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Issue: 2025 11 28
View another issueFrom the Cathedral Choristers
Friday, 28 November 2025A focus for the Choristers this week has been preparing the music for this weekend's Advent Processions. This is an atmospheric service to mark the start...
From the Headmistress of Chorister School
Friday, 28 November 2025Last Friday evening, it was a pleasure to attend the Music Recital concert which featured soloists from across the year groups. The pupils performed with...
Poole House
Friday, 28 November 2025It has been another busy week in the House, and the boys are still on a high from last week's House singing exploits. We had the pleasure on Tuesday morning...
From The Archives: Henry Hardinge
Friday, 28 November 2025There is a dormitory in Poole House that, on the wooden board affixed above the door, proudly bears the name 'Hardinge 1797'. This refers to Henry Hardinge,...
DofE Pupils Trip to Ingram Valley
Friday, 28 November 2025The Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme Training Weekend took place on the 22nd and 23rd November. Two mini-busses packed with gleeful Bronze and Gold scheme...
Zambezi Sunrise Trust
Friday, 28 November 2025Earlier this week, we received photos from OD John Gillette (P, 1980–85) and his wife, Joanne, who run the Zambezi Sunrise Trust, a charity supporting...
Pimlico House
Friday, 28 November 2025Sadly, due to illness, there is no report from Pimlico House this week. Miss Hinde and the team will be back next week with more news from Pimlico.
Friends Business Club
Friday, 28 November 2025Did you know our Foundation has a Business Club, run by Friends of DCSF?
The Friends Business Club meets on the second Thursday of each month,...
The Friends Business Club meets on the second Thursday of each month,...
Wellbeing: Growth
Friday, 28 November 2025This week in LWE (Life & Wellbeing Education) Tutor Time, students continued to develop one of our key G.R.O.W.T.H. points: 'Resilience', with a particular...
The Caffinites
Friday, 28 November 2025After the excitement of the House Music, this week seems to be the calm after the storm. Despite it being a more sedate week, there have been many activities...
MacLeod House
Friday, 28 November 2025It's been a slightly calmer week in MacLeod House now that House Music is behind us. With the dust settling, the girls seem to have redirected their energy...
Chorister School Week Ahead
Friday, 28 November 2025From the Principal
Friday, 28 November 2025On Wednesday, it was a delight to welcome the Y6 pupils from Choristers for their familiarisation day with a range of activities designed to make the place...
Lodge House
Friday, 28 November 2025It's been another busy week in the beehive! Part-song singers are still basking in the light of their win. Crafts are being made. Decorations are starting...
School House
Friday, 28 November 2025What a brilliant morning we had setting up for and completing our Movember HYROX 2025. The boys, as always, threw themselves into the challenge and it...
From the Principal
Friday, 21 November 2025Among my pastimes outside School, lies a fondness for YouTube and, particularly, videos which reflect some of my wider interests - the algorithmic suggestions...
From the Archives: Chasing the Phantom
Friday, 21 November 2025Durham School has long been proud of its two poets of the First World War, William Noel Hodgson (1893-1916) and Nowell Oxland (1890-1915), who attended...
From the Headmistress of Chorister School
Friday, 21 November 2025It has been another full and memorable week here at Chorister School. It began with great energy on Friday evening as our Boys' Weekend got underway. Alongside...
Lodge House
Friday, 21 November 2025What a week!
Snow, ice, singing, donuts, netball, Langley service, craft fair planning!
This week has flown by and despite the disruption...
Snow, ice, singing, donuts, netball, Langley service, craft fair planning!
This week has flown by and despite the disruption...
Celebrating the Life of Bishop Thomas Langley
Friday, 21 November 2025Yesterday, we celebrated Langley Day in the Cathedral with a special service of Evensong. The Durham School Chapel Choir sung with the Cathedral Choristers...
Chorister School Week Ahead
Friday, 21 November 2025Marketing Officer Vacancy
Friday, 21 November 2025The school currently have a vacancy for a full-time Marketing Officer to work alongside our Marketing Team based at Durham School. If you are administratively...
Bungites
Friday, 21 November 2025Despite the cold and grim conditions the boys have been busy and I am pleased to say have now learnt that mud, the house carpets and my patience do not...
School Blazer Flash Sale
Friday, 21 November 2025Schoolblazer Flash Sale!
Our school uniform supplier Schoolblazer, has announced a flash sale from Monday, 24 to Tuesday, 25 November 2025....
Our school uniform supplier Schoolblazer, has announced a flash sale from Monday, 24 to Tuesday, 25 November 2025....
House Music Competition
Friday, 21 November 2025On Wednesday 19 November every pupil in Durham School took to the stage in the historic school chapel to take part in the annual House Music Competition....
Poole House
Friday, 21 November 2025House Music Heroics
While it might have been a typical cold, wintry Wednesday night in November, House Music was just what was needed to bring...
While it might have been a typical cold, wintry Wednesday night in November, House Music was just what was needed to bring...
The Caffinites
Friday, 21 November 2025This week, the snow has arrived, resulting in the cancellation of many of our sporting fixtures. As temperatures plummeted on Wednesday evening, we were...
Pimlico House
Friday, 21 November 2025The hours of rehearsals, along with the toil and sweat expended by senior girls, certainly resulted in a glittering performance on Wednesday night. Although...
From The Cathedral Choristers
Friday, 21 November 2025Last weekend the boys had a brilliant boys' weekend! The seniors enjoyed a trip into town while the juniors got creative with some Christmas crafts. Afterwards,...
MacLeod House
Friday, 21 November 2025It has been a jam-packed week from start to finish and there was certainly some very quiet and tried looking girls (and tutors) in the common room during...
Incredible Opportunity for your Child to Experience Slovenia
Friday, 14 November 2025Durham School invites you to join an online talk about our exciting Slovenia expedition, running for pupils in year 10-12, this July 2026.
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Sixth Form Information Evening - Tuesday 18 November 2025
Friday, 14 November 2025We very much look forward to welcoming Year 11 pupils and their parents/guardians into school on Tuesday 18 November 2025, for our Sixth Form Information...
Wellbeing - Anti-Bullying Awareness Week 2025
Friday, 14 November 2025This year's Anti-Bullying Awareness Week at Durham Cathedral Schools Foundation has been a great success, filled with meaningful discussion, creativity,...
From the Principal
Friday, 14 November 2025Even accepting that time is not a constant, I remain impressed at the way in which the academic year accelerates as we live through it; that which appeared...
Lodge House
Friday, 14 November 2025Preparations for House Music have stepped up a gear this week. Both songs are sounding good and with just a few little things to sort out during our chapel...
Chorister School Week Ahead
Friday, 14 November 2025Bungites
Friday, 14 November 2025It has been another busy week in Bungites with lots happening and boys travelling around the North East to represent the school. For us, Music Rehearsals...
From The Archives: Henry VIII
Friday, 14 November 2025The sixth verse of Floreat Dunelmia, the beloved song of Durham School, goes as follows:
'So Hal the Eighth, when he bore rule,
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'So Hal the Eighth, when he bore rule,
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Poole House
Friday, 14 November 2025Winter has arrived this week. However, the wet weather has not dampened the spirits of the boys in the house. House music rehearsals have ramped up this...
From The Cathedral Choristers
Friday, 14 November 2025On Remembrance Sunday our girls were on duty for the service, which featured "For the Fallen" by Guest, "The Kohima Epitaph" by Chivers and "Greater Love...
Pimlico House
Friday, 14 November 2025It was a real pleasure to see all parents and guardians who could make last week's drinks. Thank you for coming along.
Anti-Bullying Week
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Anti-Bullying Week
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MacLeod House
Friday, 14 November 2025It's been another busy and exciting week for Macleod House, with so much going on across school! At the beginning of the week our Y7 girls received postcards...
The Caffinites
Friday, 14 November 2025It has been Anti-Bullying Week this week and the boys have enjoyed a number of talks and assemblies about tackling bullying as a school community. We listened...
From the Headmistress of Chorister School
Friday, 14 November 2025Odd Socks Day and our Wellbeing Ambassador Assembly on Monday provided a wonderful launch to Anti-Bullying Week. This year's theme, Power for Good, has...
Wellbeing - Anti-Bullying Awareness Week: Working Together as One Community
Friday, 7 November 2025Next week, Durham Cathedral Schools Foundation will be proudly taking part in Anti-Bullying Awareness Week, a national initiative that encourages schools...
Poole House
Friday, 7 November 2025I hope you have all had a wonderful half-term break. The boys have returned in great spirits, ready to attack what will be a very busy 7 weeks. The darker...
From The Archives: The War Record of Old Dunelmians
Friday, 7 November 2025We are approaching Remembrance Day, where we commemorate those who lost their lives in the line of duty. As well as the customary two minutes' silence,...
From The Cathedral Choristers
Friday, 7 November 2025Our Choristers started the half term with a Requiem for All Souls Day on Monday night. It's not often they get the chance to sing a Monday evening service,...