Extracurricular Activities
Headington offers over 50 different extracurricular activities ranging from sport to the Duke of Edinburgh Award. Headington's Combined Cadet Force is one of only four all girls contingents in the country.
Sports teams and athletes regularly take part in competitions at county or national level.
The rowing team is one of the county's most successful school teams. It won the girls eights category at the National Schools Regatta in 2001 and completed a rare "treble" in 2009 by winning the National Schools, Schools Head and Henley. It has also performed well in the South of England Indoor Rowing Championships, winning five overall classes in 2008 and finishing runners-up in 2010. Two of its members were chosen to represent Great Britain at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore and claimed a gold medal in the girls' pair category.
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