On Friday 22^nd March, the Greek department will be staging a performance to celebrate Greece’s victory in the War of Independence.

On Friday 8^th March, inspired by the Rio Carnival, the Early Years and Junior School will celebrate the festivities by having class parties, parading in costumes and dancing to music.

Friday 15th February, from 6:00pm to 8:30pm we will be having the Junior School Disco for Years 4, 5 & 6. Children will enjoy dancing and having fun with their classmates. There will be pizza and a juice box served and prizes for the winners of our dance competitions.

On Wednesday 19^th December, the Foundation Stage classes and Reception will perform their annual Christmas show for parents.

On Thursday 13^th and Friday 14^th December, Father Christmas will be visiting St Lawrence College and meeting all the children of the Junior School in his grotto!The Christmas Elf will be accepting letters to Santa that the children have written with their teachers, offering treats and photographing the momentous visit.

On Wednesday 12^th December, the St Lawrence College Choir and pupils from both Key Stages will fill our morning with seasonal music at our annual Christmas Carol Concerts. Each class will be singing carols and poems will be recited by several children in each year group. The times of each performance will be announced.

Friday 23^rd November from 6:00pm to 8:30pm we will be having the Junior School Disco for Years 4, 5 & 6. Children will enjoy dancing and having fun with their classmates. Pizza and a juice box will be served to keep up their energy for our dance competitions!

On Friday 26th October, at 11:30 am in the Cultural Hall, the Junior School’s Year 5 & Year 6 pupils will commemorate the 28th October 1940 anniversary of OXI Day by singing traditional songs and presenting skits.

This year, class teachers will be able to schedule a visit and take their classes to the Witch’s Den for a bit of atmosphere as they either read a book or watch a short film. Starting Monday 10^th October, EYS, KS1 and Y3 will schedule a visit. The second week, decorations will be spookier, so Y4 to Y6 will be scheduling their visits. There will be fun and treats for all to enjoy!

On Wednesday 3rd October 2018, some of our youngest pupils in the Early Years class in FS2 took a super trip to The Cultural Park of Keratea. The children had the opportunity to pick grapes and squish them under their feet in the traditional wine-making manner! That brought a lot of giggles as the sensations they felt were quite unusual. In addition, they also took part in a fun activity to make raisin bread. They all loved it and had a super day out! 

Over the weekend 6-7^th October eleven St. Lawrence College pupils from our school participated in the Campion School Model United Nations.

The pupils, who ranged from Year 7 to Year 12, acted as delegates of Ethiopia and Mexico across various committees. Two of our older pupils held chairing positions in their committees, a great honour for Andreas Hagis and Joanna Sakkadas that comes as a recognition of their dedication and hard work in various past MUNs. For the first time ever, two pupils from Year 7 took part in the MUN, with one of them managing, through his enthusiasm and dedicated work, to gain the Best Delegate Award in his Junior Group Discussion Committee - congratulations to Constantine Zafeirakis!

Model United Nations has some fanatic supporters in our school who enjoy participating in these conferences, dedicating much of their free time, both at school and at home, towards preparing for them. Taking part in an MUN Conference is a rewarding and educational experience with participants making new friends from all over the world, and not only learning about current world affairs but also proposing solutions to many of them. All the members of the MUN Club of our school, old and new, are now looking forward with great excitement to their next event, which is scheduled for December 2018!

Dear Parents and pupils - please be aware the entire Race for the Cure event, due to be held in Athens on Sunday 30th September, has been postponed by the organisers due to the severe weather. 

If you know of other pupils and families who were planning on attending, please pass this message on. Thank you.

Ms Maniatis' website (Junior School, Year 6)

The anxious wait is over and those pupils who took public examinations at the end of the school year have got their results! Pupils who sat for IGCSEs, AS-Levels and A-Levels now know how they have fared in the exams they sat in May and June this year. And once again, 150 or so pupils have done themselves, their families, their teachers and our school proud. 

IGCSEs

Once again, the pupils’ results demonstrate an extremely high standard of achievement. In terms of proportion of exams that achieved a ‘C’ grade or better, the IGCSE results were the best over the last five years. 90% of all IGCSEs taken resulted in A*-C grades. That beats the 89% (2017), 88% (2016), 86% (2015) and 83% (2014) in recent years. In terms of what proportion of the IGCSEs taken were A*/A grades, this year we achieved 45%. Not as high as last year’s 50% but just above 2016’s 44%.

Stand out performances included Ioanna Moirasgenti, who took nine IGCSEs and achieved 9A*s. Likewise, Dimitris Monokandilos and Alexandros-Gazi Bsarat both excelled with seven A* IGCSEs each.

AS-Levels

AS-Level marks the halfway point in the two-year A-Level programme. This year, a grand total of 184 AS-Level entries were made across 14 subjects. The highest possible grade is ‘A’ as ‘A*’ does not exist at AS-Level. This year, 40% of all AS-Level exams resulted in an ‘A’ grade. That is the best proportion of ‘A’ grades for some time (2017 – 29%; 2016 – 39%) and reflects the high standards achieved by pupils in Year 12 this year. Truly excellent exam results from individual pupils included those by Efstratios Chatzieleftheriou, who achieved an ‘A’ grade in six AS-Level subjects, while Maria Avrantinis, Li Dan, Konstantinos Kapoutsis and Isabella Kontogiannis all scored four ‘A’ grades each across their AS-Level exams.

A-Levels

At A-Level, there were 135 exam entries. The highest grade that can be achieved at A-Level is A*. These are extraordinarily difficult to attain, as a mark of over 90% has to be scored exclusively on the work covered in the exams of the second (and more difficult) A-Level year. The 2018 exam session saw a greater ratio of A*s than in either of our last two years of exams. Thus, while in 2016 A*s were 6% of all A-Levels taken, and in 2017, A*s were 11%, this year A*s made up 13% of all A-Levels taken. A fine reflection on the quality of work by the pupils – and the quality of teaching by teachers!

Furthermore, a remarkable 80% of all A-Levels resulted in “C grade or better”. Among the very notable performances at A-Level were Ivy Hewett (4A* & 1A), Emily Holden (2A* & 2A), Alessandro Gressani (2A* & 2A) and Alexander Petropoulos (2A* & 2A). Absolutely brilliant!

St. Lawrence College A-Level school leavers are now progressing to higher education institutions. For most, this will be to UK universities, including UCL, Warwick, Edinburgh, Queen Mary, Sussex, UEA Norwich, Newcastle, Essex and many others. Some pupils will start their higher education outside the UK, including in the USA, Australia, Holland, Switzerland among other destinations.

Our pupils will be studying for degrees in disciplines as diverse as Medicine, Law, Development Economics, Mathematics, Modern Languages & Business, Human Nutrition, Communication and Media Studies, Zoology, Psychology, Aerospace Engineering and Biomedical Sciences to name just some!

St. Lawrence College Headmaster Mr Phil Holden was understandably very happy with the school’s results, commenting “What wonderful results! As a head – and as a parent – I am so delighted and proud of all these achievements. I also want to congratulate and thank the teachers throughout the school who have contributed to the achievement of these pupils. I hope that these wonderful results will serve as an example and an inspiration to the younger pupils of St. Lawrence College, showing them what can be achieved through hard work and consistent effort”.

On Thursday 31st May we hosted the annual Senior School Swimming Gala. As with every year, there were some extremely impressive displays of skill and determinations, and of course, new school records

The new record holders are:

Christina Dimitrakopoulou, Yr. 7,  made two new records in

- 25m freestyle girls (14.41)

- 25m breast stroke girls (19.82)

Avra Papathanasopoulou-Kavalari, Yr. 7, set a new record in

- 50m. breast stroke girls (47.66)

An excellent day and well done to everyone involved