Spring Term 2009
updated 30th Mar 09

Festival Concert
2pm Monday 30th March 09

Individuals and groups of children performed musical and choral items they had performed at the Hastings Music Festival.

CAF Easter Fair
Saturday 28th March

CAF held its annual Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday 28^th March. The event was tremendously well attended by children, parents, friends, relations and many new faces all joining in the fun.  The weather was good for the most part, with a only one brief shower driving the 250 attendees into the hall for teas, coffees and hot cross buns. Over 90 children successfully gathered all the clues left by the Easter Bunny on the school’s Nature Trail. They were each rewarded with an Easter Egg for their efforts and ingenuity in solving the riddle. The Fancy Dress competition was very well supported with numerous entries in each of the three age groups.  The judge had a difficult time choosing between them, as all the entrants looked the part. Among the other diversions on offer were egg & spoon races, craft activities and a variety of games.  A big thank you to all who helped and supported the event and made it such a success.   Don't forget to tell your friends about the next CAF event, the summer fair on 27th June.

Technology Week
23rd to 27th March

Day 5 - Friday
School Radio Station, Helium Video balloon and original Model T Ford 

Members of the Hastings Electronics and Radio Club arrived early and the first part of the morning was spent rigging a 129ft aerial from the roof of the school to the tree tops at the far side of the garden. So far the children have been speaking to a local Musician in Hastings, but are hoping to speak to Radio enthusiasts further afield this afternoon. A video camera has also been set up in the school grounds which is broadcasting on a line of sight link directly into the classrooms. An original 1922 Model T Ford arrived in the early afternoon and many of the children enjoyed sitting in it particularly sounding the horn! The radio operators continued in class 6 sending morse code around the world. Late in the afternoon contact was made with fellow radio amateurs in Russia & United States.

Day 4 - Thursday
Model completion & Hastings Model Aircraft Club

The morning was spent put the finishing touches to the various models and marble runs ready for final testing. After break the children gathered in the Wallis Hall to see an exhibition of model flying aircraft by Hastings Model Flying Club. The exhibition featured a Fokker Tri-plane as flown by the Red Baron, a Douglas C47 Sky Train (the military version of the DC3) and a massive  Lancaster Bomber

Day 3 - Wednesday
Visit to Brede Steam & Sensational Science demonstration

This morning years 5 & 6 visited Brede Steam Engine Society  and in the afternoon the whole school watched a sensational science demonstration.

Science & Technology Week
23rd to 27th March
Day 2 - Tuesday
Visit to the Blue Reef Aquarium

The whole school spent the morning at The Blue Reef Aquarium in Hastings. Yrs 5 & 6 were given an information talk on the technology behind the Blue Reef covering aspects as filtration and heating the water to a constant temperature. The younger children were thrilled watching the rays in sandy seabed display, learnt about sharks and tropical coral reefs and everyone enjoyed the feeding frenzy as over 1,000 tropical fish were feed before their eyes!
This afternoon many of the children will be completing and testing their marble runs and powered boats in the pool and launching their air rockets in the garden!

 

Aquathon
Sunday 22nd March

Congratulations to Connie, James and Jack on their success in the aquathon organised by St Marys Tri Club. The race involved swimming either 3 or 5 lengths, climbing out and then immediately running 500m or 1km. All 3 children performed extremely well, James & Jack winning their event and Connie achieving second place.

Science & Tecnology Week
23rd to 27th March
Day 1-Monday

This morning the children started their own projects for the week which include making a marble run and a powered model boat. Local model rail enthusiasts filled the Wallis Hall with scale hand built railway models reflecting yesterdays technology and in the main building pupils were able to study the cutting edge technology of a modern ocean going yacht. The younger children particularly enjoyed the models and later on in the week Madame Alf will be teaching them some basic French terms relating to the week as part of their French Studies.

Choral Speaking Victory
at Hastings Music Festival
Thursday 19th March

Congratulations to everyone!
Charters Ancaster was awarded first place with special merit in the under 12 Choral Speaking at the Hastings Musical Festival.

Mrs Casebourne achieves fast Hastings Half Marathon result

The Pictures show Mrs Casebourne, her husband and sister completing the Hastings Half Marathon in an extremely fast time of 1 hour 30 minutes on Sunday morning, despite the very warm conditions for the race.  It was a glorious morning on St Leonards seafront, where the race starts and finishes.  The gruelling, hilly course was tackled by more than four thousand runners this year, and Mrs Casebourne was among the top 15 women runners along with her sister Victoria. Mrs Casebourne, whose husband also ran a fast race, demonstrated her usual modesty at completing the course, and shows what a great role model she is as both PE teacher and form teacher.  S & D Cheeseman

Red Nose Day

A great fun day for all of the children; in the nursery there was a crazy hair day, the children in the main school did not have to attend in uniform and all came dressed in various shades of red. Collections have taken place throughout the school with the main event being the creation of the words "Charters Ancaster" in 1p & 2p pieces. The original intention was to write the school name in 10 inch high letters but the children and staff collected so many that they were able to complete the letters many of which were 4 or 5 coins deep, add a thick border and spell out RED NOSE DAY.  Well done to everyone.

Hasting Festival News
Friday 6th March

Brass Ensemble retains Cup!

Congratulations to the Brass Ensemble of Emily, James, Lars and Oliver who retained the Battle Town Band Trophy cup they won last year.

Congratulations also to:
George Bentley 1st with Honours Grade 2 Brass
Emily Bracken Grade 3 Brass. 87. Honours
Lars Thorkildsen Grade 3 Brass. 88. Honours
James Burton Grade 1 Brass 86. Special Merit
Alexandra Cheeseman 3rd with Special Merit. Solo Singing under 8

The choir performing in under 12s with 40 voices or less class, sung well and achieved 84.
Well done to everyone who participated.

Young Chefs preparing Red Nose Day Biscuits
Friday 6th March

A group of young chefs have been preparing for Red Nose Day by creating their own colourful designs for biscuits. The children enjoyed experimenting with different designs to create the most attractive and decorative biscuits to share with other members of the school.  Jack Hoad commented "It was great fun designing the patterns and we really enjoyed eating some of them!"

The Young String Group
Thursday 5th March

There has been so much interest in learning string instruments that a young string group has been formed and is shown here practicing for their end of term concert.

Chloe chosen for Sussex Schools Cross Country Finals
Thursday 5th March

After an excellent result of 5th place at the Hastings and Rother partnership cross country finals held at William Parker  on 26th Feb Chloe baker has been chosen to represent the partnership at the Sussex Schools final in Brighton on Saturday 28th March. Chloe has also achieved lots of success with her swimming and has qualified for the county championships.

Charters Ancaster Hockey v BA
Weds 4th March

The under 11's hockey team had an excellent result on Wednesday afternoon against BA. They played 2 matches; in the first James B scored our only goal and unfortunately we lost. In the second game the team worked well together, with good defence and strong attacking skills. Lars T scored 2 goals which gave Charters Ancaster a 2-0 win.  Well done to everyone.

Main school pancake races
Tuesday 24th February

Rain delayed the main school races until this afternoon. Each class lined up for their own race under the guidance of Mr Collins and Mrs Casebourne.

Pancake Day in the Nursery School
Tuesday 24th Feb 09

A fun time was had by all of the Nursery School children this morning learn how to make pancakes with traditional ingredients and then having races in the Wallis Hall.

Visit to Preston Manor
Monday 23rd Feb 09

Our Visit to Preston Manor by Eleanor

Form 5 went to Preston Manor on Monday 23^rd February.  We had to bring a Victorian picnic.  I brought cucumber sandwiches, shortbread, Victoria Sponge, a chunk of cheese, an apple and water.  We all had to bring them in a straw basket, we weren’t  allowed any plastic except a plastic bottle of water.

We were all dressed up as Victorian servants, (we were pretending to be trying to get a job as a Victorian servant).  It took us about an hour to get there because it was in Brighton but we didn’t find it long.

When we got there a lady dressed up as a maid came out and greeted us.  She took us to the lunch room and we all had to be silent.  Mr Collins our head teacher got a bit told off because he was standing up looking out of the window when he was not meant to!  When we had all finished our lunch we were led to the Victorian house where we were showed all the rooms and did a lot of cleaning and polishing.  My favourite room was Mrs Stanford’s room because it had a lovely bed and really lacy wall paper.  I really liked it.  The thing that amazed me was the lock on her door so if someone wanted to come she would just have to pull a lever and the lock would open.  It was great! 

In the house there were two stair cases, one for the servants and one for Mrs Stanford and Mr Stanford.  If the servants were cleaning Mr and Mrs Stanford’s stair case and they came up the servants had to face the wall so Mr and Mrs Stanford did not have to see them.  The servants stair case was wooden and steep.

 

David Beckham* & Cristiano Ronaldo*
to officially open all weather pitch. 
Spring/Summer 09 (date to be advised)

David Beckham   and    Cristiano Ronaldo **

 

 look-a-likes from * www.celebrityexperience.eu
** subject to availability

 They will then give a show of ball skills and coach the children.