Headmaster's Welcome
Dear Parents
The weather this week has not been kind to us but the grounds surrounding Crackley Hall have definitely benefited for the rain. Fortunately, Nursery, Reception, Junior 1 and Junior 6 have been able to dodge the rain showers and play outside this week whilst keeping within their bubbles.
As you will know, we are preparing to welcome back pupils in Junior 2 to Junior 5 during the next two weeks. This has taken considerable detailed and careful planning to ensure that we can safely accommodate children and staff in school. If your child is returning to school for the two days, I would ask that you explain and prepare them in the most suitable manner, so that they are aware of the changes and restrictions that they will experience in school. It will be different to the last time they saw their class mates and teachers.
Online learning continues to keep up good pace as you will see from the photographs later in this edition. Whilst it is quite a different end of year experience for our Junior 6 children, we are trying to keep some of the important milestones in the calendar and during the next two weeks. Mrs Horan and Mrs Vaughan have organised some wonderful activities to mark the end of this era. I am sure there will be tears during the last week but I hope that there will be more smiles and wonderful memories that will last a lifetime.
I hope you were able to enjoy the assembly this morning. I was delighted to be able to award Star of the Week to: Rory, Oscar, Nieve, Jacob, Mahnoor, Thomas, Sebastian, Seb, Charlie, Lily, Stephanie, Holly, Sebastian, Jasper, Niamh, Rosa, Aryan and Harry. Well done everyone!
Silver merit awards will be sent home to Nieve, Fleur and Charlie in Reception; well done to them. Lexi in Junior 3 received a Headmaster’s Award for her wonderful story writing skills.
There were several birthdays to celebrate this week including: Sloane, Oscar, Zach,
Elsie, Ted, Sumhar, Elsie, Morton and Teddy. I hope that you all have or had a lovely birthday.
In this week’s Chronicle you will also find links to the Minnacle, Princethorpe College's 2020 Summer Art, Photography and Design Show and details about our first virtual open evening. Some of our Junior 6 children were able to participate in the arrangements for the filming and I think it was quite a novelty for them to be back in uniform for a short while. I think even the children were surprised about how much they have grown since March! Many thanks to those J6’s who helped out.
There has been a good response to the holiday club bookings for July, but if you would like to use this facility during August, I would urge you to book soon in the hope that we can confirm the dates available next week.
I apologise to those of you who received an email which purported to be sent from me earlier this week. Our IT Department have addressed this issue and I appreciate those of you who contacted school regarding your concern.
I do hope that the weekend is an enjoyable one for you and your family.
God bless,
Rob Duigan
