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• Wednesday 18 May 2022 Matilda Jr by Years 5 and 6 Last week SCS was buzzing with excitement, as it was time for the long-awaited performances of Matilda Jr by Years 5 and 6. Over the courseof four packed performances, pupils filled the BSR with laughter and moved audiences to tears, through their outstanding acting, singing and choreography. The BSR was transformed into a whole host of settings from the Wormwood family home to the classrooms of Crunchem Hall School, complete with professional staging and lighting. Hugecongratulationsto all pupils in Years 5 and 6, whose energy and enthusiasm lit up the stage, as well as Miss Wernham, Mr Cannon and Miss Lamb.
• Friday 29 April 2022 Visit from Kate French MBE, Olympic Gold Medallist Salisbury Cathedral School welcomed Kate French MBE, Olympic Gold Medallist in modern pentathlon, for an afternoon with the pupils on Friday 29 April 2022. Kate arrived in Great Britain kit and brought her Tokyo Olympic gold medal for the children to see and be photographed with.
• Wednesday 30 March 2022 'KES' by Lawrence Till
• Monday 21 March 2022 Salisbury Schools Team Up for the #BigClimateFightback
• Friday 18 March 2022 Bright Explorers celebrated World Frog Day Bright Explorers celebrated World Frog Day by exploring a range of frog themed invitations and provocations.
• Friday 18 March 2022 'Ocean Commotion' Year 3-4 Musical Congratulations on a fantastic performance.Click here to see all the photos
• Friday 18 March 2022 An update on the Ukraine collection from the weekend A total of 1017 boxes were packed, labelled and loaded onto vans and either left on the lorry ready to head out to Europe or unloaded into our storage facility. It was an absolutely over whelming and incredible effort by all those who donated and volunteered to pack and load/unload vans.Thank you to everyone from SCS who donated. We will keep you posted with when the donations head out on their journey to support those in need.Best wishes,Alice and Henry Landon
• Saturday 12 March 2022 Whittling, Wattling, Mud and Magic at Salisbury Cathedral School More than 150 children and their families attended Salisbury Cathedral School’s free community outdoor event behind the lake in the school grounds on Saturday 12 March 2022. Attendees participated in arts and crafts, trialled whittling and wattling, and practised survival and bushcraft skills. Younger visitors made ‘cakes’ in the mud kitchen and wands out of sticks, feathers and wool, and everyone had a turn at cooking over the campfire and creating clay faces to decorate the school’s trees. Do follow the school’s social media to hear about future events.
• Monday 21 February 2022 Conservation Corner Gets Fruity Our 15 fruit trees, delivered just last week, are already in the ground in Conservation Corner thanks to the year 8 pupils ably assisted by Mr Marriott himself! Spades flew through the rich topsoil before hitting tough ground littered with flint and chalk. It was hard work to ensure each tree had a hole big enough to establish itself. The activity illuminated the pupils' learning about factors influencing healthy soils and each pair of pupils had to evaluate the suitability of the microclimate of the area chosen, including staking the tree on the opposite side to the prevailing wind.
• Wednesday 9 February 2022 Exciting new PocketLab system We have recently invested in the PocketLab system of data loggers and pupils have been amazed at how incredible these little devices are. They can measure almost anything, including motion, altitude, light, magnetic fields, temperature and more and connect wirelessly to the Chromebooks to transmit any data collected. Year 7 have been using them to investigate how the strength of an electromagnet’s field relates to the number of turns of wire in the coil of the electromagnet. We are all looking forward to linking up with Mr Newbery and attaching them to rockets to measure acceleration and altitude.
• Wednesday 9 February 2022 Salisbury Cathedral School celebrates new Good Schools Guide Review Pupils, parents and teachers at Salisbury Cathedral School are delighted with the latest Good Schools Guide review which describes the school as a ‘big-hearted diverse school that buzzes with energy, enthusiasm and happiness’.
• Wednesday 9 February 2022 A New Orchard To Help Boost Biodiversity Homegrown apples, pears and plums will soon be on the school menu thanks to the support of our 2021 leavers' families and the current year 8s. Today we took delivery of 15 fruit trees which will be planted in the newly designated 'conservation corner' of the school grounds.
• Friday 10 December 2021 Carol Service 2021 Salisbury Cathedral School's annual Carol Service is certainly a unique occasion. Not only does every child in the Prep school take part, in fact every child is in the choir. Each year the pupils in Year 7 and 8 have the opportunity in their music lessons to write carols and the accompanying melody. The best four are chosen by a panel of judges and sung by the all pupils at the Carol Service. This year, the pupils once again sung, read and performed to an astonishing standard. Congratulations to all the pupils and to Susie Lamb, Director of Music and the VMT's.
• Thursday 2 December 2021 Christmas Tree Festival 2021 Congratulations to the Pre-Prep, Cherubinis, Seraphim and Cantamus choirs who sang so beautifully at the Christmas Tree Festival at St Thomas's Church this week.
• Saturday 6 November 2021 Year 6 have enjoyed blasting their pneumatic rockets into space! Year 6 have enjoyed blasting their pneumatic rockets into space! They constructed their rockets from rolled A4 paper, card fins and nose cones. The rockets were launched using compressed air (3 BAR / 40 PSI) which was produced using a foot pump. Most rockets achieved altitudes of over 40 metres (130ft) - that’s twice the height of Beauchamp Tower!
• Saturday 6 November 2021 Spring Bulb Planting Triumph! Thank you to all the children who have helped plant 2,500 bulbs, creating new spring meadow areas within the grounds.
• Saturday 6 November 2021 Conker competition result Congratulationsto Tristan M, Ben Gand Lily Mfor finding the equally tiniest conkers you are ever likely to see.
• Saturday 6 November 2021 Fallen small-leafed lime in The Close Some of you may have noticed that one of the casualties of last weekend's storms was the small-leaved lime tree in one of the corners of The Close. Year 6 were able to use the fallen tree as a natural navigation tool; determining the direction of the prevailing wind (the buttresses much thicker on the south-west side) and the branches growing outward rather than upward on the southern side.
• Saturday 6 November 2021 Boarders celebrate Diwali 2021 The boarders celebrated Diwali with a delicious candlelit supper in the Undercroft. Special thanks to Nick and his catering team.
• Saturday 6 November 2021 Hoping to boost bio-diversity Botanist Dom Price, recording existing plant life so that next year we can see how effective our rewilding has been at boosting bio-diversity in the school grounds.
• Saturday 6 November 2021 Conservation School Award Salisbury Cathedral School has joined the Conservation School Award, hosted by the environmental charity Operation Future Hope, with a five-year commitment to boosting biodiversity within the school grounds.
• Saturday 6 November 2021 Nature's Classroom Will Frost (Head of Geography and Outdoor Learning), is one of the many voices in our new book, ‘In Our Own Words’ who shares his views on why 'Nature's Classroom' allows the children to shine with instinctive curiosity and a sense of wonder. To read more, please request a copy of our book by emailing admissions@salisburycathedralschool.com
• Friday 5 November 2021 EYFS enjoying Bonfire time This afternoon Nursery and Reception enjoyed having a bonfire in the grounds. We talked about fire safety, toasted marshmallows and drank some warm hot chocolate. Thank you to Mr Moors for helping us look after the bonfire. What a lovely autumnal treat!
• Thursday 4 November 2021 Pre-Prep celebrate Diwali Pre-Prep have been learning about the Hindu festival of light ‘Diwali’. Some of the children have made their own Diya lamps out of clay and decorated them. On Thursday morning, Pre-Prep participated in a carousel of activities. They enjoyed tasting a variety of foods, dancing and acting to music, creating Rangoli patterns with chalk and coloured rice and decorating their hands with intricate mehndi designs.
• Wednesday 3 November 2021 Pre-Prep planting bulbs with the Year 8's The children have been busy with Mr Frost planting native spring bulbs around the school grounds as part of the Conservation School Award. They had great fun working with the older children working as a team to dig the holes.
• Tuesday 2 November 2021 A small step towards a better world As global leaders gather in Glasgow for COP26, pupils at Salisbury Cathedral School will be planting 2,500 bulbs in its own small step towards a better world.
• Thursday 28 October 2021 Lovely new bunk beds for the boarding house The new bunk beds have arrived in the Boarding House and look fantastic. We can’t wait for the boarders to see them on Sunday.
• Tuesday 12 October 2021 A real Viking feast Year 4 have shared a viking feast by an authentic tripod fire dressed as Vikings. They shared viking jokes and sampled the viking cuisine. They especially enjoyed the herring, kippers and pickles!
• Monday 11 October 2021 Gala Concert marking the 30th Anniversary of the founding of Salisbury Cathedral’s girls’ Choir. Salisbury Cathedral School was full of life on Saturday with around eighty former girl choristers gathering together ready for the special Gala Concert marking the 30th Anniversary of the founding of Salisbury Cathedral’s girls’ Choir. It was thirty years ago, nearly to the day, after the girls’ choir sang their first Evensong on 7 October 1991.
• Thursday 7 October 2021 Prep School Geography Competition Congratulations to our Upper Prep School team for coming second in the Prep School Geography Competition! A special thank you to @canfordschool for organising such a fun and enriching event.
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