The Cathedral School of St Saviour and St Mary Overy

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We are a Church of England Primary School in the diocese of Southwark and are committed to ensuring that each child in our care lives life in all its fullness. Our commitment to you is that every child that comes through our doors, no matter what their background or ability, is given the very best start in life. We are a school where children come first, efforts are valued, ambition is nurtured, and where the potential of every child is realized.

Cathedral School strives to provide an attractive, safe, well-ordered, child-centered place of learning within a Christian context.

Maintaining and sustaining the highest standards of teaching and learning. The school seeks to work positively with parents and carers to fulfill the school’s expectation that all pupils are enabled to achieve at the highest level of which they are capable.

As a Church of England Voluntary Aided School, Christian values are built into the ethos. There is a daily act of collective worship, which encourages spiritual development and a mutual understanding of life together.

We place a strong emphasis on positive mutual understanding partnerships between home and school, and Parish Life. We attach a high priority to active involvement, building a sense of community, by providing a model of service to all.

In the past few years, Cathedral Primary has gone from strength to strength. Our achievements are many, including our best KS2 results which were amongst the highest in the country.

High expectations and great enthusiasm for learning are reflected in our extremely high results:

• In 2013, we were named 21st in the country by the Sunday Times, achieved 66.7% Level 5 in both reading and mathematics, and 29.2% of children achieved Level 6 in mathematics – which is over 5 times the national average.
• In 2014 the average score achieved by Cathedral School pupils in the examinations (Maths, Writing, Reading, and Grammar) was the highest in the borough. This news is excellent for the school and was on the back of being included in the Sunday Times ‘Top 600 Schools’ report published in November.
• In 2015 the average grade achieved by Cathedral School pupils in the examinations (Maths, Writing, Reading, and Grammar) was again the highest in the borough. We were also ranked 58th in The Sunday Times list.
• In 2016, we were again ranked in The Sunday Times list of top-performing schools, in the top 50.
• In 2017, the percentage of children who achieved a high score in Reading, Writing, and Maths in the KS2 examinations was three times the national figure.

The school has received national recognition for the value it adds to its pupils’ high achievement in the key stage 2 tests.

The school has qualified for two SSAT Educational Outcomes Awards by being in the top 20% of primary schools nationally their pupils’ high attainment, and in the top 20% for progress made by pupils between their key stage 1 tests, taken at age seven, and their key stage 2 tests, taken at age 11.

We were the first school in the borough to achieve the ‘Level 1’ award from UNICEF and in 2013 achieved another borough first and were awarded the top ‘Level 2’ grading. Very few schools across the country hold this award. It is very special and in working towards it, it transformed the school and has had a great impact on teaching and learning and children’s attitudes to each other and the other children around the world. Because of it, our children are increasingly active in playing their part in shaping the world.

Our school curriculum is dynamic, and units can be altered and changed within the school year. This could be in response to local and national events, special opportunities afforded the school, or to make even better cross-curricular links at a particular point in the year.

The government has made some changes to the National Curriculum which is statutory from September 2014. This change has been a fantastic opportunity for us to review our school curriculum and to continue to develop and plan exciting and challenging learning opportunities for our children.

Themed weeks are a fantastic idea because they are really fun and children learn more at the same time as enjoying themselves which I think is important! They seem to help children broaden their experience and awareness.

We have always been very proud of our broad, balanced, engaging, and challenging curriculum and so have used this opportunity to incorporate the new National Curriculum requirements into the themes and topics we already have rather than make unnecessary changes. Much of the new curriculum had been trialed over the last academic year with teachers planning to the new requirements in subjects such as Literacy and Numeracy as well as Foundation Subjects.

In particular, there will be an even greater focus on cross-curricular links between subjects such as Literacy, History, Geography, Art, and Numeracy as well as Computing and RE. Literacy will often be planned around a text and these may also relate to a topic in a foundation subject such as History or Geography.

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