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 […]
Monthly archives: November 2022
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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 […]