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After several months of planning and rehearsals, the highlight of the term was due to be the Senior School production of Bugsy Malone. Sadly, however, due to the situation with the Coronavirus this was never performed to an audience! Here are some photos taken during the dress rehearsal. This reviewer can attest for it being…

  Our fantastic Intermediate Debate Team have won another stage of the Rotary Club’s Youth Speaks debating competition! Flora, Lara and Abi won the District Final, held at The Royal School Haslemere, competing against four other teams. The girls kept their nerve and delivered a confident and passionate debate on the motion: “This house believes…

All the pupils in Sion Juniors were given the fantastic opportunity to take part in an extremely busy STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) Week. The pupils all took part in a range of activities which included researching famous scientists, debating scientific topics, making windmills and following nature trails.  A group from Reception to Year…

Huge congratulations to all the Sion pupils who took part in the Worthing Music and Arts Festival. Some fantastic achievements from our Junior and Senior pupils who are all taught by Jane Ware, our Speech and Drama Teacher. Amy was awarded first place for both verse and solo drama. She also came second for prose…

Congratulations to Lara, Flora and Abi who won the Semi Final of the Rotary Club Youth Speaks Debate Competition. Ms Holloway and the three Year 9 students travelled to Downlands Community School, Hassocks, last night for the competition. The range of topics that students debated were: There are no bad children, only bad parents; Air…

For the Nursery at Our Lady of Sion, life is an adventure and all about creating childhood memories! Having visited the local branch of Hays Travel, the children picked up armfuls of brochures to create their own travel agency and airport, complete with their very own aeroplane! For Chinese New Year, the children ‘visited’ China…

On Monday 3rd February, pupils from Our Lady of Sion Junior School took part in the ‘Young Voices’ Concert at the O2 arena. The very excited children (and staff) joined over 8,000 other school children to form a mass choir. Rehearsals began in September with the children learning 12 songs including a Queen Medley, a…

January 27th is Holocaust Memorial Day and, in the Senior School, we started the day with a very moving assembly led by Mrs Yacoub. This year’s theme is We Stand Together and also marks the 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz. As part of our HMD commemorations, on Friday, our Year 9 students attended…

The whole school from Nursery to Sixth Form crammed into the Hall today as we celebrate our Founders’ Day. Mr Jeffery reminded the students of how the school came about, celebrating the work of the Ratisbonne brothers and their establishment of the Sisters of Sion. He also spoke of Sister Emmanuelle, one of the Sisters of…

Congratulations to the Sion Swim Team who all swam brilliantly at the ISA Regional Swim Gala which was held at Trinity School in Croydon. Ella – 100m Breaststroke 1st , 200m Individual Medley 3rd Jessica – 50m Breaststroke 2nd Harry – 50m Breaststroke 1st , 50m Freestyle 1st Cordelia – 50m Backstroke 3rd, 50m Freestyle…