Cokethorpe is Changing Pages

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. 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.

A Decade of Change The Pavilion signals the beginning of a decade of transformational change for the School.

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, 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.

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.

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

Partnership (a partnership of four local primary schools) to join us for activities, enhancing the sports experience for pupils in the Prep School.

The Pavilion will also allow us to expand the number of local sports clubs and associations using Cokethorpe for their practice and games. Cokethorpe already plays host to a number of activities: from Rugby Tots through to Oxfordshire FA’s Coaching Programme (and everything in between). The Pavilion will improve our offering to those events that require changing facilities, increasing our links to the local community.

The Power of Gifts Philanthropy has been a key enabler in our ability to develop sport at the School. The Sports Hall was built with gifts from parents and OCs and, over the years, has played host to countless games and activities – developing physical and mental wellbeing, leadership and teamwork. Ten years ago, generous donors funded the cricket nets near the exit of the School. This has helped us introduce cricket as a main summer sport for girls and develop an external events programme that includes hosting the MCC Foundation’s Oxfordshire outreach programme. Thank You to the Cokethorpe Community Significant change is only possible with the support of the Cokethorpe Community.

Your support through gifts, attendance at events, volunteering with the CPFA, introductions to local businesses and charitable foundations will underpin the School’s ability to create the resources and opportunities necessary to implement major projects.

Many parents already support the School with gifts, particularly in choosing to donate their deposit when their child says their ‘farewell’. The gifting of deposits has enabled many projects over recent years – ranging from music workshops to the purchase of books - and is a simple, and highly impactful, way to support the School.

Whether it be for the benefit of Science or Sport, Arts or the Humanities, every pound invested at Cokethorpe is an investment in the education of present, and future, Cokethorpeans.

Parents generously choosing to make gifts, and donate their school deposit, to the Annual Fund has enabled a number of projects over the years including the development of the Prep School Reading Room.

Cokethorpe.org/change Please visit cokethorpe.org/change where you can watch pupils from the Prep and Senior School exploring the Pavilion.

You can also register to receive updates on the School’s development plans and ways you, or your business, can be involved.

You can also contact Gareth Simpson, Director of Development, who would be delighted to hear from you: development@cokethorpe.org.

Thank you for all you do to support the School.