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Contact:
Christ Church C of E VC Junior School, Pendennis
Road, Downend, South Glos. BS165JJ
Telephone:
01454
866516
Fax: 01454
866518
e-mail:
head@christ-down-jun.s-gloucs.sch.uk
website:
www.christ-down-jun.s-gloucs.sch.uk
Headteacher:
Alex Wilkinson: M.Ed

Sources of
information about the school. Here
1.
Yr 2 parents
for Sept 2010
2. What do parents think of the school?NEW
3.OfSTED:
Jan 2009 4. Church Inspection Report 2009
:
5. SATS & targets 2008-11

Christ Church@
Downend
Next School Service:
Harvest service
Wednesday Sept 29, 2010
at 11.00 am TBC
All Friends and Family welcome
Our Vision
A
thinking and
caring
community of
learners
Values:
Through our Church foundations in the past and our partnership
in the present, the school promotes Christian values and
encourages an understanding of the meaning and significance of
faith .
Learning:
Meeting new challenges through a culture of high expectations,
support and recognition of personal achievement. Everyone;
children, parents and staff, as a learner!
Caring:
The Christian message of care:
for self, family, people near and far
and all of creation; is the core value underpinning the work of
the
school.
Thinking:
Making learning an active challenge, encouraging reflection on
personal choices and their consequences for self and others.
Community:
Christ Church Junior School is a community where all are equally
valued and where we actively work with parents, the Church, the
Infant school and other local providers to enhance our shared
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Last
Newsletter Online
No 28
July 16
2010
Newsletters will now be
fortnightly but website updates will be weekly.
Remembering Jack Banks and
Farewell to Year 6

5 weeks of
World Cup South African fundraising
at CCJ have been everything the English team weren’t:
· Target
exceeded (an amazing £900 + £500 match funding from an anonymous
donor)
· Lots
of hard work and entrepreneurial creativity and imagination by
staff and children.
· A
strong collective sense of fun, purpose and now…...
achievement!
A really big thanks to all children and parents for your support
and generosity.
Drama at CCJ!

Egyptian day for Yrs 3& 4 and Yr 5
act the story of Troy
Mrs Elliott & Ms
Pickering sharing the Story Sacks in South Africa and the new banners!
Jan
2010 Maths lesson in the
snow! (more here)
See here for up-date, focussing
on
Christmas in the Christ Church Community 2009
 
Monday 14 Dec: The Church was packed and
the singing was uplifting and full of Christmas joy. Many thanks
to children, parents the choir & Revd Jo Vickery.
Safe use of the Internet
Social Networking sites.
Cyber- bullying
Presentation
for parents & carers
Monday 14th
December
2:30 –3.00. School Hall
The core message was........
Zip It
Block It
Flag It
E-safety
· A
recent school survey of yrs 5&6 pupils in South Glos reported
that 48% of children had unsupervised access to the internet in
their bedroom (a recent parent survey put the figure at 14%).
42% of children had lied about their age to get access to social
networking (and other) sites.
· Do
you have a computer at home?
· Is
your child confident with using it independently?
· Do
you know exactly what they are doing on the Internet?
· Do
you feel sure you are able to protect them and guide them to use
the Internet safely?
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Dates for your Diary
Start of Term 1.
School Starts on
Thursday Sept 2
at 8.55 am
Teachers will meet
all children on
the main playground from 8.45am
PGL for current Yr 5,
Week of April 4. 2011
(letter soon) Dates for 2010/11 here
INSET DAYS 2009-2010
Same as Infant School
Sept 1 2010
April 1 2010
June 25 2010
Recent
Letters Home:
Interested in Piano lessons next year ?
Yr
2 parents newsletter
Yr 6 Parents SATS
letter
Termly
Curriculum Newsletters Summer Terms
5 and 6 2010,
Recent
Website updates:
2009 parent Survey Results
NEW
Drugs
Education Yrs 3-6
NEW
Feb:
Dihlabeng School,
South Africa
Feb:
Pedal Power Science:
Feb:
Community Page 2:
Jan:
Snow-fun in school:
Monday Jan 11
Dec:
Governors:
Chair's review of the
year
Dec:
Christmas
in the Christ Church Community.
Nov:
Community Cohesion, Rights & Rules +
Modern Childhood.
With so much 'doom and gloom'
about modern childhood in the media and so much nationwide
parental anxiety about behaviour, politeness, safety etc, please
take a few minutes to read the
full OfSTED report, and especially the letter the Inspector
sent to all of the children.
As well
as the ‘content’ (which says some wonderful things about your
children; their attitude, the way they speak to and respond to
each other etc) all classes looked at it as a model example of
how to write a letter (e.g. style, think about the audience etc)
which is one of the things we teach in Literacy!
Please!
Please! Take a few minutes to read the full report. It is
so very positive about your children
(the
Inspection Team spent far more time with them than they did with
adults!) and about the actual impact on children of all
the adults' hard work to make school enjoyable and worthwhile
for all your children.
….so..please...
no crisps or chocolate for children’s playtime snacks!
This was agreed after extensive consultation with (and
pressure from!) parents a couple of years ago.
Healthy Snacks ( fruit, toast etc) are sold daily from the
kitchen at playtime, Still only 15p!
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