News & Events
ECHO Clubs
Monopoly (Pre-Prep) The children in Pre-Prep have been enjoying learning all about the rules and strategies of playing Monopoly. They have been practising their counting and mental maths skills and thinking about budgeting their cash. We definitely have some budding property magnates at St Christopher’s!
Harrisons Football Promotion
Our catering company, Harrisons, are running a football promotion starting from November 21st. On Tuesday 22nd and 29th, we will draw a raffle for the Pre-Prep and if they are lucky then they will win a football. Thursday 24th and December 1st we will draw a raffle for the Prep school and if they win…
Pre-Prep Cookery
As part of our ECHO clubs, the Pre-Prep children have been thoroughly enjoying our Cookery Club. The children have been developing a range of basic cookery skills and methods, sharing recipes, being creative and learning simple hygiene around food. We have made a selection of foods from dough to butter as well as sweet treats…
Reception
This week, Mrs Dubeck brought her wizardry to the Reception classrooms. The children learnt how to name pets in French and enjoyed being detectives to work out which pet puppets had been magicked away by Mrs Dubeck’s spells in a game of `qu’est ce qu’il manque?’. They worked really enthusiastically to pronounce the key vocabulary…
PE and Games
On Tuesday 4th October, our U11 Girls football team took part in the ISA National Football Tournament. Our journey took us to another lovely part of the world in Ascot. In preparation for this, the girls needed to get some Astroturf trainers to help them get to grips with the new surface. In our initial…
European Day of Languages Round up!
What an effort everyone made with dressing up; pupils and teachers looked fantastic.In assembly, we looked at the importance of embracing cultural and linguistic diversity, as well as all the opportunities learning a language can offer. The children also had the opportunity to learn how to answer the register in a different language and listen…
Exciting News!
We are so delighted that our school has been selected as a finalist for the ISA Award for Excellence and Innovation in Mental Health and Wellbeing. This is such an integral part of the ethos we have created in school, so we are thrilled to have this recognised. The awards ceremony will be held in…
Queen’s Memorial Display in our entrance hall
The School pulled together brilliantly on Friday to reflect on the life of Queen Elizabeth, and it was overwhelming to see the creativity and sensitivity in school, as teachers produced some very effective work at very short notice. We now have a memorial display in our entrance hall which looks beautiful, and is a fitting…
Children’s Charity this year
Our chosen school charity this year, ECHO (Evelina Children’s Heart Organisation), has seen us collect money from many events such as the Easter Egg competition; Year 3 and 4 concerts; the Lower School and KG Nativity and our Penny Post at Christmas. On Monday, we welcomed back Sinead from ECHO to our ‘Teamwork’ assembly. She…
Essa National finals
There was an early start for the St Christopher’s swim team on Saturday, as we met in a whirlwind of nerves and excitement when we met at St Pancras to catch the 9.02 to Sheffield. We had qualified to race at the ESSA National Championships in both the medley and freestyle relays against the entire…