St Edmund's Secondary

Miss. Anne Locke

Address:
St Edmund's Catholic School
Old Charlton Road
Dover
Kent
CT16 2QB

Tel: 01304 201551
Fax: 01304 202226
Email: office@st-edmunds-dover.kent.sch.uk
Website: www.st-edmunds.com.

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St Richard's Primary

Ms. Jill Chapman

Address:
St Richard's Primary School
Castle Avenue
Dover
Kent
CT16 1EZ

Tel: 01304 201118
Fax: 01304 242977
Email: office@st-richards.kent.sch.uk
Website: www.st-richards.kent.sch.uk

FEDERATION of dover catholic schools

On the 1st September 2008 the newly elected Federated Governing Body took on the responsibility for both schools.

Mr. Chris Atkin, previously Headteacher of St Edmund's Secondary, now serves as Executive Headteacher for both schools in the Federation of Dover Catholic Schools. Ms. Jill Chapman has taken on responsibilities for St Richards Primary on a temporary basis from September 2010, whilst Miss. Anne Locke takes on a similar role at St Edmunds Secondary from the same period. Federation will allow both schools to work closely together under the same management structure to enhance the studies of 4 – 19 year olds in a Christian atmosphere. Eventually both schools will merge under the same name.

• Notre Dame – an alternative to St Mary’s or Our Lady’s. Mary is often associated with seafarers and ports and the French version reflects our proximity to France.

• St Benedict - the Patron Saint of Europe or founder of the Benedictines and favourite ‘northern saint’ of the late Cardinal Basil Hume. There was once a Benedictine Priory in Dover.

• All Saints speaks for itself, offering unity across the Dover Deanery.

• St Thomas – the Patron Saint of Dover. A Benedictine monk and martyr, who died in St Martin’s Priory in Dover in 1295.

To find out more about each school, please visit their individual websites:

Click here to visit St Richard’s Primary website
Click here to visit St Edmund’s Secondary website

As part of the Daily Act of Worship that takes place each day by every student in the Federation of Dover Catholic Schools, a team of students and staff (known as the Spiritual Development Team) choose a theme for the academic year which is then broken down in to termly themes and weekly themes. Please click here for the themes of the current academic year (2010/11).

Each week a Chaplaincy Bulletin is created by the Youth Chaplain's to help aid the students and staff with their Daily Acts of Worship. Please click on the date you would like to view:

Term One: 06/09/10, 13/09/10, 20/09/10, 27/09/10, 04/10/10, 11/10/10, 18/10/10.

Term Two: 01/11/10, 08/11/10.

Rainbows

The Rainbows programme offers weekly support to students who have suffered from life changing experiences, for instances: bereavement, divorce or separation. The actually Rainbows programme is aimed more at primary school level and was first introduced to St Richard’s at the beginning of 2008. However Spectrum is the secondary school level which comes under the Rainbows umbrella. Spectrum was first introduced to St Edmund’s School in October 2007. Read More