The Week Ahead Updates and Communication for Parents
Psalm 1 v 3
Growing Lives that Bear Fruit
Quick Stop Notices
Breakfast club
7:55 - 8:55
Cereals, Toast and Pastries
Games and activities
Spaces available - email mrsvirgo@bxs.org.uk
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Next Week ➡️
Week commencing 22th September 2025
Monday
7:55 - 8:55: Breakfast Club, limited places available, email mrsvirgo@bxs.org.uk
Tuesday
7:55 - 8:55: Breakfast Club
15:30 - 16:30: Study Club
15:30 - 16:30: Primary Football Club
Wednesday
7:55 - 8:55: Breakfast Club
13:30 - 14:30: School Nurse for Yr6, Child Measurement Programme
15:30 - 16:30: Study Club
15:30 - 16:30: Middle Football Club
Thursday
7:55 - 8:55: Breakfast Club
15:30 - 16:30: Study Club
Friday
7:55 - 8:55: Breakfast Club
Dates for your diary
Dates for your diary
September
- Monday 29th - Wednesday 1st October: Middle School & Acorns Residential at Yorkshire Camps
- 2nd: School Photos
October
- Tuesday 7th:
- 9:15: Yr10 AP careers fair
- 13:00: Yr 10/11 careers fair
- W/C Monday 21st: AUT-1 Progress Reports Published
- Thursday 23rd: Primary Flu vaccinations
- Friday 24th: School closes for Half Term
November
- Monday 3rd: School reopens for Aut-2
- Monday 3rd - Friday 7th: Yr10 work
- Friday 7th - Primary Bonfire Night
- Thursday 27th: Staff PD (Professional Development) SCHOOL CLOSED TO STUDENTS
🌟 Stars & Students of the Week 💫
From the first full week back
Zion (YN) has had a great first week in Nursery. Good Job!
Ozma (YR) has has an amazing first week in Reception.
Alisha (Y1) has been very brave and came into school today with a big smile on her face.
Penelope (Y2) has had a great first week in year 2, joined in with all her lessons.
Alex (Y3) is having a great start to the year.
Mandisi (Y4) is having a great start to the year and doing some amazing reading.
From this past week
Ivy-grace (YN) Settling in beautifully and making great friendship
Tioluwanimi (YR) Amazing interaction with teachers and friends, also great at comparing numbers and calculating the difference.
Roman (Y1) Fantastic focus on English.
Eliza (Y2) Amazing reading!
Leo (Y3) for excellent engagement and contributions in Geography
Ruth (Y3) for consistently giving her best in all her new lessons in year 3.
Middle
Aanav (Y5) for: Aanav showed determination in his Spelling homework and is in the top 3 on the leaderboard.
Zachary (Y6) for: Thoughtful and insightful in class discussions
Maya (Y6) for: Maya created an amazing (and unassigned) Bible presentation for the class in RE.
Roman (Y6) for: Made a brilliant start to his year in Maths, always comes with a great attitude and ready to learn.
Trystan (Y6) for: Engaged really well in maths lessons and completed his homework
Jude (Y7) for: Started the year really well in Maths, hardworking and always tries his best
Dylan (Y8) for: Good progress in maths and well motivated
Upper
Eileena (Y10) for: Good quality homework in English using questions as a framework
Josiah (Y10) for: Taking ownership of his learning helping him get off to an amazing start of the year in Maths
Evan (Y10) for: Enthusiastic about learning especially in science
Alana (Y11) for: Proactive in organising prayer group for the year
Amba (Y11) for: Proactive in organising prayer group for the year
Franklin (Y11) for: Completing all the maths he'd missed whilst off ill
Evan (Y11) for: Taking ownership of learning
Josiah (Y11) for: Getting alongside others in maths
🎓 Classroom News 👨🏫
Middle school have been looking at ‘friendship’ in assembly and topic time this half term. Naomi, Ruth and Boaz paid them a visit this week…reminding them that ‘friends stick together’.
PTFA 👨🏻👩🏼👧🏻👦🏼 💬 Parent, Teacher & Friends Association
We're excited to announce we now have an all new Parent Teacher & Friends association (PTFA)!!!
If you would like to join the PTFA, email pta@bxs.org.uk or catch Suzanne Wells on the gate
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Fundraising
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£30 raised so far!
Please continue to engage with this campaign. Thank you!
👩🏽🦰 New Teacher Introductions 🧔🏽
My name is Mrs. Travis and I am so excited to be joining Bradford Christian School as the new Year 1 and Year 2 teacher. I wanted to take this opportunity to introduce myself properly. My family and I have recently moved back to the Bradford area, having spent the last 12 years living in Bahrain. We are so happy to be back in the UK and are looking forward to exploring everything Bradford has to offer. I am married to my husband, James, and we have two wonderful sons, Roman (age 10) and Jesse (age 8).
For the past 12 years, I have been teaching at a British curriculum international school in Bahrain, where I have had the privilege of working with children from a huge variety of cultures and backgrounds. This has been an incredibly rewarding experience, and I have loved seeing my students learn and grow. In my free time, I love to read, go for a hike, and travel to new places. I believe that learning should be fun and engaging, and I am committed to creating a classroom environment where every child feels safe, valued, and inspired to reach their full potential.
I feel so blessed to have found a school like Bradford Christian School. It has been a long-held dream of mine to work in a school where Jesus is at the centre of our education, and I am so excited to be a part of this special community. I look forward to getting to know all of you and working together to help our students flourish, not just academically, but in their faith as well.
Mrs Travis
Headteacher's Message
Our Mission
To provide a holistic Christian education for all and to inspire discipleship.
Our Vision
To be a Christian community in which everyone grows in character, faith, knowledge, understanding and wisdom.
This week I received an email from one of our longstanding members of staff, Mrs Edwards. I was so encouraged by her words, and thought I would summarise it for you all.
This was in Mrs Edwards’ words
We're all feeling the squeeze at the moment. At times it feels like we’re being properly stomped on from all sides. But you know what happens when you stomp on grapes? You get wine.
We have got something in buckets that the big schools can only dream of. We might be a teeny-weeny school, but we are absolutely massive in spirit, in how we pull together, and in our faith.
I remember the week when we first moved in here. The office was the old toilets, the staff room was dark and dingy, the whole place was a wreck. But the kids who came with us absolutely loved it! They used to tell me stories about using each other's backs as a table in the old building.
I remember ‘that science lesson’. The one about Joshua, and how on earth you’d get everyone to march around a city and blow a trumpet at the exact same time without someone needing the loo or falling asleep. And then, right at that moment, we heard a trumpet… it was Mr Wells, up on the scaffolding in the hall, playing his heart out.
Everyone had goosebumps. And that is who we are. We’re the people who make trumpets sound from the heavens when everyone else just sees a leaky roof.
God’s got his own timing, and while we wait for him to move, this whole thing is just making us a tighter, stronger team.
Our students are becoming amazing adults who will stand through any trouble life throws at them.
We mean business, and we're standing strong, together.
