The Chronicle

Dear Parents

It was wonderful to be able to join together as a community at this morning’s Celebration Assembly.  Merryn and Chen Chen certainly got the ‘musical year’ off to a great start with their respective performances.  Merryn is just starting out on her musical journey whilst Chen Chen is in J6 and will be auditioning for a national orchestra in the very near future.  Congratulations to our Stars of the Week as well as all our other recipients of certificates and awards. 

Thank you to our teachers for arranging and our parents for attending the various Parent Information Evenings – I do hope that everyone feels clear on matters of class protocol and expectations.  I also hope that parents were able to have any queries answered.  Please know that the usual first point of contact with the school will be your child’s Form Teacher, either via email, letter, telephone or face to face.  Our staff are usually very prompt in replying to an email (obviously any emails sent out of usual school working hours will normally be dealt with the following school day – unless of a very urgent matter). 

I am pleased to see that the morning drop-off routine is starting to take shape and I thank parents for their patience during the first two weeks back – it always takes a while to get into routine as we have new staff members and many new families at school.  Please know that you can always talk to a member of staff if you are unsure of anything. 

Thank you to Kara Wasley and her fantastic PTA Committee for all they did for the school last year.  I extend my thanks to them for arranging the PTA AGM this past Wednesday evening.  We are always looking for new PTA members and promise not to make you work hard on every event or coerce you into coming to every meeting.  We like to have many people on board as it lightens the load and adds to the camaraderie. The PTA is certainly not a closed team and will openly and enthusiastically welcome new faces.  Please consider joining – speak to me if you are unsure or would like a little more information.  Congratulations, and thank you for standing, to all our newly-elected office holders for the upcoming school year. 

We welcomed two new members of staff to Crackley Hall this week.  Molly Pearce has joined us as a Teaching Assistant and will spend much of her time in Junior 2.  She will also help at Early Birds each morning.  Harriet Edkins is our newest member of the efficient office team.  She has been employed to help at the busy ‘start of day’ and work through to the end of break each day of the week.  Jo Rochford will be starting in the very near future as a replacement for Victoria Newman who left in the summer.  Jo will work through to 6:00pm each evening.  I am sure that you will join me in welcoming our new members of staff and I hope that they will all enjoy a happy and fruitful time at Crackley Hall.  Besides Mrs Newman, we were also sad to say farewell to Yvonne Proudfoot over the summer as well.  Many of you will know that Yvonne suffered a little with her health and she reluctantly took the decision to resign.  We wish both Victoria and Yvonne the very best and hope to see them both in the future. 

South Africa face the New Zealand rugby team tomorrow and Australia play Argentina.  Although hoping to watch, I fear for the Springboks!  The All Blacks, I think, are just far too strong. 

I hope that you have a restful and happy weekend – and are able to find a little sunshine at some stage. 

God bless,

Robert Duigan