St Mary's Catholic High School

Thursday 22 August 2024 GCSE Results 2024 Thursday, 22 August was a most memorable day at our school with the publication of GCSE and BTEC exam results. Overall, the results show a pleasing improvement on our already good record with an increase in the percentage of pupils awarded grades 4 and above compared to recent years.

Friday 19 July 2024 Summer Term Star Pupils 2024 Congratulations to the following pupils who were the top three in each year group for gaining achievement points in the summer term.

Friday 19 July 2024 House Competitions 2024 - Results The end of term assembly this year included added spice with the announcements of the results of the inter-house competitions.

Monday 15 April 2024 Student Leadership 2024 - 2025 On Thursday, 28th March, the whole school gathered for a special end of term Easter Liturgy which was followed by the announcement of the new student leadership team for 2024 – 2025.

Monday 25 March 2024 St Mary's Pilgrimage to Rome - March 2024 In the week before Holy Week, a group of St Mary’s pupils, staff and Governors took part in the school’s first pilgrimage to Rome in its history.

Wednesday 20 March 2024 Year 11 History pupils visit The Old Operating Theatre On 20th March, Year 11 pupils visited The Old Operating Theatre in preparation for their forthcoming GCSE History examinations, where ‘Medicine Through Time’ is a key component of their course. Our pupils were taken back to the Victorian era, exploring the surgical procedures that were once carried out at the old St Thomas’ Hospital in Southwark.

Sunday 17 March 2024 The Big Lent Walk 2024 - £341.00 raised for CAFOD During the week beginning 11th March, the whole school took part in CAFOD’s Big Lent Walk 2024. As with last year, pupils walked, or ran, laps of the upper playground, and on a couple of wet days did their walk around our large sports hall.

Tuesday 16 January 2024 Pupils deliver donations to The Manna Society This week, pupils from St Mary’s delivered the large quantity of donations that they had collected during Advent to The Manna Society, a charity based at London Bridge that supports the homeless.

Wednesday 10 January 2024 Year 10 History pupils visit Hampton Court On Wednesday, 10th January, Year 10 GCSE History pupils visited Hampton Court Palace as part of their study of Elizabethan England. In their visit, pupils were able to use a range of physical and documentary evidence to explore how Queen Elizabeth I used Hampton Court Palace to create and consolidate her presentations of power, identity, and legacy.

Thursday 21 December 2023 Building the Christmas Crib end of term liturgy Our end of term, whole-school Christmas Liturgy, took place on the last day of the autumn term on Thursday, 21st December. The school gathered together in our sports hall as a culmination of our Advent preparations to celebrate the birth of Our Saviour, Jesus Christ.

Wednesday 20 December 2023 All pupils share Christmas Lunch In two mammoth sessions, every pupil in our school sat down to a traditional Christmas lunch on Wednesday, 20th December in what has become a tradition at our school. Nearly 600 turkey lunches*, with traditional Christmas pudding, were served to our pupils by members of staff in our canteen and assembly hall,

Tuesday 19 December 2023 Will Aladdin save the day? St Mary's trip to the Panto. Will Aladdin save the day, and will he marry the beautiful Princess Jasmine? Will the Genie be freed? There was only one way to find out – take the whole of St Mary’s Catholic High School to The Fairfield Halls to see the pantomime ‘Aladdin’!

Monday 4 December 2023 Year 11 Awards Evening 2023 On Thursday, 1st December, we welcomed back last year's Year 11 students, along with their parents, to our annual prize-giving celebration evening.

Monday 13 November 2023 Year 11s at Hindleap Warren On Friday, 10th November, our Year 11 pupils embarked on the now annual residential weekend trip to the outdoor pursuits centre, Hindleap Warren, where they participate in a variety of team building activities, led by the centre staff, and specialist subject lessons delivered by our teachers who accompanied them.

Friday 3 November 2023 November - Month of Remembrance 2023 In the month of November, as a Catholic community, we remember all those who have died.

Friday 20 October 2023 Macmillan Cancer Support Fundraising 2023 Thank you to everyone who supported our pupils' cake sale for Macmillan Cancer Support on Friday, 20th October. Our school have traditional supported Macmillan Cancer Support in the first half-term as one our whole-school charity campaigns.

Thursday 24 August 2023 GCSE and BTEC Results 2023 Warmest congratulations to our Year 11 students who collected their GCSE and BTEC Statements of Results earlier today.

Friday 23 June 2023 New Head Girl & Boy and Deputies Elected Warmest congratulations to our new Senior Student Leadership Team who were elected on Thursday and announced, to great acclaim, at a whole-school assembly on Friday, 23rd June.

Wednesday 14 June 2023 Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme News Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme is thriving at St Mary’s Catholic High School. It is fantastic that in our school’s second year of running the scheme we have seen a doubling of students taking part in the programme.

Monday 12 June 2023 Year 10 footballers at the 'Cut It Out' Tournament On Monday, 12th June, our Year 10 football team represented St Mary’s at the annual ‘Cut It Out’ football tournament, held at Selhurst Park.

Friday 9 June 2023 St Mary's sends £1,310 to CAFOD We are delighted to report that our school has sent an amazing £1,310 to CAFOD, including money raised by students for The Big Lent Walk 2023.

Tuesday 6 June 2023 St Mary's Rewarded for Attendance St Mary’s is delighted to have been awarded the Fischer Family Trust (FFT) Attendance Award for Spring Term 2023, placing us in the top 10% of similar secondary schools in England.

Wednesday 22 March 2023 The Big Lent Walk 2023 On Wednesday 22nd March, our entire school community took part in CAFOD’s The Big Lent Walk 2023 in support of those across the world who suffer from global poverty and the victims of the recent earthquake in Syria and Turkey.

Saturday 18 March 2023 Runners-up in the Mock Trial Competition On Saturday, 18th March, students from Year 8 to Year 10 in our school’s Debating Club entered The Young Citizen’s Magistrates Mock Trial Competition, which is a prestigious national competition.

Wednesday 8 March 2023 GCSE Geographers on Brighton Beach On Wednesday, 8th March, Year 11 GCSE geography students visited Brighton in order to carry out fieldwork investigations as required for the examination.

Friday 3 March 2023 Belgium School Exchange 2023 For the very first time in our school’s history we undertook a school exchange with a Catholic secondary school in western Belgium — Spes Nostra Kuurne, situated on the outskirts of the Belgian city of Kortrijk, just a short distance from the border with France.

Thursday 2 March 2023 World Book Day 2023 Thursday, 2nd March, saw students and staff at our school dressed as characters from their favourite books, poems or plays, joining students across the world to celebrate World Book Day 2023. The theme of this year’s World Book Day was Changing lives though a love of books and reading.

Wednesday 22 February 2023 Ash Wednesday Students and staff received ashes on their foreheads to mark the start of Lent, and as an external symbol of repentance. We are grateful to Fr Michael for distributing ashes to those who wished to receive them, and well over 200 students, along with members of staff, did so.

Wednesday 21 December 2022 St Mary's supports Croydon Care4Calais' Christmas Appeal St Mary's has a proud tradition going back many years of supporting the most vulnerable and needy in our local community, especially during the season of Advent. This year, students and staff donated items in support of Croydon Care4Calais Community Group’s Christmas Appeal in order to offer emergency aid to refugees and asylum seekers in our local area. They help to provide dignity and comfort in an otherwise overwhelming situation. They aim this Christmas to give as many children a ‘box of joy’, and adults a ‘bag of hope’.

Thursday 15 December 2022 Students enjoy a rewards trip to the Pantomime A trip to the pantomime was the reward for 100 students at St Mary's at the end of the Autumn Term. On Thursday, 15th December, twenty students with the highest number of achievement points from each year group were treated to a visit to the Fairfield Halls to enjoy ‘The Further Adventures of Peter Pan – the Return of Captain Hook’.