Welcome!

Welcome to the blog for the Oxford and Cambridge Summer School 2013!

This blog will be updated every day by the summer school Activities Coordinators, Alisdair and Izzy  to  keep summer school students and their family and friends updated on everything we are getting up to.

Both Alisdair and myself are current Oxford undergraduates (Alisdair is a 1^st year Law student and I’m a 2^nd year Biology student). Our role on the summer school is to run the extracurricular activities and day trips for students, as well as offering advice and guidance about applying for and studying towards a degree at a top university (something we’ve recently experienced!).

Today we have been busy setting up the summer school for our arrivals tomorrow .  We’ve got  our frisbees and footballs at the ready,  an inordinate amount of food for breakfast , and have all of our classrooms set up!

We are based at Exeter College’s annexes and share a huge garden which I’m sure everyone will spend a lot of time enjoying during the summer school.  It’s been beautiful and sunny today – so hopefully the weather will stay lovely for tomorrow’s icebreaker games in the garden. If not, at least our first summer school arrivals will get to experience the stereotypical English weather!

We are all very excited to meet everyone tomorrow . Rosie, our Summer School Coordinator has already been chatting with many of the students, and has heard about a wide range of interests and skills that students will bring to our summer school. We have keen rowers, debaters, footballers, artists and budding politicians to give a few examples!

In addition our first summer school will be made up of 18 different nationalities!  It will be such a great experience to have such diversity of countries represented here. Tomorrow we will be on hand to make sure everyone settles in well, whether they have travelled a few or a few thousand miles! The Wimbledon final will be on TV, there will be board games available as well as some games going on in the garden for early arrivals.

Here’s to an amazing summer at the OCSS, we hope our students are looking forward to it as much as we are!

Our garden!