Month: June 2022

30 June 22

A film reel of recent student productions, created for GCSE and A level Film Studies coursework, was shown during the Summer Celebration last Saturday – see below for anyone who might have missed the show! Watch out especially for Jacob Held’s Reverie and Zaylie Ahluwalia’s Snap, both of which won awards this past year. In…

28 June 22

Congratulations to our Year 10 Cricket Team who won their game vs Thomas Alleyne on Monday; and also to our Year 8 Cricket Team who, after winning the game vs Hitchin’ Boys on Tuesday, means they are now North Herts District Champions!  The game was extremely tight and came down to our final two batters…

24 June 22

Sir Oliver Heald visited our Junior School today to collect work from the children for the ‘Send My Friend’ to School campaign. https://sendmyfriend.org/ Send My Friend to School is a UK civil society coalition of international development NGOs, teachers’ unions and charities, bringing together young people, politicians, teachers, civil society and the media in joint…

24 June 22

This term the 3D Design Department have been running a pizza oven building Option every Thursday afternoon with a group of students in IV Group (Year 10). The base and dome were cast by students in concrete (with the help of Gavin and James in the department… and an exercise ball!). Harry from IV Group…

24 June 22

Our Year 8 Cricket team entered the District Calypso Cricket tournament and reached the semi-finals against some extremely strong teams – well done!

24 June 22

A big thank you to everyone who has donated men’s trainers and men’s clothes for the Noah charity in Luton. You have made a big difference by helping some very vulnerable adults.  If anyone would still like to add to the donation from St Chris, there will be a collection box outside the main school…

24 June 22

On Thursday, for our KS3 Day, Year 8 pupils were delighted to welcome Jessica Meserve, a local author/illustrator.   She talked about how she works and to show us some beautiful artwork from her own published picture books, as well as her sketchbooks.  The students then had the rest of the morning to work on their…

23 June 22

Our Junior School Reception (K Group) children had the joy of welcoming Senior School students from Year 8 (II Group) into class yesterday to share the books they’ve been writing and designing.   Year 8 have created story books for younger children in their English and art lessons over the last term, so enjoyed reading…

22 June 22

One of the many sporting events we held during National Sports Week was a Year 7 Inter-house Swimming Competition.  The theme this year is: “Belonging- a place in sport for every child“. There were high spirits from all and enthusiastic and exuberant chants from the teams as the swimmers sprinted to the finish line with great…

21 June 22

Well done to our Year 8 girls (Penny, Tai, Olivia and Jasmine) who played in the North Herts & Stevenage District Tennis Tournament on Monday; and HUGE congratulations to Jasmine and Olivia who won and are now the District Champions! Additionally, our Year 9 Tennis team were placed third overall in the District Tennis Tournament…