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The BCS Oxfordshire 2004/5 Schools Web competition attracted a record number of teams and competitors;
Every site offered interesting and noteworthy features; the highest rated sites showed considerable creativity and technical skill.

The organising committee thank and congratulate everyone for their entries.

Those sites rated Highly Commended or better are entitled to display this competition logo.

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This page lists the full competition results together with the judges' citation from the prizegiving presentation.


Oxfordshire Schools Computing Challenge Silver Cup Winner

School St Birinus School, Didcot
Team and link to site where given (may not still be online) St Birinus Web Team
Award Oxfordshire Schools Computing Challenge Silver Cup Winner
Judges' citation A highly professional entry with practically everything you could think of for a school or society website with live calendar, news (and newsfeeds), forums, blogs, with advice on free software, all built using an in-house developed content management tool, showing good awareness of open standards.
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Senior Major Awards

School Abingdon School
Team and link to site where given (may not still be online) J3 Networks
Award First Prize, Seniors
Judges' citation Presenting a wealth of useful information about Oxford past and present, with excellent use of tabbed navigation, information pop-ups, text resizing, and showing great initiative to have registered a domain name for the site.
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School Didcot Girls' School
Team and link to site where given (may not still be online) Proud to Live in Didcot
Award Second Prize, Seniors
Judges' citation A really substantial site containing plenty of good information and with permission to use external material, a clean design, simple consistent navigation and a good colour scheme.
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School Didcot Girls' School
Team and link to site where given (may not still be online) Rhodes into Geography
Award Best Senior Small Team
Judges' citation A good small site about the school geography department and syllabus, with useful revision information, reference links and a clickable map.
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School School of St Helen and St Katharine
Team and link to site where given (may not still be online) Helkats2
Award Best Creative Site
Judges' citation A highly original site with a murder mystery theme built around an incident in the school's history.
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Junior Major Awards

School Rush Common Primary School
Team and link to site where given (may not still be online) Year 5 MFL Group
Award First Prize, Juniors
Judges' citation good twinning theme, with an excellent write-up of how the site was built and what was learned, with innovative use of video clips of French role play.
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School Hagbourne C of E Primary School
Team and link to site where given (may not still be online) Hagbourne Web Team
Award Second Prize, Juniors
Judges' citation Excellent site, based on the 2003 Cup-winning design, with added features and all new, well-researched content on an important safety theme.
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School Chilton County Primary School
Team and link to site where given (may not still be online) Web Kids
Award Best newcomer, Juniors
Judges' citation A delightful site about the huge new synchrotron near the school, featuring "meet the scientist", a webcam link, games, a quiz and a comments page.
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Senior Results

School Rye St Antony School
Team and link to site where given (may not still be online) Renaissance
Award Senior Highly Commended
Judges' citation A good small site with clean design and simple navigation with well-researched information about renaissance art, architecture and warfare.
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School The Oratory School
Team and link to site where given (may not still be online) Tom^2+A
Award Senior Highly Commended
Judges' citation An appealing site using movies, slideshows and sounds, with informal personal commentary on the school and its occupants and showing creative use of free DHTML scripts.
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School School of St Helen and St Katharine
Team and link to site where given (may not still be online) Helkats1
Award Senior Highly Commended
Judges' citation An interesting site contrasting Oxford architecture and modern art with photos of street art taken by the team.
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School School of St Helen and St Katharine
Team and link to site where given (may not still be online) Helkats3
Award Senior Highly Commended
Judges' citation A small site about the school and the surrounding area, with animated graphics and a quiz page.
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School The Cooper School
Team and link to site where given (may not still be online) Nabilah and Rachel
Award Senior Entry of Merit
Judges' citation The only entry built on the Digitalbrain framework, with useful information about the school, showing creative use of bevelled edges and rollovers on the photos page, with an entertaining games page.
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Junior Results

School Brize Norton Primary
Team and link to site where given (may not still be online) BiNct Club
Award Junior Highly Commended
Judges' citation Excellent site about the tsunami showing humanitarian concern and involvement with the local community.
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School John Blandy VC Primary School
Team and link to site where given (may not still be online) Year 5
Award Junior Commended
Judges' citation Useful information about clubs at the school; when and where they meet.
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School St Francis CE Primary School
Team and link to site where given (may not still be online) St. Francis Computer Club
Award Junior Commended
Judges' citation showed good initiative to interview parents and children about local parks and how they could be improved, with amusing descriptions of the team members and a helpful site map.
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School Charlton Primary School
Team and link to site where given (may not still be online) Celyn & Andy
Award Junior Entry of Merit
Judges' citation A charming small site about the school and its environment, covering Safety, Pets, Ecology, with a survey of children's priorities.
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School Harewll Primary School
Team and link to site where given (may not still be online) Harwell
Award Junior Entry of Merit
Judges' comment This entry was submitted as a Word document rather than a website.
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Other Category Results

School St Hugh's
Team and link to site where given (may not still be online) Abigail/Cici
Award Other Highly Commended
Judges' citation Interesting Oxford "Trendy Tourism" site with details of museums, hotels, restaurants and shops.
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School St Hugh's
Team and link to site where given (may not still be online) Matthew/Freddie
Award Other Highly Commended
Judges' citation Oxford Culture site - useful information about theatre, museums, history and food.
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School St Hugh's
Team and link to site where given (may not still be online) William
Award Other Highly Commended
Judges' citation Good information about the school with visually striking pages.
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Group Vale of the White Horse Youth Forum
Team and link to site where given (may not still be online) The Beans
Award Other Commended
Judges' citation A visually striking site with amusing graphics, featuring useful information about the Forum, district councillors and the Youth Parliament, with a great picture of the design team at work.
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School St Hugh's
Team and link to site where given (may not still be online) Hamish
Award Other Entry of Merit
Judges' citation Useful information about the school:surroundings, sports, and other activities.
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School St Hugh's
Team and link to site where given (may not still be online) Harry
Award Other Entry of Merit
Judges' citation Lots of useful information about a favourite club: Gloucester Rugby Club.
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School St Hugh's
Team and link to site where given (may not still be online) Kevin/Sang
Award Other Entry of Merit
Judges' citation Various information about the school: boarding facilities, academic, sports, and other activities.
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School St Hugh's
Team and link to site where given (may not still be online) Louisa/Katie/Perdy
Award Other Entry of Merit
Judges' citation "Crazy Clubs" - all about the various clubs which meet on different days of the week: helpful information for a new student.
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