The Chronicle

News from Christ Church Academy e-mail: office@cca.staffs.sch.uk Tel:01785 354047/9 www.christchurchacademy.co.uk Absence Reporting: Text 01785 472019 No. 8 17th February 2017

Half term is upon us already and it has surely been a very busy and exciting half term. Of course this week we welcomed Ofsted to the Academy for a one day inspection. Alongside meetings with staff, the two inspectors visited many classrooms, spoke to lots children, looked closely at children’s work and met with Governors and Board members. We are pleased that they did not feel it was necessary to visit for an additional day and we await their report which is expected towards the end of March/beginning of April. Thank you all who responded on Parent View – your support is valued. I hope you all have a restful half-term and come back refreshed and raring to go. Mr C M Wright Principal

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Well done to Year 6 and 7 netballers. They beat Walton Priory Middle 8-5 on the 9th February here at Christ Church. Year 7 Netball team:-

Poppy Massey, Hannah Patrick, Elle Henshaw, Rebekah Yendole, Millie Parkes, Hannah

Drummond, Lara Tuckwell, Charlotte Fritz and Flo Cregg. Year 6 Netball Team:- Louisa Tyler, Isabelle Howen, Abbie Burton, Isabel Bentley, Amy Bufton, Libby Walters, Emma Taylor and

Isabelle Gliddon.

World Book Day

World Book Day comes to CCA!

Thursday 2nd March will be

World Book Day’s 20th anniversary!

To celebrate all staff and students are invited to come to school in fancy dress

as their favourite character from a fiction book. There will be prizes for

the best costume in each year group, one per house. In addition, there will be activities in school during the day.

Safer Internet

Christ Church Academy took a new approach to celebrating Safer Internet Day 2017. Instead

of teachers showing pupils videos and internet safety rules, this year pupils shared tips and rules

that they had found useful. The best were then chosen to educate adults and older teenagers using Twitter. Featured here with their tweets are Year 5

pupils; Liberty Bradford, Ashton Williams, Amelia Heath, Molly Thompson, Keelan Hope,

Danny Watson, Freddie Hutchison-Perry, Lyla Partridge and Jacob Lovatt.

May we take the opportunity to remind parents that the majority of social networking sites

including WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, twitter and snapchat have a minimum age

requirement of 13. Therefore, children younger that 13 should not be using such sites.

Dates for your Diary

FEBRUARY 2017 Privilege point reward day Friday 17th February Half-term holiday Monday 20th - Fri 24th MARCH 2017 Quarry Bank Mill 6A, 6B & 6D Thursday 9th Quarry Bank Mill 6C & 6E Friday 10th Y8 Houses of Parliament Mon 20th & Thur 23rd Tutbury Castle 8A & 8B Wed 29th Tutbury Castle 8C & 8D Fri 31st APRIL 2017 Easter holiday Mon 10th - Fri 21st Summer term starts Mon 24th April MAY 2017 Bank holiday Mon 1st Half-term holiday Mon 29th - Fri 2nd June

Request for Leave in Exceptional Circumstances

To request a leave of absence for exceptional circumstances please complete a form which can be obtained from the school office or downloaded from the policies page of the school

website. Each application will be judged on its own merit. May we also remind you that if your child is going to be absent from school, parents may receive a penalty notice for an

unauthorised holiday in term time.

Rugby Match on Wednesday 15th February

This Wednesday in wet conditions CCA’s, Year 7s, put in a good performance against Royal Wolverhampton

Grammar School.

It was a very tough game against a strong team which resulted in CCA coming second best 3—2.

Gethin and Roman both had good performances.

Roman did well in defence and Gethin stole the show with 2 tries.

Rugby Match

On Friday 27th January pupils went to watch a game

of rugby in Manchester. They saw Sale Sharks play

Cardiff Blues in the Anglo Welsh Cup. They saw a

thrilling match with Sale wining 35-3. They were also

guards of honour for the game which meant that they

lead the players out and welcomed them onto the

pitch through a tunnel of waving flags.

ATTENDANCE NEWS FOR CHRONICLE (Feb 2017)

House Attendance to date

1st JUPITER 96.7%

2nd SATURN 96.6%

3rd NEPTUNE 96.0%

4th MERCURY 95.5%

Number of students with 100% attendance to date

1st MERCURY 39

2nd SATURN 38

3rd NEPTUNE 33

4th JUPITER 28

Best Form Attendance to date

1st 5C 97.5%

2nd 5B 97.3%

2nd 6C 97.3%

3rd 8A 97.2%

Oulton C.E. First School

Rock Crescent, Oulton, Stone, ST15 8UH www.oulton.staffs.sch.uk email:office@oulton.staffs.sch.uk 01785 354100

******** Exciting Nursery News**********

Oulton First School offer Nursery provision on a two and a half day basis, Monday/Tuesday 9.00am - 3.15pm and Wednesday 9am – 11.30am. We still have places available but the deadline for applications is nearly here! All applications need to be made by the 5th March 2017

Please contact the School Office on 01785 354100 or office@oulton.staffs.sch.uk for more

information.

Mrs M Melling BA (Hons) Education Head of School

Mr C Wright MAEd Executive Headteacher