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The hrist’s hronicles
Friday, 27th February 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:
Well done to our Year 8 Boys Football
Teamwho beat TwickenhamAcademy 16-0
in a borough league fixture. This
comprehensive victory was sealed, mainly,
by a glut of goals scored by Owen Perkins.
Well Done!
The Year 10 Boys Football teamplayed
Grey Court this week whilst sporting their
brand new kit, courtesy of Christ’s SchoolPTA. (see pictures on our Facebook page)
They trailed 2-0 in the first 30 minutes but
rallied to score just before half time through
the first class effort of Imran Uche. Sadly,
Grey Court made a come back in the
second half and the final score was 4-2.
As always, see our Facebook page
for pictures and fixture list. Just
click here.
Tuesday 3rd March
Year 9 Parents Evening
3.30pm - 6.30pm
Some important dates for your diary:
Year 9 Boys & Girls
Vaccinations
World Book Day
Character Costumes
Thursday 5th March
GCSE Science Live!
Year 7 Trip to Spain
Issue No. 12
Remember to check
the School Bulletin for
more information.
Friday 6th March
For World Book Day we are challenging students & staff to
take a photograph of themselves reading a book or an e-
Reader in an “extreme” situation… That might be at the top of
a mountain, on their skateboard, up a tree... or somewhere
else. We will be tweeting these on our school twitter feed
during World Book Day on the 5th March. Please email your
photos to: [email protected]
HumSocHumanities Soc iety started this week with a
presentation and debate about changing
animal cruelty laws. Year 11s Natasha
Blackmore, Ben J ones, Hannah Perks &
Maya Regan are campaigning to have
stiffer penalties for those found guilty of
animal cruelty and presented a provactive
and informative case to HumSoc
attendees.
HumSoc is every Thursday at 12.30 in Mrs
Hoyle’s Room 8.
Future topics for presentation and debate will
include:
Why aren’t we deporting more
dangerous foreign criminals?
Campaign to reduce food waste
Campa ign to legalise some recreational
drug use
How companies abuse low paid workers
in developing countries
Should students travel free on public
transport?
Should UK consumers boycott Israeli
products?
What to do about British citizens going to
Syria to fight for IS?
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PTA Quiz Night
Friday 20th March
Tickets will be available from Wednesday
11th March.
You can buy them from the school office by
cash or cheque, or online using Scopay.
Our Bible verse for the week:
or nothing is
impossible with
God.”
Luke 1:37
O God of all nations and all people, inspire
us to live in your presence each day. On
our journey through life lead us to choose the right
direction, and show us how to respect and valueothers, even if we do not agree with them. May we
ind other people as willing to help us as we are
willing to help them. Amen.
Parents Prayer Meeting
Monday 2nd March 2-3pm in The
Chapel with our Chaplain, Rev Serena
Willoughby
Royal Holloway Launch Ceremony
12 Able and Ambitious Year 9/10 Christ’s School students
attended the launch ceremony of The Brilliant Club at Royal
Holloway, University of
London on Tuesday 24thFebruary. The purpose of the day was to launch The Brilliant
Club programme, introduce their PhD tutor and allow them to
discuss their assigned programme of study. This year the
programme of study is Nationalism; does it unite or divide us?
The students enjoyed a tour of the campus by second year
undergraduates and a study skills session run by the Brilliant
Club team. The students also undertook their first tutorial
based on Nationalism. They will attend 4 further tutorials run
by PhD students in school throughout the month of March,before
submitting a
2000 word
assignment
in April,
which will
then be
marked at
Key Stage 5level and
given a
University style grade.
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Thursday 5th March 2015
Next Thursday is World Book Day, a celebration of everything wonderful
about books, and the school has a number of events organised to mark
the day. We are delighted to announce that we have the author of My
Second Life, Faye Bird, in school all day on Thursday. Faye will be
holding creative writing workshops with a selec tion of students from
every year group, and speaking to all of Key Stage 3 during afternoon
assembly.
As you know, we are asking students to come to school dressed as their favourite character from fiction,
and to send a photograph of themselves reading a book in an extreme way for our#extremereading
competition. You can see that some of our staff members have already taken the initiative with this one!
On the day each student will receive a £1 book token which can be
used to purchase a book in any participating bookshop. To
encourage students to use their token we will have a Pop-up
Bookshop from Waterstones in the school library during lunchbreak. They are bringing along a small selection of paperback fiction
books which students can purchase using their £1 off voucher as part
payment. Our visiting author, Faye Bird, will be available during lunch
time to sign any of her own books purchased by students.
We recommend that any students interested in buying a book on the
day should bring along b e twee n £ 7 a n d £ 10 in c a sh . This money will
be their own responsibility, and so we suggest an envelope, purse, or
wallet for safe-keeping is a good idea.
There will be lots of fun, lots of prizes, and some reallygreat books!
New
Clubs
Timetable
March
2015
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Clare Tweedie’s Arts Richmond Young Writers Award Shortlisted Creative Writing
Coma
To me it’s awfully crowded in here. The darkness is crowding me in, but it’s been like this for a few
weeks now. I’ve learnt, so far, the smell of each nurse, my wife and our daughter. There is also a
distinctive smell of old person each time anyone over the age of sixty comes, a mixture of
canned cough sweets and itchy blankets. The nurses, well, they smell of medicine, chemicals-the sort of smell you only encounter in a hospital or old people’s home. There is always a bit of
sadness in this smell, a sort of disappointment, a constant waiting. Well, that’s how I used to smell
it; now it’s the smell of hope, development, maybe something different?
My wife’s smell - now that’s one of my favourite smells. It smells of life, joy, excitement! Everything
I remember her to be. She sweeps into the room and kisses me on the forehead. This is when I
can smell her most strongly. ‘Ode di Fiori’ – ‘Scent of Flowers’ - was the first perfume I ever gave
her, and since the accident she has never stopped wearing it, so that is now her smell and will
always be. My daughter’s smell is my drug. It’s the smell of calm, love and chance. My wife rests
my joy on my chest and I can feel her breathing, in and out, in and out……The sound of herbreathing drowns out the beeping of the machine with a calming, soothing rhythm. It seems to
take away the pain of being so lonely, and not being able to connect to the outside world. She
is the only one I can connect with.
My wife brings her every day for four hours, but that will never be enough. Twenty hours a day
I’m with other people who I barely know and who don’t know me. But in those few hours with my
daughter, my entire existence regains its meaning. I mean, the nurses are kind and respectful of
my privacy, and I can trust them, but they don’t talk to me or think I’m there. They probably think
I’m just a useless body, which should probably be turned off.
The only person who thinks I’m here - which I am - is the cleaner who plays Hungarian folk music
and talks about her family back home in Budapest. Her story is no Charles Dickens or Jane
Austen but it is certainly a different one. She says: “I know you are in there – I can feel it “, and
my heart sings for a second before I remember that I can never tell her she is right.
Sometimes, I think her life seems amazing because of all the hardship she’s been through. But
then I think that what I’m enduring is hardship and that some might think that this is very
dramatic. But to me, this is just a cruel payment of fate, something that can happen to anyone
at any time. So why not me?
One person who doesn’t think I am here is my mother -in-law. She exudes an odour of irritationand disappointment as she declares, “How is he?” She then announces to whoever is listening:
“Such a shame, he was such a handsome man. Now look at him: just a useless shell. I‘ve been
told that there is no hope. My daughter should just give up.”
At this point, I reply in my head: “Get lost you old cow!”
With her needle-point voice she adds: “Of course he’ll never recover. He’ll never get better. My
daughter should really get on with her life and marry someone else, you know.”
Suddenly, the crowding becomes significantly worse; I am suffocating on her words. But then I
hear a sound in the outside world, a burst of light through the traitorous dark, a magical
sensation all through my body. I hear “Daddy.”