The Cathedral School of St. Saviour and St. Mary Overie

We are in the process of updating our School Development Plan and would value your contribution.

If you would like to find out more about Cathedral School’s Development Plan and help set priorities for 2012 – 13 please click here.

The Diamond Jubilee lunch took place this afternoon and was a great celebration at the end of a very busy half term.

Many thanks to the school’s kitchen staff who arrived much earlier than usual to make sure everything was ready. It was a fine spread and was much appreciated by the children. Thanks also to the parents who helped with the smooth running of the event.

A short video of the celebration is available below.

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Enjoy the rest of the Jubilee celebrations and have a lovely, restful half-term.

Dear Parents,

International Evening 2012

Huge congratulations to all of the children, parents and staff who contributed to Cathedral Primary School’s International Evening on Friday 25^th May. This sell-out evening was an opportunity to celebrate our wonderfully diverse school community through song, dance, music and poetry. The children’s performances were astonishing and included Hungarian dance, African songs, a karate performance, a range of poetry, American Street Dance and a variety of music played on the accordion, piano, recorder and flute as well as an excellent performance from the Cathedral School Choir. During the first half the audience were led in a chorus of God Save the Queen by a child in Year 2.  The incredible and very professional Cathedral School Mum’s Choir treated us to songs from Nigeria and Mexico and parent, Vanessa Fenton, who has spent 13 years at the Royal Ballet Company, performed an amazing dance from Russia. The Cathedral School Staff Choir started the evening off with their interpretation of By the Rivers of Babylon and Mr Scott also sang and was the compere for the evening. The performances finished with a rousing rendition of Maybe It’s Because I’m a Londoner, sang by the audience and performers alike.

International Evening was also an opportunity to get together as a school community and taste a variety of foods from around the world, many thanks to all of the parents and staff who provided the food for the interval.

We have recently been awarded the British Arts Council’s Arts Mark Gold Award for the fourth time. We are incredibly proud of the achievement and believe that International Evening is an important way to showcase the quality of our arts provision. It is also a chance to demonstrate our commitment to developing International links and celebrating our own diverse community; values which played a part in our International School Award which we received in the autumn.

Finally I would once again like to thank all the performers, parents and staff who contributed to a superb evening and especially Mr Rojas who co-ordinated the event.

Best wishes,

Miss Oguz

Well done to The Cathedral School Choir who performed at the Olympic Diocesan Schools Music Festival which was held at Southwark Cathedral. The choir performed The World’s Greatest and a choral piece with a number of other schools from the Southwark Diocese.

We are delighted to announce that the school has just been awarded the prestigious Artsmark Gold from The Arts Council.

Our ‘Gold’ level of award represents the highest level of achievement. This is the fourth time the school has been awarded this distinction and consequently The Arts Council will announce this success at a national level on the 23rd May 2012.

We will also receive a special plaque early June.

The application was led superbly by Mr Rojas, Art Co-ordinator, who ensured that all the incredible art activities which go on in school were seen by the assessors as well as organising their visit earlier in the term.

To say the assessing team were impressed would be an understatement. They thoroughly enjoyed their day here and were hugely impressed by the standard of art provision and the quality of work the children in school create.

In their report they said “Your application demonstrated an excellent commitment to providing high quality arts provision that is embedded across your curriculum”.

Well done to the children and staff! Now we have await for our specially commissioned ‘celebration toolkit’!

The first wave of digital leaders has been decided.

Please don’t be disappointed if you aren’t on this list. Once the digital leaders below have been trained – we’ll need more.

Thank you to everyone who applied, the response was amazing with some really great answers.

Well done to the children below:

Class 3 – Faber and Oisin

Class 4 – Freddie and Eleanor

Class 5 – Esther and Max

Class 6 – Mohammed and Laura

Best wishes,

Mr Scott

Dear Pupils in Key Stage Two,

Are you an enthusiastic sports player? Can you play well in a team? Would you like to be part of our school cricket team? Then we need YOU!

We are incredibly lucky to have been invited to bring along a team to take part in a cricket festival on Tuesday 22nd May between 10am- 2.30pm at Bacons College in Rotherhithe. We will be playing against other teams from different schools. We need 11 children who will represent our school at cricket.

If you are interested in taking part then please speak to either myself or your class teacher before Thursday 3rd May so that I can finalise the team. Good luck!

Miss Watts.
PE coordinator.

Would you like to be a leader in ICT in school? We are looking a few KS2 pupils to help the school with ICT tasks such as maintaining the new website. You would be known as a Digital Leader.

You have to be responsible because you will have special ICT priviledges.

You have to be really enthusiastic about ICT and be a champion for the subject.

UPDATE: The link for the online application form has been removed. The  closing date for applications was Friday 27th April 2012. The response was overwhelming. The successful applicants will be revealed shortly.

Best wishes

Mr Scott

Dear Parents,

The Cathedral School Choir will be holding a concert in the school hall on the 26th April at 3:30pm to which you are all invited.  This, however, will not be an ordinary concert as you will have the opportunity to join in with singing many of the songs! They will be simple, repetitive songs that are easy to learn but lots of fun to sing, and I’m sure you will all love being able to sing along with our talented children. Of course, the choir will also perform some more challenging songs which you will be able to sit back and enjoy!

 Your child will receive a letter about the concert this week. If you would like to come along to the concert, please fill in the slip on the letter and return it to the office. There will be no tickets but I would like to have an idea of numbers.

I hope you’ll be able to make it – it should be a lot of fun!

 Best wishes

 Mrs Morrow

Music Coordinator