Mr Kelly led this afternoon's assembly today and was garnering up some additional support for
@LutonTown
's HUGE play-off game this evening. Good luck to the Hatters; do the town proud! 🎩🧡🤍
We are delighted to be in a position to introduce our new Head of School from September... Miss Noshin Hussain. We are super excited for the future!
#NewJob
#Congratulations
What a wonderful morning spent with
@pioneer_trust
pupils, helping to marshall the
@love_luton
#RunFest
! The children were fab all-rounders, helping to sort the snacks & drinks, cheering on the runners with huge enthusiasm & giving out hundreds of medals. Absolute superstars! ⭐️
We had the BEST day today at the fantastic
#LutonCarnival
! 30 enthusiastic children who did Chantry soooo proud! 🥰 Our theme of 'one world', promoting unity and love, was embraced by the crowd, who loved seeing the children's smiley faces 😊 Fab work by
@carnivalukcca
! 👍
Absolutely amazing experience at
@ltfc
today, with our pupils welcoming the teams out onto the pitch before settling down for a thriller of a game (lots of nail-biting going on towards the end!). Luton came out on top with a 1-0 win & our children were superstars...awesome! 🤩⚽️
Wowsers- when
@LutonTown
won on Saturday, we didn't think it'd be our very own Grace & Zac taking the trophy onto the stage at yesterday's parade! They did a grand job in front of 10,000+ cheering fans, rubbing shoulders with the Luton players and manager! Awesome! 🤩👏🏆
#COYH
What a morning! Some community ambassadors from
@pioneer_trust
headed to the town centre today to hand out 2000 flags ready for the King's visit 👑. An amazing experience made even more so when His Majesty chatted to some pupils & even shook a few hands! 🤩.
#pioneerpromise
Immensely proud of our
@chantryprimary
&
@WhitefieldLuton
pupils today, braving the wettest weather EVER to volunteer at
@loveluton
10k & half-marathon events! The buzz & community spirit was simply amazing and it was heartwarming to see our pupils spreading such positive vibes!
Great, informative afternoon
@LutonTown
@LTFC_Community
taking part in a 'Show Racism the Red Card' event. Children learnt to challenge discrimination and that racism in any form is not acceptable. Thanks to
@SRTRC_England
for leading the sessions ⚽ 😀
Over the moon to say our completely awesome
#GreenTeam
have been shortlisted for a
@love_luton
'Luton's Best' award 2021! So proud of this amazing group of youngsters who have shown time & time again how much they care about their local community! Amazing 🤩👏🎉
Whoo hoo! Our
#GreenTeam
won their category at the
@love_luton
Luton's Best awards! SO proud of what committed young people we have, determined to make their town a better place! WELL DONE! 🎉🥳
Wow! An amazing re-creation of the peaceful protest from our
#RefugeeBoy
book this morning! 90 children with placards, whistles, megaphones and t-shirts using their voices to stand up against the unjustness that can be shown to refugees! A powerful experience for sure 🤩.
Just wow.
@MatildaMusical
is spellbinding & we were so lucky some of our
@pioneer_trust
pupils got to experience it today (sitting in the first few rows no less 🤩). Amazing story-telling, awesome songs and a stellar cast...the show truly brought the Roald Dahl classic to life!
Whoo hoo!! Super proud to be part of this rather remarkable movement that's sweeping (pun intended!) across Luton right now! Our
#GreenTeam
's video was very well received and we're so happy to be playing our part! 🤩 Thanks to
@LutonTown
for being great hosts!
What an incredible turn out for the launch of
#KeepLutonTidy
campaign at
@LutonTown
, representatives for Live Learn Work and Play. Together we can make this town sparkle. Join the movement sweeping across Luton.
Our awesome Green Team were delighted to receive their well-deserved 'Luton's Best' award today, after their success at
@love_luton
's Friday night ceremony! 🤩 Such a fantastic accolade for such a committed and determined group of community-minded youngsters! ♻️🚮🗑
We did it! 17,000 steps, 6 hours and 5.3 miles later & we tracked down all 70+ elephants in the
@BigTrunkTrail
! Such an amazing free event for the
#Luton
community & one which our
#TeamChantry
children LOVED taking part in! Last day is 8th Oct, so make sure you get involved!
❤️ Such a wonderful day today 💛. Thanks to the amazing work of
@LevelTrust
&
@LutonFoodbank
, our awesome staff gave up part of their day to deliver 100 meals and over 300 toys (and crackers & mince pies!) to many of our wonderful families. A truly heartfelt gesture 🤩.
To help commemorate Remembrance Day this Thursday, our resourceful Mrs Henry has recycled hundreds of pebbles and set them into the ground to create a long-lasting poppy display on the field. Here are some of her helpers putting the finishing touches to her creation! ❤💛
Wow! What an amazing 'double' tidy-up our awesome Green Team carried out today! Kimpton and Bolton Roads both blitzed with 40+ bags of rubbish collected (along with weeding, sweeping and lots of tidying!) 🚮 SUCH a difference continuing to be made by this inspiring bunch! 👏💪😍
Despite the super soggy weather, the Green Team were out in action today, helping to clean up Hockwell Ring as part of the
#GreatBritishSpringClean
! Over 10 bags of rubbish collected (along with an exhaust pipe, bike tyre & broom 😆) and a big difference made! Great work 👏🗑🚮
Such an amazing morning today taking part in the
@KeechHospice
Colour Dash! 🤩 Wonderful to see so many people come out for such a wonderful charity. A terrific atmosphere and one which was jam-packed full of vibrant colours! 🌈. Great job
#TeamChantry
We headed to
@DunelmUK
Dunstable today to use the prize we won last week, which allowed us to head round the store and choose a whole range of items to brighten up our school! The biggest ever thankyou the Dunelm team for such an amazingly kind gesture! 😍
More amazing kindness today, this time from the lovely
@DenieceDobson
who brought along 3 boxes of toiletries for our foodbank! Such an amazing gesture and one which will go such a long way in helping some of our families! Thankyou Deniece 😍👏
Absolutely stunning community-spirited event for our pupils today, taking part in a HUGE tidy-up around Winsdon Hill 🤩🚮. So terrific seeing our Green Team being such fab ambassadors for Chantry! Thanks so much
@RaineyPhyl
&
@KJPoulton
for organising; can't wait till next time!
Huge thanks to Mr Tappin from
@TSLTChalkHills
who took time out of his day today to give a tour around Chalk Hills to a group of our pupils moving there in Sept. It helped to reassure them high school isn't scary (and they were very impressed with the school's facilities!). 👏
En-route to London this morning to take part in the AMAZING
@Jubilee_Pageant
with children from
@pioneer_trust
! Super excited to perform, dressed as commonwealth flowers from the Queen's coronation dress...we're sure it's going to be a fab day 🤩😍
Despite the soggy weather, our pupils still did a fab job whilst participating in the 'Our Global Town' coronation parade today in the town centre. The parade reflected the rich, diverse population we have in Luton and was a great way of bringing the community together! 👏🎉🤴
Heartfelt thanks to our friends at
@DILuton
for their kind donation of brand new winter duvets for our
@pioneer_trust
families. This amazing act will go a long way in helping to keep our families warm this winter 🤩❄️😍
Our Year 4 pupils were over the moon today to receive their own copies of the wonderful
@MarcusRashford
's 'Breakfast Club Adventures' book! 🤩So lovely to see how happy they were receiving a new book 😍. Huge thanks to
@magic_breakfast
for making this happen...AMAZING!
Wow! An AMAZING morning this morning for our
#GreenTeam
, helping at a community tidy-up in the town centre! Thanks to
@LutonBID
for arranging and to
@ABCD_in_Luton
for their wonderful input 🤩. It was lovely to hear so many members of the public praising the children 😍. Fab!
100%, one of our favourite days of the year today... Christmas Eve delivery day! This year, our amazing staff elves have delivered:
✅️ 250 meals
✅️ 200 toys
✅️ 40 duvets
✅️ 20 carnival activity packs
✅️ 50 Christmas hampers
to our amazing
@pioneer_trust
families. 😍
Our
#GreenTeam
were out & about again today, this time up at Farley Hill, putting in a gargantuan shift in Bluebell Woods! Working alongside
@ABCD_in_Luton
and local residents, the children collected the equivalent of 42 bags of rubbish...amazing! 🚮🗑
#pioneerpromise
Our lovely elephant, Hope, was collected today, and has returned home to Chantry! She's exclusively told us she loved being part of the
@BigTrunkTrail
but is now looking forward to being an official
#TeamChantry
member forever more! 🐘❤💛
Mother duck hatched 10 ducklings at Chantry this week, but in the run-down quad area 😔. No probs though, as Kev from
@ABCD_in_Luton
came along & helped clear the area, making it much safer for the baby ducks! Still more to do but the area is looking a million times better!
Here's Mr Kelly with his experience of the
#Fastathon
yesterday in aid of
@Discover1slam
(delivered in true Mr Kelly style 😂).
If you haven't sponsored us yet, here's the link: ... we're so close to our goal of £1000 ❤️❤️
WELL DONE MRS COLLINGS! We are over the moon that Mrs Collings has won the Teacher of the Year award at the
@BBC3CR
Awards this evening!! Proud doesn't describe it!! 🏅🏅🏅
🎉Whoo hoo!! 🎉 Our very own Mr Kelly won the
@SchoolTravelOrg
School Trip Champion of the Year award at the national
#SchoolTravelAwards
in London today! TV's Fiona Bruce was on hand to award Mr Kelly his award which he is a worthy winner of 😍😎
Thanks to the BBC's 'Kit Out The Nation' campaign, Mr Kelly was the grateful recipient of a car load of fantastic pre-loved sports equipment and sportswear donations today from Lewsey Sports Park! ⚽️🥎🏈 Terrific generosity that will undoubtedly benefit our
#TeamChantry
pupils 😍
Oh, and because our children are amazing, they also carried out litter picks today whilst simultaneously tracking down 70 elephant sculptures 😂🗑️🚮 That's 3 bags' worth of rubbish now not in our parks any more! 😍
A huge thanks to our awesome
#TeamChantry
family who were amazingly generous with donations towards both our school foodbank and the fab
@BreastCancerNow
charity today...THANK YOU so much 🙏🤩
Amazing to see
#TeamChantry
and
@pioneer_trust
featured on
@BBCNews
this evening, preparing for the amazing
@Jubilee_Pageant
this Sunday! We cannot wait to take part and are getting more and more excited by the hour as the big day draws nearer! 🤗🥳
A super special thank you to our friend
@KarenLinley_
, our community champion from
@Tesco
Dunstable, who generously donated some amazing prizes for our Winter Fayre raffle, taking place in a few weeks! Karen's kindness never fails to amaze us! 🤩😍
We've started the
#LutonSchoolRun
! Mr Kelly is kicking off for
#TeamChantry
running his hour, and throughout the morning, will be followed by over 50 more Chantry staff! 🏃♂️🏃♀️All raising funds for the awesome
@LevelTrust
! Please give generously 😍😍.
Wow! An amazing re-creation of the peaceful protest from Year 6's
#RefugeeBoy
book this morning! 90 children with placards, whistles, megaphones and t-shirts, using their voices to fight for refugees' rights! A powerful experience for sure 🤩.
@BZephaniah
So many wow factors this week, kickstarting this half-term's learning on all our different books! We've had puppet shows, science workshops, jewellery making, a Verulamium visit and an Egyptian day! Our wows are such a great way to engage our children in their new learning 😍🤩
Did you know the amazing community Eid festival is back at Lewsey Park next Monday & Tuesday organised by the fab
@InspireFMLuton
? A terrific event for the whole family with lots of things to see and do! Why not pop along and join in with the fun?! 😍🤩
✔️ Selected for
@CBBC
Top Class out of hundreds of UK schools
✔️ Made our way through the qualifying rounds
✔️ Reached the quarter-finals
✔️ Reached the semi-finals
✔️ Reached the GRAND FINAL!
A remarkable achievement by an amazing group of pupils! See you in the final! 😍👏🎖️
So ridiculously proud of our amazing
#TeamChantry
staff who dropped off 500+ school reports today, 100+
@magic_breakfast
food packs and 40+
@LevelTrust
home learning packs for our pupils. Wonderful to see (in a socially distancing way of course!) so many of our families. ❤️😁
Such a fabulous morning supporting
@LutonFoodbank
at
@Tesco
today!
@pioneer_trust
pupils gave up their time to hand out fliers, chat to the public and sort the 50 crates' worth of food that was donated! Such amazing, community-spirited children 😍👏
HUGE thanks to
@coopuk
in Lewsey and
@CILuton
for the first of our food donations today 🤩. Such amazing generosity for which we are very grateful! 🙏 Our Year 6s were great helpers moving the food from the minibus to the food bank, so big thanks to them too 😍.
Huge congratulations to our very own Rylan who entered Lidl's national competition to design a character for the supermarket's new 'easy-peeler' fruit range and WON! His super design will now be featured on all 'easy-peeler' fruit packs up and down the country! Congratulations!!
Our terrific
@pioneer_trust
Foodbank ambassadors impressed again today, giving up part of their weekend to support
@LutonFoodbank
! Up at Asda this time round, the children worked their magic on the public to help encourage them to donate 60 crates' worth of food! Awesome work 🤩
We have pairs of very responsible Year 6 pupils at Tescos throughout the course of today, helping
@LutonFoodbank
with one of their amazing food-drives! If you're popping in, be sure to say hello (and maybe even donate!) 🤩
The t-shirts are ready as a group of children prepare to spend their Saturday tracking down every single elephant on the
@BigTrunkTrail
! If you see us out and about tomorrow, be sure to say hi! 🐘🐘
@KeechHospice
Wow, the fun isn't stopping with the families taking part in
@LevelTrust
SMASH summer scheme! Here's some awesome cooking, crafts and sports activities from another of our fabulous families!
@KarenLinley_
@bedsAteam
In the month of kindness, the absolute superstars at
@Discover1slam
have delivered 100
@LevelTrust
home learning packs to us, as a special Eid offering, ready to be delivered to our pupils! Thankyou so much once again, your kindness knows no bounds ❤️
#kindness
#HappyEid
T'was lovely to see first-hand, some of our pupils' awesome work displayed
@TheMallLuton
today as part of
@LevelTrust
Summer SMASH scheme (which you might guess is based on the Lion King! 🦁🦁). Well done to all the children who have taken part- great work!
We received a wonderful visit from
@LLieutenantBeds
, Helen Nellis, today, who came along to plant an oak tree with our pupils as part of the
#queensgreencanopy
iniative 🌳. It was lovely to meet Helen & receive such wonderful feedback about Chantry 😀🤩. Thankyou for coming ☺.
A blessed Eid to all of our
#TeamChantry
families & friends celebrating today! We hope you have a wonderful time spent with your nearest and dearest 😍
(Don't forget, the fab
@InspireFMLuton
Eid Festival is on @ Lewsey Park from 12pm-8pm today & tomorrow-why not pop along?)
**Can you vote and share?** Mr Kelly has been shortlisted down to the last 4 in a national school travel competition for all the amazing opportunities he arranges for the pupils at Chantry! If successful, the school will win £1500!! 😁
Win or lose tonight, we're inviting all children & staff to wear red & white or England themed clothing/sportswear on Monday (if they'd like to of course). No donations needed, just a chance to show support for a team that has helped to unite our nation over the past 3 weeks!😁⚽️
Wonderful to welcome
@AmarAzam
to Chantry today, who talked to Yr5/6 children about his work with the fab
@LutonFoodbank
and the exciting time he has as a sports journalist! (Pupils were wowed by his World Cup trophy!). Amar's message was clear- in whatever you do,
#BeChampions
!
Well what a wonderful week we've had! The children who have returned to school this week have had a blast and done an amazing job of adapting to all the new things in place around school 😍. Next week, we welcome back more of our Reception pupils and can't wait to see them! 😊
Goodbye to our Year 6 pupils who ended their primary school journey this week 😢. We are incredibly proud of all they've achieved this year & are sure they will take all of their values-driven behaviours to high school with them 🥰. Good luck everyone- you'll be sorely missed 🤗
Wonderful morning for our
#Rotakids
with
@Rotaryluton
members today, carrying out a much needed litter pick at Lewsey Park 🚮😊. 20+ bags of rubbish in 2 hours is no mean feat! Brilliant
#communityspirit
from all involved... great job! 👏👏
Governors are delighted to announce the successful appointment of a new Head of School. After an outstanding performance over 2 days of teaching, leading assembly, meeting pupils, parents & staff, written tasks & a long interview, we can't wait to share more. Watch this space 👀
Incredibly proud of our 'Green Team' community group, who took on their first 'job' today...a clean up over at Stockwood Park! 🚮 With great help from
@RaineyPhyl
&
@KJPoulton
, the group did an amazing job and collected lots and lots of litter 😍. Can't wait till next time...
Thank you SO much to
@Discover1slam
and
@SarahOwen_
whose kindness bowled us over today 😍. Sarah (who's our local MP) delivered cereal for our
#ChantryFoodbank
donated by Discover Islam & then amazingly returned with her own donation of toiletries! THANKYOU 🧡♥️
#kindnesscounts
Our Year 4 pupils are having an overnight adventure this evening, thanks to our friends from
@adventures_into
! A series of exciting activities followed by camping in tents on the field...such fantastic fun! ⛺️🔦
Here's the first group of grateful & happy children who received their 'Operation Lockdown Birthday' gifts/cards today 🎁😍. Enormous thanks to our friends
@Discover1slam
whose amazing toy donation made this possible; meaning extra cheer was brought to the children's day! 👏❤️
Well done to this delighted duo whose lucky ticket was drawn at our
@macmillancancer
coffee morning raffle today! They won a scrumptious Biscoff cake made by our very own Mrs Bateman! We're sure they'll enjoy it, yum yum! 🥮😍
Such an awesomely great show in Milton Keynes today from the unbelievably talented
@SKShlomo
! The children were mesmerised by his vocal beatboxing magic, and his positive vibes & messages were spot-on and completely commendable! Amazing experience all round 🎉🤩 Thankyou!
We were over the moon this week to learn our very own Dylan was awarded first prize in the fab national storywriting competition being held by
@ChildrensBkShow
! Dylan was the proud recipient of oodles of signed books & Chantry received £200 of books too... well done that man! 👏
HUGE congratulations to our awesome
#GreenTeam
who've been shortlisted for a
@BBC3CR
'People's Choice' award in the Environmental Achievement category! 👏 Toby from
@BBC3CR
visited this week to record some soundbites from the children. Fingers crossed guys! 🤞
#BBCMakeADifference
We cannot thank Karen and her 'crew' enough for this amazing act of kindness. 50 of our
@pioneer_trust
families will be over the moon to receive these packs and enjoying the little 'extras' they contain. Simply amazing 😍🤗🤩
Today the team
@Tesco
Dunstable delivered 50 hampers to
@chantryprimary
to support our local community. Thank you to
@RaineyPhyl
@lutonsdeadpool
&
@MeccaBingo
Luton for helping collect the ‘little extras’ treats that make Christmas special. Proud to support our local community 🎅
Another successful
#GreenTeam
event today, this time teaming up with
@mrc229
@RaineyPhyl
and
@KJPoulton
to blitz Leagrave Park! 🚮 Great community collaboration and lots of fun in the process... great work everyone! 👏👏
Today, our
#HAF2021
winter camp concluded after 2 days' worth of fab street dance from
@ngyt_uk
! Children loved creating their own routines & did so with great gusto! Thanks to all 80 children who attended- hope you had a great time! (And 👍 to
@ActiveLuton
for your support! 😍).
Look out for Chantry and
@LutonTown
at
#LutonCarnival
on Sunday... it'll be hard to miss us as we'll have this fantastic, enormous football trophy walking with us! 🏆⚽🎉
Our Green Team were back in action today, this time clearing the litter at Lewsey Park 🚮😁. Great teamwork and determination shown, with the children loving the chance to clean up their local community! Big thanks once again to
@RaineyPhyl
&
@KJPoulton
for all your fab help! 🤩
An amazing
@WorldBookDayUK
today, which saw all pupils going on their own amazing journeys, based on the stunning picture book, Journey, by Aaron Becker
@storybreathing
. Each class entered through their specially made doorways to start their adventures... 😍📚
Our Year 5/6 pupils LOVE having JP from
@boxinsaveslives
running their after school club each week for them! The children's determination, motivation and energy have been amazing, and with JP reinforcing life values within each session, it's such a beneficial experience! 🤩🥊
Wowsers, amazing to see the
#carnival
designs from our Year 6 pupils turned into real life costumes ready for the big day on Saturday! 🤩🥳. Huge thanks to
@carnivalukcca
for all their help with getting things ready; your input has been invaluable! 💛❤️
Our
#GreenTeam
had a fab time in the town centre today, helping
@LutonBID
's efforts to tidy up the town, ready for Saturday's Luton Carnival route! 25 bags of rubbish collected (with the horse's head being a big talking point!) 😆🐴 Amazing teamwork from everyone 👏♻️!
A terrific day out at
@LEGOLANDWindsor
today for a group of Key Stage 2 pupils, taking advantage of the amazing rides during the day, them some mesmerising fireworks in the evening! 🎇🎆 Everyone had a marvellous time and were amazing representatives for
#TeamChantry
🤩