to all and is open until Saturday 17th November: Monday - Friday 12-4pm, Saturday 11-3pm