Category: Senior School

19 March 21

Today St Chris Senior School pupils are taking part in Red Nose Day activities to raise money for Comic Relief. Pupils are dressing either in red or to reveal their secret super powers! We’re also having a ‘mask decorating competition’ so we can show our support for Red Nose Day whilst staying Covid-safe! If you…

18 March 21

Our GCSE and A Level PE Classes took part in an Easter Egg hunt this week to celebrate the end of term.  They needed to solve ten clues to find ten letters dotted around the campus and then work out which of the letters made a nine-letter PE-specific word and discover which was the red…

12 March 21

As we were unable to hold the usual North Herts Schools Book Award event this year, we decided to make a recommended reading list for recently published children’s and YA fiction. The books included have all been read and reviewed by local school librarians and had to be of a high standard to make it…

2 March 21

This week, from 1 – 7 March, is the 77th annual Welwyn Garden City Youth Drama Festival. Last year, our lower school team won the First Place trophy – The Elizabeth Cory-Wright Cup – with a performance of Romeo and Juliet: the Musical; a one act comedy by pupils in Years 7, 8 and 9. This…

25 February 21

Week 8 (w/c 1 7 March 2021): 10 Activity Circuit Challenge Complete 10 coordination and fitness activities for a set time, performing as many accurate repetitions as you can, hopefully achieving Gold level (after some practice, if not the first time). Equipment Needed: A ball (or pair of socks, cuddly toy or toilet roll would…

24 February 21

Just before half term, Senior School pupils went ‘off screen’ for a day and took part in a suite of 30 activities across six themed topics: wellbeing; creative; active; learning; giving and social. Thank you to all our pupils and parents who have sent in some great pictures of the activities that took place – we’ve…

23 February 21

On Monday we had great fun welcoming special guest Ozymandias from Cronkshawfold farm to our Senior School Morning Talk. Technical issues at one point meant he was fittingly accompanied by Annie Lennox and the London City Voices choir and their beautiful reworking of Dido’s Lament by Henry Purcell, a project that has been created in…

12 February 21

Last week for Screen Free Day, one of the activities for pupils was to provide a video performance for our Care Home Concert.  During this last year, many people living in care homes have felt very isolated from their loved ones and the outside world. We are aiming to create a ‘concert’ of musical performances…

11 February 21

Week 7 (22 – 28 February 2021): St Chris Remote Learning PE Challenge The Home Pentathlon:  You (and members of your household, if they’d like!) complete five events at home; you enter your results into a spreadsheet and get an overall score.  Can you repeat this activity several times in a week, or across a…

10 February 21

No one in the family escaped the Senior School Screen Free Day last week! Many pupils with pets tried the activity titled Old Dog New Tricks, which was all about training an animal to perform a new trick. Training animals is a fantastic bonding experience that helps enrich your animal’s day as well as your…