Senior School Prospectus

Young people do not become mature adults simply as time passes.

At the Cathedral School we place great emphasis upon the ‘co-curricular’,

the learning which goes on outside the classroom, widening horizons

and helping young people develop interests and enthusiasms which will

enrich their adult lives. Years 10-13 undertake the Duke of Edinburgh’s

Award (D of E) which is hugely popular and delivered not by external

providers but by our own dedicated staff who love sharing this

developmental journey with their students. Years 7-9 follow the Head’s

Award, an anticipatory version of D of E. The co-educational environment

encourages social confidence for both boys and girls, and the academic

results generally surpass those gained by teenagers in single-sex

schools. Space and time for finding the things each student is good at

enables each to grow in confidence and leadership potential.

The sixth form phase of schooling is about growing in maturity, learning

to be responsible, independent, exercising good judgement and making

wise choices, to work productively with people of various ages and

backgrounds. Adopting a different status within the school community,

the students are regarded as fellow adults. As a small but important

symbol of this, they have the same dress code as the academic staff.

“

Growing up is a terribly hard thing to do.

It is much easier to skip it and go from

one childhood to another

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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