Sports Day at Leckford Place

Leckford Place School held its sports day on Thursday. There were many outstanding performances by pupils, and the day was characterised by an atmosphere of competition – but also of enthusiasm and sportsmanship.

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The final results by House were as follows:

1. Evenlode
2. Thame
3. Windrush
4. Isis

Pupils on Horseback

Once a fortnight (during termtime), Leckford Place School students have the opportunity to go riding. And here are a few of them, doing just that ...

Mountain Language

On Friday afternoon, GCSE students at Leckford Place performed scenes from Pinter's Mountain Language. In keeping with the play's characteristic austerity, the production was minimal and direct, with silence used as a powerful dramatic device - quite as much as the spoken lines.

Exploring the theme of language - specifically, its power as a vehicle of oppression - the play centres upon a small group of "mountain people", who are forbidden by military decree to use their own language, instructed instead to adopt the "language of the capitol".