Claire Williams

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 […]

Pupils from Laleham Lea School in Purley have lovingly filled shoe boxes with gifts and treats for those in need around the world this Christmas. The boxes have been donated to Operation Christmas Child, a project run by international Christian relief organization the Samaritan’s Purse. Since 1990, more than 178 […]

The children at St. Mary’s Catholic Federation, Carshalton have been learning Bernadette Farrell’s hymn ‘Christ is our Light’ and last week the message contained in their beautiful singing was reinforced by the generous donations for Pact’s (Prison Advice and Care Trust) Operation Elf appeal.  Staff donated the chocolate and pupils […]

At St Bartholomew’s Primary School in Swanley, we commemorated Remembrance Day with a whole school display.   Every single child in the school made a poppy. Year 6 have been learning about the Second World War and during their Art lessons, designed and made their own RAF badges. We also asked […]

 At St Ethelbert’s Catholic Primary School and Nursery, on Armistice Day on Thursday, the Headteacher, Mr Marshall, began the Remembrance Day assembly with the poignant Remembrance Day Prayer for the Fallen. The assembly was to teach the children the importance of remembrance, why we wear poppies at this time of […]

On Monday 4th October, 2021, during Collective Worship, eleven of our Year 6 children did a sterling job by standing up in front of the whole school and reading speeches they had written, persuading the school why they wanted to become Head Boy or Head Girl. All the children spoke […]

Christ The King (CTK) Catholic Sixth Forms staff and students were treated to an amazing 10:10 mission week, which included a multitude of talks from guest speakers. This included an Olympian and Nelson Mandela’s bodyguard. During the week there was a wide range of inspirational talks which were thought-provoking, moving and made […]

In a homily given by Fr Mervyn Williams sdb, he mentioned that the ‘Book of Jonah’ would adapt very well to the stage. A seed had been planted, and after working on a script, seven Year 9 students were chosen to act it out. The main message of the story […]

London Marathon On Sunday 3rd October pupils from Coloma took part in the mini marathon, running for Croydon. Mrs Englefield was lucky enough to see some of them run along The Mall towards the finish line. We had runners from all Key Stages: Jana Sethna-McIntosh Year 11, Holly Smith Year 9, […]

Ursuline students have more than risen to the challenge of online learning during the last 18 months. 54% of all GCSE entries were at grades 9-7, 91% at 9-5 and 97% at 9-4. Students are presently enrolling onto A Level courses, Vocational courses and our new T Level courses. Headteacher […]

Another great year of results and prestigious university designations for CTK students Students and staff at Christ the King Sixth Forms celebrated another year of examination results at all three sixth forms, with students overcoming the challenges presented by Covid19 to demonstrate grit and resilience and land top grades and […]

On Thursday 22nd July, Bishop Paul Hendricks visited St. Mary’s Catholic Federation, Carshalton to present 27 members of the Year 6 Faith in Action group with their well-deserved badges and certificates. Throughout the year, these pupils attended all four reflective sessions (two virtual and two in school), completed a minimum […]

Huge congratulations to Gabriella Brown in Year 7 at Coloma Convent Girls’ School who won 3rd Place. This is an amazing achievement. The essay title was ‘The story of Jesus’ transfiguration (Mark 9:2-13) was just a dream.’ Do you agree? The judges commented on the extremely high standard of essays this […]

After months of waiting for Covid restrictions to ease, on 17th June the Year 6 Faith in Action group and Chaplaincy Team at St. Mary’s Catholic Federation were delighted to finally be able to put their faith into action by organising a charity fundraising day.  The teams voted to raise […]

At The Holy Family Catholic Primary School, our ethos, values and actions are inspired by the parable of “The Lost Sheep” (Matthew 18: 10-14). Through this story, Jesus teaches us that God searches tirelessly to rescue those in need. We follow this example by aiming to leave no stone unturned […]

Prestigious CTK scholarships were awarded by top Private Capital Fund Management Firm Metric Capital. Three hard-working, talented Christ the King Sixth Form students, have this week each been awarded a University scholarship worth £15,000. The students were selected due to their academic performance and after taking part in an interview […]

St Ethelbert’s felt that the last year has been like no other and we wanted to acknowledge this when the crowning of Mary took place this year. We wanted to show our devotion to Mary, the Queen of Heaven, Mother of Jesus and above all, our Mother, by having flowers […]

CTK won the prestigious award for their Charity Christmas Gift Appeal, which raised over 1000 gifts and almost £6000 to help those in need. The Christ the King Sixth Forms Christmas Gift Appeal has been acknowledged by the Sixth Form Colleges Association (SFCA) at their annual awards. The SFCA is […]

The Richard Challoner School community in New Malden is proud to havebeen awarded the British Council’s prestigious International School Award – Foundation level, in recognition of its work to develop a global dimension into the learning experience of all young people. The International School Award celebrates the achievements of schools […]

St Chad’s held a crowning of Mary Liturgy on Wednesday 25th of May 2021. St Chad’s also arranged flowers, with Our Lady in one of our outdoor gazebos and the children have used the space for spontaneous prayer and reflection. It was a very moving and uplifting experience to witness the children […]

Staff and students across the Christ the King Sixth Forms responded generously to the Easter Appeal that was launched over the Lent period. The appeal included the following initiatives: selling and collecting of chocolate Easter eggs, including dress-down day charity collection. The CTK community partnered with the Society of St […]

67%* of parents and carers are concerned about the long-term impact of the coronavirus on their child’s mental health, in a survey by Young Minds. 66% also said that the coronavirus had impacted negatively on their own mental health, with 29% of respondents feeling there was not enough support (information, […]

The staff of St Michael’s RC Primary School in Chatham are delighted to have received the Naace Mark accreditation. This award recognises good practice in all areas of the use of technology from management and professional development to teaching and technical support. Schools assess and benchmark their use of technology […]

Students from Laleham Lea School in Purley have created a stunning Easter Garden of new life and hope as they return to school after lockdown. Every child has planted their own bulbs and seeds, along with colourful windmills, bunting and other decorations to create an eye-catching display. The garden also […]

Monday, 1st March.  Local Lewisham school, St Matthew Academy, has been injecting a little fun and laughter into the final weeks of remote learning by introducing visits from the newest, healthy superhero in town, ‘The Awesome Avocado’.   His mission?  To surprise and reward home-learners whilst promoting healthy minds and bodies! […]