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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
We were blessed with glorious sunshine and blue sky for the start of the new academic year, Autumn term 2018, on Thursday. The girls had all grown over the summer break and were sporting even bigger smiles as they came happily through the gates exchanging stories of holiday adventures and fun. We welcomed our new…