New facilities were made possible by securing a Capacity Fund from the Department of Education The MP for Old Bexley & Sidcup Louie French, The Mayor of the London Borough of Bexley, Councillor Nick O’Hare, James Kewin, from the SFCA, Sidcup Ward Councillors and the Mayoress, attended the official opening […]
Yearly archives: 2022
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We would like to thank our St Edmund’s Community for all their generous donations. We were overwhelmed with the amount gifted and this certainly did St Edmund’s proud on Wednesday 14th Dec when the shoeboxes were delivered to Home Start, Dover in readiness for their children’s Christmas party. We managed to donate […]
The Christ the King Sixth Forms and EKC Group Christmas appeal has raised more than £10,000 in donations and gifts Christmas this year will be a challenging time for many vulnerable families, with the devastating impact of the cost-of-living crisis, now is a more important time than ever to help […]
On Friday 25th November, Bonus Pastor Catholic College were privileged to host Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, as he announced the extension of the ULEZ Zone. Enthusiastic Geographers and Climate Change activists in Year 10 and 11 were invited to attend his speech in our very own library. They heard […]
During this season of Advent, the Mini Vinnies of St Francis are putting Faith into Action by collaborating with the Peckham Pantry to ensure that no one goes hungry this Christmas. The first part of our project has been visiting the pantry and collecting the ingredients to bake some delicious […]
On behalf of the Archbishop we are delighted to congratulate the pupils at the secondary schools and colleges across the diocese for their successful summer exam results. Pupils in Years 11 and 13 have so much to be proud of. We wish every success to those who have gone off […]
Service led by Canon Victor Darlington at St George’s Cathedral Christ the King Catholic Sixth Forms celebrated their 30th anniversary this week, with a special celebratory Mass at St George’s Cathedral. The Mass was attended by current and former staff and students and was led by Main Celebrant Canon Victor […]
Following a visit to the battlefields and war cemeteries of Belgium, Alfie, a Year 6 pupil from Margaret Roper in Croydon, wrote this wonderfully moving piece of poetry. We would like to take this opportunity to share it with the wider Archdiocese. Thank you Alfie for providing us with this […]
The Archdiocese of Southwark ran two Pupil Formation Days for Primary Schools to attend exploring the Word of God used in Collective Worship. Our main theme was the Parable of the Good Samaritan. The pupils experienced a carousel of activities, which included Sr. Lucy and Sr. Carino, the Dominican Sisters of […]
On Friday 11th November at 11am the whole of St Catherine’s School gathered on the playground for a Remembrance Day service and a two-minute silence. We were blessed with good weather and blue skies. It was a very moving moment and wonderful to have the whole school together.
The Prayer Heroes delivered the Harvest donations to the Greenwich Foodbank that the community of Notre Dame collected for our Harvest Festival. The parents and the community were extremely generous and the Harvest festival was a joyous occasion for all.
3rd November, London: IKEA is helping make schools across the UK more sustainable by bringing four winning ideas from its Let’s Go Zero competition to life, with Lewisham based CTK Emmanuel the first to be built by IKEA co-workers. The competition challenged children across the UK to develop ideas to help tackle […]
On Tuesday 1st November the whole of St Catherine’s school celebrated All Saints’ Day with a beautiful Mass. We had over 1000 students and all our staff in the school Sports Hall. Br. Krzysztof delivered a beautiful service. All Saints’ Day is a holy day of the Catholic Church. The […]
This year, St Ethelbert’s held its Harvest Festival on Monday 10th October. Jacqueline, from the Salvation Army, Ramsgate came into school to talk to the children about the work they do. The Salvation Army in Ramsgate were overwhelmed when we said that we would like to collect food for them […]
On the 15th October 2022, Ben Garner, manager of @CAFCofficial, officially opened St Mary’s new playground. Thank you to all the community who came to celebrate this special project; and to parents, governors and staff who have created a long lasting legacy for the students to enjoy. We were also […]
We are delighted to report outstanding GCSE results and our best results to date. Bucking the national trend, results are better than last year. St Catherine’s was the top performing school in Bexley for Progress 8. Bexley borough has three strong Grammar Schools, so we are delighted with our Progress 8 score […]
Last week, during Collective Worship, a number of Year 6 children did a sterling job standing up in front of the whole school and reading the speeches they had written, persuading the school why they wanted to become Head Boy or Head Girl. All the children spoke very clearly and […]
On Monday 17th October the staff and children of St Thomas of Canterbury School in Mitcham, took part in their annual Harvest Festival, led by the school chaplaincy team which consists of children from Reception to Year 6. They thanked God for nature and the food from the harvest. It helped the children to […]
These two paintings (recently painted by Mrs Rydz) are representative of growth. Both trees have within their canopy the groups of people in our school community who are working together under the light of the Holy Spirit. The Infant painting has been set in the season of Spring. The grass […]
On Wednesday 5th October 2022 12 pupils in Year 13 attended their graduation ceremony for their CAFOD YLT course at Amigo Hall at St George’s Cathedral. The pupils have been signed up to this course since November 2021 and whilst it got off to a shaky start being all on […]
The Beginning of the Year Mass for Schools and Colleges in the Archdiocese of Southwark took place on Friday 30th September 2022 in St George’s Cathedral. Over 700 adults and young people attended from many of the schools and colleges across the diocese. The Mass was also attended by representatives from […]
Students and Staff at St. Michael’s Catholic College in Bermondsey celebrated St. Michael’s Day together on Thursday 29th September. The pupils and staff were invited to attend reflective services during break and lunchtimes to write positive messages of hope and peace in the protection of others as part of the St. […]
Members of the Richard Challoner School community enjoyed their traditional emotive Mass at St George’s Cathedral in Southwark last week. The traditional Challoner Day is an intrinsic part of the school calendar and provides students and their parents, staff and friends of the school the opportunity to mark the birthday […]
On Friday 16th September, our Year 10 student leadership team gathered together to be commissioned in their roles as Prefects, Senior Prefects and Head Boy and Girl. During our liturgy, we focused on the Great Commission and St. Teresa of Avila’s prayer. Students reflected on how Jesus’ example taught us […]
On Friday 16th September, children, parents and staff at St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School, Gomm Road, welcomed Fr Victor Darlington, our new Episcopal Vicar for the South East and their Parish Priest, Fr Tesfa Michael, into their school to celebrate their Beginning of Year Mass and Miss Catherine Doherty’s Headteacher […]
Following the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, the community of Bonus Pastor Catholic College joined together to reflect on the life of her majesty. This year, our school’s liturgical theme is ‘Servant Leadership’; we reflected on how the life of her majesty was guided by the example Jesus set and […]
The announcement of the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is a cause of great sadness for her beloved family, for the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth, and all people of goodwill. We give thanks to Almighty God for Her Majesty’s life of unfailing dedication and the outstanding example of […]
Students and staff at St Edmund’s Catholic School, are celebrating an excellent set of results from this year’s GCSE examinations. Once again, our students have done themselves, their community and our school proud. These results are a culmination of five years of both hard work, and high quality teaching despite […]
Ursuline High School, Wimbledon, congratulate Year 11 on their excellent GCSE examination results. Their dedication, resilience, ability to adapt to learning online, and the changing expectations of examination syllabi has meant students have made outstanding progress. Well done to all students!
Almost 1000 students at Christ the King Sixth Forms (CTK) are celebrating record successes in both A Level and BTEC qualifications with another great year of results and prestigious university destinations. Despite the challenges created by the COVID pandemic, students have shown resilience and determination to land top grades and […]
Cllr Kenny, Lead Cabinet Member for Education in Merton congratulating students Ursuline High School, Wimbledon, are delighted to celebrate the excellent results and destinations of our Year 13 students following on from Ofsted grading our Sixth Form Outstanding in 2022. We are very proud of all our students. Sinem, Erin […]
In June the schools commissioners from all the dioceses in England & Wales held their annual conference at Canterbury Cathedral. Pupils and staff from St Anselm’s lead the music for the conference mass. The conference delegates were very impressed by the group. Archbishop John was very proud of the way […]
We are delighted that Christ the King Sixth Forms students work has been published nationally, making it into the FE Week national press. This comes from CTK’s involvement in the SFCA’s (Sixth Form College Association) latest national exhibition, entitled ‘Planet Future’, which has a focus on students’ creative interpretation of […]
On Wednesday 8th June the Upper KS2 pupils of St Chad’s CAFOD Club were invited to attend the CAFOD Supporters Annual Parliamentary Reception, at the Speakers House in the House of Commons, Westminster. There they met with the RT. Honourable Sir Lindsay Hoyle MP, Christine Allen, the Director of CAFOD […]
The children and staff at Notre Dame Primary School in Woolwich took part in the NSPCC Big Break time on Childhood Day. This day gave time for the staff and children to play and have fun while raising money for this worthwhile charity. The sun shone and the children had a […]
National Thank a Teacher Day is a day to celebrate our school teachers, senior leaders and support staff. We were overwhelmed and blown away with the wonderful heartfelt ‘Thank you’ messages from our Pupils.
We are so proud of the Mental Health Wellbeing Team and our Equality Ambassadors. Our school community raised over £380 by holding a Cake Sale and a Non-Uniform Day.
At the beginning of March, the school began to think about our Lenten fundraising; with the horrendous situation in the Ukraine dominating world news, we all agreed this is where we should focus our effort. Each year group have held their own initiative fundraising initiative to maximise funds raised. Year […]
Huge thanks to all involved with the Lenten Service. Exemplary behaviour, attitude and participation of our pupils and Fr John was delighted and really impressed with all pupils and thanked our Year 11 Prefects who did a fantastic job in leading the liturgy. Special thanks to Mr Walmsley for his […]
Over the past couple of weeks, we have been collecting donations for Ukraine. The generosity from our school community has been overwhelming. We are working together as a school community to help the Ukrainian people. We held a soup and roll day last week raising £384.00 which will be donated […]
The Headteacher of St Ethelbert’s Catholic Primary School and Nursery, Mr Marshall, recently sent a letter to parents asking for donations to help the people of Ukraine in their time of need. The school was overwhelmed by the generosity and kindness of the St Ethelbert’s community and we managed to […]
This week, pupils from St Richard’s Catholic Primary School attended a Science Outreach session at St Edmund’s. The pupils learnt about antagonistic muscles and how they work by dissecting chicken wings. The children had so much fun, one pupil said “the dissecting was disgusting but also cool at the same […]
CTK, partnering with the Kent-based EKC Group, brought in over £3,500 with a GoFundMe campaign and charity art auction during the Christmas Gift Appeal this year. They also raised around 2,000 gifts to help those most in need. The superlative effort has been spearheaded by husband-and-wife duo Shireen and Graham […]
Members of the Richard Challoner School community enjoyed their traditional emotive Mass at St George’s Cathedral in Southwark last week, to celebrate the school’s 62nd anniversary of opening. The traditional “Challoner Day” is an intrinsic part of the school calendar and provides students and their parents, staff and friends of […]
The sun was shining in the sky during the 2021 results week as Bishop Thomas Grant School students arrived in school for their A Level, GCSE and BTEC results. The weather set the tone and went on to capture the mood for the many happy students who had achieved the […]