Pirate assembly

Last Friday  Potter class entertained the school and their parents with their pirate assembly and they were able to show how much they have learnt over the past few weeks.

"It was lots of fun doing the assembly and I liked being in the pirate fashion show best. We had designed and made hats for this show. My two designs were a rabbit and cross bones and a bear and cross bones. I only put one on my hat.

We had a ship called The Golden Chicken and we were all pirates. We told everyone what pirates were like and my favourite word was loblollies! It was fun being in this assembly!"

In join me learn we wrote instructions on how to make pirate hat. Our parents could help us but we had to do the writing. The parents were good learners!"

By E in Potter class

Firework safety

"Today the police came to school and told us all about fireworks. They said we need to stay safe and not touch them. It doesn't matter if they are big ones or small ones. If they are lit, and don't go off, then stay away because they could still explode and hurt you.

We must wear gloves, if we use spaklers, and hold them away from us and other people. We should put them in a bucket of cold water when they go out and not touch them again or drop them onto the floor.

They also said that if anyone is going to go trick or treating, to go to people we know and if they say go away or don't open the door then we should just go away.

We must not play nasty tricks or throw anything at their house or car."

(written by a Year 2 pupil)

School Disco

Around 200 children attended the PSA Disco on Friday evening. There were 2 sessions, one for KS1 & foundation another for KS2.

Fred said "The best bits were the action songs like the Macarena and the conga." He also enjoyed being with his friends and the way all the glo bands looked in the dark.

All the children seemed to have good fun and looked great in their disco outfits.

One of the mums on the PSA, who shall remain nameless, was enjoying strutting her stuff much to the amusement of the rest of us.

Several parents, when they collected their children, commented on how loud the music was, we must all be getting old!

Thank you Mrs D'Arcy for this review. (Mrs D'Arcy is a school MSA, LSA and on the PSA!) This Disco raised an amazing £500. Well done all and thank you.

Mr Allchin- Marathon Runner

Mr Allchin  made it! On a very wet and windy day he battled the weather and the hills to complete the Eden project marathon - all to raise money for our school.

He says "This event was advertised as 'challenging'.  I can tell you it is BRUTAL!"

"I knew I was expecting some hills on the course, but nothing I had done in training prepared me for the onslaught of continuous hill climbing in the first 13 miles.  It seemed that around every corner was another hill, just as steep, and just as muddy."

Congratulations Mr Allchin on this huge achievement and many thanks from us all of us at Christ Church School.

Please have a look at his own Blog for a more detailed review of the event. 

Harvest week in Reception

McKee and Carle started their week and ended it with Harvest festivals!

On Monday we joined the rest of the school in church and celebrated together. We took with us  a basket of tomatoes which had been grown in our outdoor area.

The theme of the service was saying "Thank you" and so McKee class made a thank you poster for the kitchen staff who prepare and serve the food to us in school during the week. The children took it with them to lunch and presented it that day.

They also made thank you cards during literacy and made a list of as many people they could think of who are involved in getting food to our tables including farmers, shops, lorry drivers etc.

The week ended with a the Toddler service, once again in Christ Church. The church very kindly invite us to this every year and let us join in their celebrations. Many of the children previously attended this service with their parents before they joined school and so loved going back.

During the service we used all of our senses and enjoyed tasting different foods, smelling and touching items and using our ears and eyes to take part in the service. The chocolate was our favourite taste closely followed by grapes and most of us did not like smelling the coffee!

At the end we were all given a magnet to take home to remind us to say thank you to God for providing us with a huge variety of food and drink.

Harvest Festival

Home grown produce

Yesterday we went to church and were learning to say thank you to God, Jesus, shops, our parents, big sister, after school club and the school cooks. We should say thank you to them because they all give us food and company.

From home we brought gifts of food. Some of my class brought chicken soup with mushrooms and other people brought tins, packets of tea, pasta and lots more.

We also took fresh food to the front, this was from the teacher's gardens and the reception class. Mr Cadwallader brought some apples and the tomatoes were from the reception class.

We  played hangman against the vicar. The words were say thank you. We won, but there was nearly a whole hangman. Rev. Hookway did well but we won!

I like going to church because I like listening to the vicar (and other people) speak about things that happened a long time ago and about Jesus. I can’t wait for the next time we visit the church because I feel excited before we go.

I think I will remember to say "thank you" to the dinner ladies for my food.

By J in McGough Class

Mashed potato

In McKee class we had a go at making mashed potato. This is how we did it.....

We peeled the potatoes

We cut them into bits and cooked them

We added butter and milk and mashed them

We added some colour (not flavour) to half of the mash

We ate them

We made a tick chart to see how many children chose each bowl. Seven of us chose to eat green mash and fourteen chose the normal colour. Some of our comments....

The green tasted like apples, because apples are green - M.

The green was not good for me it made my tummy ache - O.

I chose green and it was yucky - R.

Green was tasty, mmmmmm - A.

I want normal because I like it at home and I don't like green food - D

I make this at home with mummy. She said mine is the best! - H

After this the children were able to eat up the rest of the potato and there were quite a few complaints that there was not enough and they wanted more!