Dear Parents and Carers,

Easter Service

With the sun shining this week, it has definitely felt like spring has finally arrived and I am sure that we all welcome the warmer weather. There was certainly a ‘spring’ in the step of our children as we visited Christ Church for our Easter celebration this Thursday. The children showed that their hard work preparing their performance pieces certainly paid off and we were all hugely impressed at their ability to recite poetry, sing beautifully and all without a hitch. Year five narrated the day telling the story of Easter and helping us to share in the message of hope, renewal, love and forgiveness.

Worship Council Prayer for Easter:

Easter time is here again

Let’s all cheer and sing!

The sun is shining, skies are blue,

And birds are on the wing.

We celebrate with joy and praise

For Jesus rose today.

He brings us love and peace and hope,

In a very special way.

So let us shout Hooray! Hooray!

For Jesus our Lord and friend,

He lives again on Easter day

His love will never end.

Easter Egg Hunt & Raffle

Thank you to everyone who was able to support our Easter Egg Hunt and raffle and helped to raise some funds for our year 6 children to take part in their end of year activities in the summer term.

Value of the Week – Responsibility

In our whole school collective worship, Mrs. Richardson continued our focus on the value of responsibility by sharing the story Words and Your Heart, by Kate Jane Neal. Through this thoughtful story, we explored the power of words and how important it is to be responsible for the way we speak to others. We took time to reflect on how our words can uplift and encourage, but also how they can hurt if we’re not careful. 

End of Term Awards

Values Ambassador – Progress Award – Determination Award

Our Friday Celebration assembly was a lovely end to the term. As always this is a time to recognise all of the children and the efforts, progress and successes they have achieved. For some of our awards winners, we were immensely proud to see them receive these three prestigious awards and to hear the reasons why they have been chosen from their teachers and adults. Well done children!

Uniform and Footwear

Thank you for supporting our work to ensure that we keep our high standards of uniform throughout the year. We would ask respectfully to please ensure that all children return to school with the correct uniform, especially footwear.

Once again, I wish you all a wonderful Easter break to come and look forward to welcoming the children back on Tuesday 22^nd April.

Kind regards

Mark Oldfield

Inset and Academy days for the rest of the year (training for school staff - children are not in school on these days):

• Friday 23rd May - Academy day
• Monday 21st July - Inset day
• Tuesday 22nd July - Inset day

It’s been an egg-citing week in Reception full of chocolate, chicks and church!

We started the week finding out about the festival of ‘Eid-ul-Fitr’ and why this is an important time for Muslims. Miss G and pupils from each class talked about their experiences celebrating Eid with their families which really makes the learning authentic and meaningful for the other children. Eid Mubarak to all our Muslim families in school.     

The Easter Story was introduced as part of our RE curriculum. We learnt all about the true meaning of Easter and why Christians celebrate at this time of year. We also discussed what is represented by the familiar, fun and delicious Easter traditions like hot cross buns and chocolate eggs. We even got to eat some hot cross buns as a treat!

"Ladybirds" were in charge on Tuesday using their chopping and grating skills to create courgette and broccoli muffins for the whole school tasting table. Yummy!

RLB were lucky to have a real doctor to come in and talk to them about what she does and which instruments she uses! They also got to practise their bandaging and stethoscope skills! A big ‘thank you’ to Dr Lim Kong for giving up her valuable time to share her knowledge.

The children also found out about the life cycle of a hen – linking the symbolism of new life and spring time and enjoyed drawing and representing chicks using different materials.

In maths we have been continuing and making our own repeating and more complex patterns using loose parts, threading beads and of course Easter symbols! We were able to create AB, ABB and ABC patterns as well as noticing if the pattern was incorrect!

Reception you are such a creative bunch! Your Easter bonnets for the church service on Thursday were ‘egg-ceptional’ and added some ‘eggs-tra’ zing to proceedings! The Easter church service as always was marvellous and you hopped and frowned wonderfully as ‘Hot, Cross bunnies’ -everyone was really impressed and very proud of you! Well Done!

What a cracking week and fantastic term it’s been! Thank you all for making it so special and for all your continued support.

We hope you all have an ‘egg-cellent’ Easter holiday and we look forward to seeing you in a couple of weeks, rested and ready for the start of a new term.

The EYFS Team.

This week in Year 1 we have been busy preparing for our performance at the Church by learning William Wordsworth’s poem Daffodils. We were very impressed with our lovely line of never-ending daffodils at the church!

In RE, we learned about celebrations around this time of year including Eid and Easter by naming the different ways in which the special events are celebrated. For Easter we made cards by sketching daffodils from the playground and used watercolours and oil pastels to add colour.

In geography we gave a weather forecast using our weather diaries with data collected and recorded last week. We practiced using meteorological language to sound professional, including terms like ‘sunny spells’, ‘overcast’, and ‘precipitation’.

Finally, a big well done to all the children this term - they have worked exceptionally hard. Thank you for your continued support and we hope you manage to have a restful break.

Year 2 have had a fantastic Term 4, filled with exciting learning and many accomplishments.

The children have worked hard and are so looking forward to a very well-deserved 2 week Easter break.

This week, alongside our usual lessons, we’ve been getting creative with a fun sewing project. The children designed and created their very own pouches, which they can use to hold special trinkets or coins. It was wonderful to have the Year 6 children come and help us with this project, and to watch the children showcase their skills, attention to detail, and creativity.

We wish everyone a very Happy Easter, and we can’t wait to see our Year 2s return, refreshed and ready for all of the fun things which we have planned for Term 5!

Year 3 have had a busy and exciting week! In Literacy, they explored sonnets, enjoying the challenge of identifying different poems and discovering what makes a sonnet unique. They then used their creativity to write their own sonnets about spring.

As part of their Literacy work on The Wild Robot by Peter Brown, they also developed their debating skills. They engaged in thoughtful discussions about the characters, considering their actions and motivations. This gave them a great opportunity to practice forming arguments and expressing their opinions with confidence.

They ended the week with some art, creating Easter cards, or spring cards for their families.

Overall another busy and fun week for Year 3!

This week, Year 4 have been busy creating exciting comic strips based on The Night Bus Hero! Using bold pictures, short sentences, and plenty of BANG! WHOOSH! CRASH!, we brought the story to life in a brand-new way. Our comics are full of action, drama, and adventure!

In computing, we have been exploring the world of HTML. We’ve learned how to edit website code to change text and pictures. It was amazing to see how small tweaks can completely transform a webpage! Who knows? We may have some future web designers in our class!

We also started a new unit in maths, extending our learning about decimals. We have been working on place value, adding and subtracting decimals, and understanding how they connect to fractions. It’s been great to see everyone growing in confidence with these tricky concepts.

Year 4 also took part in our church Easter Service, where we performed the song Risen beautifully. After lots of practice, our voices filled the church with joy and celebration. Well done, Year 4—you sang brilliantly!

It’s been a fantastic week of creativity, discovery, and achievement. We can’t wait for more adventures next term. Enjoy your Easter break.

This week, our Year 5 children have been diving into the Bible, learning how to navigate it's structure. They explored the differences between the Old and New Testaments, practised finding chapters and verses, and reflected on the characteristics of God by examining key scriptures. They then wrote down some reasons why Christians might believe in God, thinking of him as father, creator, shepherd and rock.

Meanwhile, in Literacy, the children have been really enjoying the story of Odysseus. This week they put their creative juices to the test and wrote poetry about Odysseus and his crew visiting the Land of the Dead. They worked together in groups to write a choral performance piece with each stanza alternating voices between the crew and the Land of the Dead. We can’t wait to see the poems published and listened to them being performed!

This week, Year 6 have been conducting some electrifying investigations into electrical conductors. From testing which materials let electricity flow to discovering which ones stop it in its tracks, they’ve been absolute bright sparks!

Year 6 have worked incredibly hard this term, not just in science but across all subjects —producing amazing writing, tackling awesome maths, keeping active in PE, and impressing in French. They’ve also shone in art, DT, history, music, PSHE and computing. Also, of course, we wrapped things up with a fantastic Easter egg hunt and raffle.

Well done, Year 6—you’ve truly powered through this term!

This week on Tuesday’s tasting table we served a sweet courgette cake and savoury cheese and broccoli muffins. By far the most popular was the sweet courgette cake.

Everybody enjoyed receiving colourful stickers as they tried something new. The Aardman house captains (Lawton and Eva) were delighted to serve the healthy treats to the children who wanted one. The reception children made the muffins by mashing the broccoli for the muffins and grating the courgette for the cake. Overall the Tuesday tasting table was a huge success. We hope you enjoy making all the ‘Eat them to Defeat them’ recipes that have been shared in the newsletters each week. A huge thank you to the reception children and to Mrs Pick who have cooked and prepared food every week and Mrs Richardson for all the extra cooking and organising as well. We look forward to the return of Veg Power in 2026!

By Lawton and Eva, Aardman house captains.

The children enjoyed two theme lunches this week.

An Eid themed celebration lunch and then to end the week an Easter themed lunch. The chocolate cake particularly was a big hit this week!

We are very grateful to have such a kind, caring and hardworking lunch team at Christ Church Primary School. The children have formed great relationships with the lunch team and this can be seen daily in their interactions. Thank you to our lunch team, you are really appreciated by us all!

The Year 6 Easter Egg Hunt was a fantastic success, with children across the school enjoying the spring sunshine eagerly exploring Clifton Village to find hidden clues and unscramble the letters to reveal the secret word ‘Springtime.’ A huge thank you to everyone who purchased tickets and took part in the fun.

Your generosity has helped raise funds that will go towards Year 6's end-of-year activities. We would also like to thank Mrs. Williamson, Mrs. Connolly Taylor, Mrs. Crocker, and the year 6 children for their incredible effort in selling tickets, organising and running such a brilliant hunt.

Please take note of the days your child/ren should come into school dressed in their PE kit during Term 5, thank you.

Monday - Reception (indoor yoga) & Year 4

Tuesday - Year 6 & Year 3

Wednesday - Year 2 & Year 5

Thursday - Year 1 & Year 4

Friday - Year 2, Year 3 and Year 5 (nb - Yr6 will be swimming on Fridays)