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www.cathedral-school.co.ukYoung people do not become mature adults simply as time passes.
At the Cathedral School we place great emphasis upon the ‘co-curricular’,
the learning which goes on outside the classroom, widening horizons
and helping young people develop interests and enthusiasms which will
enrich their adult lives. Years 10-13 undertake the Duke of Edinburgh’s
Award (D of E) which is hugely popular and delivered not by external
providers but by our own dedicated staff who love sharing this
developmental journey with their students. Years 7-9 follow the Head’s
Award, an anticipatory version of D of E. The co-educational environment
encourages social confidence for both boys and girls, and the academic
results generally surpass those gained by teenagers in single-sex
schools. Space and time for finding the things each student is good at
enables each to grow in confidence and leadership potential.
The sixth form phase of schooling is about growing in maturity, learning
to be responsible, independent, exercising good judgement and making
wise choices, to work productively with people of various ages and
backgrounds. Adopting a different status within the school community,
the students are regarded as fellow adults. As a small but important
symbol of this, they have the same dress code as the academic staff.
“
Growing up is a terribly hard thing to do.
It is much easier to skip it and go from
one childhood to another
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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