Academic

Romania: Radley Sixth Formers have been organising ‘holiday clubs’ for under-privileged Romanian children since 1994. The next trip will be in July 2008 for two weeks. We are currently working with primary School Number 4 in the town of Moreni. The activities which we organise include Classroom Teaching, Art, Music, Games, Excursions and Sport, through which we aim to: a) give the Romania children an opportunity to practise and improve their English language skills. b) give the Romanian children self-confidence and an appreciation of their own country. c) remove misplaced misconceptions and stereotypes of Western life and people.

MetLinkInternational weather project: A project initiated by the Radley College Geography Department whereby over 350 schools around the world use the service and are in regular e-mail contact with the Geography Department. The vast majority of these (over 90%) are maintained schools - both primary and secondary. There is a wide variety of free teaching material on the website including PowerPoint presentations and project ideas which can be downloaded. Primary schools were also been invited to take part in the Raincatch project which was run by Radley in conjunction with the Royal Meteorological Society.

Radley College Geography Dept website: There is a wide variety of free teaching material on the geography website including links, online links and downloadable resources.

Clement Wheeler-Bennett Memorial Trust: VI.1 biologists taken to visit the Cancer Research Labs at Royal Free to meet the PhD student who is funded by the Clem Wheeler-Bennett Trust. The Chairman of Trust is Rick Wheeler-Bennett (an OR) and SAT is a Trustee. Each year there is a Sunday Chapel Collection for the trust.

KAM went to Radley Primary School and gave a 1 hr lesson on the physics of waves including lots of demonstrations with equipment that no primary school would have. Future sessions are planned.

SAT speaks annually at the Royal Society of Medicine Sixth-Form Medical Careers Day; his talk is specifically aimed at helping young people, who might not otherwise have access to proper advice, prepare for applying to medical schools.

Discovery Summer Language School use our grounds and facilities for five weeks each summer.

Primary Schools

Mary Hare Primary School for the deaf, Newbury: The Mary Hare Primary School for the deaf is a unique environment. There are a number of pupils which board at the school which makes the atmosphere very relaxed and friendly. For the first half of the afternoon the boys help to run Design and Technology and science lessons. They help small groups of students to make various paper structures and supervise them when using scissors. The boys have made good friendships with the students and this helps them to run the soccer practice or games in the latter part of the afternoon. This is really beneficial to the school as the majority of the pupils are boys and they respond really well to the Radleians. This is part of our Wednesday Activity Programme.

Radley Village Primary School: Six Radleians divide equally between the three classes. They work under the supervision of the class teacher or the classroom assistant who report regularly to AJM on their ability, behaviour and progress; in addition AJM works with one pair each week. This year two boys helped with the running of outdoor team games: football and netball, acting as player/referees. Two helped with reading: a primary school pupil sits with a Radleian for about ten minutes at a time and reads aloud from their reading programme book: the Radleians are encouraged to help the children with reading strategies and to talk about the stories. Another two boys joined in and helped with indoor PE in the gym and on other days helped in the IT room with computer activities. The boys enjoy helping and Radley Primary is most grateful for their assistance. This is part of our Wednesday Activity Programme.

St Nicholas's Primary School, Abingdon: Our project at St Nicolas Primary School, Abingdon, has been a great success. At 3pm six fifth form boys from A Social run the after-school chess club, for sixteen children. The standard of chess has improved markedly, with many of the girls in the club leading the way. Each Radley boy is in charge of one game, and they have been helpful, enthusiastic and courteous throughout. Their activities have been a welcome addition to Wednesdays at St Nicolas, and the boys have thoroughly enjoyed themselves at the same time. This is part of our Wednesday Activity Programme.

St. Swithun's Primary School, Kennington: Six Radleians listen to children read and assist in Science and Art lessons at St Swithun's Primary School, Kennington. The children clearly love the one to one attention they receive, and are getting to know our boys well. This year as ever they heard the children read and recorded the reading prctice in the childrens' record books. They were referred to by one class teacher as the Lovely Radley Boys, and were showered with goodbye cards, written and drawn by the children themselves, on our last session. This is part of our Wednesday Activity Programme.

Thomas Reade Primary School: A party of eight Radleians has run two sports sessions, rugby and basketball, for thirty children as an after-school activity on Wednesday afternoons. The sessions ran from 3:00pm until 4:00pm and were very popular. The groups would start with some useful warm-up exercises and competitive games and then play their chosen activity. The Radleians running the sessions were very helpful and supportive and the children responded well. The school received a county award in recognition of its sport and the headmaster acknowledged the contribution that the Radleians had made to help achieve this. This is part of our Wednesday Activity Programme.

The Radley College Countryside Centre provides the opportunity for other schools to visit a small working farm and learn about the countryside.

AJM and MRJ are governors of Radley Village Primary School. MRJ is chair of governors.

CAM is a trustee of the Radley School House.

Local Nursery and Primary Schools visit Little Wood weekly for outdoor learning experience as part of the Oxfordshire County Council Forest Schools Project.

Music, Drama and Art

We provided education through drama for local girls in West Side Story (and will be doing the same through major productions from now on).

Radley music staff also frequently go to other schools (independent and maintained) to adjudicate music competitions and festivals.

Radley offers the use of facilities for EPTA (European Piano Teachers Association) competitions (includes large numbers of performers from state schools). AJAW coordinates and assists with these.

The Art department kiln is used by local schools.

Abingdon Primary schools make use of our music facilities - rehearsals and performance.

National Youth Woodwind Orchestra use our facilities for a 10 day residential course each Easter.

Thames Vale Youth Orchestra - use of concert Hall for concerts and occasional rehearsals.

We host NYO and ADMS (Abingdon Dramatic and Music Society) as well as Abingdon Music Festival.

We host the Abingdon Young Musicians Concerto Final which included a number of performers from local state schools and now also includes musicians from around the country.

MJH produces concert programme notes for the Thames Vale Youth Orchestra.

Sport

The Cricket Academy: Radley has an enviable reputation as a cricket school with one current England cricketer - Andrew Strauss - and four other ORs playing first class cricket. Thanks to the generosity of the Hollington Park Trust we have established a Cricket Academy to make our resources and expertise available to local pupils at minimal cost. Children from 6 Primary Schools (Radley Primary, Thomas Reed, St Edmunds, Steventon, Wootton, Dunmore) attend the Academy every Wednesday in the second half of the summer term from 10:00-12pm and 12:30 -2:30pm. From 3:30pm to 5pm sessions for children at Senior Schools are held. They learn new skills and play Kwik cricket under the watchful eye of a number of ECB Qualified coaches. Rupert Evans, Oxfordshire Cricket Board’s Cricket Development Manager says, “This is a fantastic opportunity for OCB to work in partnership with Radley College. The scheme will enable OCB to increase active participation in the game at primary and secondary school age groups. It will also allow local children to get their first taste of playing cricket on arguably one of the best cricket grounds in the country. OCB hopes that the partnership with Radley College will be long and successful and one which will hopefully produce the next Andrew Strauss”.

Oxfordshire Schools Sports Partnerships: We provide a venue for primary school teachers to train here about once every six weeks (lunch included).

This year we are hosting the Oxfordshire youth games this will involve approx 3000 children aged between 7 to 13.

A number of state schools now join us for Inter Schools athletics matches. These include King Alfred's and Cheney (this is in addition to area and county events X/C and athletics events).

All Vale and County Athletics Association meetings take place at Radley and are organised by AJAW.

Radley hosts the Cross Country County and Vale championships (several hundred competitors).

The following make use of the Boathouses and Radley’s Rowing Facilities: Oxford University Lightweight Rowing Club, Oxford University Lightweight Women’s Rowing Club, Oxford University Women’s Boat Club, St Peter’s College Boat Club, Pembroke College Boat Club and Magdalen College Boat Club. Also, various schools and organisations make use of our rafts / facilities during sponsored rows.

We host and organise the Vale Athletics Trials in which up to 13 State Schools take part.

The swimming pool is used considerably below the market rate by various groups of young people including Abingdon Vale Swimming Club, Abingdon Dolphins Swimming Club, St Swithins School, Dunmore Primary School, St Nicolas Primary School, Wootton Primary School, The Manor Preparatory School, Friends of Wootton Swimming Club, Carswell Primary School, Drayton Primary School, Radley Primary School, Abingdon Swimming Club, White Horse Leisure & Tennis Centre Lifeguard Team, South Hinksey Sculling School .

We let Oxfordshire youth cricket use four pitches over half term about 90 boys aged between 13 to 15.

The athletics track is used considerably below the market rate by various groups of young people including Abingdon Amblers Athletics Club, Vale of White Horse District Council Sports Development Team.

The Barker Gym is rented considerably below the market rate by the Abingdon gym Club.

The new Real Tennis Court is nearing completion and we already have firm bookings from some local schools.

We provide about £600 per year of rugby & soccer equipment to schools in Romania and also a Primary School in Carmarthenshire.

Social and Spiritual

College provides facilities (sports hall, pool etc) for the village church Friday club (8-12yrs).

CDS helps run youthwork for young people aged 13-18 at Faringdon parish church.

For the third successive year PWG assists with the church "Kids Club", a three day summer event held in late August which will be repeated in 2008.

On average CAM visits three schools a year to give talks or workshops to year groups about Human Rights and Amnesty International as part of their citizenship programme.

Radley Village Church. We lend craft materials (scissors, paper, glue sticks etc) for Friday Club for 8-12 year olds church group.

SAT has been counselling drug addicts at the Abingdon Community Addiction services each week.

TDM helps out on summer camps for children.

Staff Training

ABRSM - Venue and facilities provided for INSET training for Music Examiners.

Training days organised with Oxfordshire School Library Association and with CILIP.

We host the CTABRSM course and professional development days for instrumental teachers outside Radley.