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The Christ’s Chronicles
Friday, 17th April 2015
www.christs.richmond.sch.uk
Welcome to the new format
Christ’s Chronicles, which we will
be issuing weekly. Your feedback
would be most welcome. Please
email me at:
Our Junior Netball girls finished last term
impressively, beating Hampton Academy
9-2 and 4-1. Year 7 finished the league in
second position behind Waldegrave. Well
done everyone!
As always, see our Facebook
page for pictures and fixture list.
Just click here.
Thursday 23rd April
Year 7 French Trip Returns
Year 8 Parents Evening
3.30pm - 6.30pm
Bank Holiday
Some important dates for your diary:
Issue No. 17
Remember to check
the School Bulletin for
more information. Tuesday 28th April
Monday 4th May
Cyber Security Course
Through the Smallpiece Trust, we were given two places for Year 9 scientists to
attend a special course during the Easter holidays. Both of the chosen students
had a very rewarding time as demonstrated by the report below:
I was invited by the school to go on a course about Cyber Security, hosted at
Royal Holloway University.
I stayed for two nights at the start of the Easter holidays and worked with
specialists, as well as in a team with other students, learning how to crack codes, hack into websites
and identify weaknesses in their security. Using techniques which they taught us, our team was able to
crack a cipher with 403,291,461,126,605,635,584,000,000 possible outcomes in under a day!
The course was very entertaining and everyone was very sociable. I am very grateful to the school for
offering me this opportunity. Max Manning, Year 9
Oxford University Trip
On the 23rd & 24th of March Rachel, Dorsa, Megan and I went on a taster trip to Oxford Universi-
ty, staying at Oriel College. Our stay was highly informative and allowed us to experience life at
Oxford. We had taster sessions, in either arts or sciences in order to understand Oxford’s innova-
tive teaching approach. I tried the arts sessions including law, politics and history; covering topics
such as the purpose of charity and the case of the conjoined twins. We were fortunate enough to be
staying in university accommodation which was beautiful. My room had a great view and an en-
suite. The meals were tasty and we even had one evening meal served to us, as is their tradition.
The trip was interesting and certainly taught me a lot about Oxford.
Abi Houghton-Brown, Year 12
Do you enjoy reading? Are you in Year 7,8,9 or 10?
If you would like to help choose the winning shortlisted book
nominated for the prestigious Carnegie Medal, please come
and join our CILIP Carnegie Shadowing group. You will get the
opportunity to read lots of new, exciting books and talk about
them with your friends, as well as writing book reviews.
See Mrs Garrett in the Library to get involved.
Congratulations!Congratulations!Congratulations!
Well done to Leah Howard of
8HOD who has been named as
the winner of the Richmond
Borough Cover Story 2014-15
competition in the Age 13
category.
Leah wrote a review of the book
‘The Last Leopard’ by Lauren St.
John.
Leah and her family have been
invited to receive her award at an
event held in Richmond on 19th
May, where the author Paul
Dowswell will present the awards
and give a talk about how he
became a writer. Paul will also be
answering questions and signing
copies of his books, Eleven
Eleven, Auslander and Red
Shadow. This event is open to all.
See below for more details.
The Junior Netball Teams
Paul Dowswell - Teen author event
Tuesday 19th May
6:45pm
Richmond Lending Library
Little Green, Richmond
Copies of Paul Dowswell’s books will be available for purchase
provided by The Alligator’s Mouth bookshop.
Ski Trip 2015
50 students and 6 members of staff spent the
first week of the Easter holidays skiing in
Claviere, Italy.
Beautiful blue skies and quiet slopes made for
perfect conditions, and skiers of all abilities
were very quickly making fantastic progress.
By day three the novices were confidently
throwing themselves down red runs, and the
more experienced skiers were honing their
technique. On the last day the advanced
group had the opportunity to ski over into
France where there were yet more black runs
for them to attempt.
Our wonderful PGL rep made sure we were
kept entertained in the evenings by
organising a visit to a traditional pizzeria, a
fashion show, a treasure hunt and an awards
evening, where students were presented with
certificates by their ski instructors.
The instructors also took this opportunity to
mention to the teachers how impressed they
were by the Christ’s School students, saying it
was a pleasure to spend the week with such
polite, positive and friendly children. The
students were an absolute credit to the
school throughout the trip.
After an amazing week, we arrived back at
school on Saturday, exhausted but (despite
Mr Simpson’s best efforts!) injury-free.
You can see photos and videos, as well as
daily updates, on our blog:
Just click on the link:
christsskitrip
Our Bible verse for the week:
S o do not fear, for I am
with you; do not be
dismayed, for I am your
God. I will strengthen you and
help you; I will uphold you with
my righteous right hand.
Isaiah 41:10
God of colour,
Sometimes I live like the yellow of summer,
Sometimes I’m life-giving green.
Sometimes I’m blue and dejected.
Sometimes I’m red-strong and rocking.
Help me to mix the colours of my personality
Into the rainbow of your divine love.
Amen
Year 7 French
Trip
The Year 7 French
trip will leave on
Friday 17th April
and return on
Wednesday 22nd
April.
Richmond May Fair
Saturday 9th May
This is a really fun day out for the whole family and the PTA will
once again be hosting the Christ’s School Marquee. We need to
organise an adult and children’s tombola, a silent auction, burgers,
tea, cakes, plants and more. It’s a great way to advertise our school
to the local community. Please contact [email protected] if you
would like to be involved. Your support is greatly appreciated.
New Extra-Curricular Sports Summer Timetable
