On Sunday 21 March girls from Rye St Antony will provide the music for the liturgy of the Centenary Mass of the Church of St Anthony of Padua in Rye, Sussex.

The church plays a key role in Rye St Antony’s history, for it was in this church 80 years ago, that Rye’s foundresses, Elizabeth Rendall and Ivy King, took the decision to open a Catholic school in Oxford, the church giving the school its name and the context of its particular Catholic identity as the only Catholic girls’ school in the UK founded not by a religious order but by lay women.

As a Catholic school, Rye’s philosophy is rooted in Catholic values, and teaching and learning are focused upon each pupil’s individual strengths, needs and aspirations, pupils being encouraged to use their school years as a time for discovering who they are and what they have it in them to become.

The school is noted for its combination of strong academic achievement with strong pastoral care, and for its expectation that all members of the school community will be held in respect, so that the school’s happy, purposeful and ambitious outlook is something which each pupil is able first to absorb and then to reflect.

Rye aims to help pupils to develop the intellectual curiosity and skills, the emotional understanding and resources, the ability to work independently and with others, and the personal, social and spiritual values which will lead to personal fulfilment and enable pupils to contribute something of value to the world around them.

Telephone: 01865 762802
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Website: www.ryestantony.co.uk