COKETHORPE IS CHANGING Cokethorpe is Changing Cokethorpe has a new vista. A stunning new Pavilion, creating spacious changing rooms for teams to prepare for Games, AOB and competitive matches now nestles at the top of our driveway. Each of the ten changing rooms is spacious enough to accommodate whole teams, with additional shower cubicles, WCs and a medical room. The timber design ensures the building blends with our beautiful parkland and a green roof enhances biodiversity. Buildings, and our environment, impact us in many ways and we often respond to the spaces we inhabit. This first-class facility, with each of the rooms named after an Olympic city, sets standards of excellence and aspiration for Cokethorpe pupils to take onto the playing fields.
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Please visit www.cokethorpe.org/change to watch a 40-second film showing the evolution of the Pavilion – from architect design to its first use by pupils earlier this year.
and the development of the Oxford-Cambridge Ark, offers the prospect of high-quality and rewarding jobs once your child enters the world of work.
A Decade of Change The Pavilion signals the beginning of a decade of transformational change for the School.
We will, of course, continue to invest in the Arts and Humanities as well as Sports and Outdoor Education, ensuring your son or daughter develops academic breadth and depth, health and wellbeing and the Leadership Traits that are synonymous with a Cokethorpe education.
A major science facility is planned in the location of the current changing rooms that will create ten spacious teaching and lab rooms. Our Science teaching will ensure Cokethorpe pupils flourish beyond the School: one-in-five Cokethorpe pupils attending university study a Science (the majority of whom were girls) and Oxfordshire’s numerous science parks,
Community Benefit The Pavilion will also enable local schools and clubs to better use our outdoor sports facilities, making Cokethorpe a hub for community activity. The Pavilion will make it easier for pupils from the Corinthian
