In May 2023 Young Enterprise re-awarded St James the Great Primary School in Peckham as a Centre of Excellence status for financial education. Melissa Garrett Programme Manager at Centres of Excellence noted there is a “high quality of financial education which has been implemented across the school at such a […]
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Children from both St Teresa’s and SS Peter and Paul have been involved in a musical performance alongside children’s author Banji Alexander especially written for a performance on ITV’s ‘Britain’s Got Talent’. Children attended the heats for the show at London’s famous Palladium Theatre and were featured on the 6th May […]
Our Year 8 student, Jinesh Sriranhan, designed a powerful and thought-provoking piece of artwork which was entered into the Show Racism the Red Card Art Competition. Our school community was filled with pride when Jinesh was announced the winner in the year 7-9 category. Jinesh, his family and staff from […]
Traditionally, Catholics devote the whole month of May to celebrating and honouring Mary, the mother of Jesus. Mary is even sometimes known as the ‘Queen of May’. As a school we have been bringing flowers to honour Mary and each class is spending time praying and reflecting outside by our […]
St Ethelbert’s celebrated both ‘The Crowning of Mary’ and the ‘Coronation of the King’ at a Whole School Mass. The children were dressed in red, white and blue and children from each class were chosen to bring flowers to place by Mary. Then Mary was crowned by two of our children who were […]
Recently St Augustine’s school council voted to raise money for their own charities. We had a discussion and the children voted to raise money for WWF. School council planned some fundraising events, including Pyjama day. They decided to adopt three animals with the money. They also donated additional money to […]
During Lent, each class at St. Benedict’s Catholic Primary School in Lordswood, Chatham took a Catholic Social Teaching principle to focus on. This ranged from St. Joseph’s class (EYFS) making cards for our elderly parishioners and school neighbours to St. Clare’s class (Year 5) promoting our ‘Parish Big Auction’ sale […]
Every year the children choose which charity they want to fundraise for during Lent. This year they chose the homeless charity ‘The Passage.’ The children then decided how they wanted to fundraise in their year groups. We had a range of activities such as bunny hops, chicken runs, Easter egg […]
Notre Dame Primary school in Woolwich did the Cafod Big Lenten Walk around their local area. The children raised lots of money for this worthwhile cause.
On Tuesday 28th St Catherine’s School was presented with the Oscar Romero Award at St George’s Cathedral for putting faith into action. Our school choir sang beautifully at the Cathedral.
On Monday 20th March, St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School (Bromley) celebrated their patron saint on St Joseph’s Day. St Joseph’s were blessed to have mass said by Bishop Philip Moger alongside Fr Peter and Deacon Garry. Afterwards, they joined the faith leaders, the six choirists who sang at Bishop Philip’s ordination […]
Good to read all the exciting things happening in our Kent Trust KCSP. The newsletter can be viewed below or alternatively you can view the newsletter online by clicking here.
On Monday 13th March the Avila Partnership launched Avila Lambeth, an exciting new partnership with Bishop Thomas Grant and Corpus Christi Primary School. BTG and Corpus Christi are the lead schools facilitating a cohort of 28 aspiring Senior leaders on the NPQSL. In February 2022, Avila in partnership with Church […]
For the past month, the Mini Vinnies of St Francis have been working on a new enterprise that culminated on them leading an assembly for the whole school and parents. ‘St Francis Walking Maps’, is an initiative that they are leading to create safe walking routes to come to school, instead […]
Throughout January and February the R.E. and History department hosted a series of events that enabled our students to reflect on the Holocaust and its theme of ‘Ordinary People’. Holocaust Memorial started with all students engaging in an assembly where they were introduced to the theme of ‘Ordinary People’ and […]
On Thursday 9th February 2023, St Winifred’s, Lee, welcomed Deborah Meaden and ‘The Big Green Money Show’ BBC team to school. During the day, they interviewed the School Council, to find out how the school was being ‘green’. They spoke to the children about what they have been learning in class […]
The NSPCC visited Notre Dame Primary School in Woolwich, to film their promotional campaign for the NSPCC Childhood Mile challenge which will take place in June.
St Mary’s and Sacred Heart RC primary schools in Battersea have teamed up with global technology firm Apple to learn coding and talk tech in a new initiative ahead of the company’s move into Wandsworth in 2023. Pupils and teachers have been picking up coding skills through the Battersea Apple […]
New facilities including a mock Hospital Ward, to benefit T Level Nursing students, was opened and blessed by the The Archbishop. His Excellency, The Most Revered Archbishop for Southwark and Metropolitan, John Wilson, and other VIP guests attended the opening of the new T Level hospital ward at CTK Emmanuel […]
In 2022, the World Cup in Qatar highlighted many issues around social justice. The students at Bonus Pastor raised many questions and showed their awareness and passion for promoting equality for all people. In response to this, the R.E. and P.E. department joined together to further explore social justice through […]
One of the fantastic parents at St Augustine’s Hythe entered a competition to win a wonderful set of books written by authors of colour and celebrating characters and heroes of colour. Here are some of our children enjoying our new books! Below is a list of books that were received.
In November and December 2022 our Christmas Gift Appeal ran with all gifts and money raised going towards child hospice charity Demelza House, domestic abuse charity Refuge, homelessness group Porchlight and the St Vincent De Paul Society, which tackles poverty and disadvantage. Now in its third year, the campaign run […]
This year, our student spirituality team were passionate about our community living out the true meaning of Christmas. Our spirituality prefects launched advent through a series of assemblies. They led the school in reflecting on the importance of Advent and how we can follow the example Mary gave at the […]
On Tuesday 13th December, St Francis’ Mini Vinnies had a baking session with one of their parent volunteers and they made some delicious cupcakes Ingredients donated by @coopuk to @pantrypeckham! Thank you to both for this fantastic opportunity! Our profits will be donated to Catholic Children’s Society #catholicschools#adventevents#workingwiththecommunity
Charlotte Doble – Year 7 We are pleased to announce that our very own Charlotte from Kolbe House came 3rd across Kent and will receive £30 of vouchers for her ‘Healthy Eating 2’ logo design. The Whole System Approach (WSA) programme aims to create an environment and culture that encourages […]
On Wednesday 19 October 2022, students from Bishop Thomas Grant School ventured to St George’s Cathedral to participate in the St Bernadette Relic Tour. Students arrived to find a cathedral full of worshippers who also wanted to share in this journey on pilgrimage. The 12:30 Mass celebrated the life and […]
Congratulations to Daisy Turner overall KCSP Winner and Chloe Buckland who won the St Edmund’s competition and was also a KCSP runner up. Daisy’s card will be printed and sent out as the KCSP official Christmas card this year AND Chole’s card will be sent out as the official St […]
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 […]
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 […]