We have so many people to thank. To the National Literacy Trust (NLT) and their Libraries for Primaries campaign, we could not be more grateful. Because of the strong partnership we have created over the years, by participating in projects such as the Young Readers Programme and Young City Poets, the NLT knew of our school and of our children who love to read. With the support of Bloomberg they have designed, installed and created a beautiful space that our children cannot wait to use and enjoy. A huge thank you to both organisations. The launch day was made into a day never-to-be-forgotten due to the hard work of so many people. To all the team at Royal Palaces and the wonderful Queen herself, thank you for helping us plan and stage a historic experience and to the brilliant authors who visited – Ramzee, Chris Smith, Sophy Henn and Tola Okogwu – we are so grateful for the time and energy you gave to our children.  It was a mesmerising and joyful day, which truly filled our hearts. Well done, everybody!

Once again, we were hosted by Arnold House School, who went above and beyond to make the event so special for our children. Thank you so much, Chris Kerr and your team, for organising such a fun, active, and memorable day.

The children threw themselves enthusiastically into a wide range of activities, including football, tennis, cricket, dodgeball, running, and rounders. Everywhere we looked it was a joy to see all of the children so engaged and playing competitively, fairly and respectfully.

What did the children think? Well, Max loved playing football and showed off many impressive skills. Xander’s highlight was the 60m sprint - he flew down the track! Eva-Rose and Melissa both had a fantastic time playing tennis and shared how much they enjoyed being on the astroturf courts.

Amongst all of that activity, the children were treated to a superb lunch. They tucked into delicious pasta bakes, roast chicken, roast potatoes, and Yorkshire puddings - the perfect fuel for an action-packed day.

We returned to school with big smiles, tired legs, and lots of great memories. Thank you once again to Arnold House School for hosting us so warmly - we’re already looking forward to the next one!

Well done to all the children who wrote a story at home in order to enter this year’s BBC 500 Words competition.

It was a pleasure to submit so many excellent entries on your behalf. Thank you to the parents/carers of those children for encouraging your loved one to ‘have a go’.

While nobody from the school emerged victorious in the national competition this year, we were able to award a £10 National Book Token voucher for what we considered our ‘Top 3’ school entries.  Mohamad, Mianna and Khadijatu were chosen and they can now have a good look around Waterstones or Foyles with £10 to spend. We look forward to next year’s competition already!

On a mainly sunny afternoon, our girls picked up three wins and one draw from five matches played. For many of them, it was their first experience of playing competitively on grass and I think they loved it!

It was wonderful to see all the children grow and improve as the day progressed. We were so very proud of you; we can't wait to see you continue your progression. 

(Delilah, I am so sorry I didn't take the team photo until the end of the day because you had gone home by that point and so missed out. I must do better next time [Ross])

On Tuesday, they played at the Camden Finals having progressed from the Camden South League by finishing second. Although it wasn’t to be for them on the day – going down 0-1, 0-2 and 0-3 – it doesn’t take away from a fantastic performance in the Camden South League.

It is the second time in three years that our boys’ team have reached the Finals, which is a fantastic achievement given we are a one-form entry school mainly up against bigger schools, where there is a greater pool of children who play regularly.

Thank you to Coach Robert for all that you have done this year to ready our boys and to foster a spirit of hard work and resilience in them.

We are so proud of our amazing head teacher and all that she does to help and support all of our pupils! Congratulations Paula!

We are bursting with pride in all of the girls who represented Christ Church magnificently. They were respectful, smart and made excellent contributions.

Well done everybody!

Really well done to those children. We are so proud of how much effort you are putting into your reading and your Reading Records.

We go to the British Library next week for a visit to their Sounds Lab and this afternoon we are off to the Portland Hospital for Restart a Heart Day.

In our Understanding of the World sessions, we have begun to look at transport from the past.

Today we visited the London Transport Museum to look at a range of transport from the past. We enjoyed looking and exploring the old buses and tube trains.

It was lovely to return to Regent's Park for this year's event. Here's what some of the children thought about it:

Mianna: "It was very hot but it was so nice on the grass. It tickled me and my mum's toes when we took our shoes off. I had a very nice time with my hat on."

Leighton:    "It was AMAZING. It was very good and hot. The events were so fun. I got 1.55m on the standing long jump!"

Thank you to all of the parents and carers who were able to attend and help out. The adults' egg and spoon race was an unforgettable spectacle - time to get training for next year's renewal I think!

Holly Class took inspiration from Frida Kahlo’s painting and used green paint to create their backgrounds. They drew self-portraits and used real flowers to collage around their heads. They used a mixture of different flowers and colours to create different patterns.

This week we immersed ourselves in the story and went to the Moon. We were joined for our moon picnic by a very special visitor. Baby Bear joined us for our food.

She told us that the British library has 14 million books!

Sandra came with 6 different genres of books:

Adventure (very cool!), true stories (bit scary!), magical, comic and funny.

We had to vote for the one we wanted her to read. Everyone picked the magical book, which was called “Our Tower. The pictures were amazing but,  after 5 minutes, she asked us if we wanted to swap books…we did.

We read a funny book about Claude a dog who wears a French beret and his friend …Sir Boblysock!

Sandra also gave some books and bookmarkers for our class (very generous!).

I really enjoyed Sandra’s visit with her coloured cards and orange trolley.  All of the books looked exciting and reading is definitely becoming one of my favourite things to do!

Written by Nwanneka.

KS1 and EYFS had their Sports Days, Year 3 baked apple crumble, Jam Club had their end-of-year party and Y1-Y3 visited the HS2 site.

Thank you to all our staff who made it all possible!

From wire modelling to pasta frames, shoe design to beautiful watercolours, we had a little bit of it all.

Hollie does a brilliant job of co-ordinating our Art and Design curriculum here at Christ Church. You may not know this but we are a Gold Artsmark-achieving school. Hollie has put so much thought into our art offer and our curriculum; the children’s sketchbooks and final outcomes this year have blown us away.