Year 4 Camp 2017
Bubbling with excitement, Y4 boarded a bus last Thursday for their long-awaited overnight camp.
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Upcoming Events:
Wednesday 29 November:
Canterbury Schools' Triathlon
Y8 Museum Trip
Y7 CanSail (2) + Orienteering
Y5 return from camp, 3.15pm
Thursday 30 November:
Knowledge of School History Quiz (Y6-8)
Music Itinerant Teachers Presentations (10.00-10.40am: Junior School; 11.00-11.50am Prep Schools)
Top Team Colours' Challenge
Friday 1 December:
Y7 Raft Building
Junior School Nativity Play rehearsal (1.45pm - 2.30pm - Hall)
Touch Rugby - Final matches
Sunday 3 December:
Y3 Nativity Play - Morning Service, 10,00am ChristChurch Cathedral
Monday 4 - Friday 8 December:
City Mission Christmas Food Collection Week
Pre-School Swimming
Library & Literature books due back ASAP
Monday 4 December:
Y8 Girls' Day Out
Friends' Association Meeting
Junior Girls' Poetry Reading (9.15 - 10.40am)
Senior Boys' Poetry Reading (11.15am - 12.40pm)
Tuesday 5 December:
Senior Girls' Poetry Reading (9.20 - 10.40am)
Junior Boys' Poetry Reading (11.05am - 12.30pm)
8G Museum Visit - Far from Frozen
Wednesday 6 December:
Canterbury Primary Schools' Athletics Championship (Ashburton)
Cathedral Choristers sing at Burwood Hospital
Prep School Drama Club performance, 2.30pm
Y8 Leavers' Dinner at Christ's College, 6.30pm for 7.00pm
Thursday 7 December:
Mufti Day & BOSS Fair
Junior & Senior Tennis Doubles Finals
Girls' Evensong at Cathedral, 5,30 - 6.00pm
Friday 8 December:
House Choirs Competition
Junior & Senior Tennis Finals
Monday 11 December:
Carol Service 7.15pm
Pre-School Carol Service & Nativity Play
Pre-School & Junior School Picnic Lunches
Junior School Final Assembly
Tuesday 12 December:
Tough Kids' Competition - Rawhiti Domain (Y7&8)
Wednesday 13 December:
Summer Sports' & Cultural Awards' Assembly, 2.00pm
Thursday 14 December:
Pre-School Graduation Assembly & Morning Tea
Leavers' & End-of-Year Service, Cathedral, 12,00-12,45pm
Friday 15 December:
Final Day of School Year
Speech Day & Prize Giving, Christ's College, 11.00am - 12.15pm
If you have any questions or submissions for future issues please just get in touch - we would love to hear from you.
Contents
Creating Moral Citizens - Virtue of the Week is: Diligence
General Notices
Co-curricular Notices
Curriculum Review
Cathedral Grammar has started on a very exciting journey of reviewing its curriculum. We are looking at how our curriculum can best address the needs, interests and circumstances of our pupils and our community.
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Music Itinerant Programme Information Morning this Thursday!
Do you want your child to enrol/re-enrol for itinerant lessons in 2018? Come and hear about our Music Itinerant Programme on Thursday (30 November).
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Pre-School
We LOVE CGS. The Pre-School lead the way in starting to decorate the Chester Street fence. The children were able to tell us what they enjoy about their days at Pre-School. Do stop and have a read and even a little tear!
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Play-based Learning at the Cathedral Grammar Pre-School
Nathan Wallis presented a report on TVNZ Seven Sharp discussing the benefits of a Play-based Learning approach for children under 7 years.
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Girls' & Boys' Prep School
This term is careering quickly to an end but not before we wade our way through a large number of activities. The following is just a snapshot of what has and is taking place. In amongst, this there are still classroom lessons taking place!
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DoubleTime 2017
A fantastic three days were had by our Year 6 to 8 pupils at our DoubleTime Conference.
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Interschool Tennis v STAC
On Thursday 23 November it was a perfect day for tennis at the Hagley Club!
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