Category: Senior School

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…

13 March 20

On Friday 6 March pupils from the Senior School entered the 76th Welwyn Garden City Youth Drama Festival.  The festival takes place all week with 21 schools and youth groups competing with performances lasting between 20 and 50 minutes.  The adjudicator was Chris Jaeger MBE. St Chris entered two pieces.  Students in Year 12 performed…

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…

14 February 20

At the weekend students from Years 10 and 11 took part in the FIRST Tech Challenge Robotics competition at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford.  The team has been working with a REV robotics kit and building a robot that could collect and stack large blocks while navigating around obstacles in their path.  The team…

14 February 20

Last week saw the long-awaited final to the Senior School St Chris Annual ‘Bake Off’.  The teams had to bake a cake and decorate it in the theme of ‘Love and Peace’.  The students interpretations of this theme were wonderful to see and the standard of baking incredibly high.  The finalists were: Year 11 (V…

31 January 20

Last weekend our Year 9 robotics team competed in the Robot Rumble sponsored by MBDA and hosted at the University of Hertfordshire.  They worked hard building a robot using a VEX robotics kit that would collect and stack cubes.  The team finished third in the qualifying tournament.  They also had to record their progress and…

6 December 19

More than 100 pupils took part in our totally awesome production Legally Blonde last week – either on stage, in the band or behind the scenes as technical crew. Two different casts – Team Bruiser and Team Rufus – alternated, each performing two performances. Head Richard Palmer said: “The production quality, musicality and sheer enjoyment shone…

3 December 19

On Wednesday 27 November, pupils from I & II Group (Years 7 & 8) headed off to Queenswood School for this year’s Kids’ Lit Quiz! The Kid’s Lit Quiz is an annual celebration of reading and all things children’s books, so it is a fabulous opportunity for book lovers to challenge themselves and show off…

29 November 19

Last week pupils from the Senior School attended WorldSkillsLive at Birmingham NEC. WorldSkillsLive is the UK’s largest skills, apprenticeships and careers event. It aims to inspire more young people to consider apprenticeships and technical education career routes and get off to a strong start in work and life. Pupils saw live demonstrations on what it…

22 November 19

At the end of October St Chris pupils Soonu, Asa and Frankie took part in the Cambridge Festival of Ideas in a performance called MULTIPLIED: Embodying the Resonance of the Soul.  An interpretation of Rudolf Laban’s movement choir concept, the piece was a site-specific dance performance intended as an exploration of the soul’s journey in search…