Welcome to St. Anthony’s School. St Anthony’s is a happy and successful school serving the Roman Catholic community of East Dulwich and neighboring parishes.
Our children tell us that they love to be here and we are very proud of them and their achievements. We aim to provide an environment where our children can learn to love learning and prepare themselves for the skills they will need for a 21st Century world.
Key to our school’s success is our partnership with parents with whom we share responsibility for the children's education.
Our Mission statement: St. Anthony’s School is based on a Catholic foundation. Each child will be helped to achieve their social, academic, and spiritual potential. We work with the children, in partnership with family and parish communities. We support all on their Faith journey in Christ. We are committed to an equal opportunities policy and stand firm in the rejection of all prejudice. We develop a community where mutual respect reigns, where value is placed on social and cultural diversity, where personal standards of behavior and work are high, and where all grow to recognize their responsibilities both to themselves and to others.
Religious Education, RE, is taught through the “Come and See” program which allows children to explore the teachings of the Catholic Church through the use of age-appropriate resources and activities. In addition to this, a whole school day of reflection takes place on Ash Wednesday and in June to celebrate St Anthony’s day.
We also express our faith in school through fundraising activities for a children’s home in Zambia, Cafod, The Manna Centre, and The Passage amongst others.
We have assemblies throughout the week, class-based liturgies, regular whole school Masses, and classes also join the parishioners of St Thomas More for Mass each week. All children say prayers at the beginning and end of the school day and before they go to lunch. These are often led by children and include a range of set prayers and those which the children have written themselves.
Representatives from each Key Stage Two class form the Chaplaincy Team who take an active role in the prayer life of the school. They look at the Gospel and reflect on the meaning of this before sharing it with classes before they going to Mass. They lead prayers in Key Stage assemblies and have started to share a thought for the week for children.
