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‘The Lady with the Lamp’
On Thursday, Year 2 thoroughly enjoyed meeting Florence Nightingale. Miss Nightingale entertained the classes with stories from her childhood, her adventures in Scutari and her inspirational life after her return from the Crimean War. The girls enjoyed dressing up as one of Florence’s nurses and looking at the selection of real and replica objects which…
Fundraising
A marvellously green and HUGE MacMillan ‘Thank You’ to everyone who supported this event in school on Friday. There was a super spread of treats and goodies for the girls to enjoy at break time and our parents, staff and the extended school community appreciated all that was on offer. This event is always something…
Wisley Trip!
On Wednesday both our Reception classes went on a very special nature adventure to RHS Wisley; Ms Smith our Head of Pre-Prep details what happened below. “The Reception girls were excited to be going on their very first school trip and even more so, that we were being accompanied by our ‘big girls’ for lots…
Year 5 Service
This week our Year 5 girls led our collective worship on the theme of ‘community’. We heard how they had explored in class how we are all part of, and shaped by the community around us; for example, family, friends, teachers, doctors, priests. They related this interaction to the experience of a jagged rock which,…
Author Visit
Award winning author and illustrator Peter Brown stopped off at Holy Cross on Tuesday morning whilst on his UK and Ireland tour to tell our Junior girls, and the Year 5 children from Coombe Hill Junior school, all about his latest chapter books, The Wild Robot and The Wild Robot Escapes. We were the first…
Macmillan Coffee Morning
We are playing our part in the ‘World’s Biggest Coffee Morning’ on Friday 28th.September for Macmillan Cancer Research and it really is one of the highlights of the Autumn term calendar so please do drop in and support us if you can. From 8:30am.drop off on Friday morning the air will be thick with the…
The Week Ahead…
We have a busy week in school with lots to look forward too including the American author Peter Brown who will be popping in on Tuesday and seeing the Junior pupils as part of his UK and Ireland tour http://www.peterbrownstudio.com/ On Wednesday we look forward to Year 5 class leading our collective worship in an informal…
TERM DATES 2019-20
Please do click the link below for details of our next academic year term dates to enable your planning. 20.09.2018 TERM DATES 2019 – 2020 for parents
Serving the Community
In Assembly today we welcomed a lady, Michelle, from the Kingston Hospital charity to speak to us a little bit about the work the charity does and where our fundraising will be going. The school enjoyed wearing their own clothes and donating for the privilege to do so towards the end of the summer term…
Holy Cross Represented in Diocese Mass
A group of our girls from year 5 represented the school on Tuesday at a very special Mass at St. George’s, the Cathedral Church of the diocese of Southwark. The Mass, celebrated by Archbishop Peter Smith, marked the beginning of a new academic year for all the schools in the diocese. Hundreds of children and…