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Teachers and Advisors Newsletter
July 2025
Dear Teachers and Advisors,
We hope you have an absolutely wonderful summer! We’re sharing a final round up of opportunities from around the University of Oxford this year.
St Anne’s College Online Admissions Test Workshops
We’ve been running our admissions test workshops this week. We have uploaded one from Monday here:
Admissions Test Workshop MAT, PAT, BMSAT
With the other two (MLAT, CLAT, CAT, AHCAAT, and PhiLAT; LNAT and TSA) going up on Friday! Please do share with your students if they would find it useful.
If you are planning your year next year please do get in touch with us about any Outreach opportunities we can arrange for your school!
For a refresh of the types of opportunities offered by St Anne’s, please see:
For Teachers | St Anne's College, Oxford
Hannah and Dom
St Anne's College, Oxford
[email protected]
Further opportunities can also be found on the University's Outreach Calendar:
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Pre-Sixteen Opportunities
Stephen Spender Prize 2025
Calling MFL, EAL and English teachers! Bring creative translation into the classroom this summer with the Stephen Spender Prize 2025
Open for entries 1 May to 31 July | Free entry for all young people and teachers in the UK and Ireland!
The Stephen Spender Prize is an annual competition for poetry in translation that celebrates the creativity of young people across the UK and Ireland – and their teachers! The Prize has categories schools, teachers and individual young people, which welcome translations from all languages, as well as a special ‘Spotlight‘ strand that each year focuses on a different widely spoken home or heritage language.
Teachers can register here to receive classroom inspiration and activity ideas throughout the prize window, and you can follow all the latest news on our website and social media channels below.
Ready to start planning and working on your entries? Visit our Guide for Teachers page for all the key information about the prize at a glance, and explore our Stephen Spender Prize Resources hub for Teaching Resources and Student Resources to guide you and your pupils through every step of entering the prize.
Post-Sixteen Opportunities
Comprehensive Oxford Maths and Physics Online School
The Comprehensive Oxford Maths and Physics Online School (COMPOS) is now registering students for next year's programme!
Now in our fifth year, the Department of Physics, University of Oxford gives Oxbridge-style online weekly tutoring to state school pupils with a keen interest in both physics and maths, delivering high quality, extended tuition and mentoring to students through regular after-school tutorials, assignments and webinars. COMPOS students outperform matched cohorts at A Level/Highers by 170%.
Registration for COMPOS 2025 is now open on our website.
Entrance assignment deadline is 5th October 2025.
Download a poster to display to share in school classrooms.
Contact: [email protected]
History Master Class
Regent’s Park College is running an online Masterclass in History, taking place on Friday 29th August, between 10am and 2pm. This is aimed at students going into Year 13 interested in studying History at University and considering applying to the University of Oxford.
Email [email protected] to register and for further information, or visit our webpage
Online History Masterclass 2025
Deadline for registration Wednesday 27th August. Limited to the first 200 applications.
MAT Livestream
The MAT Livestream is e running on Thursdays 17:00-19:00 until October.
Are you thinking of applying to study Mathematics at university? We are running a weekly livestream talking about maths problems and discussing problem-solving strategies from June to October, with a focus on Oxford's Mathematics Admissions Test (MAT). The sessions are free and available for everyone, and are recorded so that you can watch them later even if you can't join us live. No registration needed.
The MAT Livestream is live each Thursday 17:00-19:00 (UK time) starting Thursday 12 June.
. Links and further details can be found here.
Mansfield Online LNAT Workshop
Mansfield College is running an informative virtual workshop about the LNAT (Law National Admissions Test) aimed at students applying to study Law at university, on Thursday 31st July at 2-3pm.
One of our Law tutors, Elizabeth Drummond, with the help of some current Law undergraduates, will be talking through past LNAT questions and giving helpful advice about how to approach the test.
The livestream will take place via Microsoft Teams and is intended to be interactive so participants will be invited to contribute through the chat.
The session is free and open to Year 12 (going into Year 13 in September) students studying at UK state schools, but you must register to attend by Monday 28th July at 2pm. A Teams link will be sent out shortly after. Register using this form.
For Teachers
Language Teachers’ Conference
The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages are delighted to share details about this year’s Language Teachers’ Conference which will take place on Friday 26 and Saturday 27 September 2025 at Somerville College, Oxford.
2025 sees us re-invigorating our standard conference programme to make it more interactive and collaborative. For the first time, the Conference will have a theme – ‘Collaboration and Connections’ – which will underpin all of the sessions and talks that are taking place across the two days.
The full provisional event programme can be found here and more information about the conference is available here.
Please visit our online bookings webpage to secure your place. You will need to create an account (or log in if you’ve used our website before) and select the right rate for your school type and length of attendance. Bookings will close on 8th September.
We have a select number of fully subsidised places available for non-selective state schools. The Faculty has some funding set aside to cover the cost of the conference ticket and to reimburse reasonable travel expenses for teachers from these schools travelling to and from Oxford.
If you wish to apply for one of these places, please fill in this very short form by Tuesday 1st July at midday.
If you have any questions or concerns, don’t hesitate to contact Nicola Brown at [email protected].
Teacher survey: Undergraduate admissions & outreach communications - are we getting it right?
Please help The University of Oxford evaluate its communications channels and messaging to prospective applicants, and those that are supporting them, by taking part in our 10-minute online survey.
Do you currently feel you have everything you need to encourage or support students that are thinking of applying to Oxford? Can you or they find all the information they need? Is anything missing?
Please share your views with us in our short survey on the link below:
https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/oxford/teacher-communications-insights
Your valuable feedback and insights will directly influence Oxford University’s future communications both to teachers and students.
Oxford University Islamic Society - Mailing List
We are a student-led society overseeing the social and spiritual welfare of the Muslim student community at Oxford. . As a society, we aim to provide a holistic experience and support to our members, before, during and after their time at university. For more information, please visit our website here.
OUISoc seeks to support prospective Muslim students with the application process to Oxford. We aim to demonstrate that coming to Oxford is an attainable goal, whilst also an opportunity to strengthen one’s deen (faith).
Our access initiatives are delivered to support UK Muslims from sixth form, regardless of their background or level of spirituality. This reflects the diverse and open membership we have at OUISoc.
We are currently working to expand our outreach to schools across the country that may benefit from our events, including subject masterclasses, application advice, and an insight into life as a Muslim studying in Oxford. So please join our mailing list below.