Christ the King Spring has sprung here at Christ the King and our school is certainly walking with a ‘spring’ in it’s step following the amazing achievements of our school family this term! Our Town Council has recently launched a bid to become the first UK Town of Culture and children in the community were invited to write what our community means to them: we made sure that all of our KS2 pupils had time in school to reflect on this was important to us and our school’s own community engagement. It is with great delight that of the 5 overall winners, 4 children from Christ the King had their “Our Amesbury, Our Community” essays chosen – well done to Kai, Faith, Sonny and Alex for your contributions. Faith and Kai have twice as much to smile about making up two fifths of the winning Catenians Public Speaking Competition alongside their friends Ruby, Lucia and Charlie. Their speech on dignity and how we live this out everyday at Christ the King was enhanced by some of the Makaton we’ve been learning and using everyday in school too. After much anticipation, we also had our Ofsted visit – we are still awaiting the final report and look forward to sharing this with our Trust Community when it is published, but it is safe to say that we give immense thanks to the entire DCET family for their support before, during and after the inspection. This term, notably falling during the season of Lent, we’ve given much time to reflecting on our value of ‘forgiveness’. A whole school penitential where all members of the community were invited to present their prayers for forgiveness marked the start of term for us, and we are looking forward to ending the term with a solemn Stations of the Cross Liturgy this Friday presented by Birch and Maple Classes. We’ve also had the privilege of attending Mass in our namesake church, celebrated by our new priest in residence, Fr. George, who warmly welcomed the children and spent time talking to them all after the service too.
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