Plans to build a £4.4m ‘zero carbon’ sixth form at The Cooper School in Bicester have been given the green light by Oxfordshire County Council.

The eco-building will include classrooms, ICT facilities, a common room and study area and a café, and there are plans in the pipeline to add two science labs and an engineering workshop.

The Cooper School is working with Bicester Community College, Bardwell Special School and Oxford and Cherwell Valley College (O&CVC) to jointly offer a...

Nine Oxfordshire schools have been celebrating together after being classed as "Oustanding" following inspection by Ofsted last year.

A get together for all of the schools was held at Yarnton Manor to celebrate their success during the previous 12 months and where schools were awarded Excellence in Oxfordshire Awards.

Pupils also read poems and talked about whey they thought their schools were really outstanding.

Speaking at the event, Leader of Oxfordshire County Council, Councillor...

Four Oxfordshire schools are set to benefit from a “once in a lifetime” opportunity to transform facilities and share in a £62m pot of Government money.

Banbury School, Larkmead School, in Abingdon, Cheney School and Iffley Mead School, both in Oxford, will benefit from the cash bonanza, the Government's largest public works programme.

Oxfordshire County Council is one of 100 local authorities in England to get the investment as part of the Building Schools for the Future (BSF)...

Staff and pupils at Wantage Primary School are celebrating after their latest Ofsted report called youngster’s achievements ‘outstanding’.

The Newbury Street school was called “happy and successful” in the report by Government inspectors, who visited the school last month, and graded the school as “good” overall with some “outstanding” features.

School headteacher Phil Hibbs said: “We are very pleased that the hard work we have all been putting into school improvement...