A platoon of Fourth Year cadets from the Army Section, under the leadership of their Sixth Form NCOs, deployed to Pippingford Park Training Areas in East Sussex last Friday for a demanding exercise in fieldcraft and tactics. The morning saw the cadets trained, practised and assessed in section battle drills: each section completed four increasingly-slick […]
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English Touring Opera Comes to Caterham
On Tuesday, pupils in the First and Second Year had the fantastic opportunity to watch the opera, Shackleton’s Cat that was performed by the English Touring Opera group. This was the perfect finale to their topic this half term. I am extremely proud that all of our pupils have had the opportunity to see a […]
Lunchtime Live: Ensembles Special
The School Concert Band and Strad String Orchestra featured in the Lunchtime Live concert this week which was held in the Humphreys Theatre. Both of these ensembles are going from strength to strength and once again they performed wonderfully. The strings played pieces by Purcell and Offenbach whilst the concert band gave energetic performances of […]
Vegetarian Lunch leads Green Awareness Initiative
Green Awareness week was a great success. The launch of Caterham School’s initiative to become free from disposable plastic bottles from September 2018 went down very well and is now very poignant after the government’s decision to introduce a deposit system on plastic drinks bottles and cans. Pupils were informed via assemblies of the need to become more […]
Sponsored Readers Chomp Through 97 Books
As part of our World Book Day celebrations this year our Third Year pupils took part in a sponsored read. They were asked to read as many books as they comfortably could in a six week period. Between them they read a total of 97 books and raised £368.00 in sponsorship. Special congratulations must go to Rafie (7 […]
Holocaust Survivor Engages Third Year Pupils
We were delighted to welcome back Holocaust survivor Rudi Oppenheimer to talk to the Third Year about his experiences. Rudi was kind enough to stay for the afternoon of Wednesday 21 March where he told pupils of his experiences moving from Germany to Amsterdam and then his time in several concentration camps. Our pupils […]
