The Cathedral School, Llandaff – Senior Section A GSG School
- The Cathedral School, Llandaff – Senior Section
Cardiff Road
Llandaff
Cardiff
CF5 2YH - Head: Clare Sherwood
- T 029 2056 3179
- F 02920 227 752
- E [email protected]
- W www.cathedral-school.co.uk/
- An independent school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 18.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Cardiff
- Pupils: 468; sixth formers: 116
- Fees: £15,696 - £15,924 pa
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- Linked schools: The Cathedral School, Llandaff – Primary Section
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Choir school - substantial scholarships and bursaries usually available for choristers.
What The Good Schools Guide says
Headmistress
Since 2016, Clare Sherwood MA (history, Cambridge), PGCE (Bristol). Previously deputy head academic at Blundell’s School and she has also been head of history and politics at Wycombe Abbey and history teacher and housemistress at Leighton Park, Reading, as well as a short stint in the state sector at Charters Comprehensive School, Berkshire. A classic case of the apple not falling far from the tree, her father was head of a cathedral school (Hereford), which she attended. ‘My three children joke, “Which one of us will it be?”’
Surely one of the sunniest heads we’ve met, her cracking laugh setting the tone at this jovial school. ‘That laugh is iconic!’ declared more than one pupil, who praise her ‘optimism’ and ‘excitability’ – ‘Literally, she’s always smiling.’ She is also described...
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