Happy Easter

 

Happy Easter

Ware Library

As part of our topic on books and stories, all of KS1 took a trip to Ware Library. We were very fortunate that they opened especially for us and so we had the run of the space.

 

 

 

The librarian was very helpful and explained to the children all the different types of items that can be borrowed from, or accessed at, the library. I wonder if your child was able to tell you some of them when they got home?

 

 

 

She also, in keeping with the focus of our learning, read us two alternative traditional tales, which adults and children alike enjoyed.

 

 

 

We were all able to look through the book boxes and shelves to find books to suit our own interests. It was also a real delight to see that most of the members of the Reading club are Christ Church children and it was interesting to read their book reviews that are displayed on the wall.

 

 

Planting potatoes

The children in Year One got their hands dirty this week when they planted the potatoes as part of their joint learning time. Later in the year we will harvest them and hope they have survived the cold spell that is being forecast. Once again we have planted the Rudolph and rocket varieties.

One potato, two potato...

...three, potato four.

Five potato, six potato, seven potato more.

 

Chauncy Mathalon 2013

This afternoon, four Year 5 children participated in the yearly Chauncy Mathalon challenge.  The children took part in various team and individual events, all to do with maths, and were up against 8 other schools.  After coming 4th in 2011 and 3rd in 2012 our aim was to improve on these results and I'm thrilled to say that, after a very close competition, Christ Church came out as winners! 

Here is a photo of our winning team of William, Saffy, Rebecca and Fred.  Congratulations to all four!

Red Nose day 2013

 

Anyone viewing the children and staff of Christ Church school today might have thought that everyone had got up late this morning. All around the school, and in the playground, were people dressed in the night clothes, dressing gowns and slipper. However, there was another vital clue, lots of red noses.

 

As our way of raining money to help those less fortunate than ourselves most people in school came dressed either in nightwear or in red. A fantastic £333.39 was raised in total. Well done everyone.

 

J - I liked wearing my onsie, it was fun.

O - it was funny being outside in my dressing gown.

I - I thought everyone looked really funny sat in the hall in their pyjamas.

Passover

Just before half term, Horowitz Class learned about Passover by having a Passover meal.  Passover is an important time of the Jewish calendar as Jews remember the time when their ancestors were slaves in Egypt.

The first part of the ceremony is to wash your hands.  It is traditional to do this as it is believed that Jesus washed his disciples' feet before the first ever Passover meal.  Also, washing hands is a sign of respect for God.

The second part of the ceremony involves parsley and salt water.  The parsley would be dipped into the salt water twice to remember the Jews' tears from slavery.

Next, you would take the middle matzo from the pile and break it in half.  The adult would then hide it and the children would have to find it.  We had to find half a matzo that Mrs Adams hid at lunchtime so we had an extra piece!

We would now break the top piece of matzo and then eat it while leaning to the side.  The symbolizes freedom.  Then we would dip our little finger into the wine (we had grape juice!) to show we are not celebrating a sad time.  This is when we started our meal.  We had charoset (apple puree and cinnamon) and some horseradish on a seder plate.  We had all the matzo and we enjoyed it.

"I loved the Passover meal as it gave us a chance to experience different traditions."  SF

"It was really tasty as we had matzos, horse radish and apple puree and cinnamon mixture.  The games were great."  JT

Written by Josh D, Horowitz Class, Year 6.

Mothering Sunday

 

As part of their R.E lessons this term, Hargreaves, Butterworth and Potter have been investigating some of the religious festivals and customs that take place in the Christian religion, at this time of year. One of these is Mothering Sunday. As part of this study, the children found out why we celebrate it, wrote about their own mothers and made a card.



Some Christ Church Mothers.

Happy Mothering Sunday to all of the Mothers associated with Christ Church School.