Our Open Afternoon in November is now full.

To register your child for a place at St Paul’s Cathedral School please click here for the application form. Please note that there are no places available for Reception 2025.

For information about choristership at St Paul’s Cathedral for your son or daughter please click here.

Clubs & Wrap-Around Care

Pre-Prep Clubs

We run a range of optional after-school clubs for Reception, Year 1 and 2 children at an additional charge until 5pm. Clubs are a great opportunity to follow a passion or develop a new interest, while making new friends.

Children in Reception are introduced to clubs through our Stay and Play sessions where they get to have fun after the school day finishes in a relaxing environment. A Stay and Play session might include some sport, art or story-based activities.
For Year 1 and 2 we run more structured clubs with a particular theme. Depending on the specialisms of the staff and the enthusiasms of the children, these vary from year to year. Past clubs have included football, Lego, nature karaoke, creative writing, movement and dance and art.

The clubs change regularly so the children have the opportunity to experience many extracurricular activities with a range of staff. Children are welcome to attend as many clubs they like a week and are given the opportunity to change their choice of club termly.

Prep School Clubs

Prep School Clubs (for pupils in Years 3-8) take place between 4.00pm and 5.00pm each day. Clubs are a great opportunity to follow a passion or develop a new interest, while making new friends.
All clubs are charged on a termly basis.

Clubs vary each term and the programme is shaped by the interests of our pupils and supervising staff but in the course of a year are likely to include:
Sewing, Football, Art, Fencing, Film Making, Coding, History Film, Chess, Lego, Warhammer, Cooking, Board Games, Drama, LAMDA, Origami, Netball, Police Cadets, Top Trumps, Crochet and knitting, Gymnastics. We also run Day Prep (a supervised homework session).
Pupils may sign up for as many clubs as they wish but must commit to each club for a full term. Where clubs are oversubscribed, we operate a rotation system to allow more pupils to try out popular clubs. All clubs incur a charge and can be booked at the beginning of term.

Wrap-Around Care

Aware of the challenges for busy working parents, we run a Breakfast Club from 7.45 am and supervision following our Clubs from 4.30 – 6 pm, at additional charge. A light meal is provided. Spaces can be booked on a termly basis.

Leavers’ Destinations

We educate your child today, but with a clear focus on the future. We ensure that your child is well prepared for the opportunities and challenges ahead, later at SPCS, at senior school and beyond.

Vital skills and dispositions for employability – including collaboration, communication, problem-solving, resilience, cultural awareness – are key to our programme.

Our future schools team, headed by Deputy Head, Alison Wright, will work with you and your child to find just the right destination for senior years. We prepare our pupils for schools across London and all over the United Kingdom.

Our excellent knowledge of, and strong relationships with, senior schools are really appreciated by our parents. The Good Schools Guide describes SPCS as ‘really on it’ with advice about senior schools, guiding parents ‘every step of the way’. Pupils are well prepared —and not too stressed — for 11+/13+ assessments, with lots of interview practice.

As a result, our pupils go on to a wide variety of competitive schools either at 11+ or 13+. SPCS graduates are currently studying at senior London day schools including City of London School for Girls, City of London School for Boys, Westminster, Francis Holland Schools, Highgate, UCS, Queen’s College, Channing, Forest and Dulwich College. Our former pupils are also studying at boarding schools including King’s Canterbury, Benenden, Radley, Rugby, Winchester, Oundle, Bedford and Uppingham.

We focus on sustainable achievement, ensuring our pupils don’t just get into the next school but also arrive ready to build on the great foundations they have set down at SPCS. As our Good Schools Guide review puts it: ‘parents report that SPCS alumni tend to be ‘the ones who put their hands up and get involved’ at senior school.’

SPCS has an exceptional record for winning music scholarships; our pupils are also successful in achieving academic, art, sport, drama and all-rounder awards.

Scholarship Awards 2024

Once again this year, we saw excellent scholarship outcomes with music, academic and drama awards from King’s Canterbury, Bradfield, Rugby, St Edward’s Oxford, Uppingham, Queen’s College and Francis Holland. Several pupils were offered multiple awards.

Scholarship Awards 2023

In 2022-23, over 50% of our pupils were awarded music and/or academic scholarships by Winchester, Queen’s College, Harrow, Lancing College, King’s School Canterbury, King’s Ely, Trinity and Rugby School. Several pupils were offered multiple awards.

Scholarship Awards 2022

At the end of summer 2022, 26 scholarships were awarded to our pupils moving on to their respective senior schools: City of London School, Francis Holland Regent’s Park, Highgate, Channing, St Marylebone, Blackheath High School, Francis Holland Sloane Square, Queen’s College, Forest School, Radley College, King’s School Canterbury, New Hall Chelmsford, St Alban’s, Bradfield College, Dulwich College.

Term Dates 2024-2025

Autumn Term 2024

Spring Term 2025

Summer Term 2025

Contact Us

Please contact our Registrar, Clare Morgan, admissions@spcs.london.sch.uk; 0207 248 5156 for details about how to register for a place.

For copies of policies and inspection reports please email office@spcs.london.sch.uk

St Paul’s Cathedral School is on the west side of New Change at the east end of St Paul’s Cathedral. The nearest underground station is St Paul’s (Central Line). It is also a 5-minute walk from Mansion House (District and Circle Lines).  There are several buses which stop just outside the school including the 4, 76 and 521.

We look forward to welcoming you to St Paul’s Cathedral School.

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