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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.

This week is Design and Technology Week at Cathedral School. Each class will be spending the week designing, making and evaluating a product to be presented at an exhibition in the school hall on Monday.

What are you making? How can you make it even better? What materials are you using and why?

Last week Cathedral School hosted a showcasing event to share best practice in RE and collective worship. A number of Headteachers and Deputy Headteachers from the Diocese of Southwark spent the morning with Mrs Scott and Miss Scade finding out about how we plan collective worship, teach and assess in RE and ensure Cathedral School’s ethos is distinctly Christian.

Here are some comments from our visitors:

“Thank you very much for welcoming us all and for your hospitality. It has been a really valuable and worthwhile experience for all of the visiting schools”

“It was so useful to see the way RE, collective worship and Christian distinctiveness runs through everything you do at Cathedral School”

“When I get back to my school I am going to feedback to governors on this visit. As a result I would like to increase pupil involvement in collective worship and develop responsive marking in RE – I was very impressed with the standard of children’s work as well as the marking.”

“The displays were wonderful and I loved the assembly”

Claire Boag, Primary Advisor for the SDBE said, “Thank you for the showcasing morning – the exemplary standards and high expectations Cathedral School are inspiring!”

This morning, as part of collective worship, we thought about our hands and different things we can use them for. Here are few suggestions:

• Give someone a hug (ask them first)
• Help them up if they have fallen down
• High 5 someone if they have produced some fantastic work
• Show you understand with a thumbs up
• Communicate – we have a sign language club

If you have other suggestions please comment on this page.

Cathedral School was selected to be involved in the BFI Cultural Campus Programme this year and, as well as learning about film through the ages, produced a wonderful video which is now on the homepage of the Lambeth CLC’s website.

This processes and outcomes of this creative art project, which involved other schools in London, was used in a research project and presented in this ‘Presi’ presentation by Michelle Cannon.

In it you can see several photos and hear interviews featuring Cathedral School pupils. It is another positive reason that Cathedral School has participated in this programme.

In assembly this morning we discussed the importance of keeping safe when crossing the road.

Do you have any advice on how to cross the road safely?

Please click on the picture for road safety activities and  information.

We are very grateful to the Parent Forum who have raised money for PE provision in school.  Some of the money has been used to buy new equipment for children to use at lunchtime to develop and improve physical skills that the have been learning in PE lessons. These skills include 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. Photos to follow

In assembly on Wednesday Mrs Scott introduced the concept of “undercover kindness”. Over the next week or so the children will be busy showing their appreciation for their friends in small ways. Here is a list of ideas the children came up with in assembly:

How has someone shown you kindness this week?

We always appreciate feedback from the school community and so were thrilled when a parent took time to visit the school office and feedback on a wonderful PE lesson her daughter had been part of. PE is a school priority this year and we are focusing on our PE provision during lessons, in the playground at lunchtimes and after school. In this particular lesson Year 1 collaborated with Year 6 to choreograph and perform a dance.

What has been your favourite PE lesson this school year?

On Tuesday 8th October a representative from Shell plc visited Cathedral School to conduct investigative science activities with the pupils. Pupils in Years 5 and 6 donned their safety goggles and investigated the Vitamin C levels in different citrus fruit. The pupils in year 4 investigated friction by designing their own elastic band powered rollers. Everyone had so much fun learning about science that the lady from Shell agreed to return to school in a fortnight to teach the children in Years 2 and 3.