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What The Good School Guide Says
What The Good Schools Guide Says about our Primary School...
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What our pupils say...
Parents send their children to The Cathedral School in order to give them the life chances that are born of confidence
Parents talk of ‘balance and breadth’, ‘keeping things relaxed and fun’ but ‘with a clear learning pathway, even from nursery’. ‘Week by week, you see them improve,’ said one. The small size of the school means teachers really get to know the children and the way they learn.
Academic Focus
Music is huge, as you’d expect in a cathedral school – includes 12 co-curricular activities per week, from choirs for year 2, 3/4 and 5/6 alongside the flute choir, string ensemble, wind ensemble and percussion ensembles (percussion is a strength of the school).
Music
Very sporty, with children doing some kind of PE and games most days. Good facilities (on site and off site), including the school fields, where years 3 and 4 were thrashing it out in a cricket game against a local school. Super pavilion, and the cathedral makes a stunning backdrop.
Sport
Parents feel the academic side of things is a ‘given here – you expect a certain standard and you get it,’ but what many hadn’t expected was such a strong pastoral focus. ‘It’s like having a family – in fact, we don’t have family local to us and they really do fill that gap,’ said one. Kindness is highly valued, and the small size of the school means things get noticed.
Pastoral Care