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We started the term off with our new and returning 'Penn boys' enjoying an evening of team building activities. This was a great way to break down some nerves and create new friendships. We welcomed many new boys to Penn house in September, all have settled in well and quickly became apart of our boarding community!! Penn boys have enjoyed lots of planned evening and weekend activity over this term. All, as well as in house activities and games nights, enjoy evening activities such as sports hall and swimming. For our full boarders, weekend trips to near by Oxford for a museum visit and shopping, Milton Keynes to the trampoline park, Shakespeare's home town of Stratford UponAvon and local Christmas markets at Chipping Norton. We have …show more content…

Party games and a photo booth followed to finish the night. Penn house enjoyed joining the other boarding houses to celebrate the annual boarders Christmas party. This year boarders decided they would like to dine out and chose a local Thai restaurant as this year’s destination. All Houseparent’s, Head of Boarding Victoria Baker, Head of KS4 Simon Baker and Head Toby Spence joined boarders. Next up for the Christmas celebrations was the Senior School Christmas Ball, this is a year 7 - 13 event hosted by the Sixth Form Leadership Team. The theme for this year was the widely anticipated Hollywood Glamour - with its own red carpet, photo booth, awards ceremony, hot dog stands and disco entertainment. The boys thoroughly enjoyed the evening, with many saying, "it was much better than expected". The last week of term was a slightly unusually one and something we have not seen in the last 4-5 years in Oxfordshire. We woke up Sunday morning to a blanket of glistening snow covering the whole site. Penn boys were the first out to enjoy, for some, a first time experience. A snowball fight broke out behind the house, encouraged by houseparent Dave. Quickly followed by snow angels and snowmen. The afternoon the whole house joined the local village sledging at nearby oddies field and later that evening, the Head, Toby Spence closed the school for Monday to all day pupils. The local village was inaccessible and with

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