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School Events
World Book Day 2025
Young Voices 2025
Our School Choir had a fantastic time at Young Voices 2025. They sang and danced the night away.
Football
Our amazing football teams gave it their all on 25th February 2025, as they battled in their respective leagues climbing towards the top of the table. Year 5/6 played with confidence as they secured 5-0 and 4-0 victories! Incredible teamwork and determination to all of our team—well done, everyone! The Girls battled hard in a clash towards the top of the league for 3-1 and 3-2 wins! A fantastic display of skill, effort, and resilience!
Athletics
Our incredible Year 5 & 6 Athletics team headed off to Rugeley Leisure Centre to compete in an exciting indoor track & field event against local schools on 12th February 2025. They trained hard, showed amazing dedication, and really made us proud!
Chinese New Year
All year groups took part in a Dragon Dance workshop in celebration of Chinese New Year 2025.
Community Athletics Event 2024
Year 5 and 6 participated in a Community Athletics Event at Rugeley Leisure Centre February 2024.
Celebrating World Book Day 2024
Young Voices January 2024
Chancel Choir participated in Young Voices January 2024 and had an amazing time.
Children In Need November 2023
Pupils celebrated Children in Need and raised money for this super charity.
Pumpkin Carving Competition for Halloween 2023
MACMILLAN COFFEE MORNING 2023
School participated in Coffee Morning 2023, to raise funds for this fantastic charity.
King’s Coronation 2023 Celebrations
Outback2 Basics
On 26th April 2023 Year Three visited Outback2 Basics and had such a fantastic day learning about the Stone Age. They have enjoyed building shelters, creating lamps and dressing up!
Amazon Community Event 2023
On Friday 10th March, Amazon visited Chancel Primary School to deliver a community event with our Year 6 pupils in support of Comic Relief. Everyone had great fun!
Young Voices Concert
Our School Choir enjoying the 2023 Young Voices Concert on Friday 27th January.
Christmas Glow-In-The-Dark Dodgeball 2022
Ducklings’ Stay and Play Christmas Session
Children In Need 2022
Pupils across the whole school came together in celebration of Children In Need on Friday 18th November to raise vital funds for this worthwhile charity.
Remembrance Day 2022
On Friday 11th November 2022, the school observed the two minutes silence in honour of those who serve to defend our freedoms and way of life. Year 6 visited the Cenotaph in Rugeley read out the names of Rugeley’s fallen soldiers.
MacMillan Coffee Morning
There was tremendous support for our MacMillan Coffee Morning on Friday 7th October, with several parents joining us for a drink and slice of cake (all pupils were given the opportunity to enjoy a cake and drink at break-time, for a donation towards this charity), with all remaining cake being sold at the end of the school day. In total we raised an amazing £558 on behalf of Macmillan. THANK YOU!
Celebrating the school’s 50th Anniversary, representing the decades.
Platinum Jubilee Celebrations
Celebrating the Commonwealth Games workshops on Cannock Chase
World Book Day
On Thursday 3rd March 2022, Chancel staff and pupils celebrated the 25th Anniversary of World Book Day. All of the children and staff looked fantastic.
Y6 Production – The Lion King
Some photos from our fabulous Year 6 production. What a show it was!!! Well done to all involved.
Chancel Focus Week 21st – 25th June
To celebrate Focus week, the whole school learned about Japanese culture, many activities were based on
the Olympics (which will be hosted by Japan this year). KS1 took part in Japanese dance workshops; all classes
took part in ‘mini-Olympics’; each class made a flag of their class ‘bird’ and its name in Japanese writing.
Pyjama Day
What fun it was to see children and staff coming to school in their pyjamas last Friday. Mrs Dubberley ensured all children took part in a range of wellbeing activities (while in their pyjamas). All of your donations helped us to raise £250 for Book Trust – thank you!
The Big Write…
During April, children in KS1 and KS2 were introduced to The Big Write. The Big Write provides a range of ‘missions’ for pupils to undertake, while enabling them to write in a range of styles, for a range of purposes. We would like to thank Mr Newton for organising this on behalf of our school, great fun was had by all. The Big Write will take place each Wednesday afternoon, as part of our Wellbeing Wednesdays.
Easter Competitions
A huge well done to all of our worthy winners:
World Book Day – Thank You!
We would like to thank all children for taking part in our World Book Day activities – including dressing up when coming into school (and joining our weekly story time via Zoom). All entries to our World Book Day competitions will be judged, and winners announced via our updated Social Networking links, later this week. We would also like to say a huge thank you to Mr Leese and Miss Darnley for organising the Masked Reader, and for all staff who took part. This was amazing and thoroughly enjoyed by all! Did you have a go? How many did you get right? All children should have received their World Book Day Voucher on Monday 8th March.
