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Prep School
The Preparatory School caters for boys in PP - Year 7 focusing on their individual developmental needs and the fundamentals of education.
Prep School Breaks Record for Anglicare Hampers
Anglicare staff collected a record number of Christmas hampers from the Prep School on Wednesday morning.
Prep Boys Win Awards For Speaking Up
For many years, the Prep School has been participating in the ‘Speak Up Awards’, a public speaking competition run for primary school students.
Boys Get Hands Dirty with Green Gardener
A spot of rain was highly appropriate when green gardener Josh Byrne visited the Early Learning Centre last week.
Boys Learn of Paramedics’ Crucial Role
The sight of an ambulance driving through the School campus would usually be cause for concern. However, the recent visit was for a demonstration organised as part of the Year 6 and 7’s health programme.
Tale of America’s Cup Victory Inspires Prep Boys
Students in Pre Primary, Year 1 and Year 4 were given a valuable historical insight into one of the most significant sporting victories in the history of Australia – the 1983 America’s Cup.
Pre-primary Turns Upside Down
Day became night, lunch was dinner and school uniforms were swapped for pyjamas as the Pre-primary held their annual Upside Down Day last week.
Prep School Celebrates the Arts
This week marked one of the most highly anticipated events of the Prep School calendar and once again, it failed to disappoint. The Week of the Arts, a highlight of the co-curricular programme, is a culmination of the dramatic, artistic and musical endeavours of the Prep School.
Prep School Runs Headlong Into Aths Season
With the winter sports programme wrapped up, the Prep School ran headlong into the first event of the Athletics season recently with the House Cross Country.
Spelling Bee Has CCGS Abuzz
CCGS’ top spellers from Years 5 to 8 battled it out at the Interschool Spelling Bee, held at Christ Church, on Wednesday night.
Old English Poem Inspires Creativity in 7AR
In Year 7AR this term, the boys have been studying the old English poem Beowulf.
Book Week Fuels Young Minds
The Prep School celebrated Children’s Book Week with a programme packed full of activities based around this year’s theme - Fuel Your Mind. The week kicked off with the annual Book Week Parade held in the School Chapel on Monday. The boys took to the event with great enthusiasm as they dressed up as their favourite book characters or something inspired by the 2008 theme.
A Small Sacrifice for World Vision
Prep School boys gave up their sandwiches and usual lunch fare in exchange for a bowl of rice on Wednesday.
ELC Meets Spineless Wonders
The boys in the Early Learning Centre (Pre-Primary to Year 3) had a close encounter of the creepy-crawly kind this week.
Budding Scientists Extend Their Minds
Twenty students from Years 5, 6 and 7 took part in a new science programme offered by the CSIRO Lab at Scitech.
Year 3 Boys' Delight Stitches the Bear
Students from Miss Duncan's Year 3 class earned a huge WOW from PHM Foundation's Stitches the Bear this week. The boys worked hard to sell Bears across the School community and raised $2000 for the PMH Foundation. Stitches helper, Oliver Chester said the amount collected by the CCGS boys was the highest amount raised throughout Schools.
Prep Boys Speak With Style
Congratulations are in order for the boys who delivered their speeches in Chapel last Friday as part of our Speak Up Award. All boys in Years 6 and 7 prepared and presented speeches to their class, with the best ones in each class chosen for Friday’s Assembly.
Artist in Residence Makes Impression
Leaves, under the sea and things that go were the inspiration behind Preparatory School students’ artwork during the annual Artist-in-Residence visit this week. Artist Natalee Poli took over Years 1 to 7 art classes with four exciting workshops for the boys. Natalee, a printmaker by trade, is also a teacher and creator of specialist artwork including embossed stationery.
New Project Brings World into Classroom
Sharing science experiment data with a classroom in Darch or as far off as the United States is part of an exciting project evolving in the Preparatory School. Year 4 Teacher Joel Birch is the creator of the Big Round Classroom Project, which aims to bring the world into the classroom through online learning. Mr Birch is taking advantage of the popularity of social networking website Facebook and online blogging to share ideas and engage classrooms in other parts of the world.
Year 2s Brave Cold For Icy Fun
On Thursday morning, when most of the School was making a beeline for the nearest, warm classroom, Year 2 students were busy creating an ice sculpture. The sculpture, built in front of the Preparatory School administration building, was part of the Year 2s studies into Antarctica.
Prep Students Get Appetite for Hungarian Dancing
The Cultural Studies Room in the Prep School was transformed into a Hungarian fiesta as a Christ Church mum gave students a lesson about her country’s traditional culture. Ms Sara Percsy, who has been a folk dancer for about 30 years, treated Ms Perry’s Pre-Primary, Year 1 and Year 2 students to a special performance.
Ecumenical Service Offers Message of Tolerance
Hundreds of students from Christian schools across Perth gathered at Christ Church in the name of tolerance this week. The School once again hosted the annual JSHAA Ecumenical Service, which brought together Year 5 to 7 boys and girls from more than 25 schools. The students participated in group discussions, followed by a service and morning tea.
The World’s Greatest Shave
The Preparatory School cheered on four students and Head of The LW Parry Preparatory School Clark Wight in shaving their heads to raise money for the Leukaemia Foundation.
Prep School Boys Know They Can Dance
While dance is a not a new phenomenon at Christ Church the recent surge in its popularity is.
Year 7s Fly High
Year 7 students lined up against one of the biggest men in AFL football when West Coast Eagles Dean Cox and CCGS old boy Eric Mackenzie (2001-2006) visited the School this week.
Camp Activity Encourages Environmental Awareness
Another successful Year 7 Camp wrapped up at CCGS’ outdoor education facility Kooringal recently. Amongst the plethora of activities, including abseiling, bushwalking and canoeing, was Ribbons of Blue – an environmental education activity now in its seventh year.
Prep School Hops into Easter Weekend
Noses were twitching, tails were wiggling and ears were as tall as they could be as the lower Prep School celebrated Easter this week.
Prep PMC by the Sea
Students from the Prep School’s Peter Moyes Centre were so inspired by their visit to Sculpture by the Sea at Cottesloe Beach – they decided to give it a go themselves.
Pre-Primary Boy's Spicy Encounter
The spirit of Christ Church Grammar School’s Pre-Primary students was captured by creative bouquet garnish this month.
Prep School Speech Morning and Final Assembly
The 2007 Prep School Speech Morning was a great success and an opportunity for the boys to show us everything they love about Christ Church.
Foreshore Art Exhibition
On 29 August the Headmaster opened a very special art exhibition – the Foreshore Art Exhibition - hosted by Artist-in-Residence, Rowena Keall Walsh, Prep School Art teacher, Mrs Claire Donald and the Year 4 boys.
Pre-Primaries Turn World Upside Down
Christ Church Pre-Primary children turned everything a bit topsy-turvy on Wednesday 26 September as they celebrated ‘Up-side Down Day’.
Crazy Day in Perth Funds Orphans in Ethiopia
The last day of term on September 28 was dubbed ‘Crazy Day’ in the Preparatory School as they aimed to raise $4,000 for the Christ Church House in Ethiopia, which houses orphans and impoverished families.
“Do it because you care.”
On Monday 24 September our boys in Years 4 to 6 together with girls from Year 6 at MLC enjoyed a visit from Michael Morpurgo, one of Britain’s best-loved children’s authors.
Speaking Up
CCGS has been awarded the Speak Up trophy as a result of a winning speech by Year 7 student Lachlan Ormonde.