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We will be announcing the winner of the 2016 #ORASELFIE competition tomorrow, Tuesday 23 August!

Keep an eye out on ORA’s Facebook, Instagram and Twitter pages to find out who will be the lucky winner of an iPad Air 2.

You can check out some of this year’s entries at https://www.oxford-royale.co.uk/oraselfie

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Even our Junior Deans find a moment to have a photo at the party!

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What a fantastic set up in The Ashmolean Museum for our final party!

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Students pose at the party.

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Hannah, Liselot, Marie, Eva and Nora.

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The girls are looking lovely during tonight's graduation dinner.

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Programme Director Andrew Mears hands students their graduation scrolls.

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Students and parents are seated in the Dickson Poon building ready for the ceremony.

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The boys pose for a group photo.

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Bazel, Azd and Konstantinos.

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Laura, Wafa, Sarah, Valerie and Kateryna.

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Riwa, Katrina, Eva, Marie-Therese, Hannah-Sophie and Liselot.

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Nahida, Yasmine, Yasmine and Rania.

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A lovely group photo of the girls before this evening's ceremony.

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Counsellor Allison assists with the drinks for this evening's reception in the JCR.

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Short Story Extract

This is an extract from one of our students work in the creative writing class here at ORA.

“I will not trouble to describe my years at the orphanage. They were passed neither pleasantly nor painfully, as my basic needs were met without my ever feeling valued. When I reached the age of sixteen, I was expected to make my own way in the world, and consequently I spent four years as a waiter and errand boy at a small café in Llandudno, my hometown.

My horizons in those days were as narrow as my interests, my vocabulary as small as my intellect. The outbreak of war in my twentieth year troubled me little, until the enlistment mania began. It occurred to me that joining the army would be an ideal way to see the world. It was on this flimsy base that my military career was founded.”

- Laura, New Perspectives Programme, UK.

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We hope you’re all looking forward to the Around the World graduation party tonight! The Ashmolean Museum will be our host - a wonderful venue. We’re very excited to see your outfits!