March 12, 2025
Livery Entrepreneurs Challenge
Wallingford School team, Ben, Rory, Annabelle and Lizzie (Year 12), headed to London on Friday…
March 07, 2025
The Beating Heart of the British Art Scene
Mr Bowen and Mr Hinchliffe were really pleased to take our Year 13 artists to…
February 12, 2025
Grenoble - French Exchange 2025
Tuesday 4th February Students taking part in our annual French Exchange to Grenoble spent the…
February 12, 2025
An Evening of German at Radley College
Having thoroughly enjoyed the Oktoberfest event at Radley College in the autumn, a few of…
January 15, 2025
Year 7 Welcome Award-Winning Author Larry Hayes
We were delighted to welcome award-winning author Larry Hayes to the school to talk to…
January 13, 2025
Sharing Experiences
Last term, Lydia, Year 11 & Young Carer, met Ed Davey, MP, at an event…
January 08, 2025
A Great Kick-Off to the Year!
What an opening term of sport we’ve had at Wallingford! There have been riveting rugby…
January 08, 2025
A Head Full of Ideas
Last term, I was lucky enough to win a place on a teacher training course…
January 08, 2025
Merchant Taylors' Company Photography Competition
David Bowie famously sang a song called ‘Five Years’. Quite obviously, he was writing about…
December 09, 2024
Merchant Taylors' Livery Academy Awards Heat 2024
At the start of the school year, six students were selected to take part in…
November 20, 2024
World Challenge - Summer 2024
At the start of the summer, two groups of students went on a trip to…
September 18, 2024
Out Standing in a Field
The Art Department create so many fantastic opportunities and new experiences for our young artists!…
August 15, 2024
Key Stage 5 Results 2024
We are tremendously proud this morning of all of our Year 13 students as they…
July 16, 2024
Anniversary Regatta Row-Past
John Marston recently visited the Henley Royal Regatta for a special event: "It was a…
June 14, 2024
Digital Wellbeing Conference at Merchant Taylors' Hall
Last term, head students Archie and Emily visited Merchant Taylors' Hall for a Digital Wellbeing…
June 10, 2024
Rotary Club 'Student of the Term'
Over the past couple of terms, Mr Lyons has been asked to nominate a student…
June 06, 2024
Young Carers in Schools Award
We’ve won a prestigious award for our work supporting young carers with their education. We…
June 06, 2024
History Workshop at Merchant Taylors' Hall
Earlier this week, we took 30 Year 8 students to Merchant Taylors’ Hall, Threadneedle Street,…
May 15, 2024
Unique Art Awards
Lizzie, Year 7, has been working with Mrs Williams, Art Technician, over the past couple…
May 03, 2024
UKMT Team Maths Challenge
Tilda (Yr 8), Syrah (Yr 8), Callum (Yr 9) and Joseph (Yr 9) visited Headington…
March 15, 2024
My Time in Belgium
I was lucky enough to get to go on the Belgium trip at the beginning…
March 08, 2024
German Exchange 2024
The week beginning 19th February, thirty-four GCSE and four A Level students took part in…
February 27, 2024
Diary of Geography Trip to Iceland
GCSE and A Level Geography students spent three days in Iceland over half term, and…
February 19, 2024
Unforgettable Adventure in Barcelona!
Our Sixth Form trip to Barcelona was an unforgettable adventure from start to finish. Despite…
February 09, 2024
French Exchange 2024
From 26th January to 2nd February, I took part in a French exchange to Oxford’s…
February 09, 2024
The Addams Family Musical
We were thrilled to present to audiences the Wallingford School’s 2024 production of The Addams…
December 15, 2023
Clean Sweep in the Merchant Taylors' Photography Competition!
This year’s Merchant Taylors’ Company Photography Competition was introduced to students in October, where they…
November 07, 2023
Wallingford Taekwon-do Medal Haul
Wallingford Taekwon-do took six students to the UK Open Championships 2023 and came away with…
August 17, 2023
Key Stage 5 Results 2023
We are tremendously proud this morning of all of our Year 13 students as they…
June 22, 2023
HR Wallingford Visit for INWED23
It was a privilege to be invited to HR Wallingford last week for International Women…
June 13, 2023
Toll Gemacht, Alexander!
Huge congratulations to our Year 8 German student Alexander Simpson for having come 2nd in the…
May 23, 2023
Matt Falls for Skydiving
Matt, Year 12, has never been one for sport at school, but has taken his…
May 22, 2023
Florentina at The Cathedral of Polo
In April, Year 8 student Florentina was invited by the Argentine Polo Association to play…
May 19, 2023
Charlie's Work Experience - A Ringing Endorsement
Charlie, our Year 8 bell-ringer we wrote about last November had the unique chance to gain…
May 16, 2023
Jasmine and Orla & the Wallingford Wildcats
Jasmine and Orla in Year 8 are members of the Wallingford Wildcats hockey team, and…
May 12, 2023
The King and Lizzie
Lizzie, Year 10, has been part of the Girlguiding youth steering group 'Amplify' for the last…
March 23, 2023
York Trip Diary - Day Three
Wednesday 22nd March This morning we went to the National Railway Museum where students could…
March 22, 2023
York Trip Diary - Day Two
Tuesday 21st March First stop was York Minster, the second largest medieval gothic cathedral in…
March 22, 2023
York Trip Diary - Day One
Monday 20th March After a long journey, we arrived in York and headed straight out…
March 10, 2023
Belgium Trip Diary - Day Three
Today was a dry day - hurray! We had a 2 hour coach journey to…
March 09, 2023
Belgium Trip Diary - Day Two
Today has been another tremendous day in Belgium. The day got off to a great…
March 08, 2023
Belgium Trip Diary - Day One
First day in Belgium. A long day, after a very early start, but a really…
February 22, 2023
Planting Day
A couple of weekends ago, Wild about Wallingford, GreenArt and a team of volunteers planted…
February 21, 2023
Gateway to Great Design
Last year our A Level Product Design students were asked to design a new gateway…
February 02, 2023
Year 9 Student Plays His Way to Italy
We are thrilled to hear that Peter in Year 9 has been selected to represent…
November 11, 2022
Charlie Rings the Changes
Charlie in Year 8 is a Campanologist, and he regularly updates music teacher Ms Hammond…
August 18, 2022
Key Stage 5 Results 2022
We are tremendously proud this morning of all of our Year 13 students as they…
July 05, 2022
Rugby Success
We always love to hear about our students' activities outside of school. Aimee, Year 10,…
May 24, 2022
Hustings - Student Leadership Group
We want to say a big well done to the 11 candidates who put themselves…
March 17, 2022
25th World Scout Jamboree
We were pleased to hear that five students have been selected to attend the 25th…
March 10, 2022
Merchant Taylors' Design Competition
Product Design student Oscar, Year 12, attended Merchant Taylors' Hall yesterday, where he presented his…
February 02, 2022
Mia at Modern Art Oxford
Mia Annesen-Wood actually has a painting exhibited at Modern Art Oxford! She actually, actually has!…
January 21, 2022
Public Speaking Workshop
Year 12 students, AJ, Alex, Bethany, Lorna, Saoirse, and Rob, took part in a Public…
September 29, 2021
Year 10 National Boxing Champion
A big congratulations to Sky, Year 10, on becoming national champion (female 63kg) at the…
September 28, 2021
Donkey Sanctuary Mural
Year 12 and Year 13 artists kindly gave up their time to paint a mural…
October 16, 2020
Gardening Club
Mr Marston spoke about Gardening Club in last week's Headteacher's Message and we managed to…
July 13, 2020
North-West Rowing Crafting Competition
Anna, Year 12, entered the North-West Rowing crafting competition to make, bake or model an…
January 13, 2020
Wallingford Students in Panto!
We love to hear about our students' extra-curricular activities outside of school. Ellie, Year 13,…
October 16, 2019
Law Lecture and Court Sermon
Sixth formers witnessed some history today, as they took part in the Court Sermon at…
September 30, 2019
Sue Ryder Charity Fashion Show
On Saturday nine students from Wallingford School took part in the Sue Ryder Charity Fashion…
September 26, 2019
Year 13 Geography Fieldwork to Porthcawl
Our Year 13 Geographers have been out all week completing fieldwork at Porthcawl, South Wales.…
September 23, 2019
Sixth Form visit to Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford
Some of our Sixth Form students visited the Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford on…
September 12, 2019
Kayaking Under 14s National Champion
Congratulations to Harry, who this summer became the Kayaking Under 14s National Champion in both…
August 15, 2019
A Record Year
This year we entered our largest ever cohort of students and achieved our best…
July 18, 2019
Success for Rory at European Open Agility Championships
We are very pleased to hear about Rory's success at the European Open Agility Championships.…
July 12, 2019
The Sky's the Limit!
We previously reported that Year 7, Sky, had won a National Championship. Now we hear…
May 01, 2019
Year 12 visit an artist
On Monday, Year 12 art students met local artist and designer Fay Ford in her garden studio.…
October 09, 2018
Remembrance Concert at Birmingham Symphony Hall
Sunday 11th November 2018, 2.30pm Tickets: £10-£28 Students from Wallingford School will be joining schools…
July 24, 2018
Year 9 Residential Reports
As we head into the summer break, here's a look back at the Year 9…
July 09, 2018
Dieppe 2018
C’était fantastique!! In fact, those words don’t even sum up how amazing our trip to…
July 04, 2018
Year 9 Residential 2018
This week, many Year 9 students are spending the week at Kilvrough, Yenworthy and Woodlands activity…
June 19, 2018
Win for Wallingford Rowing Club
Congratulations to Wallingford School students Amelia, Anna, Freya, Lily, Olivia and ex-student Liberty for their…
May 17, 2018
SEND Residential 2018
Last week, some of our Year 7 students visited PGL Liddington for a couple of…
March 09, 2018
Rory and Sonic - Team GB
The Kennel Club has recently announced Team GB for the European Agility Champs to be…
December 15, 2017
Secret Knowledge in Oxford
Last week some of our Year 9 students had a very interesting time discovering 'Secret…
December 15, 2017
Bugsy Malone
After a busy couple of days with the winter weather we haven't had the opportunity…
November 30, 2017
Swim England Synchronised Swimming
We would all like to congratulate Teri, Year 12 on her success over the weekend…
July 18, 2017
European Open Agility Championships
Year 8 student Rory and his dog, Sonic, have won a bronze and silver medal…
January 31, 2017
Young Enterprise Trade Fair
The Young Enterprise team went to Templars Square Shopping Centre, Cowley, for their first trade…
January 04, 2017
Merchant Taylor's Company Photography Competition 2016
Many thanks to the Merchant Taylors' Company for their annual School Photography Competition. Our students…