The Chronicle

Dear Parents

I have been fortunate enough to see many of you in school this week to celebrate our wonderful nativities performed by Nursery, Reception and the J1 and J2 classes.  If you were not feeling the Christmas spirit before, I am sure you will be by now after enjoying these heartwarming productions.  My thanks are extended to all the staff who were involved in bringing everyone together for these occasions and to each and every child who made their parents and school so very proud.

Yet again our PTA organised a spectacular Christmas Fayre last Saturday which was very well attended and I think a few members of staff were particularly disappointed when they realised that Santa’s Grotto wasn’t a permanent fixture outside the Reception class. Thank you very much to Kara Wasley and her fantastic team.

The other event taking place last Saturday, on the school field, was rugby and I am pleased to report that Crackley Hall U11A team beat Hipperholme Grammar School by 13 tries to nil; the player of the match being named as Oliver Farquharson.  The same team beat Balsall Common U11A by 8 tries to 2 on Wednesday with Calan Byrne being player of the match.  Thank you to Mr Ferris for organising these games; for those of you wishing to say goodbye to Mr Ferris there will be an opportunity during next Friday’s assembly.

Our U9A netball team beat a very strong Bablake U11A team 5-4 in a very hard-fought game. The B team lost 0-2, conceding two very late goals. What a wonderful performance by the girls. Constanza Alvarez-Lujan and Lily Carroll were our players of the match.

Well done to this our stars of the week, bronze star winners and Yiyang Pan who receives the award for RE Book of the Week. Assembly began with some lovely music from our chamber orchestra and flute group, as well as a beautiful hymn sung by the whole school. We were treated to super singing by Honey and Francesca too.  Well done and thank you to all of them.

Next week we can look forward to the J4 and J5 Advent Service at Princethorpe which will take place on Wednesday evening, the school Christmas lunch on Wednesday and Christmas jumper day on Friday.  Children have been asked to wear Christmas jumpers over their school uniform and donate £1 to ‘save the children’.

We did not receive the snow that was promised although the children did enjoying playing in a brief flurry of snow this morning.  However, I am aware that there is more snow forecast over the weekend and should the decision be taken to close the school, you will be contacted via ISAMS and, as backup, a message will be displayed on our website and/or via Twitter.

Whatever the weather and your plans for the weekend, I hope you and your family have a relaxing time.

God Bless

Robert Duigan