St Birinus School

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St Birinus School is a comprehensive secondary school for boys in Didcot, Oxfordshire and serving Didcot and the surrounding rural area. The headteacher is Mr C.D. Bryan. The school has been awarded with Technology and Language College status (as of 2006). The mixed Sixth Form is shared with the Didcot Girls' School. St Birinus opened in 1936, and celebrated it's Jubilee in 1996. As of 2006, St Birinus has also celebrated its 70th Anniversary.

It has the support of the local business community and receives extra funding to promote its specialities in Technology and Languages. The school caters for pupils 11-19, and has facilities including a new Humanities Centre opened in the spring of 2004 and a new Mathematics Centre, which was officially opened by Johnny Ball in 2001.

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St. Birinus is also very supportive to many worthwhile charities and organisations and raises money heavily every year throughout each term. During the 2005-2006 academic year the pupils in year 7 have taken part in many fund raising activities including cake sales, work outs and sponsored silences. For the past three years, St. Birinus School has committed itself to raising nearly £5,000 for the Oxford Children's Hospital Appeal, a £15m charity fundraising campaign. It has also been promoted in the media as a result making St. Birinus a well-known school to prospective and current parents.