Jennifer Killick - Author visit

Today, we were delighted to welcome Jennifer Killick into our school. She started the day with an author talk, for Years 1 - 6 and then she held creative workshops for Years 3, 4 and 5.

The children thoroughly enjoyed creating their own characters and story outlines. The children were very enthusiastic and were reluctant to stop writing at the end of each session. Many have promised to send them to Jennifer when they are finished. 

Jennifer also joined us for "Reading Buddies" and acted a as buddy to one of the children in Year 1. He enjoyed sharing a book with her.

More information about her, her passions and, of course, details of her books can be found on her website https://www.jenniferkillick.com/.

Chick update

The chicks are growing quickly! We have been learning how to care for the chicks and how to gently handle them. The chicks have been on lots of 'holidays' giving children across the school the opportunity to spend time with them.

We are going to miss them when they return to the farm on Friday☹️

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. 

RAF competition

The key stage two children have entered a cometition with the RAF. They had to design a Christmas card wishing the RAF a happy Christmas and a happy 100th birthday. I think they have done a great job and I've enjoyed looking through them!

Here are a few examples..........good luck everyone!

Remembrance

At 11am, we, as a school, stopped and gathered for a time of silence and remembrance. The youngest children stayed in their rooms and watched Poppies, the rest met in the hall.

We will remember them

Pilot visit

We were very fortunate to have a visit from a pilot. She told us how she became a pilot and how it was a long hard route, with lots of exams and fund raising along the way, but also how it was well worth it in the end. She talked about her own job, flying private aircraft and some of the other ground base jobs available. The children found her talk inspiring and we may now have some future pilots amongst our pupils.

Able Writers' Day with Visiting Author, Robin Price

Lucky writers from Years 3 & 4 were joined by children from other local schools to participate in an Able Writers' workshop at Christ Church School today. Robin Price, author of I Am Spartapuss and many other children's books, led a fun and inspiring day of creative writing. Children wrote and read aloud their own historical and science fiction stories and we also enjoyed hearing Robin read an extract from his novel,  London Deep. Thank you to all the children for working enthusiastically and creating some super stories.

Corridor displays....self portraits

Harvest

Today we celebrated Harvest. Many thanks for your kind donations. In KS1 we thought about God's promise to provide for us, and linked this with our value for this half term - Generosity. We created rainbows, made up, from fruit and vegetables.

Potter

Butterworth

Hargreaves

Christ Church displays

Look how fantastic our corridor and library displays are! The theme is books......