Bloxham School, founded in 1860, is a relatively small school with superb facilities for academic work, sport, recreation and living; a fine Music School, Art School, new Information Technology suite, Dewey Sports Hall, new รบ1.4 million Technology Centre, indoor swimming pool, Theatre, excellent accommodation in eight houses, and a new dining room. An HMC school, Bloxham is only 4 miles from the M40 with easy access to Birmingham and Heathrow International Airports. The school accepts day pupils from 11, boarding and day from 13 and girls for the 6th Form. The school is set in 60 acres in a charming North Oxfordshire village.
With a highly qualified and committed teaching staff, the school offers a supportive, caring and friendly environment which allows those with talent in any area of the school's life to contribute and to succeed.
The Chapel acts as a focus for a Christian school which teaches responsibility, high moral and spiritual principles and an awareness and concern for others. Each pupil has a tutor who guides academic progress and ensures that the most is gained from Bloxham's many facilities and activities.
The school's commitment to success as a boarding school with a small percentage of day pupils, can be seen in the thriving clubs and societies teaching skills as diverse as photography, desktop publishing, climbing, public speaking, art, drama, music, sailing, archery and adventure training, providing scope for talent to show itself and be skilfully nurtured.
Bloxham attaches great importance to the academic quality of its education. It offers a wide range of GCSE and A Level courses. 80% of pupils go on to university, including Oxford and Cambridge.
A wide range of sport is played, the main games being rugby, hockey, cricket and tennis and netball. Pupils regularly gain representative honours at county and national level.
Bloxham is an outward looking school, seeking to forge links with the rest of the world. There are regular visits to France and Germany and recently trips were organised to Venezuela, India, and Peru. Rugby trips have taken place to Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong and Fiji.
Bloxham School creates an environment where boys and girls expect to do well - and they usually do!
