Month: January 2022

31 January 22

This week H Group (Year 2) started to create their own Celtic Roundhouses using clay!

28 January 22

Year 7 took part in the St Chris ‘Bake Off’ yesterday with the challenge of making the best shortbread! All the students worked brilliantly and we were really impressed with their mature attitudes. Eleanor’s Company: Ben, Amelia, Jenny and George baked passion fruit shortbread with a white chocolate ganache and a mango and raspberry coulis accompaniment…

28 January 22

The goats have some new friends! We’re delighted to formally introduce the St Chris alpacas – Joshi, Chester and Diablo (who, despite the name, is very sweet natured!) They arrived a couple of weeks ago and we have been letting them settle in to their new enclosure, next door to the goats. The Senior School…

26 January 22

This morning Junior School pupils enjoyed a fabulous Wassailing ceremony in the orchard. The ceremony was led by Ralph and Joan Hentall, with much noise and merriment to wake up the trees, encouraging them to create a good harvest of apples for the year ahead. Well done to Sadie who led the first verse of…

21 January 22

During their English lessons this week Year 5 (E Group) have been using a thesaurus to help them write an acrostic poem about the Moon. What amazing pieces of writing! 

21 January 22

As part of their new topic ‘Fairytales and Castles’ Year 1 (J Group) enjoyed having a Cinderella Week last week. Making Cinderella’s shoe out of clay, and having a dress up day on Friday are just a couple of activities that they took part in!

21 January 22

The III Group (Year 9) took part in the St Chris ‘Bake Off’ with Muffin Week – it was great to see some really ambitious bakes by all groups and we were particularly impressed by their organisation.  The competitors were: Colin’s Company – Art baked pear, ginger and dark chocolate muffins Simon’s Company – William, Will,…

20 January 22

It’s the changing of the guard as our 2021 Senior School Major Officials hand over to our 2022 Major Officials! Here’s a little goodbye from the outgoing team. A huge thank you to Head Girl Amy and Head Boy Dre, and their team of Major Officials – Lydia, Alfie, Patrick, Thomas, Luca, Monty, Abi and…

20 January 22

Thank you to everybody who donated so many warm coats and sleeping bags for the Noah charity in Luton.  The photo shows only about a third of what we delivered!   Items were dropped of at the end of last term and were greatly appreciated. Thanks so much to everyone who donated to this St Chris…

14 January 22

Congratulations to Saul Handy (Year 12) who has been named our Senior School Poet Laureate 2021-2. Here is his winning poem, Take Me   Take me, my hand – ligaments and spindles, With splinters from dragging along bannister ribs, Fingers clasping keys, chinking as chimes, Rusted and drawn through the paint of the car, Stupid, red,…