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- Message from Mrs Jones
- Parent/carer meetings Term 1 Oct 2021
- News from the PTA
- Reception enjoy Autumn
- Year 1 Seasons
- Year 2 Getting active with place value and Postcards from the Amazon
- Year 3 Inspired by Emma Raducanu, and the Egyptians!
- Year 4 The Celtic Charge!
- Year 5 Oreo Moon, Coding and the Matchbox Diary
- Year 6 Eco and School Council Elections
- NW Bristol Arts Trail
- Reception 2022 Tours
Well done to our Reception children who attended this morning as a whole class. Everyone has done exceptionally well settling in and getting to know each other, the school adults are very proud of you all. A big thank you to parents and carers for supporting your children with their induction.
Fingers crossed for some Autumn sunshine tomorrow morning for the PTA fun run. It will be a great fundraising and social event. We can see many families have signed up via the Google form and the PTA are ready to welcome you. Mr Campbell and Mrs Richardson will be there to cheer you on. Please come and support this event and take the opportunity to raise funds for our school in the fresh air.
Please see the letter sent on 24th September regarding booking an appointment to meet with the class teachers. We are introducing an online booking system please see details below or in the letter. Please ask if you need support booking an appointment.
It’s Arts week next week every class has a range of Bristol inspired Art activities planned. We will look forward to sharing these during the Arts trail on 16th/17th October in our school hall 11-3pm.
The editor of the Bristol Parent-an online magazine visited our school this week to write a feature about our school. We are looking forward to sharing this with you, once it is published, but do take a look at the magazine as it provides lots of information and articles for families in Bristol.
Reception and Year 1 Welcome Meetings - you will have received a SZapp communication inviting you to a welcome meeting next week - details as below, meetings are expected to last around 40mins:
Year 1 - Weds 29th Sept, 9am, school hall, enter through community door from the car park
Reception - Thurs 30th Sept, 9am, school hall, enter through community door from the car park
Parent/carer meetings Term 1 Oct 2021
Instructions for booking your appointment for Parents/ Carers Teacher Meetings weds 13th & Thurs 14th Oct 21:
Click on Tile in Szapp ‘Parent/carer meetings Term 1 Oct 2021’
or click on link: https://christchurchps.schoolzineplus.co.uk/view-session/2
Login:
You will be asked to Login using the email and password that you registered for SZapp with
(if you have forgotten your password it will prompt you to reset via your email)
Select child:
Once you click Book A Time, you should then see a screen to select your child (or children – please do one at a time if you have more than one child). Select child and then press ‘Save and Continue’
Select class:
You will then need to select you child’s class – please scroll down until you find the right class and then select
Select date and time:
Select date (13th or 14th October) and then scroll down to select an available 10 min time slot
Further information:
Fill in your (parent/carer) name
Optional - fill in box ‘please detail specific areas you would like to discuss in your meeting with your child’s teacher’
Confirmation:
Click Next and you should receive a screen stating ‘your booking is complete’. Your appointment will also be emailed to you.
Please book early to ensure you get the slot you prefer. Thank you.
PTA Fun Run Saturday 25th September, New Fields, Clifton College
Good luck to those who have signed up to the school Fun Run! It is this Saturday 25th September and will start at 10am - 12pm at Clifton College New Fields.
Parents and siblings are also welcome to attend.
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There might even be a special visitor to the Fun Run:!
After a hard night on the trawler in the Bristol Channel, The Fun Run Fisherman told the school about the PTA Fun Run taking place on Saturday 25th September. He will be there at The New Fields to lead the warm up before the laps begin. There is no better plaice to be this Saturday morning.
Click the link to watch his advert. https://youtu.be/na539_Gg8K4
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Save the Date - PTA AGM on 7th October at 7.30pm
All parents are welcome to attend the AGM.
If you are new to the school, this is a great opportunity to find out more about the PTA. Or if you already know what we do, come along to have a catch up with friends. There will be a few formalities to cover as well. We will be looking at the year ahead and discussing events - any new and creative ideas are most welcome.
We have spent another exciting week exploring indoors and outdoors. We are enjoying watching the signs of autumn around school and have been developing our gross motor skills by sweeping the leaves. We are enjoying reading autumn stories and have been showing our teachers our super number skills.
The highlight though was meeting our friends today as our morning and afternoon group joined together. We can’t wait to see each other on Monday and to enjoy lunch and staying for a full day.
As this week saw the start of autumn, Year 1 have been learning about the four seasons. We thought about how the weather changes across the seasons and discussed any changes we have noticed outside. Then we drew a tree in spring, summer, autumn and winter, and made woodland creatures and leaf rubbing art using fallen autumn leaves.
Year 2 Getting active with place value and Postcards from the Amazon
Year 2’s have been working hard on place value. As the sun continued to shine we took our learning outside and thoroughly enjoyed partitioning numbers with chalk!
This week in literacy we pretended to be David and imagined we had visited the rainforest. The children were captivated by Sir David Attenborough’s visit to the Amazon and worked hard to write postcards using adjectives and adverbs. We also discussed punctuation and had lots of fun acting out silly shopping lists using commas.
Year 3 Inspired by Emma Raducanu, and the Egyptians!
As we hoped, the beautiful weather continues! We keep making the most of this prolonged summer in Year 3, this week we were inspired by Emma Raducanu. We took our tennis practice to the next level by trying to aim our forehand into hoops. We have progressed so much already…watch out Wimbledon!
Our Ancient Egypt topic took a slightly spooky turn this week when we looked at mummification. We acted out the whole experience and found out some gruesome facts about what the process entailed. Including hooks, brains and canopic jars!
Next up is Art’s week and we are already so excited to get creative!
Year 4 have been learning lots about how the Romans invaded Britain and how the Celts, led by Queen Boudicca, fiercely tried to defend their country. This week we re-enacted the Battle of Colchester, fought between the Romans and the Celts. We pretended we were the Celts charging into battle against the Romans, wielding heavy swords, and we used our facial and body language to express tension and ferocity.
Year 5 Oreo Moon, Coding and the Matchbox Diary
This week in Year 5 we have been continuing with our maths topic of place value. We have been looking at rounding and ordering and comparing numbers to 1,000,000 and have really enjoyed getting our teeth stuck into the bigger numbers.
In Computing, we have been learning about the Mars Rover robot called Curiosity which landed on Mars in August 2012. This week we have been looking at the way data is transferred across space using the system called binary code. The children enjoyed testing their knowledge in a series of games and challenged themselves to a quick-fire binary number recognition test!
In Science, Mr Curry and Mrs Rowe presented us with a packet of oreo cookies before explaining that this would help us understand how we see the moon. We learnt about the orbit of the moon and the lunar cycle. Did you know there are 8 different ways that we see the moon in the night sky and these are called phases of the moon?
In Literacy, we have continued reading our Power of Reading text: The Matchbox Diary. We have been hot seating characters to determine their feelings before writing diary entries and have created some amazing charcoal sketches whilst we listened to an extract about a ferocious storm.
Year 6 Eco and School Council Elections
This week we have been continuing our descriptive writing in Literacy, and produced some incredibly moving pieces of writing centred around our book: Varmints. Our teachers have been truly impressed! We are also practising how to use higher level pieces of punctation - let us show off at home by showing you how we can use colons and semi colons correctly.
We have now come to the end of our climate change topic which we have really enjoyed getting stuck into. Below you can see some examples of our two-page summaries which we completed, outlining all that we have learnt through the topic.
On Thursday, the corridor was buzzing with excitement as the children prepared for the Eco and School Council elections. All the children who presented a speech did so in a very professional manner, which made it a very close call when it came to counting the votes. If you were not sucessful, please remember that we are so proud of you for giving it a go - and House Captain and Sports Captain elections are just around the corner!
Bristol at the Heart of our Art
We are delighted to be participating again in the bi-annual North West Bristol Arts trail - exhibiting over the weekend of 16th & 17th October in our school halls.
During the w/c 27th September we will have a whole school Arts Week working to the theme 'Bristol at the Heart of our Art'. We are so lucky to live in the heart of Bristol, a city which brims with art, architecture, music and performance. We will be studying our city and the artists who capture it to inpsire our own artwork for the Arts Trail.
“ Bristol is a vibrant city, heaving with culture and worth exploring. My aim is for my paintings to bring just a little bit of that into people’s homes!…I love what I do and I hope that comes across in my pictures..” Jenny Urquhart
We are delighted to be able to invite prosepctive parents for Reception 2022 into our school on the following dates. If you have a younger child / or if you have friends and family with children due to start Reception next year please book or encourage them to book onto one of our tours:
Saturday 6th November 2021, 9am - 12noon
Saturday 13th November 2021, 9am - 12noon
We anticipate that the tour will take up to an hour including:
- An introductory talk from Mrs Clare Jones, Headteacher
- Self guided tour of our lovely school facilities
- Opportunity to stop during the tour and ask questions of the Senior Leadership Team, Key Stage Leaders and some of our Year 6 pupils
To support us maintaining social distancing and managing numbers, we ask you to please book an arrival time slot.
Please call the school office (0117 3772830) to book onto a timeslot or Book Here