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Children at Cathedral school enjoy being active at lunchtime and our lunchtime staff work hard to provide opportunities to develop important skills including problem solving, balancing, skipping, catching, throwing accurately, choreographing dances and riding a 2 wheeler bike. The new exercise bikes are a fantastic way to develop stamina and provide an opportunity for aerobic exercise. The fold-away goal has been a big success and gives children the chance to practise shooting accurately  as well as working strategically as a team.

Which lunchtime activity do you enjoy most and why?

This morning Class 3 led our Candlemas worship at Southwark Cathedral. They read a passage from the Bible which describes Simeon’s  role in the presentation of Jesus at the temple.  Next they reflected thoughtfully on the importance of light in our lives and how Jesus is the light of the world.

Finally Class 3 shared prayers with the congregation including:

Dear God,

Please help those who live their lives in darkness. Help them find happiness through your guiding light. I pray to you for my family who help me to shine brightly each day.

Amen

Everybody thought that Class 3 spoke with clear voices and wrote very mature reflections and prayers.

As well as parents, pupils, governors and staff, we were joined by Year 3 from neighbouring St. Josephs RC Primary School.

Thank you Class 3 and Father Bruce for a beautiful service.

At the end of the Autumn Term each child from Reception to Year 6 was given their own journal to use over the Christmas break.

Many thanks to a group of children from Year 6 who helped to put the journals together.

Some children asked, ‘What can I put in my journal?’

Here are some ideas:

• Book reviews
• Diary entries
• Handwriting and spelling
• Film reviews
• An exciting story
• Mathematical word problems
• A biography (of a family member, inventor, person from history etc.)
• Recipes
• Invent a game to play
• Instructions
• A poem

We are looking forward to welcoming pupils back to school on January 8th and giving them the opportunity to share their journal with their class. There will be a prize for the best 2 journals in each class.

What have you written in your journal?

Many thanks to the Parent Forum for organising such a wonderful Christmas Fete, even Father Christmas made an appearance to give out sweets! As usual there was a fantastic range of stalls including ‘guess the weight of the cake’, a lucky dip, face painting, balloon modelling, a raffle and the ever popular cake stall. The free activity area really added to the Christmas atmosphere with children making decorations for the tree and icing Christmas biscuits. Once again, thank you to the Parent Forum for organising the event and for everybody who attended our Christmas Fete.

This afternoon we were thrilled to host representatives from the Promenaders Musical Charities who joined us for a Christmas Singing Celebration.They presented The Voices Foundation with a cheque for over £9000 which will be used to develop the of choral strand of their work. We are proud to be a Voices Foundation Beacon school and have have benefitted immensely from their support and expertise.

In addition to this event, our choir were invited to sing at the top of The Shard.

Today we enjoyed a wonderful Christmas lunch, complete with all the trimmings; sprouts, parsnips, yorkshire pudding etc. Many thanks to our chef Henrietta and her fantastic team for making such a special meal. We also had fun dancing to Christmas music, pulling crackers and sharing funny jokes with friends.

Here a few funny jokes:

Why did the music teacher need a ladder?

To get to the high notes!

What do you call Santa’s little helpers?

Subordinate clauses!

Did you have a funny joke you would like to share? Please leave a comment

Last week we thought about how to keep safe on the roads as we walked to Southwark Cathedral. Years 5 and 6 walked with Reception, Year 1 and Year 2, reminding them how to keep safe as they crossed the roads. We are very grateful to the traffic wardens who accompanied us. Here are some facts from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents:

■ Most road accidents happen in daylight.
■ The most dangerous hours on the roads are 3.00pm to 6.00pm and 7.00am to 9.00am.

As part of Road Safety Awareness Week each child has been given a reflector and pupils in the Foundation Stage have been given an activity pack courtesy of The Children’s Traffic Club

Please visit the Think!Education website for more information on road safety, as well as games and a quiz.

How do these photos show that we are being safe on the roads?

Today Cathedral School had the privilege of greeting Her Majesty, The Queen and His Royal Highness, The Duke of Edinburgh as they visited Southwark Cathedral to view the Jubilee Window.

If you saw The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh today, please share your memories with us.

For more photos from Southwark Cathedral please click here.

On Thursday Her Majesty The Queen, will be visiting Southwark Cathedral to view the Diamond Jubilee window. The Dean of Southwark, the Very Reverend Andrew Nunn, has kindly invited the school (Reception Class – Year 6) to be there to greet Her Majesty. If you would like to find out more about The Royal Family please click on the link.

If you would would like to leave a comment, please tell us how you are feeling about seeing The Queen or describe the Jubilee Window using some ambitious vocabulary.