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St Catherine’s, Bramley

]Independent Boarding and Day School for Girls age 4 -18

Ellie de la Bedoyere (2011), Senior Policy Advisor at the Cabinet Office, gave a fascinating and very personal insight into her career in the Civil Service working with Michael Gove MP

Prep School girls enjoy festive cheer at their Christmas Fair

Boarders celebrate Advent and look forward to Christmas at their annual Candlelit Service

Midleton House won Best Play in House Drama, pictured with adjudicator Anna Lewis, professional theatre designer and alumna of 2008 – December 2019

St Catherine’s students at the Mock Election Polling Station.

All the fun of the annual Merriman Christmas Fair

Ding Dong Merrily on High in Guildford the bells were ringing! The annual Carol Service in Guildford is the signal for many St Catherine’s families and friends that Christmas is almost here.

‘We see it! We see it! We swear we do. We see extraordinary magic in you.’ The whole Prep School sings about the magic within us all. – Prep School Carol Service

‘The Pre-Prep girls delighted the audience with a wonderful performance of ‘Away in a Manger’.

Bronte Boarders decorating the Senior School Christmas Tree for the PTA Ball.

Concert Band open the programme for the St Catherine’s Day Gala Concert with a performance of music from The Lion King

Prayers led by the Head Girls in the Prep School's St Catherine's Day Chapel Service

Excited Prep School girls at St Catherine's Day House Gym Competition.

St Catherine’s day inter-House Lacrosse Competition was won by Ashcombe in both the Middle and Seniors Finals!

An exciting morning of hard-fought matches.

St Catherine’s Day underway Church, Cattern Cakes, and Celebratory Lunch.

The audience enjoyed a wide range of performances at our third Informal Concert of this term

The Lower III’s travelled through space and time today with the help from Creative Space

What can I do with a degree in History? Alumnae Ellie, Natalie and Megan return to inspire St Catherine’s young historians about their careers in the Civil service, Law and Management.

Congratulations to Ananya, Abby and Lucy Senior Rotary winners for the Guildford area 2019.

A special well done to Ananya for winning the Best Proposer category.

GSA Students vote Greta Thunberg as Woman of the Year 2019. We are proud of alumna Nicki Henderson (2011) who is helping skipper Greta back to Spain for the UN Climate summit in December - November 2019

A wide variety of music on offer at the Woodwind and Brass Sectional Concert

Pre-Prep II experience a day in a Victorian School

PP1 exploring moving over, under and climbing on apparatus in their gymnastics lesson.

Charles Dickens’ great-great-great granddaughter Lucinda Hawksley, last night’s entertaining speaker at St Catherine’s Presents provided us with a better understanding of how Dicken’s childhood and family influenced some of his most famous characters.

Upper 3 girls played a wonderful variety of music in their Informal Concert.

The Royal British Legion Theme of Togetherness was the focus of this year’s Remembrance Service. Contributions were made by representatives from the School community from Great Britain, France, Australia, India and the USA

The Royal British Legion Theme of Togetherness was the focus of this year’s Remembrance Service. Contributions were made by representatives from the School community from Great Britain, France, Australia, India and the USA

Lucy and Caitlin led and spoke in chapel this week inspiring the girls to make the most of their youth.

The Lower 5 Football team enjoyed their first competitive match against Charterhouse.

Lower III girls enjoyed working together as a team and reaching unknown limits on their IoW residential trip.

The warmth of our welcome and the palpable joy at this event is testament to the close relationship we enjoy with our Hong Kong families.

Former staff and Association members enjoyed a fascinating walking tour of Dickens’ London with Lucinda Hawksley, his great-great-great-granddaughter.

Sixth Form Essay Prizewinners with guest judge Professor Diane Watt (Surrey University), and Head of Sixth Form, Carl Gladwell.

“The Grimm Tales reimagined at St Cats this week”

Alumnae and parents gathered at UniCredit to discuss Leadership and Managing Teams at the latest London Network evening

A variety of performers delighted the audience at the first of our Informal Concerts this year

‘Robin Stevens - Mystery Writer Librarians’Literary Lectures’.

Welcome back to the Year of 2009 celebrating their 10th anniversary reunion – October 2019

St Catherine’s Association Careers Forum in full swing with Alumnae and Parents sharing career insights with students.

U14 and U15 netball teams played some great matches during the Surrey qualifiers tournament on Wednesday 9th Oct at St Cats School. They thoroughly enjoyed hosting the event. #finalists

Parent Mrs Aig-Imoukhuede led a Sixth Form SCOPE session exploring the links between poverty, social inequality and lack of education and the rise of extremist activity and Boko Haram

“For the Harvest” - Girls from the Prep School are delighted to be able to support the Guildford Food Crisis Project by sharing their Harvest boxes.

Prep School Chess teams played marvellously against Aldro. The friendly but determined sportsmanship was a credit to both schools.

The Scholars and Award Holders black tie concert marked the start of the musical year .

“Dr Jonathan Jeffers from Imperial College London talks to students and inspires them to become the Engineers of the future.”

‘Prep School girls enjoyed taster sessions in various languages as part of the European Day of Languages celebrations.’

An Early Music Workshop gave the girls the opportunity to try a wide range of instruments.

U13B’s were runners up in the plate competition at Condover Hall this weekend. Well done girls!

Prep Girls enjoying the new Soundscape room with the facility for podcasting and instant composition # Website, Twitter and Instagram

Girls, parents and staff in the Prep School were excited to explore their newly refurbished music room, the Soundscape, opened by Jenni Costello, radio DJ and podcaster.

Mr Donald Lloyd Conductor of Symphony Orchestra conducts the combined orchestras of St Catherine’s Symphony Orchestra and the South Downs Orchestra performing at St Catherine’s Presents

$A L5 Physics class experiment with producing waves, using a jelly baby wave machine, to demonstrate reflection and refraction.$

Swim Tour

U3 enjoy trying out new instruments at the Instrument Taster Session

Prep School enjoyed welcoming our new parents and current PTA to our coffee morning this morning.

Annual Boarders’ Start-of-Year Party

Catching up with friends in the Prep School on the 1st day of term