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Westminster Cathedral Choir School

Ambrosden Avenue London London Area London SW1P 1QH

ABOUT US
Westminster Cathedral Choir School is an academically-selective, Catholic preparatory school for about 265 boys aged four to thirteen (Reception to Year 8), twenty of whom are boarding choristers, who join from Year 4. 

Academic excellence
Westminster Cathedral Choir School is an academically-selective school. Work is challenging and demanding, and lessons pacy. Boys are meticulously prepared for the top day schools in London and the top boarding schools at 13+. 

Curriculum
The curriculum is structured so that boys experience knowledge as an integrated whole, rather than as discordant, competing specialisms. Boys learn through making connections, so topics are planned to complement other curriculum areas. A pupil in Year 5, for example, may be studying the age of exploration in history, sixteenth-century naval poems in English, navigation in maths, map skills in geography and making a medievalist map in art.

Each year takes a historical period as its centre – ancient, medieval or modern – and this guides topic choices. Over the course of their time at the School, boys will go twice through the cycle of human civilisation, and so gain an appreciation of the achievements of the past, as well as the present.

Canon
We want boys to achieve a high level of cultural literacy for their age. At a level accessible to each Year Group, boys encounter ‘the best that has been known and said’. In English, they learn to memorise great poems by Shakespeare, Milton, Eliot and Keats, among many others; in science, they study the great scientists and inventors; in art and music they study the masters.

Character
We want boys to recognise what is beautiful, true and good, and to see the relations between these three qualities in what they study and the world around them. To do this we teach them how to think, based on the trivium of grammar, logic and rhetoric. As one medieval writer put it: ‘grammar is the knowledge of how to speak without error; logic is clear-sighted argument which separates the true from the false; rhetoric is the discipline of persuading to every suitable thing’.


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Contact Us

  • Phone Number :
    Head-Office : +44 (0)20 7798 9081
  • Location Address :
    Ambrosden Avenue London London Area London SW1P 1QH
  • Email address :
    office@choirschool.com