Key Dates 2025-26

Information Evenings and Parents’ Evenings

Weds 10th September – Year 12 Parents’s Information Evening – in person in SBS Hall

Weds 8th October – Year 13 Parents’s Information Evening – in person in SBS Hall

Weds 5th November – Year 13 Parents’ Evening – in person

Monday 12th January – Year 12 UCAS Parents’s Information Evening – in person in SBS Hall

Wednesday 4th February – Year 12 Early Entry Parents’s Information Evening – in person in SBS Hall

Thursday 7th May – Year 12 Parents’ Evening – virtual

Mock Examinations

Thursday 27th November – Friday 5th December – Year 13 Mock Window 1 (SBS)

Monday 23rd February – Tuesday 3rd March – Year 13 Mock Window 2 (SBS)

Monday 22nd June – Friday 26th June – Year 12 Mock Window 1 (DGS)

Applications and Enrolment

Wednesday 19th November – D6 Open Evening

Monday 12th January – deadline for applications for September 2026 entry

Monday 22nd June – Thursday 27th June – Rising Year 12 Induction Week (Monday-Thursday)

UCAS Deadlines / Destinations

Wednesday 10th September – Early Entry Interviews Mock Session

Monday 29th September – Early Entry UCAS Internal Deadline

Thursday 2nd October – Music Conservatoire External Deadline

Wednesday 8th October – Year 13 Mock Interview Event

Wednesday 15th October – Early Entry UCAS External Deadline

Monday 3rd November – UCAS application submission to school

Monday 1st December – UCAS Internal Deadline

Wednesday 14th January – UCAS External Deadline

W/b Monday 16th – 20th March – Year 12 WEX week

Reporting and Snapshots

w/b Friday 20th October – Year 13 Snapshot 1 Published

w/b 8th December – Year 12 Snapshot 1 Published                                                            

w/b 12th January – Year 13 Snapshot 2 Published

w/b 2rd March – Year 13 Snapshot 3 Published  

w/b 27th April – Year 12 Snapshot 2 Published  

w/b 13th July – Year 12 Snapshot 3 Published  

Educational Visits and Work Experience

Wednesday 24th to Friday 26th September – Year 13 Biology Residential

Tuesday 11th November – Physics in Action

Thursday 20th November – Economics in Action

Tuesday 25th November – Biology in Action

Thursday 27th November – Psychology in Action

Thursday 5th to Sunday 8th February – English and French trip to Paris

Thursday 5th to Sunday 8th February – Art and Spanish trip to Seville

W/b Monday 23rd March – Year 12 Geography residential week (TBC)

Celebration and Events

Wednesday 24th September – Year 12 Photo Day

Wednesday 17th December – D6 Christmas Concert – Cockcroft Hall

Friday 19th December – Cinema Trip, Cineworld Didcot

Thursday 8th January – Winter Ball, The Barn Didcot

Wednesday 25th March – D6 Spring Concert – Cockcroft Hall

Thursday 30th April – Awards Evening, The Cornerstone

Friday 22nd May – Year 13 Leavers’ Afternoon

Tuesday 30th June – Summer Ball, Lains Barn

Monday 13th July – Year 12 End of Year Trip (TBC)

Dress Down Days

Thursday 2nd October

Thursday 6th November

Wednesday 17th December

Thursday 8th January

Thursday 5th February

Thursday 5th March

Thursday 16th April

Thursday 7th May

Thursday 4th June

Thursday 2nd July