The Chronicle

Our Stars of the Week this week are:

Congratulations to them all!

It’s the Save the Children Spring Fayre on Saturday 9 March and Crackley Hall’s School Council will be having a stall. The children will be selling the perfect Mother’s Day present – beautiful spring flowers potted carefully into a mug.

Today at lunchtime, the school council welcomed Monique, a Save the Children volunteer, into school to help prepare the plants to sell. They carefully filled mugs full of compost before planting them with spring flowers. The older children helping the younger ones with the task. The mugs all looked so beautiful we are sure they will fly off the stall.

The fayre is a lovely event, with lots of super stalls and coffee and cake too. So why not support the school council by popping along to St Francis of Assisi Parish Centre next Saturday 9 March from 10.00am to 2.00pm.

Pupils from Princethorpe visited Crackley Hall School on Friday 1 March to complete a biodiversity survey with Eco Club. The visit was part of a project to collect biodiversity data at all three of the Foundation school sites to support our commitment to improve sustainability.

The visitors included members of the Princethorpe Planet team as well as Sixth Form Biology students. They worked with Eco Club pupils using square frame quadrats to record species. They surveyed a number of different areas within the school grounds and recorded the data. The plan is for the survey to be repeated at regular intervals to allow the schools to understand and track biodiversity.

It was especially lovely to be able to welcome back some former Crackley Hall pupils!

We are sorry to share the sad news that former pupil, Viranchi, who completed Junior 6 here in July 2014, very sadly recently passed away.  Viranchi was a wonderfully kind pupil whilst at Crackley Hall, and was Venus House Captain. 

His parents are, naturally, devastated and we cannot imagine what pain they are going through at this time of immense loss, particularly with Viranchi leaving them at such a young age. We all remember Viranchi so fondly, lugging his school bag, sports bag and violin case around school, always with a huge smile on his face. He was never unkind to anyone.

He dreamed of being a better cricketer, and certainly achieved this, with some good scores for his local club.

It is such a sad time for everyone who knew him and we remember him most fondly. 

Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends.

The British Science Week 2024 poster competition is open now!

The theme this year is ‘Time’, and there are loats of STEM topics pupils can explore! Students could create a poster showing how a certain type of technology has changed over time, or even the advancement of time-telling technology itself. Budding poster makers could also go futuristic and show us how they think the world might look in years to come, or perhaps look at nature – lifecycles, lifespans, evolution and hibernation – nature is full of timely topics.

British Science Week 2024 marks the Week’s 30th anniversary, with the inaugural celebration happening in 1994. Students could think about scientific innovations since then, or explore 1994 itself – what was life like 30 years ago?

Judges will be looking for:

• Creativity in approach – Innovative angle on the content or creative interpretation of the theme – don’t be afraid to think outside the box
• Content – Clear, accurate and informative about a STEM topic
• Effective communication – presented and communicated in an engaging way

Members of the British Science Association will shortlist entries, and a panel of judges will select a winner in each category. 

All entries to Mrs Roberts - posters should have a name, age and our school neatly written at the back of them.

Entries to be handed to Mrs Roberts by Monday 25 March.

Now in its sixth year, the Young Artists’ Summer Show is a free, open submission exhibition for students aged 4–19 studying in the UK. Artworks are judged by a panel of artists and arts professionals, with selected artworks displayed online and on-site at the Royal Academy of Arts.

Registration and submission is open until 27 March 2024, please click here find out more and get involved.