Italian Day

The whole school enjoyed Italian Day today at Christ Church. We came dressed in the red, white and green colours of the Italian flag and started our day with a special assembly where we learned a little Italian language and shared our geographical knowledge of the country.  Everyone made a pizza, using freshly prepared dough, to take home to eat. We competed in Italian sports and games throughout the day with our own running version of a Grand Prix around our fabulous track, some 5-A-Side football and a traditional boules game called Bocce. There were many other activities going on throughout the day in classrooms, raising our pupils' awareness and understanding of the wonderful Italian culture. What a magnifico day!

Re-enacting Italia 90!

Team Ferrari versus Team Lamborghini

Testing our aim with traditional Bocce

Kneeding the pizza dough

Gustosa pizza

World Book Day display

How did we celebrate World Book Day? Well, we undertook many different activities - These included wearing pyjamas to school, reading with a parent/carer and being read to by a different teacher.  Each class, also, helped create an author display, to match their own class name.

Charanga Assembly

Today, we held our termly Charanga assembly. Well done to all the children and staff who took part. This time we were treated to not just singing but listened to glockenspiels and ocarina playing, as well.

A particular mention should be made, to say well done to KS1, Rundell and Morpurgo, who all performed without the words or music on the screen - after a slight technical hitch!

I am very much looking forward to the summer term assembly, when we have our final performance and usually see such great progression.

FH - I liked playing the ocarina and showing other people it.

AA - It was good hearing different songs and instruments.

RB - It was good because the younger children played instruments and had a lot of repetition in their song and the older children had many more words and more complicated music.

Snow

Remember to bring warm outdoor clothing.

Author visit - Vashti Hardy

Today, we were very excited to have the author Vashti Hardy come to our school. All children, from Year 1-6, attended her author talk, where she told us what had inspired her to write, introduced us to facts about some real life explorers and showed us a video clip of  Bear Grylls escaping from quicksand.

In her book "Brightstorm", two of the main characters are twins. You can see them in the corner of the front cover. Murphy class and Vashti, thought our twins looked very similar to her characters.

Throughout the rest of the day, the children in Years 5 and 6, undertook workshops, made their own maps to inspire their writing and even got to dress up.

It was a great day and we ended it with many children coming into the library to get their copies of the books signed and meet Vashti in person. She welcomed then to the crew and encouraged them to seek out adventure through reading.

She has a new book coming out later this year and Brightstorm is in our school library.

Christmas Service

Many thanks to those of you who joined us in Church for the end of year service. We wish you a peaceful Christmas and look forward to seeing you in the new year.

Harvest Service 2018

Many thanks to those of you who joined us in church today and to the many people who generously donated items. These will be sent to the food bank.

Tennis

We were very fortunate to have a tennis coach visit school today. 
Each class had a half hour session and had the chance to learn a few basic skills.Well done Murphy class, you picked it up really quickly!

BBC Music Day

The BBC invited us to "get singing" - and so we did! All across the school classes logged on to the BBC  and took part in a few vocal exercises, before learning and performing part of a song. Murphy class loved taking part.

Chauncy Community Day 2018

On Friday, the entire school took part in Chauncy Community day 2018. Most of us walked there, thanks to those who accompanied us, whilst the youngest children were visited, at school, by a team from Chauncy.

Food

Ceramics

Print

Numeracy Fun

Hargreaves class had a fantastic day and would like to say "Thank you" to all the staff and students, at Chauncy, who made this possible. I am sure other classes will share their photos soon.

Ware a Hat Day

A big thank you to everyone who donated towards our Ware a Hat Day earlier this week, we managed to raise a grand total of £232.11 for the Amy Wallace Magpie Trust. 

Charanga Assembly

Today, we held our termly Charanga assembly. The standard of singing, was as usual, extremely high. These are the songs we performed:-

Reception - Rock a bye baby

Year 1 and 2 - I Wanna Play in a Band

Year 3 and 4 - Lean On Me

Year 5 and 6 - A New Year Carol

Carle and McKee joined us for the first time and they enjoyed the assembly.

F - I thought we were brilliant.

S - After we did it, I felt good.

M - I liked our song best.

L - Our song was fantastic because it had chime bars in. 

T - I think our song was quiet.

E - I song was good and I liked the song my sister sang.

E - My brother was singing. I liked his song.

I - I liked all the songs.

School is open

School is open, please take care when travelling to school and in the playground. 

Please ensure children have appropriate footwear, coats, gloves etc for outside and school shoes for inside.

School is open!

Thank you to the many members of staff who were in school today. Most of the time was spent shovelling snow, to make the site safe for tomorrow! We will be open as usual and look forward to hearing about your snow day. Please ensure your child has a warm coat, boots/sensible shoes, gloves etc ready to wear at playtime. The pantomime will visit us at a later date. 

Snow

Please note that, for the safety of all involved, children and staff, school is, regrettably, closed tomorrow (Monday 11th December 2017).

Enjoy your extra snow day, have fun and stay safe. Keep an eye on parentmail, the school website, this blog, the county site and the local news stations for updates. 

We will try to let you know as soon as we can, what is happening Tuesday, but we expect to be open.  Remember to let us know what you do and share any photographs, with your class, when we return. 

Greek Day

This week we had a special assembly, in which each class shared some of the activities, and learning, they  took part in on Greek day. Hargreaves class did lots of activities, from dancing to cooking.

It was really interesting seeing what everyone else had done and we found out a few new facts.

Anglia in Bloom

Today we were visited by John and Jan Wing and two judges from Anglia in Blloom. Three children, from Hargreaves class, escorted our visitors around school and talked about the various gardening projects.

The two judges said they enjoyed meeting the children, as they walked around, and what a happy school we seemed to be.

Travelling by Tuba

Today we were visited by the awarding winning duo, known as Travelling by Tuba. The day began with a totally engaging and entertaining performance. The younger children were excited to see an ocarina amongst the instruments! We all enjoyed the vast range of music and instruments we experienced and found out we have some very talented alpine horn players amongst us!

After this every children, from Nursery to Year 6, took part in a musical workshop and leaned how to play some instruments and them put the different sounds together to perform an amazing piece of music.

The children in Hargreaves loved every moment, from the Tuba not working, to the Tuba player interrupting his friend, seeing Jasper inside the bell of the Tuba and the Tuba player coming over to play to Mrs Matthews ( and many other staff and pupils) through to the workshop.

Music Month

As you know, we are hosting a month of music activities!

We launched this, today, with our BBC music day and assembly. Over the last week each class has been able to watch the BBC Ten Pieces and chose one to respond to. Today was spent being creative and what an amazing array of talented pupils we have!

Below is, a small snapshot of, some of the creativity I saw as I visited each class throughout the day. 

Painting, inspired by  - Britten: ‘Storm’ Interlude from ‘Peter Grimes’

Mosaic, inspired by - Grieg: In the Hall of the Mountain King from ‘Peer Gynt’

Composition, inspired by - Grieg: In the Hall of the Mountain King from ‘Peer Gynt’

Artwork, inspired by - Britten: ‘Storm’ Interlude from ‘Peter Grimes’ 

Painting, inspired by - Holst: ‘Mars’ from ‘The Planets’

Drawing, inspired by - Stravinsky: The Firebird — suite (1911) (Finale)

Collage, inspired by - Britten: ‘Storm’ Interlude from ‘Peter Grimes’

Many other activities were taking place and I will share some next week. There was plenty of poetry, artwork, dance, composition and model making going on. Even the school office staff joined in by listening to the Ten Pieces. In the Nursery a band were playing for a dance group and one of the poems was shared in the Christ church contact.

We ended the day with an assembly, where each class had, just, 3 minutes to show a snapshot of their day. Again it was a showcase of much variety from rapping to dance and graffiti art to painting. Well done all! Here is our certificate from the BBC.

Take a look at the BBC Music Day website and find out what else in going on over the next couple of week. CBeebies and Blue Peter are taking part.

Writing an alternate version of the story 'Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You Hear?'

The children in McKee class have been learning the story of

'Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?' The children wrote their own versions of the story by changing the characters. They have read their stories to teachers and children in school, using great expression.

These children were entered into the golden book for their great independent writing. Well done!