When the Oratorian Saint John Henry Newman sent priests from his Congregation to open an Oratory in London, they began their mission by opening schools where poor, immigrant Catholic children could get a rudimentary education. The London Oratory School owes its origins to that early initiative. After more than 150 years...
Together with parents, our task is to help form, develop and polish the three attributes of human character that makes us wise, and admirable in the eyes of others and most important, in the eyes of Almighty God: The Intellectual, the Moral and the Spiritual….
Our curriculum is rooted in the unifying task of forming Oratorians through the course of all the three stages of our school: In the Junior House, in the Senior School and in the Sixth Form.
We see the identification, pursuit and celebration of what are called the ‘Cardinal’ Virtues of Prudence, Justice, Temperance and Fortitude as a central part of what we strive to offer so as to harness Saint John Henry’s educational vision and make it our own.
