School Blog

Harvest time at Cathedral School

Everyone at Cathedral School has been following the progress of the vegetables in our Eco Garden. We were all very excited this week when harvest time came. All the children have enjoyed trying some new vegetables at lunch time, they tasted fantastic and all the better for being grown in our very own garden! Well done to Kim and the Gardening club for producing such delicious food and thanks to our wonderful cooks for turning them into such delicious dishes. We can’t wait for more next year!

The Olympic Torch comes to Cathedral School

Everyone was thrilled to have a visit today from Roy, one of the chosen Olympic torch bearers. Roy was interviewed very professionally by a pupil. He told us about how he was chosen by his colleagues at Capital FM to represent them in carrying the torch. He felt very proud! He was chosen because he always thinks hard about how he can use the Olympic values such as ‘Friendship’ and ‘Respect’ in his own life.

Everybody in the school had a chance to touch the torch and one or two even had a hold!

Thank you so much Roy for giving us this wonderful opportunity.

Looking after our teeth

 

Many thanks to Mary Foucher, Cathedral School Governor and dental hygienist, who has been visiting each class to talk to the children about the importance dental hygiene. She discussed the importance of making healthy food choices and reminded children of the correct way the brush their teeth.

  We are very grateful to The Dental Surgery, The Corn Exchange 55 Mark Lane London EC3R 7NE,  who kindly donated a new     toothbrush for each child in the school.

Sports Week

 All pupils at Cathedral School participated in a number of sporting activities throughout the week.

Thank you for your understanding regarding the Junior School Sports Day this year; we had to be creative with the space available as the Marlborough is being used for the Bankside Open Trust Pop-Up Olympics. Well done to Miss Watts for organising both Sports Days.

 

Royal Festival Hall Performance

Reception Class and Class Six were invited along with Miss Scade and Mr Scott to demonstrate a music lesson using the Voices Foundation methodology at the Royal Festival hall!

As a Voices Foundation Beacon school and a Sing Up Gold award holder, we were in our element.

In fact, we were asked to perform twice, in different parts of the Southbank Centre – but performing on the Royal Festival Hall stage was by far and away the highlight.

Whilst we were performing Suzi Digby, Baroness Eatwell (Founder of the the Voices Foundation) was talking in the huge Queen Elizabeth Hall about our school and its commitment to singing.

An audio recording of our performance was captured and put on the internet by some of the Festival’s co-contributors the very same minute. It is on our Twitter Feed.

There is a video of Reception class singing there, in glorious HD, on Reception’s Blog.

Pearly Kings and Queens Fete

Many thanks to all of the parents who organised our fete. The event was a huge success and even the rain couldn’t dampen everybody’s fun.  Highlights included a pearly king and queen fashion show, bouncy castle, face painting, human fruit machine, visit from the Pearly King of Bow Bells and Pearly Queen of  the Old Kent Road, a fantastic raffle and a wonderful selection of stalls. Once again many thanks to everyone involved in organising this wonderful afternoon.

A visit from the Right Honourable David Blunkett MP

On Thursday we were lucky enough to receive a visit from the Right Honourable David Blunkett MP and his guide dog Cosby. The visit came about because one of our Key Stage 2 pupils was writing an independent project on Braille; as part of her research she wrote to Mr Blunkett and he responded, accepting her invitation to visit Cathedral School. All of the children enjoyed meeting Mr Blunkett and Cosby during a special assembly. He was a very engaging speaker and entertained us with stories about his experiences as a teacher, his political career and how one of his guide dogs used to enjoy stealing ice-creams from people on the bus!

 

Our Friends from Zimbabwe

We were very lucky today to have three visitors from Zimbabwe, representing the Diocese of Masvingo.

Mr Matthias Thompson Maduba, Education Secretary; Mrs Aileen Gwasunda, Mother’s Union Co-ordinator and Fr Misheck Mbodza, a member of the clergy from Masvingo spent all morning with us and spoke to the children about their jobs and our partner school Daramombe Primary School.

It was a most enjoyable occasion and we would like to thank them for taking the time to see us. This is the video and some pictures will follow.