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Issue: 2024/11/15
View another issueFriends Firework Fantasia
Friday, 15 November 2024Thank you to our amazing Friends of DCSF for their fabulous Fireworks display on 4 November. The event raised over £300 to support projects across...
The Week Ahead - Chorister School
Friday, 15 November 2024The Foundation Celebrates Shortlisting for the Prestigious IDPE Award
Friday, 15 November 2024We are thrilled to share that the Foundation has been shortlisted for the esteemed IDPE Award in recognition of our "In the Place" Development Campaign....
Week Ahead - Durham School
Friday, 15 November 2024From the Headmistress of Chorister School
Friday, 15 November 2024This week started with our Armistice Day service. Across the two sites, our pupils participated in a range of reflective commemoration activities. Thought...
Whole School Photo
Friday, 15 November 2024The whole school photograph taken at Durham School on Thursday 3rd October is now online and available to order with delivery direct to your home address....
Bungites
Friday, 15 November 2024It 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 Principal
Friday, 15 November 2024Anticipation is building for the House Music competition next week and tickets are available from the link elsewhere int he Friday Flyer. A cold snap is...
Lodge House
Friday, 15 November 2024This week has been Anti-Bullying Week, and the girls showed their support of this, along with the foundation, by wearing a mixture of random and odd socks!...
From the Archives - Coeducation
Friday, 15 November 2024Yesterday was the official opening of Lodge House, which is a quite significant event in the history of Durham School. This marks the third girls' house...
Poole House
Friday, 15 November 2024The focus this week in the house has been on House music. The rehearsals have stepped up a gear and, dare I say it, we are starting to sound like a well-trained...
Teen boys and body image
Friday, 15 November 2024MacLeod House
Friday, 15 November 2024House Music
We are looking forward to House Music on Monday which will take place in Durham Cathedral – parents are welcome to attend...
We are looking forward to House Music on Monday which will take place in Durham Cathedral – parents are welcome to attend...
Wellbeing - Odd Socks
Friday, 15 November 2024A successful 'odd socks day' and a lovely collaboration with Dubai too for interest.
I would like to...
I would like to...
From the Cathedral Choristers
Friday, 15 November 2024Our girl Choristers were part of the Remembrance Sunday Service in the Cathedral on Sunday which is always well attended - it was standing room only (and...
The Caffinites
Friday, 15 November 2024This week we have celebrated a great deal of individual success and look forward to (hopefully) a combined success in the House Music competition next...
Pimlico House
Friday, 15 November 2024From fireworks to poppies and now on to odd socks, recent DCSF and national traditions have called us to remember and reflect. Through our chapel services...
From the Principal
Friday, 8 November 2024It is good to be back and I hope you and your families enjoyed a good half term break. Preparations have begun in earnest now for House Music which takes...
Bungites
Friday, 8 November 2024A very warm welcome back and I do hope everyone had an enjoyable half term. It was lovely to see the boys on Monday and it was clear that they have recharged...
From the Chorister School
Friday, 8 November 2024It has been a quietly productive week as we returned after the half term break and settled back into routines.
In Pre-Prep, rehearsals for...
In Pre-Prep, rehearsals for...
Lodge House
Friday, 8 November 2024Weekly goings on
Welcome back one and all! Straight back to it with big smiles on our Lodge House busy bees! As we move into...
Welcome back one and all! Straight back to it with big smiles on our Lodge House busy bees! As we move into...
What does the Budget mean for my business?
Friday, 8 November 2024The Monthly Friends Business Club will be having their monthly meeting on Thursday 14 November from 8-9.30 am in the Exhibition Room at Durham School....
From the Archives - Nowell Oxland
Friday, 8 November 2024Remembrance Day is approaching, and today marks our remembrance service in Chapel in which, by tradition, students hold photographs of the ODs who died...
MacLeod House
Friday, 8 November 2024It has been a fast a furious first week back after half term and the dark evenings are certainly drawing in. A few reminders for after school and general...
Anti-Bullying Week
Friday, 8 November 2024Anti-Bullying Week begins on Monday 11th November, and Foundation is marking the week with a series of important talks and events aimed at promoting our...
Pimlico House
Friday, 8 November 2024Given that the week began with Guy Fawkes and continued with Trump, Politics has certainly been in the air. Exchanges within Pimlico walls have been engaging...
Week Ahead - Chorister School
Friday, 8 November 2024
The Caffinites
Friday, 8 November 2024Welcome Back!
We hope all our pupils and their families had a restful and enjoyable two-week half-term break. Many of our pupils...
We hope all our pupils and their families had a restful and enjoyable two-week half-term break. Many of our pupils...
Poole House
Friday, 8 November 2024It has been lovely to welcome the boys back into the house this week. The week has flown by and once again filled with celebrations and activity. This...
Poole House
Friday, 18 October 2024What a wonderfully busy half term this has been. I have been very impressed with the boy's effort throughout the term but I have to congratulate all of...
Parents of Year 8 and Year 11 Pupils
Friday, 18 October 2024Parents of Year 8 and Year 11 pupils will have received a message about the Scholarship and Awards process which included the links to the application...
The Caffinites
Friday, 18 October 2024Just like that, the end of the first half-term is upon us. The summer holidays are a distant memory now, as everyone is focusing on the upcoming Christmas...
From the Principal
Friday, 18 October 2024No doubt we will all breathe a sigh of relief as a long and busy half term comes to an end. My thanks to all of you for the support you have shown to your...
From the Cathedral Choristers
Friday, 18 October 2024As the first half term of the academic year has come to an end, our Choristers are due a well deserved break.
On Sunday they performed...
On Sunday they performed...
From The Deputy Head of Chorister School
Friday, 18 October 2024As I write, we are preparing for today's Harvest Festival. Thank you to everyone for your generous food donations which we will deliver to the Foodbank...
Lodge House
Friday, 18 October 2024Last week of half term and by no means a quieter one. Well done to all the girls keeping up the energy, enthusiasm, academic focus and cheer to the end...
The Week Ahead - Durham School
Friday, 18 October 2024MacLeod House
Friday, 18 October 2024The first half of term seems to have come and gone in a flash! The new girls who joined us in September feel like they have been here forever and I hope...
Pimlico House
Friday, 18 October 2024'Inter-House hockey' were the buzz words of this week and I was delighted with the efforts shown by our players and, might I add, non-players. Along with...
From the Archives (George Shafto Legard's Scrapbook)
Friday, 18 October 2024There is something peculiarly present about a photo album, even one that is over a century old. It gives an immediacy and vibrancy to those that lived...
Bungites
Friday, 18 October 2024As the half term draws to a close the boys in School House can look back on what has been an excellent term. While it has certainly been busy, the boys...
The Week Ahead - Chorister School
Friday, 18 October 2024World Food Day
Friday, 18 October 2024World Food Day, observed on October 16th, is a global event that aims to raise awareness about hunger, food insecurity, and the significance of sustainable...
The Week Ahead - Chorister School
Friday, 11 October 2024The Week Ahead - Durham School
Friday, 11 October 2024Northern Lights
Friday, 11 October 2024This amazing image was captured looking over the Cathedral by North East photographer, Lee Reid. See more of Lee's fabulous photographs here...
Olly goes snap, crackle and pop
Friday, 11 October 2024Watch OD Olly Quinn on BBC news talking about his Chorister heritage and teaching some of our current pupils a bit of his new song Love is a Movie Right...
On Truth and Untruth in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
Friday, 11 October 2024This marvellous medieval poem is a puzzle
Who wrote it, and why?
What is the "Green Knight" and can he be trusted?
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Who wrote it, and why?
What is the "Green Knight" and can he be trusted?
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World Mental Health Day
Friday, 11 October 2024World Mental Health Day, observed on the 10th of October, is an important occasion dedicated to raising awareness about mental health issues and advocating...
From the Principal
Friday, 11 October 2024Thank you in advance to those pupils who are coming in tomorrow for our Open Morning. We have had over 140 families sign up for the event, which is close...