The Chronicle

Crackley Hall School is delighted to have been awarded a Silver certificate in this year’s Kenilworth in Bloom competition.

Judges from the annual gardening competition visited the school back in July to inspect the green-fingered pupils' gardening efforts and on Friday 29 September the school attended a presentation evening at Kenilworth Sports and Social Club to receive their award.

Crackley Hall was pleased to take part in the school’s category of this year’s competition with children from across the school working on gardening projects. The four judges who visited the school were impressed by the Nursery garden, with its beetroot, carrots and variety of herbs, Junior 4's sunflower garden as well as Junior 2's vegetable gardens and of course the planting work that has taken place in Forest School.

The judges were also impressed by pupils’ knowledge and enthusiasm and the care that they showed for the environment and how the gardens at the school made provision for wildlife.

Along with Mrs Burley, the Head Boy and Head Girl, Deputy Head Boy and Deputy Head Girl and the Year 6 School Councillors all attended the presentation. Head Boy, Blythe, and Head Girl, Evie, spoke to the assembled audience to thank Kenilworth in Bloom for the award.

Mrs Burley was very proud, commenting, “The children were fabulous and incredible ambassadors for Crackley. A huge thank you to the parents for joining us too, it was a lovely evening. We won Silver, so second prize. It was the first time we have entered so we were thrilled and will be putting plans in place for how we can win Gold. We would like to extend our thanks to the volunteers at Kenilworth in Bloom for making us feel so welcome, we are looking forward to lots more collaborative projects together.”

Prefects Chloe, Zara and Grace from our Foundation Senior School, Princethorpe College, visited Crackley Hall yesterday for a collaboration meeting. Our Head Boy and Girl, Blythe and Evie and their Deputies, Arthur and Beatrice and RE and Ethos captains, Elsie W-P and Josie-Jean, were part of the discussion, sharing creative ideas and planning exciting projects for the coming year and beyond.

Their aim is to strengthen links across the Foundation and we look forward to seeing their plans in action!

We would like to extend a heartfelt thank you for the generous donations during this month of harvest for our local foodbank. We were delighted with the response and with the quantity of donations received. Warwick District Foodbank collected the donations today and our RE Captains and some of our school councillors were on hand to help load donations. Each month we will ask a different class to bring in donations so we can continue to support this important community endeavour throughout the year. Thank you again for your continued support.

PC Darren Lund visited Junior 6 on Tuesday 3 October to advise on the importance of Online Safety. Pupils became 'social network detectives' as they engaged in an exercise to spot good and bad behaviours online and assess potential risks. They also discussed the dangers of hackers and unauthorised access.

A huge thank you to Warwickshire Police for delivering the informative and engaging session for our young people.

Our School Council met for the first time today. They were very excited for the year ahead and started to formulate a plan of action.

As elected representatives for their classes our school councillors play an important role in promoting pupil voice. They help to make decisions about how the school is run and take on projects that support the children's learning and development, such as organising charity events, representing the school at outside events and ensuring the school is environmentally friendly. The School Council is one of many opportunities here at Crackley Hall for pupils to develop the skills and traits to become good leaders.

Our School Councillors this year are:

We are delighted to welcome Jemma Devine to Crackley Hall School. Mrs Devine is joining the School Office team working on the front reception desk and will be a friendly first face for all our visitors to Crackley Hall.

Mrs Devine knows Crackley well having two children who attended Little Crackers before moving on to the school.

With her background in the property industry, Mrs Devine brings strong organisational skills and a lovely, calm manner to the office team and we all wish her well in her new role in our busy school.

Our Stars of the Week this week are:

Congratulations to them all!

The Crackley Hall Junior Da Vinci programme encourages all pupils to be inspired to be the best that they can be. The Junior Da Vinci programme embraces three adapted principles - Creativity, Practice and Mastery - that the children demonstrate in their learning.

This year we are ensuring that all pupils in the school have opportunities to achieve Junior Da Vinci awards. The attached leaflet gives more information about this programme.

Da Vinci Leaflet

Look out for children achieving Junior Da Vinci's in the Chronicle over the year.