Category: News

7 November 19

St Chris is proud to announce that we are now a Silver Award Level Eco-School. To gain this award we had to show how we are learning about the ten Eco topics that Eco Schools focus on across the School and the curriculum. These are; biodiversity energy global citizenship healthy living litter the marine environment…

4 October 19

This week Year 1 (J Group) had ‘India Week’! On Monday they had a parent visitor who talked about India and dressed the teachers up in saris. In the afternoon, the children had a Holi festival on the grass outside the Junior School!

4 October 19

The Senior School ‘Bake Off’ continued yesterday with IV Group (Year 10) being given the challenge of creating a flavoured and shaped bread! There were some truly inventive, imaginative and tasty offerings: Eleanor and Amy (Cyrille’s Company) baked some Little Pizza Piggies; Mimi, Eddie, George and Samara (Sarah’s Company) created Ninja Turtles which consisted of…

20 September 19

Today we are marking the international global climate strike with a St Chris Climate Day. Members of our Be Green Together group gave a Morning Talk to pupils in the Senior School. Pupils from Year 7 (I Group) to Year 9 (III Grp) presented information about the global school strikes, explained who Extinction Rebellion and…

22 August 19

St Chris Pupils Celebrate GCSE Results Staff and pupils at St Chris are celebrating a strong set of GCSE results with 84% of all marks awarded grades 9-4. On average 60% of grades in biology, chemistry and physics were awarded 9-7 (A*/A) with pupils also achieving 55% 9-7 grades in music and 56% 9-7 grades…

15 August 19

Sixth Form pupils and staff at are today celebrating a strong set of A-level results with 52% of grades at A* to B, and 73% of grades A* to C. Pupils have secured places on courses at universities including Bristol; University College London; Exeter; Leeds; SOAS; Nottingham; University of the Arts London; Kings College London;…

24 May 19

Yesterday our IV Group (Year 10) Music class went to the Stevenage Music Centre to experience playing steel pans.  They study Calypso as part of their GCSE course and this was a great chance for them to be able to be ‘hands on’ with an instrument that they would not normally have the chance to…

3 May 19

This week our Year 13 Peer Mentors successfully trained as Anti-Bullying Ambassadors.  The training started with a discussion about bullying looking at the facts, the definition and the effects of bullying. The group then explored scenarios on bullying and looked at practical ideas and top tips and basic training that covered the skills needed to…

3 May 19

The St Chris Snowflakes – our robotics team – returned on Monday from the USA having taken part in a top international tech competition. ⁣ They were one of two teams representing the UK at the First Tech Challenge in Detroit, the world’s largest student robotics competition. ⁣ ⁣ 30,000 students competed for the title…

25 March 19

Congratulations to Theo, Jasmine, Lara and Geva in D and E Group (Years 5 & 6) who represented St Chris in the ESSA Primary Schools Relay Gala in Watford last Friday.  They qualified for the finals in both the freestyle and medley relays and were placed seventh in Hertfordshire in both races! They all performed well…