A Message from Mrs Cooper in the Mathematics Department
I hope you had a good Christmas break and have settled back into the school routine. I am writing to suggest some possible websites that your sons may like to try to help improve their mathematical development.
I hope you will find these useful and should you or your son discover any more that are good, useful or fun, please let me know!

Maths year 2000 http://www.counton.org
MegaMaths http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/megamaths
Plane Maths http://www.planemath.com
Math Forum http://www.mathsforum.org

General sites – some where they might ask you to join or you may need an up to date version of flash player

http://www.gridclub.com
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk
http://www.funbrain.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/subjects/maths

University of Oxford Oxford Vaccine Group
Members of the Oxford Vaccine Group will be coming to school on Tuesday at morning break time to take throat swabs from those boys who have agreed to be in the trial. Seventeen boys have agreed to take part and there will be a list of when they should go to the Linen Room: the procedure will take about 2 minutes! FC

Confirmation June 2005
any members of Forms 7 and 8 who are interested in going to the Confirmation classes should get their forms back to the School Office by Friday, 11th February.
When we have all the replies in we will send out further information.

Cricket
One boy has dropped out of the cricket club on Tuesday evenings. If you would like to join us please let Mrs Carnan know as soon as possible.

Pre-Prep Bring and Buy Sale Friday, 4th February 1430-1530 in the Hall

Help, please!
The proceeds of the Sale will go to our charity of the year, the Oxford Children’s Hospital. The stalls will mainly be run by Form 2 boys with the help, we hope, of a few parents. If you are able to assist in this way, please let one of the Pre-Prep staff know.
Please let us have items for sale during next week (preferably Friday morning). These should be taken to class teachers. If there is anything left at the end of the sale, it will be given to a local charity unless you indicate otherwise.

We should like to have:
Toys
Books
Videos and Tapes
Cakes
Raffle Prizes

Parents, please collect Reception and Form 1 boys from 1430 onwards and take them to the hall to spend! Parents of Nursery children who are at school on Friday afternoon, do bring them along to join in the fun! Form 2 parents will find their boys in the Hall from 1430. If you are unable to come to the sale, please provide your child with a (named) purse and some money so that they staff can help them spend it.
Form 3 and 4 children may bring some money in a named purse and will be allowed to visit the sale.

Music matters

I am pleased to be able to report a fine set of results in the last session of Associated Board examinations. In the theory examinations all eight candidates passed comfortably with FS, TP, TA-J, WS and GB achieving over 80% (merit pass) and HC achieving 92% (distinction pass).
In the practical examinations we entered eight candidates. HK and GB passed with distinction and WS, M de W, AS, TP and JB passed with merit.
I would like to congratulate all the boys and extend my thanks to the music staff, who continue to provide excellent tuition to enable us to achieve these results.
To conclude, I would also like to congratulate RH (Form 4) on being selected to play with the National Children’s Orchestra.
PMK

BOOK FAIR in the Walton Hall, Tuesday 8th February

(PLEASE REMEMBER TO RETURN THE FORM ON MONDAY TO THE CLASS TEACHER. If your son does not have the form in school, he will not be able to purchase a book).

Cut ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

Name ……………………………………………………………………. Form ………….

My son has my permission to buy a book worth up to:

£5 …………

£7.50 …………

£10 …………

Other £ ………

Signed ………………………………………………………………….. date ………………..

Colts B 9 v Pinewood L 2-6
On such a cold afternoon the strong support from parents was greatly appreciated by all and in return they received a match of end-to-end football that was far more entertaining than the score line might suggest.
From the start Christ Church put together some excellent moves with at times some sublime touches that shocked the opposition and allowed LB to set up JF with his first goal of the season. Unfortunately this ‘shock’ motivated Pinewood rather too much and despite some confident keeping from TN, assisted by a strong and often fearless mid-field and back line, the game slipped away from us. Nevertheless, the boys maintained their enthusiasm right to the last with JF pushing home another just before the final whistle.
Plans for the all-seater grandstand are still in their infancy but in the meantime all support is greatly welcome. JW

Pinewood Colts A 1 CCCS colts A 3 (Platt, Smith, De Weck)

Going to Pinewood might be described as like going to Anfield in the nineteen seventies. However, reputations hold no terrors for this very positive colts team. We started brightly showing good individual skills and some neat interpassing. This was allied to some solid work in defence and midfield where everyone worked hard. Eventually we cracked the Pinewood defence when TP skipped neatly through and beat the goalkeeper comfortably to go in to half time with a slender lead. Our second goal, from WS, came as a result of some sound attacking. At this point we came under some pressure and Pinewood scored when the defence had a serious lapse in concentration and lost their shape. As the game wore on we came on strongly again and scored a late goal to clinch victory. “Outthought, outworked and outplayed” was the verdict of the Pinewood coach.
We won this game because we worked hard, showed good individual skills and fought hard. One crucial difference in the sides was our ability to head the ball well which on so many occasions kept Pinewood under pressure- of special note here were FK, TP and FS. Well done!! PW
Skiing
If you are interested in joining the trip please return the forms and cheques as soon as possible - it is filling up fast!