The staff and pupils of Cheadle Catholic Junior School would like to wish you a very merry Christmas!

Trips and Visitors to school

On 29^th November, our Year 5 children took part in an amazing day of Dance and Music. ‘Border Moves’, a multi-cultural performance group gave the children the opportunity to play African drums and explore Jamaican percussion; they also led an Asian Dance workshop.  The children thoroughly enjoyed the experience and entered into all of the activities with great enthusiasm.

As part of their History Topic on the Tudors, our Year 4 pupils paid a visit to Bramall Hall for a Tudor Christmas experience. Dressed in period costume, the children set off for a day immersed in the life of a child during the reign of Henry VIII.

Every class in the school went to St Andrew’s church to experience the wonder of ‘The Bethlehem Trail’. Peter Fraser who our children know from our ‘Bible Encounter’ assemblies led the children on a magical tour of ‘ancient Bethlehem’ in order to bring the story of Christ’s birth to life. We would like to thank the army of parent’s helpers who helped escort each of our classes to St Andrew’s and back.

On Saturday 3^rd December the school hosted our Local Parish Association Day of Reflection for the ministers of The Word and Eucharistic ministers.

The school council elections took place earlier in the term and our new council (consisting of a Councillor and a Deputy for each of our 12 classes) has been very active. The children have already held a number of meetings this term including one where they discussed ideas with our Chair of Governors, Brendan O’Shea. The children were instrumental in implementing our new House system in school – they decided upon house names and established rules for rewarding (and removing) house points. The four houses across the school are Trafalgar, Hadrian, Westminster and Buckingham. Each week the total scores of each house are added up and each term the House Cup will be awarded to the highest scoring house.

Marist - Fundraising

Sister Anne and Anne Tipper from the Marist Centre came to share some exciting news with the children back in November. The Marist mission is to live the Gospel after the manner of Mary and they asked the children a question from St Matthew’s Gospel “When your neighbour needed you were you there?” The resounding answer was YES! Following on from our Lenten fundraising last year we were able to support the Marist Sister’s mission in Gambia. Thirteen Greater Manchester Catholic primary schools in all responded to the rosary challenge and shared mission rosaries with families and friends thereby raising money and the promise of prayer for St Charles Lwanga School. Anne and Sister Anne showed the children video footage of the school and the children who were now able to go to school thanks to our generous support.  We will continue to support St Charles Lwanga School through our Lenten fundraising 2012. The staff of CCJS are donating the money they would normally spend on Christmas cards for one another this year towards sponsoring a pupil at the school.

'Consider yourself, one of us!'

Our Year 6 children put on a show to be proud of when they put on a production of the well loved musical 'Oliver'.

Outstanding individual performances, supported by an a cast with great team spirit made the show one to be remebered!

Additional photos of the show can be found by clicking on the following link.

Oliver Photos

Please take notice of this safety notice sent to school by Greater Manchester Police and the Fire and Rescue Service.

Fireworks Safety Message

Basking in glorious sunshine typical of the French Riviera, the children of Cheadle Catholic Junior School held another hugely successful French Day on Friday 30th September.

We have had a  a wonderful day today celebrating our first 'History Day'.

Visitors from across the centuries spent the day in school... we had Vikings, Ancient Egyptians, World War II Evacuees and Ancient Greeks!

A full report on the days activities will follow shortly!

During Lent our Year 6 children took part in a range of fundraising activities to support a charity suggested by Bethany, 6H. Bethany's dad works for a bank who sponsor a village community in Kenya.

Learning all about the village and finding out what it was like to be a child in rural Kenya was a huge learning experience for our pupils and when they discovered that there was no running water in part of the village they decided that they would like to help. 

We presented the charity with a cheque in May and were delighted to receive a message earlier this week from Anne, a member of the village community, thanking the children for their support:-

"Am very very excited to inform you that Water is finally connected at the village.
The villagers are so happy that they are singing and dancing about it. Over 100 villagers have benefited-----they will not have to walk long distances in search of water.

It's not only the villagers who have the water. All the neighbours where the pipes were passing through have water too----a big miracle for them all. In total, about 300 people have water now------THANKS TO THOSE CHILDREN WHO HELPED.

We did not get the water from Gituamba Secondary School, as the supply there was not enough. We took from the main pipe / supply, abit further away.

Kindly let those children know that what they have given the grannies and their neighbours is more than Water-----also LIFE. The grannies say that they will live to remember this act, their grandchildren will also.

They all shout with one voice------GOD BLESS THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE DONE THIS TO US!!!!!.

I will forward photos.
Anne. "

Well done to all of our children who worked so hard to raise almost £400 to make this possible - we are all very proud of you!

Our school Eco-club have been busy bees in the garden over the last few weeks putting their green fingers to the test!

The children chose to use the Morrisons 'Let's Grow' vouchers to purchase some fruit trees and bedding plants to develop our garden area further.

Earlier in the year we held a 'Design a Garden' competition and Mrs Jenny Johnson used these designs to landscape and create the garden area to the front of the school.

We celebrated the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton in style here at Cheadle Catholic Junior School in a fun-packed day which was rounded off with our own version of a 'Street Party'!

The curriculum for the week was based around this historic event and lessons included researching the family tree of House of Winsor, planning and budgeting a party, designing and making a crown and assembling a wedding dress out of recycled materials!

A group of 10 school staff will be taking part in the Race for Life at 11am on Sunday 12th June at Tatton Park.

You can sponsor us on our fundraising webpage:

http://www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/ccjsstaff

All donations are very, very gratefully received! Why don't you come along on the day to support us along?

Congratulations, once again, to our choir who performed in Bramall on Saturday 4^th December in a Christmas Choir competition. The prize of which was to turn on the Bramall Christmas lights. Our choir WON the competition, beating 10 other choirs from across the local area. Very well done to you all!

The choir are pictured at the link below:-

http://www.aboutmyarea.co.uk/Cheshire/Bramhall/SK7/Christmas-and-New-Year/Light-Up-Bramhall/182385-Cheadle-Catholic-School-wins-the-Light-Up-Bramhall-festive-choir-competion

52 of our children took part in the 'Young Voices 2010' concert at the MEN arena on Monday 29th November. The children sang as part of a 5000 strong choir of Greater Manchester school children to a packed venue; all in aid of Clic-Sargent ( a childrens cancer charity). They had a fabulous time and were in fine voice all evening!

The Green Miles Challenge Autumn 2010

We would like you for supporting us in the Green Miles Challenge which has taken place over the last 2 weeks. The scheme, which encourages children to think about their carbon footprint and encourages them to make small changes to their daily journeys, has proven a huge success nationally.

Simple actions such as walking to the bus stop rather than being dropped off, parking the car further away and walking to the last part of the journey or riding a bike to school once a week can all make a difference. Each day one of the children walked or cycled to school their received a green mile sticker – at the end of the challenge, the class with the most stickers will be rewarded with a prize.

New Term - WELCOME

This year we have welcomed 76 Year 3 children . We are very impressed with them as they have made a tremendous start to the new school year. The children have settled in well to their new classes and it is a pleasure to witness their effort and enthusiasm.

We would also like to offer a particular 'Welcome' to new parents, we look forward to working with you as your child progresses through the school.