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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…
Alumni Garden Party
Once again, we were blessed with lovely weather at our biennial alumni garden party, held here at Holy Cross Prep on Sunday 16th September. It was wonderful to welcome back so many former pupils and their families, from those who attended years ago, to those who left at the end of the summer term before…
Sports Clubs and Practice Times
Mrs Withers our Head of PE, alongside her team of staff, including both internal coaching expertise and external Club providers, have put together the following extensive programme of practices and training. For your ease of reference this information is also available to download; please see below. Mrs Withers and Mrs Kapadia gave a presentation to…
Mellow Autumn
With warm temperatures throughout the weekend and the forecast looking fairly settled for the week we can feel blessed with the weather making the start of our Autumn term all the more lovely! As we look back on our first full week, and hope the novelty has not quite worn off yet, we can be…
Happy Feast Day!
We shared our first whole school Mass together and acknowledged the Feast of the Holy Cross which is on Friday, 14th.September. This feast day of course has special significance for our community as we are a school set up by the teaching sisters of the Holy Cross order founded in Switzerland. Father Michael led our…
Feast of the Holy Cross Mass
The school extends a warm invitation to you all this Wednesday, to join us in the Hall for whole school Mass at 8:45am. Father Michael Sileshi, the parish priest from St.Anne’s Catholic church on Kingston Hill, is our school celebrant and well known to us all. We welcome families of all faiths in school and…
Extra-Curricular Clubs and Activities
We are delighted here at Holy Cross to offer our girls a broad and rich education which extends beyond the school day in their normal classrooms. We have many extra-curricular clubs on offer, some provided by our own staff, some facilitated by external provision, which cover a wide range of interests and activities from ballet,…
‘Meet the Teacher’
At the start of the new academic year we like to set up sessions for all our parents to enable them to meet the new class teacher and teaching assistant that their daughter will be involved with all year. These sessions are informal, take place in the Old Chapel and provide an opportunity to raise…