The Chronicle News from Christ Church Academy e-mail: [email protected] 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 This publication is available on our website where the print size can be enlarged if necessary. If you do not have access to the internet and need this publication in any other format please contact us. Well done to Year 6 and 7 netballers. They beat Walton Priory Middle 8-5 on the 9 th 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.