Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Courageous Learning - Blood Hound Project

  Mon 17 Jun 2024 G Jones

  Y1 and 2 children became engineers today as they had an amazing visit from Bloodhound Education Ltd. The children learnt about what would make their K’Nex cars the most aerodynamic and to travel at speed. We also tested whether any cars could race faster than Jasper...not many could!

   

  We would like to thanks the Friends once again for funding this wonderful engineering opportunity and to Mrs Rylands for organising it.

   

  What a way to start the week!

  

• Courageous Learning - Mad Olympiad

  Thu 13 Jun 2024 A Martin

  Our Y2 children did themselves proud at the Olympiad at Pomphrey Hill today

  It was a challenging morning due to the late arrival of several schools, slightly chaotic organisation, the event running over so late that our coaches nearly left us there and medals being given to the wrong children but all in all we had a great morning.

   

  Huge well done to all of the children, but I’d especially like to give a shout out to Theo and Aveyah for their brilliant sprint races, Edward and Archie for their excellent egg and spoon races and both of our relay teams, who were absolutely superb

  We have never been in a situation where both of our teams reach the relay final and for one to place and the other not to is hard to handle.

  All of the children will get medals to say a huge well done. These will be ready to give to them next week, which will hopefully show them how proud we all are.

   

  I’m delighted to say that CCJ won so many events in the afternoon and won the whole of the juniors event!

   

  If there was a trophy for the team with the most enthusiasm we’d smash it every time….’CCI, CCI, CCI!’

   

  Thanks to all of the staff as ever and to the parents who came along to support us.

  

• Inspired to live life to the full - Lego Club

  Wed 12 Jun 2024 A Martin

  Seeing children of all ages and from different classes come together at Lego Club is a really wonderful thing. Luke had the children absolutely gripped this week as they tested whether they had managed to make their models float or sink.

  Luke - our children are so lucky to have you!

  

• Courageous Learning - Little City at Christ Church

  Wed 12 Jun 2024 G Jones

  Our EYFS children had the BEST time today at 'Little City' at Christ Church. This was a huge pop-up of a range of cleverly created realistic role play areas that the children would find in the real world around them. The carefully planned zones linked brilliantly to our enquiries of 'How can we care for animals?' and 'Who helps us?' but most of all the children had such a brilliant time doing grown-up jobs that they may like to do when they grow up.

  Huge thanks once again to our Friends team for funding this (and you as parents for your many donations to give the Friends the funds to do so), Miss Robbins for arranging this and to Christ Church (especially Maggie) for letting us use the Church.

  If you ever wonder what the Friends do - they make amazing things like this possible!!!!

  

• Caring Community - Enrichment Day - Gratitude Jars

  Fri 24 May 2024 G Jones

  The last day of Term 5 saw the children visiting new classrooms and staff for their enrichment sessions. The staff mostly focused on thinking about how amazing our world is, how we can treat it with respect, showing gratitude and thanks and learning about other cultures.

  The children loved making gratitude jars and thankful hands, thank you card for residents at Cleve Lodge, art out of things grown in our school grounds, wonderful creations out of plastic bags and Rangoli patterns amongst other things.

   

  Thank you to the staff for being so creative and well prepared for the sessions on the last day of term.

   

  

• Inspired to live life to the full - Prayer Space

  Fri 24 May 2024 G Jones

  To complete what has been a truly inspiring week, we had two days of prayer spaces organised and implemented by some wonderful volunteers from Christ Church.

  We feel so fortunate to have such caring people who do what they do for our children to be able to explore the world around them, sharing what they feel thankful for and saying prayers if they chose to.

   

  Thank you so much to Harriet Jolly and her team for giving our children really meaningful experiences in a safe and famliar environment.

  

• Inspired to live life to the full - Art Gallery at CCD

  Thu 23 May 2024 A Martin

  Thank you so much to everyone who was able to come along to our art gallery after school today, it was wonderful to see the children’s hard work being enjoyed and celebrated.

  The children demonstrated how inspired they have been by Jungle Jonathan and our wonderful world and we really hope you find somewhere special at home to display their art.

   

  Huge thanks to Mr Jones for planning such an inspiring project and to our talented artists

  

• Courageous Learning - Jungle Jonathan Visit

  Wed 22 May 2024 G Jones

  It is safe to say that the children (and staff!) absolutely LOVED Jungle Jonathan’s visit to school on Monday and Tuesday this week to kick start our Wonder Week.

  We saw so many children being courageous learners as they got very close to the fascinating creatures and we were very impressed by how well they listened and behaved.

  Jonathan told us several times what a lovely school and children we have and he so enjoyed his time at CCI.

   

  Thank you once again to our Friends for funding this event and to you all for supporting events and donating so generously to make this possible.

  

• Inspired to live life to the full - EYFS and Y1 Disco

  Thu 16 May 2024 A Martin

  Thank you so much to our brilliant Friends team once again, especially DJ Luke, for running two amazing discos for our EYFS and Y1 children tonight. The children had an amazing time and it was lovely to see them dancing and charging about together.

   

  Thank you to everyone for supporting this event - Y2s will be next term!

  

• Caring Community - Visit to Cleve Lodge Residential Home

  Mon 13 May 2024 G Jones

  Miss Gould and Mrs Fussell took our Y1 choir members and some Pandas along to visit the residents at Cleve Lodge residential home today. They sang and read stories to the residents there and generally made Miss Gould’s heart sing with the kindness and love that they showed to the lovely folk they met. The care went both ways and it was lovely to make some new connections.

   

  CCI’s caring community at its best