Month: December 2020

11 December 20

For more than 25 years St Chris has run an inter-school Recycled Fashion Show project, culminating in a catwalk show featuring up to 80 pupils wearing themed costumes made from recycled materials, with prizes for the best entries in different categories. Sadly, due to the current situation with Covid-19, we are unable to run a…

10 December 20

Our Year 13 pupils marked their last Christmas at St Chris by celebrating with a lovely Christmas lunch in the staffroom. Everyone had a great time and a big thank you to the catering team!

10 December 20

Thank you to everyone who was able to join us for this week’s Junior School socially distanced carol concerts! From the classics, to the not so classic (!), it was great to get together to sing and celebrate as best we could, under the circumstances! Have a wonderful Christmas!

10 December 20

This week, Senior School pupils and staff voted for their 2021 Major Officials, who are all Year 12 (LVI) students.  Voting would normally take place via voting booths, but we had to change this to an electronic voting system this year. The winning candidates are: Head Girl: Amy Bloomfield Head Boy: Dreyfus Southall Deputy Head…

10 December 20

Our Junior and Senior School pupils have had a busy term taking part in Green initiatives across the school. You can read more about what they’ve been up to in our termly newsletter by clicking here

9 December 20

Years 7 & 8 have now both completed their ‘Bake-Off’ Challenges!  Their results are as follows: Year 7 – Biscuits The winners were Ben’s company, represented by Alfie, Felix, Tasha and Alex.  Huge congratulations to them – their Millionaires shortbread was both indulgent and delicious! Year 8 – Pizza The winners were Andrew’s company, represented…

4 December 20

Congratulations to all our athletes in Years 7  to 12 who took part and represented the school in the District X-Country events this year. A particular mention goes to Stan in Year 13, who has run the event, and represented St Chris in every year of his Senior School career with us, so 7 in total…

4 December 20

Congratulations to our Junior School staff who yesterday rode over 212 kilometres to raise money for the Letchworth Food Bank. Throughout the day staff took it in turns to ride on our exercise bike in the Junior School foyer and in total have raised more than £300! Thank you to everyone for your incredibly generous…

2 December 20

Join us next week for an end of term Junior School outdoor drive-in carol concert and St Chris community sing-a-long! Our Junior School pupils invite you to come and join us to sing a selection of carols and festive songs. We will hold the event on the Junior School playground and there will be spaces…

1 December 20

Junior School pupils have today packaged up and sent a staggering 4000 crisp packets to Somerset to be made into thermal blankets for people who are homeless. It takes about 150 packets to make one blanket and they are sealed together using an iron! Their original target was to collect enough crisp packets to make…