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 life together. 

  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 14^th December
2:30 –3.00. School Hall 
The core message was........

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?

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!