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Thursday 20 March 2025 Summer Ball 2025 - tickets now available The Friends of LCS Summer Ball 2025 will take place on Saturday 28th June from 6.30pm with a drinks reception, followed by dinner served at 7.30pm and entertainment to midnight.
Wednesday 19 March 2025 STEAM competition finalists! You may remember in February that we reported about the Year 7 and 8 pupils in the after-school Science Club who had entered the ISA's national STEAM competition to design a flood-proof house.
Wednesday 19 March 2025 Supporting Retired Greyhound Trust Jess (Year 11) attended Crufts with her dog, Indie, to represent the Wolverhampton branch of the Retired Greyhound Trust.
Tuesday 18 March 2025 Super British Science Week at Longdon We were delighted to invite back Sublime Science once again to join us during British Science Week to celebrate this year’s theme of ‘Change and Adapt’. Sublime Science were incredible and the pupils had an amazing time during their workshops. Longdon pupils continued their celebrations in the classroom and looked at different scientists and their discoveries. It was delightful to see the children come dressed as scientists, so eager to engage in their activities.
Tuesday 18 March 2025 Gymnastics & Athletics achievements On Sat 8 March, Mia (Year 9) competed in a West Midlands County Qualifier Gymnastics Competition at Lilleshall National Sports Centre, finishing in a fantastic 1st place in her category.
Monday 17 March 2025 U15 Hockey vs The Friary The U15 hockey team recently took on two teams from the Friary School. In a spirited and well-natured affair, LCS were victorious against both Friary teams. Well done boys!
Monday 17 March 2025 U11 Hockey Tournament Lichfield's young hockey players were in action last week in the annual Staffordshire U11 tournament. Both the girls' and boys' teams took part, competing against teams from all over the county.
Sunday 16 March 2025 Inspiring Female Lead career event A fantastic group of Year 8-12 girls took part in an inspiring Female Lead event called Inspiring Careers of the Future at Amazon HQ in London recently.
Saturday 15 March 2025 Superb LAMDA results! A total of 115 students undertook recent examinations in Public Speaking, Devised Performance, Musical Theatre, Mime, Acting, Reading for Performance and Verse and Prose, and the results are amazing:
Friday 14 March 2025 Gardening is great! This week I am inspired by the sunshine that is beginning to make an appearance. That said, as I write this I am aware that the forecast for when you may be reading this is rather less clement! However, having listened to an amazing lecture last week on the mental and physical wellbeing benefits of being outdoors in the ‘greenery’, having benefitted from the lovely weekend weather, and having had a splendid few months planning our primary nature curriculum with Mrs Churton, I am turning my attention to the great outdoors.
Thursday 13 March 2025 Exciting theatre trip for Pre-Reception A couple of photos from Pre-Reception's recent successful visit to Tamworth Assembly Room to watch Room on the Broom, Tall Stories’ fun-filled stage adaptation of the best-selling picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. It was a great show, the children really enjoyed joining in with repeated parts of the story and singing. They were star pupils throughout!
Wednesday 12 March 2025 M3 Challenge weekend Four intrepid students dared to undertake this year's MathWorks Math Modelling Challenge Weekend - a 14 hour international Maths competition open to Sixth Form students. Jess, Zephan, Theo and Danae used Maths and data to solve open-ended and timely real-world problems during a 14-hour continuous work time slot (breaks are recommended!) and they had no idea what the challenge was about until the clock started. Teams can use computers, books, reference works and internet sources to help them complete the challenge, but they cannot discuss the problem, nor seek help via any means or method from a coach or anyone other than their teammates.
Tuesday 11 March 2025 Taking inspiration from St Chad Last week we celebrated St Chad’s day (officially 2nd March). The Cathedral would not be here were it not for St Chad and last Wednesday a special service took place for his patronal festival. All of the bishops from Chad to our current Bishop Michael Ipgrave (99 in total) were listed and remembered. The College of Canons then celebrated Chad with a meal and a drink from a memorial cup called the Loving Cup (you may have seen the photos in last week's Update). In addition, on Monday pupils in Years 5, 6 and 7 took part in our annual St Chad’s pilgrimage walk to St Chad’s Well.
Monday 10 March 2025 Exploring philosophy and theology Last Monday, Year 12 and 13 Philosophy, Ethics & Theology students visited Coventry Cathedral to listen to world renowned philosopher and theologian Dr Peter Vardy talk at a Candle Conference exploring the topic of 'Evil and the God of Love'.
Saturday 8 March 2025 Cathedral Choir concert in Sutton Coldfield The Lichfield Cathedral Choir will once again be performing a concert at the Holy Trinity Parish Church in Royal Sutton Coldfield.
Friday 7 March 2025 St Chad This week we celebrate St Chad’s day (officially 2nd March). The Cathedral would not be here were it not for St Chad and last week on Wednesday a special service took place for his patronal festival. All of the bishops from Chad to our current Bishop Michael Ipgrave (99 in total) were listed and remembered. The College of Canons then celebrated Chad with a meal and a drink from a memorial cup called the Loving Cup. In addition, on Monday pupils in Years 5, 6 and 7 took part in our annual St Chad’s pilgrimage walk to St Chad’s Well.
Thursday 6 March 2025 Quiz Night - Friday 14 March, 7.30pm, Cathedral Enjoy an evening of quizzing among friends and support the Lichfield Cathedral Choristers!
Wednesday 5 March 2025 National Apprenticeship Show Students from Years 11 and 12 travelled to the Coventry Building Society Arena last week to speak with a wide range of companies and organisations all offering apprenticeship opportunities. Stallholders ranged from Aldi, Tesco and Royal Mail to the Army, Rolls Royce and the NHS. The Show also incorporated UniversityFest, so that students could meet University teams to learn about Higher Education pathways.
Tuesday 4 March 2025 College of Canons Supper Choristers and Choral Scholars enjoyed a meal in the Cathedral after Evensong on Wednesday for the annual College of Canons Supper. A Loving Cup is passed along the dining table with each person saying the school motto as they hand it to their neighbour to take a sip of (non alcoholic) wine. The cup used last night was the Hackett chalice cup, which dates from 1662. Bishop Hackett paid for the restoration of the Cathedral after the Civil War, and his grave is the one in the south quire aisle with the man lying down in full robes. When the Civil War soldiers came in and saw him praying the 1662 Prayer Book, they told him to stop or they would kill him. He simply turned to them and said, “You must do what you must do and I must do what I must do“. He kept praying and they didn’t kill him. Evensong is sung each week by Choristers and Choral Scholars on Tuesday to Friday at 5.30pm and Sunday at 3.30pm together with Sunday Eucharist at 10.30am.
Monday 3 March 2025 Getting to the heart of Maths Before half term, Mrs Reynolds' Year 9 class used graphs to plot a mathematical heart for Valentine's Day!
Sunday 2 March 2025 Lent 2025 - Living Hope Lent begins on Wednesday, 5th March - Ash Wednesday - and continues for 40 days (Sundays are not included), meaning that it culminates in Holy Week (beginning with Palm Sunday) and finishes on Holy Saturday, 19 April. The Church of England’s Lent theme for 2025 is Living Hope.
Thursday 27 February 2025 Choral Workshop - 23 March - for Years 2-5 An exciting afternoon workshop for boys and girls interested in becoming a Cathedral Chorister will be held on Sunday 23rd March.
Wednesday 26 February 2025 Revision - French style! Mrs Albans and Mme Smith invited our A level students into school last Friday during half term to do revision on the theme of 'cinema'. We did some work on vocabulary, grammar and A level questions in the morning, followed by lunch (which Mrs Albans cooked!) and then watched Amelie (2001).Mme Smith
Tuesday 25 February 2025 National Cross-Country Championships
Monday 24 February 2025 Half term upgrades Parents and visitors to the Longdon campus will notice quite a difference following the half term holiday. Our fantastic Facilities team worked long and hard to make improvements to the outdoor areas, notably the Forest Tots area (photo), new fencing, the emptying and removal of the two shipping containers, a new roof for the Forest School Shelter and a clearing and tidy-up of the whole site.
Wednesday 19 February 2025 Netball success A very good win for our Y5/6 girls over Dixie Grammar last week.
Tuesday 18 February 2025 Fantastic footballing future Congratulations to Poppy (Year 4) who has been invited to join Derby County’s Emerging Talent Centre.
Monday 17 February 2025 Rotary Schools' Concert @ Garrick Theatre LCS students will be taking part in the Rotary Schools' Concert at the Garrick Theatre on Wednesday 5th March.
Monday 17 February 2025 More TT Rock Stars! Years 3 to 6 took part in another national times tables competition last Friday - NSPCC Rocks!
Sunday 16 February 2025 How to Prepare for School It’s exciting and nerve-wracking, sending your little one to school. At Lichfield Cathedral School, our Nursery welcomes children as young as two and a half years of age, and children enter Reception at the start of the academic year in which they reach five years of age. Attending the Nursery helps prepare little ones for the transition to Reception. However, if you are keeping your child home for those early years, there is no reason he or she shouldn’t be just as prepared, as long as you are proactive.

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