King's School, Witney

Location of The Kings School,Witney in Oxfordshire

The King's School

Established	1984
Type	Independent
Religion	Christian
Principal	Steve Beegoo
Chairman of Governors	Alistair Barnett
Founder	Oxfordshire Community Churches
Location	New Yatt Road Oxfordshire OX29 6TA England Coordinates: 51°47′56″N 1°28′21″W / 51.798756°N 1.472468°W / 51.798756; -1.472468
Local authority	Oxfordshire
Students	163 approx.
Gender	Co-educational
Ages	4–16
Colours	Blue, Black White
Website	www.occ.org.uk/tks/

The King's School is a co-educational independent Christian school in Witney, Oxfordshire, England. It that is part of Oxfordshire Community Churches (OCC).^[1] The school had 163 pupils at the time of its last Bridge Schools Inspection.^[2]

History

The King’s School was started in 1984 by the OCC group of churches and initially used the Accelerated Christian Education programme. The school had several locations between 1984-1989. The school was first based at Merrifield house then it moved to Scout Houses and even spent some time based at the Cotswold Wildlife Park before finding its current home. The School is on New Yatt Road, Witney.

Extracurricular activities

Among the extracurricular activities at the school are Sports Day and the Expressive Arts Week.

At the end of the Easter term, the senior pupils take time off normal lessons as part of their annual Expressive Arts Week. Students display their work on graphics, P.A. and lighting, drama, music, dance, costume and stage design or creating wonderful refreshments for people to enjoy during the intervals.

To help the students with learning certain languages there are trips to both Germany and France along with the Y11 trip to such countries as Zambia and India.

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Schools in Oxfordshire

Secondary	Banbury Academy Bartholomew School The Bicester School Blessed George Napier RC School Burford School Carterton Community College Cheney School Cherwell School Chiltern Edge School Chipping Norton School Cooper School Didcot Girls' School Faringdon Community College Fitzharrys School Gillotts School Gosford Hill School Henry Box School Icknield Community College John Mason School King Alfred's Academy Langtree School Larkmead School Lord Williams's School Marlborough School, Woodstock Matthew Arnold School North Oxfordshire Academy The Oxford Academy Oxford Spires Academy St Birinus School St Gregory the Great RC School Wallingford School The Warriner School Wheatley Park School UTC Oxfordshire Wood Green School

Independent (preparatory)	Abingdon Preparatory School Christ Church Cathedral School Cothill House Dragon School Emmanuel Christian School New College School The Oratory Preparatory School Rupert House School St Hugh's School Summer Fields School

Independent	Abingdon School Al-Madina School Bloxham School Carfax Tutorial Establishment Cokethorpe School Cranford House School D'Overbroeck's College Education First EF International Academy European School, Culham Greene's Tutorial College Headington School Kingham Hill School King's School Magdalen College School The Oratory School Our Lady's Abingdon Oxford High School Oxford International College Oxford Montessori Schools Radley College Rye St Antony School St Clare's School St Edward's School St Helen and St Katharine Shiplake College Sibford School Tudor Hall School

Special	Bishopswood School Mulberry Bush School Parklands Campus Swalcliffe Park School

Further education	Abingdon and Witney College Banbury and Bicester College City of Oxford College Denman College Henley College

Former	Carmel College City of Oxford High School for Boys Drayton School Falconbury School Milham Ford School Peers School Southfield Grammar School Oxford Military College St Mary's School, Wantage

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