School News

After a largely virtual Trinity Term, the year ended with a virtual concert and Speech Day.

On 25th and 26th June, the boys in the Prep School put on an extraordinary display of musicianship and technological wizardry, with our first ever Virtual House Music Competition.

On his last day at Christ Church Cathedral School, Alex, a Cathedral Chorister in Form 8, sported his craziest hairstyle yet - six spiky buns.

In order to stay busy (and entertained) during lockdown, the boys in Prep and Pre-Prep were challenged to learn the ‘Cup Song’ routine from hit movie ‘Pitch Perfect’.

Soundabout Inclusive Choir, the Oxford-based choir for people with special needs and their families, which CCCS’s fundraising helped launch last year, is reaching tens of thousands during lockdown.

To encourage boys to get the most out of their musical instrument practice during lockdown, Ms Biddell, our Director of Music, has come up with eight helpful tips. She is delighted to hear from boys about how they are getting on – and no doubt that will be all the better for her useful advice below.

Assembly on the Theme of Hope and Tips for Surviving Lockdown by Catriona Wellesley, CCCS School Counsellor.

Warmest congratulations to the nine boys in Form 8 who have won music awards to their senior schools.

Nicky English, our Head of Nursery, talks about how children learn in a safe risk-taking environment:

Arabella has won 80 plants for the Nursery garden after entering a painting in an M&S competition. Four-year-old Arabella is excited about bringing the seed pots to Nursery and planting the plants in the garden once lockdown is lifted.

Christ Church Cathedral School is delighted to announce that it has obtained planning permission to build a new pavilion on its playing field on Christ Church Meadow.

Despite the lockdown occasioned by the Coronavirus outbreak, education continued this week at Christ Church Cathedral School. 

Just as 1916 was known as the Year without Summer this term seemed set to become the Hilary with no Play...

Some staff and pupils at CCCS used World Book Day as an opportunity to dress up as a character who has links to the School. Several children came as Harry Potter and one as Severus Snape - a nod to the fact that the Great Hall at Christ Church was the inspiration for Hogwarts.

As an introduction to their new topic, Form 4 ventured over to the Woodland School in search of different animals and their habitats.

Boys in Reception class created wonderful and imaginative robot masks during half term.

On Tuesday, three boys from Form 6 visited The Oratory School near Reading for a day of debating and competition.

Pre-Prep celebrated Chinese, or Lunar, New Year, a festivity which culminated in them performing a Dragon Dance in the afternoon.

Year 8, along with Mr Richards, Mr Cotterill and Ms Biddell, visited the Palace of Westminster, where the Mother of Parliaments has been wearing itself out with the mother of all battles over Brexit. 

This Week in Form 1 we have been looking at fractions and using pizza diagrams to help us.

For the first time in almost thirty years, three Christ Church Cathedral School choirs sang simultaneously in three Oxford college chapels last night. In an inaugural evensong at Pembroke College, the 12 CCCS boys who are newly appointed Pembroke choristers, sang music by Elgar and Walmisley.

Pupils, staff and parents attended a special service in the cathedral yesterday to honour our Head of Science, Mrs Naylor, who died in a road accident in South Africa during half term along with her husband, Chris, and a close friend.  Whilst Mrs Naylor had only been teaching at the school for six and a half weeks, she was already a hugely valued member of staff and was an exceptional teacher of Science.

Form 2 boys spent a very informative and inspiring hour at Christ Church, learning about the history of our school from Jackie Holdeness, Cathedral Educational Officer, with Patrick and Tom, two volunteers.

Sustainable fashion was all the rage at Christ Church Cathedral School’s Environment Theme Day today as boys set about sewing their own mock-up Gucci bags and learnt about Nike’s pioneering shoes made from recyclable plastic.