Open Day celebrates 175 years of Sibford School


pen Day 2017 saw pupils, staff, Old Scholars and friends joining together to celebrate 175-years of outstanding Quaker education in Oxfordshire.


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Many of the activities that took place reflected on our past heritage ... in the Junior School, children dressed in period costume and in the Senior School, the English department invited visitors to share reminiscences of Sibford on a Memory


Tree. Even the PSFA Café marked the occasion with specially created celebration cup-cakes.


Attractions included a ‘Farmers Market’ run by Year 1, 2 and 3; a 175-themed book trail; and a big screen showing of the recent Friends Schools Joint Choir Festival


performance of Fauré’s


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Requiem. Visitors were invited to have a go on the potter’s wheel and try their hand at needle felting while at the swimming pool, pupils took part in a 175-length sprint challenge. Meanwhile ‘old favourites’ included making and launching rockets from the Science Department, Maypole dancing and the chance to ascend a climbing wall.


• A collection held following the ‘Opening Event’ on Open Day raised £255.01 for the Grenfell Tower victims.


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