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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. OfSTED:
Jan 2009 2. Church Inspection Report 2009
: 3. What do parents think of the school?
4. SATS & targets 2005-9
5. June 2009.
New Yr 2 parents
for Sept 2009

Christ Church@
Downend
Next School Service:
Easter Service
Tuesday March 30, 2010
at 1.30pm
All Friends and Family welcome
Our Vision
a
thinking and
caring
community of
learners
Thinking:
Making learning an active challenge and encouraging
reflection on personal choices and their consequences for
self and others.
Caring:
The Christian message of care: for self, family, other people
and all of creation; is the core value underpinning the work of
the school.
Community:
The
school as a community and working with parents, the
Church, the Infant school and other local providers of services
Learning:
Meeting
new challenges through a culture of high expectations,
support and recognition of personal achievement. Everyone,
children, parents and staff , as a learner!
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Last
Newsletter Online
No 20
March 10
2009
Newsletters will now be
fortnightly but website updates will be weekly.

The Chernobyl Children's Lifeline Charity
arranges for groups of children to spend a month in this
country, away from the suffering and pollution caused by the
Chernobyl Nuclear disaster. CCJ hosted a group for the day in
2009 and will do so again this year. For many of us it was one
of the the most special days of the year
Chernobyl Children's Lifeline arrange
the flights and leaders/interpreters for the visit, as well as
organising a whole range of outings, activities and visits
during their stay.
Chernobyl Children's Lifeline are looking for
more host families
who could look after one or two children (aged 10-12)
for two, or four weeks this summer.
If you think you might like to know more, we
are holding a recruitment/information
session in the North Street Hall on
Friday 12th March from
6.30pm onwards. Please come.
Buildings Links:
Mrs Elliott, Ms Pickering, Mr Robbins (chair of Governors)
and the Church team are in South Africa week making links with
Dihlabang Primary School.South
Africa.
Mrs Elliott & Ms
Pickering sharing the Story Sacks and the new banners!
Pedal Power!
How fast do you need
to pedal to boil a kettle? We’ll be finding out!
The Highwayman:
Year 5 Literacy groups gave two, dramatic readings of the
poem-story ‘The Highwayman’ to an audience of children and
parents

Jan
2010 Maths lesson in the
snow! (more here)


See here for up-date, focussing
on
Christmas in the Christ Church Community 2009
Updated Dec 17
 
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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Recent
Letters Home:
NEW
Yr
3- 4 Hockey Club
Tea-time concert
3 Feb
Class 3MM Swimming
29 Jan
Recent
Website updates:
March 2010: Year 6
Revision page
Feb:
Dihlabeng School,
South Africa
NEW
Feb:
Pedal Power Science:NEW
Feb:
Community Page 2:
NEW
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 +
Dates for your Diary
March 11:
6KE assembly 3.00
March 12:
Cake Sale 3.00
March 19:
Sport Relief
March 22:
Yr 6 to PGL
March 30:
Easter Service 1.30
March 31:
Last day of Term 4
April 1:
School shut INSET
April 19:
First day of Term 5
Yr 6 Sats
Week May 10-14
Friday March 19 2010
Sport Relief Mile
3.00pm
onwards (till
5.00)
Walk, run or jog,
a mile
(with or without children!)
around the school grounds.
All Welcome!
Parents + children, Infant School Children & parents, Staff,
Governors and anyone from the
local community who would like to take part.

INSET DAYS 2009-2010
Same as Infant School
April 1 2010
June 25 2010
Dates for 2010/11 here
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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