We would like to welcome you to our Design & Technology Exhibition on Thursday 27^th June from 4.00pm – 6.00pm in the D&T block.

We will be showcasing some of the fantastic work that the GCSE and A-level students have produced in response to a range of challenging contexts and design briefs.

We were very pleased to recently host three Danish trainee teachers at our school. The trainee teachers visited the school for a week in March and were able to experience the differences between teacher training here in the UK and in Denmark.

The group were able to take part in training sessions with our current PGCE trainees, spend time in a number of our departments, work with our LSA team as well as making a visit to Charvil Primary. It is hoped that this visit is the first event in a series of teacher exchanges, with some Piggott staff hopefully making a return trip to Denmark in the next academic year. The exchange project was established through our links with Reading University, who themselves have close links to a teacher training provider in Hjørring, Northern Denmark.

One of the visiting trainees, Lotte Engelhard Jensen, explained that: ’I would like to say thank you for a wonderful and educational week. We have enjoyed every bit of it very much and we appreciate everything (The Piggott School) have done for us!’.

Similar projects involving undergraduate trainees from STEM subjects at Reading University are planned for later this academic year. We will also be welcoming more students into our school over the next year by way of the ‘Students in Schools’ project – giving undergraduates the chance to explore the different possibilities within the teaching profession.

De-Amalgamation Consultation Extended to 10^th May

The weather may be cold but that has not stopped intrepid Piggott School students from getting out and about in recent weeks. 

We would like to welcome you to our Year 8 into 9 Options Evening on Wednesday 9th January from 5.45pm-7.45pm. 

There will be talks from Mr Griffith at 5.45pm and 6.45pm in the Library and subject staff will be available to speak to you about their individual subjects during this time. Further information will be available on arrival.  

Maths Summer School

Our annual Remembrance Service will take place in the main hall on Friday 9 November at 2.30pm.   We look forward to being joined by members of the Royal British Legion and other guests.

In this special year, members of the school choir who contributed to the Never Such Innocence project in January are excited to have been invited to attend the National Service of Thanksgiving to mark the Centenary of the Armistice at Westminster Abbey this Sunday, 11 November.  The Service will be broadcast live on BBC 1 at 6pm – you may well see us in the audience, looking smart in Piggott uniform.

As part of The Piggott School’s commemorations to mark the centenary of the Armistice we are also proud to unveil the 6 foot tall ‘Silent Tommy’ who represents the many thousands of young men who made the ultimate sacrifice while fighting for their country.  He will take pride of place in the school quad where he will look in towards the roll of honour, which lists the names of members of our school who were among the many fallen heroes.

In addition, every student and staff member has been given the opportunity to fill out a small outline of ‘Tommy’ with either the name of someone they wish to thank, or with a poem or a piece of art work. These have been gathered in a display that will sit alongside the roll of honour and our ‘Silent Tommy.’ We would like to thank everyone who has contributed to this display.

‘Lest we forget’.

Consultation period:  Monday 15^th October to Monday 10^th December

It is a statutory requirement for all state funded schools to consult on their Admissions Arrangements every 7 years. In line with this requirement, The Piggott School is consulting on its Admissions Arrangements for 2020/2021.The proposed changes are as follows:

·         The removal of denominational grounds (category G) from admissions criteria. This change is proposed in line with advice from the Oxford Diocesan Board of Education to remove faith based criteria from admissions arrangements.