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

Class 4 have been invited to participate in a unique project led by artist Monica Ross.  The project commemorates the 60^th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. During the project Monica Ross has been working with a variety of communities in many different languages. Each child in Year 4 is currently learning sections from Universal Declaration of Human Rights which they will perform at Southwark Cathedral on Tuesday 13^th November at 1.30pm. All parents are very welcome to attend this event.

Congratulations to Year 3 who attended a Southwark football tournament on Monday. They played against teams from a variety of local schools and were praised for their teamwork and sportsmanship. Well done Class 3, we are all very proud of you.

Some of you have been asking what happens during a guided reading session at school and how these ideas can support you in reading with your child at home. Here is a video reception made to show you what they do. More to follow!

Reception Guided Reading from Cathedral Primary on Vimeo.

Well done to Year 5 and Year 6 for a fantastic Cross Country Run in Burgess Park on Thursday.  Everyone joined in and had a go and it was great fun as well as being good exercise. 

Class 6 came 4th overall out of 13 schools and Class 5 came 2nd overall! Well done!!An extra special well done to Benjamin who came 8th overall.

Thank you to all the parents who came to the Coffee Morning on Friday. It was a great session and parents found it a great opportunity to share ideas. They worked together in an interactive session on the theme “Helping your child learn at home” with Dr Emua Ali, a parenting support specialist. The session ended with coffee and biscuits and a further opportunity to talk.

Here is some of the feedback from parents who attended:

“Thanks for a great workshop. It was very thought provoking and will help us create a better learning environment at home.”

“It was nice to talk to parents that we haven’t spoken to before.”

“I learned a whole lot of new things from other parents and improved my attitude to teaching my children and helping them to gain more.”

“Very informative, encouraging and supportive. It was great learning and gaining from other peoples views.”

We would like to run some more of these sessions so do let us know if you are interested in attending and which topics you would like to discuss, either via the school office or leave a comment on this blog.

We had a fantastic time at the KS2 football festival last week! All the children involved worked together really well as a team scoring lots of goals over the day! Well done!

There will be lots more opportunities for sporting competitions over the year so keep an eye out at school and on the website to make sure you sign up.

This week at Cathedral School we are thinking about Harvest and what it means to us. We will be collecting food donations which will be given to The Manna Centre in Melior Street. The Manna Centre help 150 – 200 homeless and needy people each week.

At the moment we are thinking about how pupils learn best. Please leave a comment and tell us how you learn best.

It’s been a fantastic first week back at Cathedral School.

[frame align=”left”][/frame]The feedback from parents on the exciting new playground has been extremely positive, and the children have certainly found it adds much fun and colour to their learning.

In addition, many parents have also commented very favourably on the new school newsletter which aims to highlight the important events of school life clearly and in a digestible format.

The children are also to be congratulated for the superb start to the year.  Both at playtimes and lunchtimes in the playground, behaviour has been impeccable throughout the week. Whether it is because of increased equipment and games opportunities which were requested by school council last year, or because of our emphasis on respect as a UNICEF Rights Respecting School, we have been especially proud of the children’s attitude and manner towards each other.

In a busy week, we also focused on World Faith, which culminated in some fantastic displays being made for the hall by all the classes. If you click here you can see a video of Year 6 taking responsibility for their own display – from deciding what to research on the iPads, to creating the informative posters on laptops, to printing the work out (using the brand new Pupil Laser Printer) to then finally putting the posters together with old fashioned scissors and glue.

And if you would like to know who particularly excelled this week in the World Faith topic, you can visit the Stars of the Week page! Ferdinand and Esther rounded the week off well this morning, as they did a great job of leading the Stars of the Week assembly, announcing the week’s Stars.

The Olympic Torch went past school today. Watch this quick video of it being carried along Marshalsea Rd.