A superb evening of Music, Drama and Poetry to celebrate World Languages was held in the Cripps Hall Theatre last night. There were outstanding performances from students across all year groups, demonstrating great cultural breadth and richness.
The growing gap between the achievement of girls and boys at GCSE has been highlighted in the national media this week as the England GCSE performance tables were released by the Department for Education.
NSB students took part in a deeply moving Northampton Holocaust Memorial Event at the Northampton Guildhall on Monday 27th January. The Memorial took place in the presence of the Deputy Mayor of Northampton, the High Sheriff of Northampton, prominent members of the Jewish community, Councillors as w...
We were delighted to welcome visiting artist, Ian Murphy, to the school this week to work with our Y11 and Y13 GSCE and A Level Art students. Ian spent a day working with each cohort on refining their fine art skills, which will be invaluable support for their forthcoming public examinations.
I am very pleased to report that a grand total of eight NSB students have been given a formal offer of a place at Oxford or Cambridge University this year which is far in excess of the national average. The school is delighted for the students that their hard work and talent has been rewarded by a p...
We were delighted to welcome in the region of 1200 visitors to our Sixth Form Open Evening last night, where we were able to show off our outstanding Post 16 provision. Our current Sixth Formers and staff did a brilliant job of demonstrating the breadth and depth of our curricular and extra-curricul...
There has been so much to celebrate this week at the school that it is a little difficult to know where to start! The Cripps Hall Theatre was awash with laughter last night as our talented student thespians delivered a first class performance of the knock out comedy, ‘One Man, Two Guvnor...
Last Sunday was an opportunity to remember the former students of the school who lost their lives in conflict. James Chown Y7, who laid a wreath and Harry Hunter Y12, who played The Last Post were outstanding representatives for NSB in their significant roles at the Remembrance Ceremo...
Many congratulations to our Senior Maths Challenge Team who put up a fantastic defence of our title in the Regional Final of the National Maths Challenge.
Enterprise Week is drawing to a close and it has been a great success. The students in school have been involved in a multitude of Citizenship, PSHE, Sport, Expressive Arts, Study Skills, Teambuilding and Work Related activities with fantastic input from school staff and external agencies. The two r...
Our superbly talented Expressive Arts students have enjoyed the limelight this week with our first Music Concert of the year followed by a Drama Lab production from our older thespians. There were many highlights of the Concert - in general: the seam of musical talent running throughout the di...