Category: News

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

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

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…

7 February 20

We recently celebrated Chinese New Year across the school. We decorated Company rooms in the Senior School with Chinese lanterns and ran a multiple choice Chinese New Year quiz during Company time. At the weekend our boarders visited London and enjoyed the celebrations in China Town. Some of our Chinese boarders, together with houseparent Cecilia, also…

24 January 20

A huge welcome to our new gap students Corban and Natalie from New Zealand and Georgie from Australia! Having just finished school, the three of them decided to come to St Chris to work as gap students for the coming year. A gap student at St Chris has various roles. Working in the boarding houses…

24 January 20

We are delighted to announce that St Chris has become an InvestIN Partner, joining a select group of top schools. InvestIN delivers immersive career experiences to students aged 15-18 who aspire to break into some of the world’s most desirable industries. On their programmes they aim to create the ‘ultimate work experience’ through interactive simulations,…

23 January 20

This week our Sixth Form Peer Mentors came to the Junior School to help Year 6 pupils with their clay dragon heads, as part of this term’s Viking topic. Peer Mentors are Sixth Form students who act as mentors to younger students in the Senior and Junior Schools. Mentors offer a wide range of support…

22 January 20

Congratulations to St Chris Old Scholar Fujiko Rose who has won the award for Sky Landscape Artist of the Year, which includes a £10,000 commission for a painting of Venice for the Royal Institute of British Architects. The competition included a number of heats before a timed final which saw the three finalists paint Battersea…