Month: March 2020

31 March 20

Marcia’s class in Year 4 have sent through some lovely pictures of the activities that they’ve been up to over the last week. Here are a few of them including Isaac’s illustration of a graveyard to accompany ‘The Breeze’, a story written by his sister Connie, and George’s short story with an important message. In…

25 March 20

The North Herts Schools Book Award 2020 – reformatted! The Book Club trip to the Book Awards at Hitchin Boys’ School may have been called off, but they still wanted to discuss the books they had been reading since the beginning of term – and to vote for their favourites – so we held our…

19 March 20

Thank you to all the staff, children and parents who took part in the various Sports Relief activities last week – we raised a wonderful £1,105. Years 4-7 took part in a sponsored swim (parents and staff joined in adding their lengths) – swimming 5,964 lengths which is the equivalent of 92.6 miles, raising £915.28…

19 March 20

Following the UK Government’s announcement regarding school closures we can confirm that, due to the containment measures associated with the COVID019 outbreak, St Chris will be physically closed for mainstream schooling from 16:00 hrs on Friday 20 March. We will continue to operate remotely to offer virtual learning for all of our pupils and our…

13 March 20

On Friday 6 March pupils from the Senior School entered the 76th Welwyn Garden City Youth Drama Festival.  The festival takes place all week with 21 schools and youth groups competing with performances lasting between 20 and 50 minutes.  The adjudicator was Chris Jaeger MBE. St Chris entered two pieces.  Students in Year 12 performed…

13 March 20

Last week the 26th annual interschool St Chris Recycled Fashion Show took place in the School Theatre. Over 60 entrants from The Knights Templar School; PHC Hitchin; St Chris Junior School; St Chris Senior School and Whitehill Junior School took to the stage to show their incredible costumes, which pupils had spent many weeks designing and…

6 March 20

Our second School Strike for Climate was held on Friday 28 February 2020! As cries of “Friday’s for Future!” reverberated along the School corridors, it was clear that it was time for another ‘Strike for Climate’ at St Chris.  Lessons continued as normal, but staff were encouraged to teach with an environmental theme.  However, the…

6 March 20

Ele Fountain came to visit Years 7 & 8 as part of our World Book Day celebration this week. Ele’s first novel, ‘Boy 87’,  was nominated for numerous awards when it was published last year, and went on to win several of them.  The book was on our younger readers’ shortlist for the North Herts…

5 March 20

Congratulations to both our Years 7 & 8 Netball teams who both won SILVER medals in their District Tournaments on Wednesday. They all played with great passion and improved skill, particularly Year 8 where all their practice sessions are now reaping rewards. Year 7 were unbeaten on their way to the final and Year 8…