Whilst the quantity of schools entering the competition was disappointingly low, the quality of the poetry was outstanding and so we have worthy winners in both the Junior and Senior sections. Thank you to Katie Hilder, St Teresa’s Prep, and Joanna Cottingham, St Mary’s Cambridge, for featuring the competition with their students and co-ordinating the […]

Laleham Lea School, on Peaks Hill in Purley, is delighted to announce that it was recently awarded the highest possible rating of ‘Excellent’ across Focused Compliance and Educational Quality Inspection including Academic Achievement following a full inspection from the Independent Schools Inspectorate. The Inspection, which took place in February, reported that ‘The quality of the […]

Thornton College was thrilled to receive and welcome The Right Reverend David Oakley, Bishop of Northampton for a school visit. Bishop David is new in his role as Bishop for the Northamptonshire Diocese and is busy visiting schools in the Diocese. Bishop David arrived in the morning and met with Chair of Governors, Sr Helen […]

  Huge congratulations to everyone at The Marist School in Sunninghill for their rating of ‘Excellent’ in all areas following a recent Inspection by the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI). Inspectors visited the independent Catholic day school for girls aged 2-18 with a co-ed Nursery between 30 November to 3 December 2021 to conduct a Focused […]

Dear CISC colleagues and friends, I hope that the start to the term has been as easeful as it can be and that the joys have outweighed the many challenges presented by Covid. These challenges have informed discussions that Antony, Paula, the Committee and I have been having about Conference and as a result we […]

CISC would like to congratulate Fr Chris Cann on his appointment as Head of St Mary’s Hall, from September 2022 – details below.  He succeeds Ian Murphy who has enjoyed eight very successful years in the post. Chris is on the CISC Committee and is currently Head at Ratcliffe College Prep.  We look forward to […]

Trustees of the Princethorpe Foundation have given the green light for work to commence on Princethorpe College’s new £8m Science Centre. The Science Centre, which features 10 brand-new, state-of-the-art Science laboratories, will ultimately transform the College’s entire campus allowing other areas to be redeveloped and departments clustered within the main school building. The project, the […]