Headmaster's Welcome
Dear Parents,
It has been another fantastically busy week at Crackley Hall, as always!
This week has marked British Science Week, and the school has been a-buzz with Scientific activity. We were delighted to welcome Princethorpe College’s Head of Physics, Mr Lee, and students Megan, Giorgio, Tom and Jack to our assembly on Monday morning – they really put on a thrilling show! Our pupils were wowed and it was wonderful to have Megan and Giorgio back at Crackley Hall.
Our annual Skipathon took place on Tuesday and we are delighted to have already counted over £1,000 in donations for the Air Ambulance! Thank you all for your support of this fantastic cause, and please do remember to send in any outstanding sponsorship money so that we can have this money sent off to the charity.
I was very sorry not to be able to accompany our First Reconciliation pupils when they received the sacrament on Tuesday afternoon. They were in my prayers at this very important time in their journey of faith. Thank you to Fr Kevin, Mrs Forino and Mrs Simmonds for everything that they continue to do for our pupils.
Our Easter performance yesterday evening was beautifully delivered and I would like to thank the whole performing arts team for their work with the children. We are always grateful to be able to pause and reflect on this important time of year in the Christian calendar, and the children delivered the story with dignity, care and respect. They were absolutely fantastic!
We remember, in our thoughts and prayers at this time, all of our families who begun the period of Ramadan on Monday this week.
We are looking forward to our playground being refurbished during the Easter holidays. We are so grateful to the PTA for their sizeable donation to support the overall cost of this. Please do continue to support our PTA in their fundraising - the 200 Club is a fantastic way to do this, and you may win funds in the process! Details can be found via the link in the menu to the left of this screen.
The Junior 6 children will be leaving on Sunday morning, in the early hours, and I am very much looking forward to accompanying them on this outing. Thank you very much to Mrs Vaughan, Mrs Paphitis, Mrs Westerman, Mr Pike and particularly Mrs Horan, the trip leader, who will be accompanying the pupils. Please do keep us in your thoughts and prayers.
Our U11A netball team did extremely well to win the ISA Midlands netball competition and then to follow this up with a bronze medal in the plate competition in the national finals. Well done to the team and to their coaches Mrs Vaughan and Miss Farquharson.
Congratulations to all of our cross-country runners who did so week this week. Some reports were delivered at today’s assembly but there will be further reports next week.
We were treated to two excellent musical performances at this morning’s assembly. Savannah played the Pink Panther on cello extremely well and Rory, singing Chim Chiminy was also exceptional. Very well done to both of them. Congratulations to pupils who achieved their Crackley Compass stars and to the many pupils who were awarded Da Vincis at assembly. Congratulations to our stars of the week: Nursery – Henry and Avro; Reception – Giulio and Seva; J1 – Jamie and Jacob; J2 – Delilah and Katie; J3 – Lilyrose and Liana; J4 – Harry and Zach; J5 – Felix and Malachi; and J5 – Harry B and Issy.
I hope that our sport supporters will be able to enjoy a super weekend, with some close competition expected in the final round of matches in the Six Nations Rugby Championship.
I wish everyone a happy and restful weekend.
God bless,
Rob Duigan
