Dear Parents and Carers

Value of Responsibility

As a core value at Christ Church School, ‘Responsibility’ is something that we return to in much of the teaching and learning throughout the school day, both formally in lessons and on the many occasions and opportunities that arise. A key message that we always work to encourage all children to understand and adopt is to be responsible when no one is looking. Over the coming weeks we will again focus on this in our assemblies and we look forward to helping children to ‘live’ this value in everything that they do at school.

Sporting Stars

This week we hosted our first netball match of this academic year. Our team of Year 5/6 took on Headley Park primary school in the Ashton Park Sports partnership league. Well done to all the team and thank you to Miss Barsby for organising the game for the children.

Well done also to the Year 5 and Year 6 football teams, who played brilliantly on Monday, demonstrating our school values on and off the field. Next week will be the final training session for our Year 5 & 6 girls football teams as they prepare for their final matches in the school league. We wish them luck for their final week.

World Book Day Winners

Following our Story in a Jar competition on World Book Day, our winners visited Heron Book Shop in Clifton village, to spend their vouchers on their chosen book. Thank you to everyone who supported and helped with the day and the competition and to the school Governors who came in and found out about all the Jars and made some difficult decisions to choose the winners.  We hope that it has encouraged more of our children to pick up a book and read for pleasure. Jars will be coming home with the children today.

Parents Evening

Next week we look forward to welcoming you into school for our parent and carer evenings. We are looking forward to sharing with you, information about how your child is progressing through the school year, their successes and next steps, whilst answering any questions that you may have.

Red Nose Day

Mrs Richardson set a goal of £500 and we managed to raise £503.66! Wow well done Christ Church School! The children really enjoyed ‘Dressing to Impress’ and the Christ Church Circuit went brilliantly. Thank you to all the children who spoke so confidently whilst telling jokes. It definitely made for an enjoyable lunchtime!

Neurodiversity Week

It has been both interesting and an opportunity to learn more about how our children understand celebrating difference and what neurodiversity is. Miss Holland led a very informative assembly to support the children’s understanding. They have been learning about the facts and also thinking and talking about what life is like for a neurodivergent person. As adults, we know that our ability to accept one another for who we are and to learn to communicate and socialise in different ways starts during childhood. We are proud and impressed by the mature attitudes of the children during this week and we have all learned a lot.

Toys in School

I would politely ask that you please ensure that your child does not bring toys into school as these are not allowed. We provide playtime activities and are continuing to work with the children on the School Council to improve this. Thank you for your support.

As we close another successful week at school, we wish you all a happy weekend ahead.

Kind regards

Mark Oldfield