Hearts Pumping and Taste Buds Tingling – It’s Health and Fitness Week!

On 27 September, the trainers from Tribal Fitness put the Year 5 children through their paces.

On Sunday 16th and Monday 17th September girl’s netball trials were held after school in the sports hall. There were 21 Year 5 girls and 30 Year 6 girls who participated, all eager to display their netball talent and knowledge of the game. Mrs Lodwig was impressed by the standard of play and excited to see so many students try out.

Its keeps getting bigger and better. 112 Year 5 and 6 boys and girls trialled for the teams this year. There will be three squads – Girls squad, development squad and football squad.

An amazing 110 children trialled for the 20 or so spots on the basketball squad. Well done to all the children who turned up. I was really pleased with the sportsmanship that I saw.

On a sultry night 6 boys and 6 girls competed in the World Athletics Day competition at the Khalifa Stadium.

6 glorious days of skiing on a range of slopes, lots of good food, sunshine and friendly people.

Bahrain Private Schools Sports League Tennis Tournament Saturday 5th May 2012

Well, where do I start? What a great bunch of young athletes this year. They were an absolute credit to themselves and the school.

Volleyball Season 2012

BPSSL Athletics meeting. On Saturday 17th March, a small but elite team travelled to The Bahrain School to take part in the BPSSL Athletics Fixture against our old rivals the British School, IKNS, The Bahrain School and the French School.

On Saturday 4th February, 46 St Christopher’s school students from Year 5 and 6 flew by Gulf Air direct to Geneva...

Competition at it’s best!

A great display of skill!

Nursery arrived at the Tiger Turf dressed for success! Each class wore a different colour T-shirt to get the feeling of being part of a team.

Infants enjoy learning the skills used in Gaelic Football!

On the weekend of 13 and 14 January 2012, St Christopher’s Junior School hosted a BSME Under 11 football tournament.

ResultsThis Sports Day held at the Isa Town Stadium will be regarded as the best ever, with huge participation levels, fantastic sportsmanship, excellent faculties and outsatanding standards of performance by the students.

An exciting two days for the junior school!

An exciting week for St Chris Swimmers!

A team representing St. Christopher's School at the Bahrain Hockey Association's annual 6-a-side tournament was held to a 2-2 draw by the Indian School in an exhibition match held before the final of the main event.

Health & Fitness Week!The Infant and Junior School bounded into Health and Fitness Week with all the enthusiasm you would expect from St Christopher’s pupils!

Our first House assembly of the year went off with a bang! Reception through to Year 6 sat in their Houses as Mr Holness introduced each of the House Leaders.

A FANTASTIC way to end the year! St Christopher’s held it’s first truly cross-phase Dance Assembly at the end of the last school year. It was an enormous success, with dancers from Year 1 through to Year 10 performing.

On Thursday 29th September St Christopher’s PE department ensured students where made aware of the importance of World Heart Day.

9th March was the turn of Year 6 to step up to the challenge and take part in their Inter-House Football competition.

Year 4 rounded up the week with some fantastic Inter-House Benchball matches.

On 7th March, Year 3 took part in their Inter-House Benchball competition.

8th March saw Year 5 take part in their Inter-House Basketball competition.

St Christopher’s Senior School win all the end of season sports tournaments (Boys Football and Girls Basketball) in the Bahrain Private Schools Sports League.

After a great season in Bahrain that saw the girls winning the league and cup double they were invited to play in the “Dubai Unity Cup”.

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The U13 boys and girls squads had a very successful trip to Kuwait in February, competing in the BSME Games.

This Volleyball teams this Year all won a medal with 4 teams winning the League and two teams were runners up, some of the best results achieved.

On 9th March, Year 6 stepped up to the challenge and took part in their Inter-House Football competition.

On 8th March Year 5 took part in their Inter-House Basketball competition.

Year 4 rounded up the week with some fantastic Inter-House Benchball matches.

On 7th March, Year 3 took part in their Inter-House Benchball competition.

The annual Senior School Sports Day took place on 6 Feb at the National StadiumThere were 500 competitors

39 students and 5 staff headed off to Torgon in Switzerland for the annual ski trip over the half term break.

On 21st January, 50 Year 5 and 6 students set off on their journey to Switzerland for a week’s skiing holiday.

Many people would have happily informed you that the recent golf tournament at the Royal Golf Club was the biggest sporting event taking place in the Arabian peninsula over the last weekend in January.

The cold weather added to the excitement for the Reception children this year at their annual Sports Day.

Wednesday 9th February began with thunderstorms and cold winds causing a mad rush to get all the equipment off the Tiger Turf and into the Sports Hall, before Reception and Nursery arrived for their annual Sports Day.

Thankfully the wet, cold weather cleared up overnight to reveal glorious sunshine, allowing us to have the Year 1 and 2 Sports Day outside on the Tiger Turf.

Thursday afternoon was the turn of Year 2 to show off their sporting skills in the Year 2 Sports Day.

Over 80 students recently helped out at the European Tour Golf Event which was held at The Royal Golf Club

Watch the Year 5 and 6 children compete in their houses in this year’s Sports Day! You will see clips from the 100m, shot putt, high jump, standing triple jump and ball throw, as well as each of the houses supporting their team. It was a fabulous day of competitive sport!

Watch the Year 3 and 4 children in action in this year’s Sports Day! In this clip you will see each house competing against each other in several activities. It was a fantastic afternoon with each house showing great sportsmanship and teamwork.

The St Christopher’s senior school hosted the BSME U15 Tournament welcoming Dubai College, Wellington School, Dubai, Kuwait English School, New English School, Kuwait and The British School of Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia.

32 teaching and non-teaching staff from the St Chris Infant and Junior schools at the Saar campus joined forces to run the 46km Marathon relay on October 29th. Forming two teams led by myself and Mrs Rees, hopes were high of success.

On the morning of October 26th while many were relaxing at home, two staff teams from the Senior School were preparing to compete in the 30th Anniversary 2010 Bahrain Marathon Relay.

The Boys stayed undefeated over the two days beating Dubai College, Jumeriah College the English College, Kuwait school, Al Ain, Saudi Schools along the way to the final.

The BSME Under 13s 2010 tournament took place at the Rashid school for Boys.

Mrs Lee and her group of helpers proved to the whole school that healthy and delicious lunch time snacks could be made in just 5 minutes!

On Monday 4th October, 20 Year 5 girls attended trials for the school netball team.

The Year 5 and 6 football trials were held in October.

The dances that followed took us to different countries around the world. Year 1 took us to India and Pakistan to show off their Bhangra moves. What followed was a truly cross-phase dance.

We have had our first House assembly this year and what an exciting assembly it was! Year 1 through to Year 6 sat in their Houses awaiting the exciting arrival of the House Leaders.

The PE Dept would like to give a big thanks to all staff and students that took part in World Heart Day on Sunday 26th Sept.

This term saw Falcon, Kestrel, Merlin and Osprey go ‘head to head’ in several inter-house sporting competitions.

On the 10th March this year we took 24 year 5 and 6 pupils to the annual British Schools of the Middle East Games. This year the event was held at Modern English School in Cairo.

The following schools competed in the 2 day event on 19th-20th February.

In February, 40 Year 7-9 Students and 5 staff enthusiastically embarked upon Switzerland, to engage in 7 days of skiing in Torgon, situated on the Swiss/French border in the Alps.

The St christopher's Senior school organised a sports relief day for students today.

On the first day of the Tournament the team were undefeated!!!

Suzanna Hobday and Dan Owen (ex-St. Chris) are currently in China playing in the Grand Final of ‘The Faldo Series’ which is one of the most prestigious junior golf competitions in the world.

In January, 42 pupils from Years 5 and 6 travelled to Anzere in Switzerland for the Junior School's annual ski trip.

Years 1 and 2 complete for the Inter-House Cup.

More than 500 students took part in the senior school sports day which was held at the Bahrain National stadium in Riffa

As part of Health and Safety Week Nursery children have sports day

Last Monday the Year 5 and 6 sports day was concluded with the track events at St Christophers School, Saar.

Due to the extended school day we have been unable to take a full part in the BPSSL. Instead we have played two friendly matches and won both!

The U15 Football League season has been unfortunately somewhat limited this year.  However...

Senior school girls basketball season kicks off.

Students from St Chris were lucky enough to receive some coaching from a host of cricketing legends.

The St Chris student teams have yet again demonstrated their super running powers in this year's Bahrain Marathon Relay.